The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-04-07

the blood-red banner. In the state 0
ten is an avowed and registered rev.
the writer, California, one man! in
olutiOnist.
One thing must be clearly under
stood. This is no spontaneous and
vague uprising of large mass OF
discontinued and miserable people
blind and instructive recoil from
hurt. On the contrary, the propa-
ganda is intellectual, the movement Is
in line with social evolution; while
the miserable people have not yet re-
volted. The revolutionist is no starv-
ed and diseased slave in the sham
bles at the bottom of the social pit.
but is, in the main, a hearty, we'll
fed workingnan, who sees the sham
bic waiting for him and his children
aad declines to descend. The very
miserable people are too helpless to
help themselves. But they are being
helped, and the day is not far distant
when their numbers will go to swell
the ranks of the revolutionists.
Another thing must be clearly IN
,derstood. In spite of the fact that
middle class men and professional
men are interested in the movement,
it is nevertheless a distinctly work
ing class revolt. The workers Of the
world, as class, are fighting the cap
iltalists Of the world, as class. The
so-called great middle class is grow
ing anomaly in the social struggle.
1t is perishing class (wily statisti.
clans to the contrary, and its historic
mission of buffer between the capital
list and working classes has Just
about been fulfilled. Little remains
for it but to wall as it passes into
oblivion, as it has already begun to
wall in accents Popuistic and Jeher-
sonian-Democratic. The fight Is on.
The revolution is here now, and it Ia
the worlds workers that are in re-
volt.
Naturally the question arises |;
Why is this so? No mere within OF
the spirit can give rise to a world
revolution. Whim does not conduce
to unanimity. There must be q deep
seated cause to make 100000 men
OF the one mind to make them cast
off allegiance to the bourgeois gods
and lose faith in so fine a thing as
patriotism. There are many counts
of the Indictment which the revolu-
tionists bring against the capitalist
class, but for present need only one
may be stated, and it is a count to
which capital has never replied and
can never reply. :.
The capitalist class has managed
society, and its MANAGEMENT has fall
ed in it's management, but It has
failed deplorably, ignobly, horribly.
The capitalist class had an opportun-
ity such as was vouchsafed no pre-
vous ruling class in the history of
the world 1t broke away from the
rule of the old feudal aristocracy and
made modern society. 1t mastered
matter, organized the machinery Of
life, and made possible "a wonderful
era for mankind, where in no creature
should cry aloud because it had not
enough to eat and wherein for every
child there would be opportunity for
education, for intellectual and spirit
ual uplift. Matter being mastered,
and the machinery of life organized,
all this was possible. Here was the
chance, God-given, and the capitalist
class failed. 1t was blind and greedy.
It prattled sweet ideals and dear NOR.
alities, rubbed its eyes not once, nor
ceased one whit in its greediness,
and smashed down in a failure as ire
mendous only as was the opportunity
it had ignored.
But all this is like 50 much cow
webs to the bourgeois mind. As it
was blind in the past, it is blind now
and can not see nor understand: