The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-10

men are crushed and ground into dollars for
degeneraies
Prank Lane epitomizes in Il bulk OF bloody
pnin, broken heart, and crushed hopes the en-
IRE tragedy OF toll under the capitalist sy TEN.
Behold, the doom OF the corporation slave!
His broken. bleeding body, and his crushed and
,agRozing soul cry aloud in their tragic muteness
TO mones-mad world to take warning of his
frightful fate.
The corporation that rnutilatea him has al
ready thrown him bleeding epon the wreckheap
of broken and forgotten things Mammon has
no mercy. The courts with impieus cant give
Judicial sanction to the social crime. For they
are capitalist courts and for this they molly
and infallibic
The rule of mammon is the ruin of man
tnder the sway of property humanity Is crush
ed. Upon the shapeless wreck Of what was one
Il man the court soiemnly places the great sea
OF its approval and from its imperial decree
there is no appeal
Frank Lane only court is the hearts OF the
people. This court will not fail MIN If War
rem appeal can reach it
While the great heart of Fred Warren him
self, we believe, an editor of the .AppeaIa Just
now entering upon d six months jail sentence
Tor violation Of postal regulatons~as marking
time; while Frank Lane was lying in a culver.
Ing pulp, Mr.. Debs in the Appeal TO Reason"
all but eXeites to murder aud anarchy Re.
member, We are told dozen times in the one
issue, the fight against the Courts has just be.
gun. The murderous corporations are already
marked for murder Reinforced bF Upton Sin.
clair and others, the patriots of the Appeal are
preparing To seize, not only the Government
but all business and enterprise private and
otherwise. We wonder, when the mass OF the
people shall have seized upon the railroads ana
the mines, who of all nj them will consent To
take the role of the blk of bloody pulp" and
what the real New Nattonalism" of the Social
lists will do about il
Oar correspondent ASKS US to be 'lait'' to
socialism. We will try il, by saying that If the
Appeal to Reason were @slf as bloody AZ Il
talks. the entire staff should be summary exc
ented. but that have not the shadow of .
doubt that all this crimson staff are In reality
kind-hearted and gentle, and in no more nkel.
hood of stringing up Judge than any other
yociferous gentlemen settling the fate OF the
country IN the corner saloon OF Saturday night
We make no manner of doubt but that the An,
peal to Reason" is run upon exactly the same
basic principle that the railroads the mines
and other corporations adopt. to-tef the prin
eple of profit; thar its office rejoices more over
It thousand new subscribers than II would over
a hundred bloody pnips of rniIionaires making
sidewalks dangerous for sliPperiness. aud that
al the suggestion of Injustice. it would run
eonadingly TO the protection of those very courts
Of which. in the red buster Of INK it now dc.
mands the CORY scalps
The fairest thing that we know Ia sav about
Socialism it is presented in It's most prom
mont organ is that il IL a highly exyIamatory
exercise on the part Of essentially tenderheart.
ed persons. rich, poor, ennuYed and precocions
II is fostered moro by gentlemen like Mr.. TAFT
who deplores Il. and AIR. Roosevelt who calls
It names than by those who pen its feryeur
words in short Victor Hugo sentences and OK
elamatton poiAtst And il IS a pretty sure in
deS OF the fact that the tountry Is not soeiaisti~
that there remains In the mass OF the peenle the
hnmor necessary 10 reau repeated appeals for
blood and anarchy without in The least losing
a belief in tn" virtue Of a Job or having
appetite for the homely beefsteek ytiated
I b. an unrequited desire ror the succulent capi.
tahst There are so many inner ragingq in the
minds Of free people that a little vent of re.
beliion in the name Of liberty is certainly an
amusing aud.just possibly valuable asset
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