The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-09
(By Geo. D. CoIernanl

(By Geo. D. Coleman)
When the Ludlow massacre took
place, please tell me Of the capitalist
paper that shed tear or showed any
human, much less Christian sympathy.
On the contrary. the murdered victims
were condemned and held up as unde-
sigables. We have organizations call
ed churches that call themselves Chris
tan, borrowing the title from the name
of one mentioned in the New Testa-
ment and used as cloak 81 mask.
Which one Of these stood up in sympa-
THY for the murdered victims women
and childrenp can remember none.
They were dumb and silent. only the
more fashionable defended the crime
and one church in New York City had
hired thugs who beat Up and threw out
man who wanted to ask questions
about it, and the authorities cast him
into prison!
When an armored car went back and
forward and poured machine gun fire
upon camp Of men, women and chill
dren in West Virginia and Congress
sional Investigation confirmed the bru-
tai story. where was the sympathy Of
| 1.-THE capitalistic press and the equally
capita]istic churchesp Hundreds Of
cases like that could be cited that are
equally as bad
| When host of men are imprisoned
in So. Africa on the false charge Of
treason, but whose offense is only that
they are labor leaders, and under the
false charge they can be legally MUIR
dered. where is this capitalist, So
called sympathy How about the
sympathy for them and especially for
their wives and childrenp We have
heard on none. In Esthonia, forex-
ample, a man is summariIy tried and
quickly executed, but for what crime?
No deed was charged merely the fact
that he was Communist! A modern
Inquisition commits an auto de fe for
heresy against Christian civilization, ex-
lecuted for opionion's sake in the TWEEN
tieth centure! And SO | could tell Of
equal instances in Poland and else
where. The record is long one, but
there is no record Of capitalist or Chris
tian sympathy on any Of them. BUT,
Soviet Russia, a workers government,
an attempt to change society from a
tooth and claw jungle into an orderly,
sympathetic government, where special
privilege shall end and an economic
democracy be launched upon the world
we find men who have confessedly
conspired and attempted to assassinate
its leaders and succeeded in some in
stances-men who, like Benedict Ar
mold, fought against their own people.
Men who aided Kolchak and the other
wreckers to smash bridges and destroy
railroad equipment, and used the mon
ley Of France, and England, and the
enormous military supplies Of the U. S..
as capital organizations and caused the
death of thousands Of thousands of
their own countrymen. Men who, if
free, would join their follow traitors
in Paris, London, and Warsaw, and
again conspire toi assassinate and en-
gage foreign capital to start counter-re-
volutions. These men. dripping with
blood defiantly admitting they would
engage in their hellish work again if
free. For these men the capitalist press,
and pulpit are full of sympathy and
would plead with, even threaten Russia
lif the well-deserved punishment is met
ed out. | don't suppose the capitalists,
press, governments and lackeys care a
continental for the lives of these trail
tors and d n rascals and renegades,
nor are they anxious. as they say, that
Soviet Russia shall mar its record; but
there are thousands of their same kind
in Paris, London, Warsaw and New
York, who, if these williams were giver
their merited dues. would hesitate to
launch new wars against Russia and
capitalism wants tools to do her dirty
hellish work and while prating Of peace
and telling US Of the Prince Of Peace,
they want war, its profits. graft and
hell
That's capitalist sympathy. That's
what they call a Christian system Of So
ciety and government.
When capitalism ceases capital pun
ishment it will be time to call on So
Wet Russia to follow suit, but to bub-
bic over with sympathy for treason
and traitors. while executing men on
framed-up charges, and. like the In
QUESTION, for opinions sake. is internal
Hypocrisy. and the hypocrite is the one
Christ condemned the worst. But to-
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