The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-08-09
TOUGH" TIMES
IN SIGHT FOR
PLUTOCRATS
Warned to Prepare for the Day
When True Democracy
Will Rlue.

is up.
That is the big news of the mo-
ment.
Whether Hindenburg and the Gar
be dead or alive, the days of linden
burgs and Cars are drawing to a
close.
Austria, with stomach empty, soul
bitter, under the defeat inflicted by
Italy, has had all she wants.
The Prussian military gamblers,
led by their Kaiser, will go on as
long as the people will let them. 1t
probably will not be long.
With 100000 American soldiers,
at tleast, to keep up the fighting all
winter, on the western front and hun
dreds of great ships carrying more
fighting men, there will be no win
ter's rest for the weary would-be
"world conquerors."
With first hundreds, then thou
sands, of American flying machines
dropping dynamite all over Germany,
slavish followers of the "All Highest"
killer will find that war is real for
them also.
Germany wants peace at last. But
the time has not quite arrived for
her to get it. She must want it more
earnestly and talk more plainly.
She must stop telling the world
what SHE wants, and ask, "What
can / have?"
Her position when this war ends
will be the same as that of any
other murderer, dragged before any
court and sentenced.
While the worlds civilization is
making up it's mind what is to be
done about the out-ofdate military
artocracy that survives in Prussia,
like some mammoth preserved in ST.
berian ice, another kind of autocracy,
recently born, should watch the pro-
ceedings with interest.
This country is the home of that
newborn autocracy, the autocracy of
dollars, of organized monopoly, spe-
cial privilege and national exploita-
ton, backed up and exalted by
servile press that eats from the plu-
tocrat's hand.
This country has just finished cele-
brating the great French anniversary.
The men whose speciality is rob-
bling the people should realize just
what has been celebrated.
Do they know what our best friend
and our highest example-France-
DID on July IA, 1889?
Do they understand the meaning
of the British labor party's after-the-
war program?
Can't they realize that financial
autocracy of arrogant law-defying
wealth is just as odious to a free peo
pie as were the court hangers-on of
special privilege of France in the
days of Louis XVI?
You men who control the public
,x,aa1<h IS 10
mistake when you order your most
solemn mouthpiece, the New York
Times, to attack the President, accuse
him of protecting traitors, represent
him as the ''too willing gull" of or
ganized labor, simply because he has
asked congress for authority to man
age your telegraphs and telephones
in the public interest. Don't you
know where your wealth comes from,
or how quickly and legally it could
vanish,
Get short history of the French
revolution. Learn something.
Find out what happened to the
King and the court that would not
listen to such man as Necker, pre-
ferring Foulon and Berthier-soon to
have their bodies kicked around the
gutter by the mob of Paris.
This nation is peaceful and wishes
to remain SO within its vast borders.
Why don't you allow it to be peace
full? Why don't you curb your over
Jealous lawyers and corporation news
papers? Be satisfied with enough,
with ten times your share. Be eau
tious.
YOU and your property, not they,
will bear the brunt if the storm
comes.
Soon millions of men will come
back from France, impressed with the
valiIa of forca and knouinO how RI