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

the dominant conventions Of the es-
tablished order lis starting. They
laugh to scOrn the sweet ideals and
dear moralists Of bourgeois society.
They intend to destroy bourgeois So
ciety with most Of It's sweet ideals
and dear moralities, and chlefest
among these are those that group
themselves under sucn heads as prl-
vate ownership Of capital, survival
of the tittest, and patriotism-even
patriotism. "
Such an army of revolution, 7,OOO,-
900 strong, lis a thing to make rulers
and ruling classes pause and con-
slider. The cry OF this army is, mo
quarter! We want all that you pos
sess. We will be content with moth
ing less than all that you possess.
We want in our hands the reins OF
power and the destiny Of mankind.
Here are our hands. They are strong
hands. We are going to take your
governments, your palaces, and all
your purpled ease away from you, anu
in that day you shall work for your
bread even as the peasant in the field
or the starved and runty clerk In
your metropolises. Here are our
hands. They are strong hands
Well may rulers and ruling classes
pause and consider. This is revo-
luton. And further, these 100000
men are not an army on paper. Their
fighting strength in the field is T.
100000 votes in the civilized coun-
tries of the world.
Yesterday they were not so strong.
Tomorrow they will be still stronger.
And they are fighters. They love
peace. They are unafrald of war,
They intend nothing less than to de-
stroy existing society and to take pos
session of the whole world. II the
law of the land permits, they hight
for this end peaceably, at the ballot
box. If the law of the land does not
permit their peaceable destruction OF
society, and if they have force meted
out to them, they resort to force
themselves. They meet violence with
violence. Their hands are strong and
there lis no suffrage. The govern
ment executes the revolutionlsts.
meet legal murder with ASSASSINATION.
Now here arises a particularly sig
nificant phase which would be well
for the rulers to consider Let me
make it concrete. l am revolt
tionis.. Yet l am a fairly sane and
normal individual. l speak, and l
think. of these assassins in Russia
as my comrades So do all the
comrades in America, and all the u
900 900 comrades i'm the world. VI
what worth an organized internation-
al revolutionary movement II our
comrades are not backed up the
world over? The worth is shown by
the fact that we do back up the as
sassinations by our comrades in Rus
STA, They are not disciples OF Iol'
stoy. nor are we. We are reVolu-
tionists.
Our comrades i'm Russia have form
ed what they call THE Fighting Or
W.
ganization.' This fighting organlza-
ton accused, tried, found guilty, and
condemned to death, one Slplagum'
minister of interior. On April ne
was shot and killed in the Marylnsky
palace. Two years later the fight
ing organization condemned to death
and executed another minister or the
interior, Won Plehve. Having done
50. il issued a document, dated July
20, 1904, setting forth the counts OF
it's indictment OF Won tlehve and ITS
responsibility for the assassination.
Now, and to the point, this document
WAS sent out to the socialists OF the
world were unafraid to do it, not that
they dared to do it, but that they did
it as a matter of routine, giving pup
LEGATION to what may be called an Of
fetal document of tine international
revolutionary movement.
These are high lights upon the reVo-
lution-granted, but they are also
facts. And they are given to the
rulers and the ruling classes, not IN
bravado, not to frighten them' Dut
for them to consider more deeply the
spirit and nature of this world reVo-
luton. The time has come for the
revolution to demand consideration.
It has fastened upon every civilized
country in the world. AS fast as
country becomes civilized, the reVo-
luton fastens upon it. With the IN
PRODUCTION of the machine into Japan,
socialism was introduced. Socialism
marched into the Philippines shoulder
to shoulder with the American SOL
diers. The echoes Of the last gun
had scarcely died away when social
list locals were forming in Cuba and
Porto Rico. Vastly more slgnlhcant
is the fact that of all the countries
the revolution has fastened upon, Oh
not one has it relaxed it's grip. On
the contrary, on every country us
grip closes tighter year by year. AS
an active movement it began OBJ
scurely over a generation ago. In
1867, it's voting strength in the world
was 10000. BY 1871, its vote had