The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-15

But suddenly they moved them
down
And hid them in hole.
ALL day this one-sided battle contin.
ued All that day through men drop.
ped In their tracks; mothers sobbed
over the dying babe on their bosoms,
only to be stricken themselves; child.
rem were stifled, bullet-rddled, as
phyxiated!
And when kindly night descended
when the golden sun of the morning
set blood-red in the west, changing his
promise to the living to the benedic-
ton for the dead-those rifles, ma
chine guns and torches had sounded
taps for score Of workers of Gods
world
A Grim Picture.
Here, then is the grim picture of
Ludlow--the smoky, blurred and
backened painting that must mar the
galleries of the twentieth century
And what of it?
Just this. That score died in their
own cause. They persisted for what
they thought was right. They laid
down their all--their lves-that
others might live and work in peace.
Their greatest sin was that they held
out against capitals greed.
Like Another, long before, who had
given His life to bring solace and COM
fort to the hearts of men, so did that
twenty die to insure industrial peace,
betterment and greater reward to the
sweating, striving, toiling hosts of the
earth.
For Ludlow is the beginning and
the end!
Ludlow carried the emphatic notice
the horror wantonness and futility of
the very things which created Ludlow
Ludlow aroused the people to the
realization that capitalistic rapacity
had overreached itself in producing
Ludlow.
Ludlow souided thee mphtic notice
that there must never again be an
other Ludlow!
Twenty Of Mighty Soul.
The Twenty of the Mighty Soul
brought these things to pass. AS they
stood upon these brown hilltops and
watched their canvas homes go up in
smoke and flame waiting for the next
bullet to single them out as victims,
had they been given the prophetic
eye they might have seen kindlier,
more indulgent spirit of the future
in teh ashes of the present.
Perishing from the earth they
might have foretold that the day had
closed on privately hired guards, gun
men, wandering soldiers of fortune
and those men who live by coercing,
threatening and killing their fellows
closing of the day on intimidation
browbeating, harassment and starv
ing to those who do those things for
unholy wage.
might have seen all the publicity, the
Investigations, the condemnation of
the monstrous system responsible
for Ludlow; the wrath of an aroused
people, the action of an indignant
congress and the move of a president
all these things and more growing
out of their valorous death at Lud-
low, but all bringing the emphatic
word that there must be no other Lud
low.
There might have been stauncher
unionism-grown mightier because of
their own courage and hardships-
moving forward and onwa.d and up
ward, until it proved to all the world
that in it, and it alone, lay the COM
mon man hope of the future.
They might have seen that unionism
winning it's peaceful battles of the fu-
ture, becauses the Mighty Score of
Ludlow has shown to capital that it is
better to treat and confer and reason
than it is to Stay and MAIN and burn!
These men and women and children
of the hard life, the grinding toll, the
sweating days, the many tears and
few joys-this People of the Great
Sorrow and Great Spirit-might have
seen all this. They might have under
stood that their tremendous suffer
ings would help thes tragglers OF all
time to come-that their names on
each succeeding April goth would be
honored and their memories revered
as the Saviors and the Rebukers of
Greed, the Heralds of Peace.
And standing on the summit of life,
with the depths of eternity at their
feet, and the setting sun shining gold
en- in their faces, they might have
cried out to all the world;
Behold the great martyrs.
"It is a far and better thing that
we do than we have ever done! 1t is
far, far better rest that we go to
than we have ever known"
The Kaiser, asserts a Berlin cable,
is not aped nv war hut has some new