The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-10
defeat

strike and threw him in Jail, so as
TO prevent him managing the strike, !
and in this manner won.
1t tricked the populists out Of eX-
istence after they had polled two
million votes of protest.
II sent an armored train TO shoot
helpless women and children in
West Virginia.
1t employed thugs who raised the
cry of fire at a Christmas entertain
ment at Calumet, Mich, and four
score of women and children lost
their lives.
1t hired gunner TO shoot up Lud-
low, Colo, and again women and
children were done to death.
1t has refused to install safety
appliances even when the law requir-
ed it,
1t has slain more in the struggle
for bread that its system of loot
made necessary than were killed in
all our history.
1t has established peonage in the
United States.
1t has imported forty million work
ers from Europe in order that it
might so control labor in America.
1t has slain thousands of women
and children in factory and sweat
shops.
1T has capitalized the earning pow
er of all the workers of America in
order that it might demand as divi-
dends all that could be made above
a miserable existence.
1t has made a nation of homeless
people and charged tribute for the
privilege of living in America.
/ 1t has made it impossible through
poverty for the masses of the peo-
pie to marry and fulfill the purpose
of life.
1t has mortgaged the future to its
! full producing capacity until there
/ is no hope for those who may be
! born.
1t has controlled education and SO
misinformed the people,
1t has corrupted the source of
news and so miseducated them.
i And through it all it has shamed
the world by a most Puinous waste
of natural resources, by its inability
to provide employment for the ma
tion, and by the grossest extrava-
gance spent the products of labor.
In every stage of these proceedings
we have sought for redress by chang
ing our party affiliations, only to
find that the tribute of profit, inter
, est and rent continued wiJhout inter
, Iruption A system whose character
) is thus marked by deception and tyr
amy and fraud and robbery is un-
{ fit to be in existence among "a peo-
/ Pile that desire to be free.
Nor have we been wanting in
r warming of what might be expected
; if these exactions should continue
We have warned the masters from
' time to time of the revolt which
must follow this shameful debauchery
: and tyranny, We have appealed tt
: their sense of Justice and have re
a reminded them of the fact that les
: than two centuries ago the riches
continent on earth belonged to tbs
: whole people living in that territory
e and have asked them by the ties o
d common humanity to desist from
e the plumber which If continues
must inevitably interrupt our rela
q tionships We must, therefore maxi
s our demand that to the workers o
} the world shall belong the entir
e wealth OF the world; and we shall
+ hold them enemies in this clas
struggle, but when the system end
; and they are ready to live by homes
d work, our friends.
el We, the workers of the Unite
d States of America, therefore, in un
ion with the working class of al
If lands, appealing to the Suprem
: Judge of the world for the rectitud
n of our intentions, in the name an
by the authority of eternal justice
If solemnly publish and declare tina
i we are absolved from all alleg
s ance to the capitalist control OF IN
,e dustry, and shall take that which
10 our own by virtue of having, produt
ed it; and that we as workers hav
,e full right and power, to rule indu:
Al try, to end profits, to conduct con
N merce and do all other acts an
things which have been done b
ID others for the sake of exploiting u
OIL And for the support of this declars
rs tion, with a firm reliance on the pre-
itection of Divine Providence, we mi
is tually pledge each other our live
l. our votes and our sacred honor.
lie