The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-30

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/ Brutus' dagger carved it into Caes-
ar's bleeding heart; silent waves
chanted It TO the proud Napoleon,
once Lord of Legiors, as with hands
clasped behind his back he conten-
plated the storm swept ocean on his
way TO st Helena; King George the
Third realized it when that shot was
| fired from Bunker Hill and heard
round the world; John Brown at
| tested IL on his way TO the scaffold,
as he reverently stopped over and
kissed the child in chains condemn
ed to perpetual slavery by both
Church and State, and this confirmed
again by the highest judicial tri-
bunal in the land, and General Lee
rendering up his sword at Appomat-
o; bears witness to the fact that
his soul goes marching on.
The chief history of man, from
Mount Araat to the Appotomax
Court House. has been a history of
the struggle of the working class
trying TO maintain their rights
against law and government which
sought to usurp them. Law and
government. backed by force. dashed
Israel's back in Egypt's brick yards.
But the rebel Moses broke the law
md led them out. Gold bought laws
enslaved Rome's millions. Barbar-
ians burst asunder her gates and set
them free. Law and government
rrucified Christ on the Cross of
Cavalry. The hirelings of the Plu-
tocracy placed upon his brow a
crown of thorns and in his hand a
wind blown wreath, and 10, it DO
comes weapon miShtier than. the
sword. Law and government i'm
prisoned Capernicus and Bonded
Gallileo to his knees But the world
still moves and America is a fact.
Law and government burned Bruno
1t the stake, where today his stat
,lte proudly stands while triple
crown and scepter lie mildewing at
his feet. Law and government built
bastile: the French people tore IL
down. Law and government made
an Alexander of Russia. Nihilists
blew him up: law and government
made a Stamp Act, Washington
stamped it out of existence; law
upheld slavery, blood wiped it out,
law made Judge Burdette, a
Glasscock, Pretorian Military
Guard, and Governor Glasscock and
ais Pretorian Military Guard, have
given us Cabin Creek and Fayette-
vile and Russianized West Virginia,
but he Socialist Party serves due
notice on Governor Glasscock Oh
Judge Burdettc and the Pretorian
Military Guard, that we are going
10 wipe them out of existence. We
10 not make this as a threat, but as
Abraham Lincoln said in regard to
chattel slavery, If every drop of
blood drawn by the lash must be
paid for by one drawn by the sword,
even. so are Thy Judgements o God
just and righteous altogether
We are still Americais with GER
tain American rights, and our rights
We will have, and our rights we will
maintain, constitutionally if you
please, peacefully if you will, but
have them we must, constitution OF
no constitution.
The Social Revolution.
The all significant thing in the
Social Revolution is the fact that
the working class are slowly but
surely conquering the world. Not
as Alexander and Napoleon conquer
ed, for they but conquered to en-
slave: not as the Capitalists have
iOI IHeS -DuI conquer W
exploit, and to enslave the working
class, but the Twentieth Century is
destined to see this same working
class conquer the world. Not with
bayonet and bowie knife. not with
cannon and gattling gun, not by
spreading death and desolation over
devastated earth as ever in the past,
but through an organized, intelligent
movement of the working class,
which is international in its scope
and character, which precludes the
possibility of war, competition or
Industrial strife. Already We have,
| gone far along the way towards the
consumation of this great hope AL
| ready natures forces have been en-
| shaved and made to turn with tire
less arms the countless wheels OF
| industry. Under Socialism all the
secret subtle powers of the earth
and air shall become the tircless
itoilers of the working class. Labor
will at last come into it's own Will
come into its own because labor will
| know what is its own. Know what
| is its own because its own hands
have produced all there is upon this
earth that support human needs
VIII come into its own because his
brain which has developed so slowly
in the factories, mills and mines has
told him that every thing there is
turon this earth that tends to benefit
mankind has been DrOduced nv n &c