When once the masses realize that the same class of adventurers,
tax-gatherers and oppressors of labor who in this country have gotten
absolute control of the Republican political machine, are the present
friends, the advisers and colleagues of the despots, plutocrats and
military leaders of Europe, that their families are intermarrying,
their interests being pooled, their cause becoming one, their interests
identical, all their plans and hopes one and inseparable, then will
it be impossible for designing demagogues to mislead or confuse them
further. When it becomes generally understood that the forces of
reaction throughout the world are one, then will the common people
come into closer union and bind themselves together as a unit.
The union of those who profit by tyranny necessitates the union of
all who believe in liberty. The internationalism of millionaires is
creating an internationalism of the common people. The situation is
being so simplified that all may comprehend clearly the two forces
whose conflict extends over the modern world. All minor and secondary
divisions and issues are swallowed up. The international aspect of the
problem does not, as one might at first suppose, confuse the mind,
but, on the other hand, simplifies the issue so that none can mistake
concerning it. Old prejudices, reverence for party names, sectional
hatreds, sores left by historic feuds, religious differences and
affiliations with local political machines, in which self or friends
are interested selfishly, all tend to cover up the real issues, when
only the local end of the fight is studied.
But, when we learn that the same class that induced the governments of
Europe and America to co-operate with Spanish murderers in starving,
killing and torturing tens of thousands of our patriotic brother
Americans in Cuba to protect the value of their Spanish bonds and
got these so-called Christian governments to assist the Turk, supply
him with arms and drill and general his soldiers for the massacre of
hundreds of thousands of defenseless Armenians and Greeks, to secure
the continued payment of interest on their Turkish bonds; that this
class is made up of the same individual bondholders who are gaining
control, through syndicates, of our American breweries, distilleries,
railroads, street car companies, gas companies and other manufacturing
and commercial institutions; that they are ever ready mercilessly and
barbarously, by murder or giant fraud, to advance their interests,
regardless of duty to humanity, country or to God, all of which they
deny; and, when we prove that this class now controls absolutely
the machinery of the Republican party in America, and is trying
again to control Democracy, the masses, in their fury against it
will, regardless of historic prejudices or past or local political
affiliations, unite in common defense of home and country to stamp it
out.
THE PARTY OF EXPERIMENT.
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