The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-04

one DlbAl tic Guns ArAN 49,
doeSs Ind .lifOd at random into tne
crowd Women prisoners were beat
On by their guards and even oy tnc
Governor who had them ued down
md beat them with his cane The
toTtures endured drove many OF tho
prisoners mad-even the children
were not spnred.-
w. Balance Sheet.
Here IS tho balance sheet OF this
one solitary stroke made Tor freedom
by the workers Of France. as drawn
mp By the historian Lissagaray:
twenty-five thousand men, women
and children killed during the battle
or after: three thousand at least died
In the prison. the pontoons. the forts.
or in consequences OF maladies con-
tracted during their csptvity; thir-
teen thousand seven hundred cor
demned. children and old men de-
priyed OF their natural supporters or
thrown out of Franco; ONE HUN.
DRIED AND ELEVEN THOUSAND
VICTIMS at least. That Is the bal
ance sheet Of bourgeois vengeance for
the solitary insurrecuon OF the 18th
OF March"
Real Meaning OF the Commune.
As the education OF the working
class proceeds toward q more general
knowledge OF the class interests and
divisions deeply rooted in capitalistlc
society. the real meaning OF the Paris
Commune viii be interpreted and the
bitter vengeance OF It's capitalist dc
structionlsts understood. II was q do
tcTmined attempt BY section Of the
worlds workers 10 emaDclpate them
selves from the tyranny OF capitalist
wage-slaveTy. Doomed to final faIlurc
IL is true, owing 10 It's circumscribed
activities and surrounded with bitter
hostilities. but. yet, one OF those fail
ures that makes success possible.
Hence II is as time rolls by. and the
working class mind qulckens to So
oialism, forcing II onward TO action
that Its ideals may be materialized.
that this glad aud sad page OF the
history OF the past opens out and be-
comes more and more apparent in It's
significance. There are many les
sons We may learn from the successes
and failures OF our comrades OF IL,
With intelligent solid industrial organ
iZation. with half tho courage Of the
Commune revolutionists, with the thir-
ty-nine more years of accumulated eX-
perience. the working class could carry
the world before It and transform II
from a veritable hell Into a beautiful
heaven-a place OF Joy. where the bud
OF childhood would flourish In the
glorious sunshine. instead OF wither
ing as now In factory and shop. where
the flower of manhood will bloom in
the freshness OF education, intellI-
gence and nobility. Remove the dirty
mean. sordid system OF gain and greed
and the dirty. mean. sordid nature
yanishes with II, for mans nature
and attributes are the result OF coon
cmic environment whether transmit
ted or acquired.
Comrades. you of our class, take
lesson from our French brothers. "
YOU arc deslrous OF better things
right here, then help to get them.
Organize for II, fight for It. Look AZ
the picture of the Commune. gaze
on the reality OF working class today
How can you tarTy. comrade? Why
do you walt?
Karl Marx on the Commune.
Let us close this brief page Of the
brightest and saddest event in the
history OF the workings class strug-
giles. with u quotation from that great
working class emancipation Karl
Marx.
1T i5 strange fact In spite of
ali the tall talk and all the immense
literature. for the last sixty years.
about emancipation of labor. no soon
er do the working men anywhere
take the subject into their own hands.
with will. than up rise at once all
the apologetic phraseology of the
mouthpiece OF present society with
It's two poles Of capital and wage slav-
cry (the landlord now is but the
sleeping partner OF the capitalisD.
as If capitalist society were still In It's
purest state OF virgin innocence. with
It's antagonismS still undeveloped,
They know that In order 10 work out
their own emancipation. and along
with II that higher form TO which pres
ent society Is irrcsistibly tending, by
It's own economic agencies. they will
nave to pass through long struggles,
through series OF historic processes,
Transforming circumstances and men.
In the full consciousness of their his
toric mission. and with the heroic re-
solve to act up to II. the working
class can afford TO smile at the coarse
lnvectIye OF the gentlman's gentleman
with the pen and inkhorn, and at the
didatic patronage OF we'll wishing
bourgeois doctrinaires. pouring forth
their ignorant platitudes and sectari-
an crochets In the oTacular tone OF
scientific infallibility.
"WorkIngmen's Paris with its Com
mune. will be forever celebrated as
the glorious harbinger OF a new So
ciety. It's martyrs are enshrined nj
the great heart Of the working class
It's exterminators. history has already
nailed TO the eternal pillory from
which all the prayers OF their priests
will not avail to redeem them."-Syd-
ncy, Australia. People.