1901 Kill the Vampire

== KILL THE VAMPIRE, THE CREATURE OF EVIL ==
L A. Russell, in Cleveland. Pross. 
In all ages, from the beginning to this present, in the hearts of workers there has constant dwelt the image of the Vampire, sometimes clear, often vague, always there. 
Blindly they were conscious. Dully they knew and know. “We made all. We make all, after God, We kept none, we have none. We had each of what he made only that he used to make more with for the Vampire.”
The Vampire has it all. It maketh nothing. It only takes from us while we sleep. By its wisdom? No! By our folly. Burne-Jones painted it. Kipling penned his reading of the picture.
What Is the Vampire? It is not a thing
Who Is the Vampire? It is not a person. 
What is it, then? It is a creature of evil power, to sap our strength and kill us. It takes the land God gave to all, and lets it out to some to hire. It takes and keeps the hive, and makes it heavier as our labor makes the land| more fruitful. 
We make It, of ourselves, for ourselves. We name It: Trust. We feed it till at last it eats us and we cease to be. 
It is forever, for while we lived and fed it we also got our kind to feed it and be eaten after us, and getting more like us to make unto themselves Vampire to destroy their creators. 
What should be the function of man? To kill the Vampire. 
How kill it? Starve it to death, within in yourself first, then in your children then In your law. 
How shall we know it? By this sign: It is injustice. Justice kills it. It thrives on privilege; give none. It fattens on an unjust tax. Tax only justly. It lives alone on what you feed It. Feed it not. It will die. 
What is it to man to live? Only this: To fight the Vampire, to kill it, or to be killed by it. 
“Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.” St. Paul to the Romans. vi.,16. 
== Citations ==
==== APA: ====
Russell, L. (2020). 1901. The Charlotte News, p. 6. Retrieved 16 June 2020, from https://www.newspapers.com/image/58157160.
==== MLA: ====
Russell, L. A. "1901". The Charlotte News, 1901, p. 6, https://www.newspapers.com/image/58157160. Accessed 16 June 2020.
==== Harvard: ====
Russell, L., 1901. The Charlotte News, [print] p.6. Available at: <https://www.newspapers.com/image/58157160> [Accessed 16 June 2020].
==== Chicago: ====
Russell, L. A. 1901. The Charlotte News, , 2020. https://www.newspapers.com/image/58157160.
== Site and Author Information ==
Orig Newspaper The Charlotte News (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Author: L. A. Russell
Issue and Date Fri, Jun 28, 1901- page 6 
Website: Newspaper.com
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