The Parenticide Club

frankly declare their principles and purposes. But what, it may be asked, are the two antagonistic elements? Dividing lines parting the popul

n between rich and poor does not serve: to the laborer the rich man who works with his hands is not objectionable; the poor man who does not, is. Consciously or unconsciously, and alike by those whose necessities compel them to perform it and those whose better fortune enables them to avoid it, manual labor is considered the most insufferable of hu

shopman, the street peddler-to all who live by the light employment of keeping the wolf from the door without eating him-to abandon their ignoble callings, seize the shovel, the axe and the sledge-hammer and lay about them right sturdily, to t

he note of contempt. In his repression, in the denying him the opportunity to avenge his real and imaginary wrongs, government finds its main usefulness, activity and justification. Jefferson's dictum that governments are instituted among men in order to secure them in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is luminous nonsense. Governments are not instituted; they grow. They are evolved out of the nec

tale of unpunished murders by individuals and by mobs, to legislatures and courts unspeakably corrupt and executives of criminal cowardice, to the prevalence and immunity of plundering trusts and corporations and the monstrous multiplication of millionaires. I should invite attention to the pension roll, to the similar and incredible extravagance of Republican and Democratic "Houses"-a plague o' them both! If addressing Democrats on

se foundations our forefathers laid upon the unstable overgrowth of popular caprice surfacing the unplummeted abysm of human depravity! Behold the reality behind our dream of the efficacy of forms, the saving grace of principles, the magic of words! We have believed in the wisdom of majorities and

onger be a pretense of regard for mercy and morals. Already "industrial discontent" has attained to the magnitude of war. It is important, then, that there be an understanding of principles and purposes. As the combatants will not define their positions truthfully by words, let us see if it can

ction between employer and employee, which is bu

operty and profits of the enterprise in which he is engaged, an

richer by working with his head than with his hands, and prev

hall punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty. We shall destroy property and life under such circumstances and to such an e

all not observe, but shall put prisoner

ight to labor, nor to live. The right to

try without supplying facts, notorious and undisputed, upon which some of these confessions of faith are founded. The war is practically a servile insurrection, and servile insurrections are today what they ever were: the most cruel and ferocious of all manifestations of human hate. Emancipation is rough wor

tness and power as not clearly to hear the shots on his picket line. Suppose we hypnotize

the occupancy of the entire habitable and arable area as fast as we can get it. To the objection that this must eventually here, as it has actually done elsewhere, deprive the rest of you places u

out my factories, and then arbitrarily, by withdrawing the employment, break up in a day the hom

hus making your misfortunes cumulative. By the law of supply and demand (God bless its expounder!) the less you have and th

cers of the peace and maintain a priv

by creating for my advantage an artific

large powers of the government

I shall go, in them, as far as you; but from arson and assassination I recoil with horr

ead. It seems worth while to put it on record while he is extant to challenge or verify; for the pr