The guardian., 1940-02-17
ATTUCKS AND DEMOCRACY
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thentlcated statement "Attucks" ever
made, but we do know that the name he
bore was never associated with treason.
Nevertheless, he demonstrated the cour-
age of his convictions that "taxation
without representation" was tyranny.
There were jobless men during that
day and the spirit of the mob was as
rampant then as it is today. The un-
employed colonists were surrounded by
American economic royalists whose fin
ancial interests were incumbered total
ly to the British crown. Importation
Of foreign goods was effective under
compusion. Michael johnson, if that
is his true name, assumed the name of
"Crlspus Attucks" probably as a pre-
text to submerge his complex of mob
instinct to teach the British a lesson
that secret colonistic Vaccinations
would be hard to subdue under the OPP
posed mass-organization process. Sam
uel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel
Maverick and the Irishman, Patrick
Carr, along with "Attucks" did not die
IN vain. They established a pure Demo-
cratic precedent of open door freedom
of mob assembly which historians have
almost unanimously recognized. These
men voluntarily conscripted themselves
to make the supreme sacrifice in order
to make America a Democracy. It is
not complete but has proved itself eff
caclous as one of the growing incidents
leading toward a Freedom, the masses
through the ages have been clamoring
for.
The three functions of our Govern
ment clash because of the misunder-
standing that arise as to the real mean
ing OF Democracy. Patriotic and Vet
eran organizations argue in their legis-
latlve councils, ga freedom of Demo-
cracy" in America, yet their enactments
and resolutions become meaningless
because their leaders are weak in the
practice of these principles outside of
their legislative walls. Thus, we must
be compelled to term these attitudes as
hypocracy in its lowest form, subject
to the incessant attack of the supposed
subversive elements that infest America
today.
There wasn't any racial prejudice
the day that the bodies of those five
men were inferred Yet, the Bondman
complex in America was not extin-
gulshed until almost a century after
the Boston Massacre incident. It was
mass inferiority then and exists today
under custom and sanction which
Democracy as yet, has not circumvent-
ed. The Democracy of today has a 90
per cent hollow meaning for the pro
lection of the majority, the other 10
per cent Is left for a certain under
privileged minority to ponder over as
a means to an end for uninterrupted
economic existence Political, Civic
and Social organized interestse in
America protect the former in ad-
vancement and impede the progress
OF latter groups because of selfshness
land ignorance. There are thousands of
the race of Attucks living and dead
who would sacrifice their lives in anv
emergency that has and may arise in
America. This is a nation of oppor-
tunities and a Democracy for All
should rule!
We must remember there were no
machine production problems during
the days of Attucks as there are today.
There was a carefree activity of the
coIonlsts to enjoy total man power pro
duction under dictation of royal com
mand. This was a major economic ex-
lstence interviewer into a scheme of
Tory privilege granted by force. The
resentment of the colonists of toiling
under handicap and royal restrictions
together with eXtortionate taxes prom
pied a mob violence complex. The
thought Of the colonists was that thev
could not obtain their vested rights
only by open collective violent assem-
bly, Attucks probably spilled his
blood by being used as a buffer to de-
stroy system, not knowing the con-
sequences of his act which thrilled the
inhabitants who afterwards mourned
his loss. The tories controlled the ex-
porting and importing trade in all the
colonies. Boston, then a sea port town,
was one of the chief centers of Ameri-
can trade. The British controlled it bv
Tory manipulation. Attucks probably
did not know the evolution of economic
values existing at that time. It was
instilled in him to resent oppression
not like other individuals. Others were
Just as courageous but not as fearless
and daring in expressing their resent
ment. Attucks dared and a few fol-
lowed him to violent death to pre-
serve Democracy.
TRUMPET SENSATION OF