El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-11

This is conclusion we cannot
| agree with. Capitalism wanted the
war and knew from the very begin
ming to what ruin on one side and to
{ what gigantic profits on the other il
would lead As we have already said,
the war has enriched those concerns
which were already too rich, has in
creased the power of the ambitions.
killing in their purse and in their
life all the masses, who were already
too poor, even without the war.
The United States is now partici-
pating in the terrible European
slaughter Who has forced the United
States 10 it, Nobody, unless it be the
I III concealed fear that premature end
ing Of the war should dry too soon
the miraculous springs OF fabulous
gains.
American capitalists, realizing
that there was still very much TO be
gained from the war. have induced
their masked straw man IN the white
house 20 break completely with Ger
many and TO send to France a con-
tlugenr OF American troops to reani-
mate the depressed and tired spirit
Of oelligerent nations Of the entente"
Judge Meyer, who sentenced Alex
ander Berkman and Emma Goldman,
is termed "a democratic Prussian' in
another outburst under the mead OF
Democratic Justice 90"
Sentenced Anarchists; Denounced.
While Il is proclaimed to the four
winds that America makes war to in
sure q maximum Of liberty to the
world while all imaginable sacri-
ices are imposed to the masses that
the socalled tPrussianism' may be ex-
PEELED from the central powers and to
replace it with democracy Of the most
liberal brand ever known. Prussian-
ism IS rapidly taking root in those
most democratic nations that have
bound themselves In a solemn pact to
crush IL
In New York Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman have been con-
demned to the maximum penalty al
lowed by the penal code by a demo-
cratic Prussians judge Meyer, for
having exercised their right of free
citizens to express what they thought
about war and draft From the very
beginning the process has been a
most Odious farce, as was declared to
the nose Of the PrussiauiZed admins
traitor OF republican justice by our
comrade Goldman as soon as the
iniquitos sentence had been pro-
nOunced.
IN the meantime Emma Goldman
has made a warm appeal to all the
comrades that they may do their ut
most 70 provide the necessary in or
der that Mother Earth (the disIoyaI
organ Of the anarchists) may not
have to die"
In the issue Of August Is. aIsEra
Nuova" is a trifle more virulent.
Wilson's cutthroats." "harlot Justice"
cannibals OF capitalism" and other
phrases are used in the leading article
IN the paper, signed by The Bandit
VINO touched upon the 7 ". " out
reaks In the west and who eulogfzes
Goldman and Berkman- He SAYS.
The modern tyrants have closed
our mouths and have cynically vio-
lated the articles OF this sOcaned
democracy OF knaves and braggards,
ana they put back in vigor the villain
GUS wicked laws Of persecution. the
anonymous denunciations, the high
way methods Of medieval times and
the masked assassinations
Defends sIackers. Utfers Threats.
-Au the idols, shattered yesterday
are resurrected today; all race hatred
and criminal impulses are taking new
life, moistened as they are with pro-
letarian blood Liberty exists in name
only The blind and greedy reaction I
carving new victims. makes Roadway
and threatens 10 suffocate all that re-
mains free and rebel in the spirit of
the nation and Of the masses: the most
mOnstrOus trials, the built up. framed
up from the Pacific to the Atlantic
coasts in the hope to weaken any
remnant OF the spirit OF liberty"
And the thirst Of the wolves Of
the hyneas TO whom the imbecility Of