The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-07-07
ARRESTED FOR PLACING PLACARD ON
OFFICE DOOR OF ! PIERP0NT MORGAN

from the rich. You kill that way. You
are assasins Of the poor.
Hypocrites, you penetrate these
crimes In the name Of Right and
Religion. You trick men with vulgar
versities, churches. Libraries and
science, making them all servile part
ners in your inequities, so that your
! potency in corruption was never par
alleled
You buy huge-feed counsel to pilot
you through the slumbering laws and
paint over the stains. of your guilt
that men may not tear you to pieces
Yet even the wretches who kiss the
earth where you step know your black
! ness. There are your mountains Of
wealth. Where did you get them? Out
! of the people, vilely. And you posture
! as innocents!
Think what you have done, Rookie
! feller, Morgan. and your felon brood
| of conspirators, to crush life,, ruin
happiness, and slay hope Think Of
! the hell you have kindled in innocent
! lives! And you dare still hug your
foully-got gold, with the perditton you
have lighted raging to explosion!
Devilishly greedy, reptiles in perfdy,
| subtle in lodging the cell and hagman,
you have broken mems hearts. smiled,
and broken other mems hearts. You
have mangled the nations vitals, and
Knocked. If you are the most power
full men in the hemisphere. you are
also the most terribly hated And
justly. The Gear inherited criminal
despotism. You seized 1t. You are our
Hated Cars. The curse of all men
| shall fall on you.
! BY these foul deeds you have lifted
yourselves into Kings of the United
States. Where is Government of the
people, by the people, for the people?
Dead. You killed it. And so you have
cowed this vast Commonwealth by
your craft that 80 million souls grovel
in wormlike fear of you. Like tyrant
! potentates of old you ravish billions,
| toss back the rabble sop Of cents
and think you can throttle man for
ever. -
John Hampden was assessed a paltry
20 shfllings:, unjustly by an English
King, and that Kings head fell on the
block. A small arbitrary tax on tea
cost England America. Do you then,
prohigately robbing every citizen
through every pore, impudently seizing
all men have fancy that none will re-
volt to unsceptre you? :
Fools, not all Americans are faith.
lessly poltroons under your heel. The
tine timessA ss. here benz III mem
stunE by your. bhofrents selflshness,
will brand you as the vilest human
enemies. They will treat you as social
lepers, which you are. They will set
their faces against you like steel. They
will refuse to work for you, traffic
with you. feed you; house you, clothe
you, endure you, ostrasizing you to
burning contempt and making your
names a Kissing. They will discrown
you, and If your madness compels de-,
stroy you.
! I as one citizen repudiate your SOW
! ereignty. I denounce you and your in
| famous tax on me and every motion
! Of my life. cancel your tax on my
soul. Where Is your title? Who made
you deities over man? Who gave you
| right to NOW an endless swath Of
|
/ demounnce you as traitors. It is
treason to tear the country from its
| owners and conduct it as a private
plantation for your bloated enrichment
and their ruin. 1t is tretason to inn
brute your countrymen by sma shin e
| them between the millstones of low
! pay and high charge for the things of
| life. It is treason to poison them with
polluted food which you sell at Il prof,t
| of beetling millions.
Were q stranger to do these fendish
| works the whole nation would rise and
| grind him to dust. Is domestic
Judas, masked as a friend, sweeter
! than a foreign enemy? What words
can depict your guilt or tell the mag,
! nitude Of your treason? If the iniquity
of your sullied lives could stir your
! shame you would go and hang your
selves.
But when the people understand they
| will make you sensible Of the blot you
| are on the nation. They will treat
you as a cancerous growth to be-
! extirpated. For either you will kill
the nation or the nation will remove
you. "A handful of resolute citizens can
destroy your villainous fabric built on
| the natior's stupid fear.
BY a few declaring that your robber
rights are rescinded, by their refusal
In act to admit your false own uership
Of wealth or observe a truce with you,
by their treating your wealth as con-
traband and you as outlaws, by the
edict Of restoration as the slave was
restored to himself, the whole people
will recover manhood. and ceasing to
grovel to you as gods will proceed
toward you as the basest reprobates.
1t is now war with you to the end.
1t shall be war without compromise.
You are utterly vemonous and deadly;
you have proved that your type cannot
exist with safety to mankind Your
caste must go. -
In this war you will lose. Your
preadtory Kingdom and Slavery bar
Industrial Equality and Liberty. Auto
cracy of Wealth now menacles us, we
! shall have Democracy of Wealth. You
wrung from the whole people. restore
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