The Alaska socialist., 1914-01-01

ana reminders that ther Fast reaches into the Present. Even the flags of Holl- and and Switzerland, born though they were of national aspirations for indepen- dence, are not free from the soilure that attaches to the others. Aye, even the Trico1or of bourgeois France is no tx- ception Twas not the Rights of Man alone that it proclaimed; it simultaneous ly proclaimed, by the early statute a. gainst the right of the French proletariat to organize itself economically, that the proletariat had no rights, and that, by Man, the bourgeois alone was meant.
 While all the European flags rose out of the fumes of human sighs, were plant cd upon the prostrate bodies of subjects and were meant defantly 10 proclaim the double wretchedness as a social prin- cipal, it was otherwise, it was the exact opposite, with the Stars and Stripes.
 Apart from the circumstance that the American flag was first raised by men, who, however, and pardonab1y, mistaken in their sociology and economics, did sincerely believe that the American flag raised over the bound1ess natural oppor- tunities which the land offered to indus try, would insure the citizen the power and responsibility of being the architect of his own fortune apart from the cir- cumstance that the American flag was the first to wave over constitution that '1egalizes revolution apart from these and many other circumstances. the historic fact that the scientist, the noble minded, the venerable Franklin, when the scheme of the flag was presented to h1m, blue field with star for each state, expressed the hope that the q av would dawn when every nation i'll the world would be represented in that blue field with her own star, that fact con- fers upon the American flag the lofty distinction of being the first on earth to urge the Brotherhood of Nations he first to herald the solidarity of peoples the first crapery-sy1nbo1 of Peace on Earth ; that fact renders the American flag the anticipation of tke Red flag of International Brotherhood, and endears 1t to tie heart of civilized man.
 Of all this the under-developed men tality of the Anarchist knows nothing, can feel and know nothing.
 Hatred being the active element in his suferings torn heart, the milk of human kindness having s soure i II his breast, the Anarchist knows only of the oppression that flags, generally have symbol1zed--- and he acts accordingly.
 The flag of Franklin and of Jefferson the Anarchist knows. of only in the hands of the modern bourgeois, who seek to conceal their civic crimes by it's folds.
 Hatred bereaving him of his minds eye toysee, the Anarchist perceives not that the misfortune that has befa1len the American flag has, in spots. already be- fallen the Red flag itself, in so far as it has fallen into the hands of the Passaic County Local and of the Ohcia1dom- and Press of New York City Local of the $. Fl, who under its folds. and in gratific- ation of their personal ends, sought but yesterday to stab the l. w ". proletar- fat on strike in the back i'll northern New Jersey. Finally, the milk of human kind ness having turned to gall ill his breast, and over developed the bea st Il him, the Anarchist, like a demented bull, bellowingly wreaks his vengeance upon a flag, dissertation of which is desecration of the Red. THE WEEKLY PEOPLE.