Denver labor bulletin., 1917-04-07
THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA AND THE
COMING REVOLUTION IN COLORADO
By SAMUEL R. MAXWELL.

man in America to remember that
within the limits of our republic of
freedom there has grown up a well
organized despotism of industry where
profit is the car. He has his splen-
did palaces. He also has his court
In this court are the princes of COM
merce, the mobiles of finance, the lords
and political bureaucrats of every de-
scription. A veritable monopoly of
industry. AS a direct consequence of
this empire we have our Siberia of
poverty and privation.
The czar owns $4,000 square miles
of land-he is not in it with our rail-
way kings. They own $4,000 square
miles of land, an empire in itself. 1t
has been computed upon reliable data
that the amount of land held by our
lords of land in the United States
of the Mississippi. The people of
Russia made no apology for confiscat-
ing the vast landed estates of the czar
and mobiles, and opening them to the
people-and why should we apologize
for taking that which is our own.
We must begin this great work of
redemption, but we must begin with
ourselves-our own stupidity gives
the shrewd men their chance. By al
lo"iHS ouISclNeS " Ignorant
we create the conditions for our own
enslavement. "If you make yourself
an ass every man will throw his sack
on your back"
/ The great mass of people in Russia
were armed with the power of intel
| ligence when they kicked the czar and
his mobiles into the sea and took the
helm of the ship of state into their
own hands. The farmers of North
Dakota were armed with intelligence
when they took possession of the ma
chinery of the state to obtain justice
for themselves. The army of 4OO 900
railway trainmen knew the facts when
they entered the field of argument
with the railway managers and they
have won notable victory.
| The producers of this state have
suffered for years. The farmer has
been robbed by the produce king and
the lords of land; the miner has been.
exploited by the smelter monarch; the
workingman has been murdered and
enslaved by kings of capital and the
reasonable requests of the farmer and
the miner and the working man has
been arrogantly turned down by the
servants of these privileged few in
the legislature.
The time has come for the people to
rise and fling off the intolerable bur-
den. The farmer, the miner, and the
working man must unite in a great
non-partisan league against the COM
mon enemy, represented by the ex-
ploiter and his henchman, the politi-
clan. The organizers of this league
will begin in this state the last week
in April. They will enter eleven states
this summer. What they have done
: in North Dakota we can duplicate
here, and in every state in the West.
Over thousand applications per day
for membership is pouring into the
office of this non-partisan league in
| st. Paul. Eighty-five organizers are
to work in Minnesota. We will have
one hundred at work in Colorado this
summer. You can hear the roar of
this cyclone. 1t is sweeping this way
Candlish, Lewis, Billy Adams and the
other servants of the kings of profit
in the legislature do not know that it
is coming. 1t will hit them on the
blind side and, sweep them into OBJ
livion forever, and we will put men
into the legislature that will stand for
principle, not profit; men who will
legislate for the people and not for the
few.
Boys, get ready and let us all be
in at the killing. Let US have a new
republic of industry.