The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-10
"0RGANIZED THIEVES"
STRIPPED WORkINGMAN
Confined from first page.)

meaning. He mentioned the act which
abolished free transfers and told how
it affected the workingmen of New York
City as it affected no one else. Extra
fares are now collected at each junction
and laboring men, shop girls and women
obliged to 90 from work TO their homes
on the upper or lower east side are com
| PEELED to pay this extra fare two, three
On four times daily. AS one eye wit
ness of some Of the pathetic incidents
which have happened as a result of this
unfair method, Mr. Russell said that for
the first and last time in his life he
had been an anarchist.
He understood then what kind of a
sensation impelftd such men as the Nc
Namara brothers to acts Of violence and
III his case, perhaps, it was only the re.
straining hand of a more comprehensive
education which prevented him from also
committing an act of violence. The
| speaker seemed in sense to account for
the act of tbs McNamaras by the fact
| that great and overwhelming sense of
! injustice had so worked on minds not
educated to understand the folly of vio-
| lence that such violence seemed to them
NV bHiA thhbIildDit phb ibnoIb5t bh LINUS.
Il have known the lessons of history"
said the speaker, "and it tells me that
violence never pays. II reacts upon it.
self" The secret of the workingman's
freedom lies in solidarity. The working
class can put an end TO it all because
il holds within its grasp the greatest
! weapon 10 be had-the ballot. The
speaker FASTENED to rtpeat that nothing
materially violent or possessing the sem
blance of violence could bring about
emancipation.
Throughout the lecture, Mr.. Russell
furnished many practical illustrations
to emphasize his arguments, He pic
tured the wretched conditions prevalent
to-day in the vast coal fields of Penn
sylvania and said that the present sta
tus of the workingmen and young chill
dren in that vicinity is an indictment
Of capitalism. lie called attention TO
the recent peace banquet held in New
York City and derided the attitude tax
en- by such tlen as Andrew Carnegie
and Theodore Roosevelt, characterizing
the latter as the wild man of Oyster
Bay" He asserted that the wanton
murder of men and women for profit is
just dr. buu HIS IBt htHli uthtbh VI iIu~
man life on the battlefield. A peace So
ciety cannot abolish war on a dinner
Of canvas back duck and two banquets
a year, he said
Mr., Russell attacked the interstate
commerce commission and said that in
its twenty-six years Of existence, TWEEN
ty-tive had been spent in sleep. He
accused its members of laxness and said |
that their ostansible position as servants
OF the people was only suhterfuge.
The speaker professed to tell things |
as he had observed them during years
of experience and he asserted that all |
the operations of organized thieves. "sec. |
ond story" men, and the acts Of grand |
and petit larceny perpetrated on the |
working classes were not to be com |
pared to the greater evil arising from |
condition that makes men toll to create /
wealth which they are not allowed TO |
enjoy Those who create nothing sim.
ply derive the benefits of those who |
toll. Who can justify condition which I
eompels men ia suffer privations in a
world of abundance and over plenty? /
1t has been said that Socialism de-
stroys homes. 0ur business is to create |
Htmess MONIES lhul are WORTHY OF Tue
name, said the speaker. We are deter
mined to have the best and we shall
stop at nothing short Of that object.
He denied the charge that the Socialist
propaganda favors free love and proceed
81 to show why he took this standpoint.
In closing, Mr.. Russell described the
as the greatest in the history
Of the world, Any political faith which
has for its end and aim the abolish
ment of war, poverty, child labor, pros
titution, the slums and all the evils OF
the present system in every ramiflcation
cannot fail to assert itself,
With the advent of Socialism he said,
there win be light instead of darkness,
love instead of hate and education and
uplift viii be Che universal Inheritance