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Baron d’Holbach, the well known Latin Rite Mason, in the eighteenth cen-
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Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
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Rush, Benjamin Franklin and others of equal standing and repute were
Masons in full sympathy with the Latin Rite Masons, and thus announced
these Masonic principles. Since that, day, there has beep an insidious con-
spiracy of men of wealth, and of late years an eeclesfujilical oligarcy and
political machine has joined with them in sympathetic union, to destroy ali
the practice of those principles, and to jesuitically undermine and defeat
them. THE CRUSADER has entered the field to fight against those who
would destroy the great American ideal. Not that it hates them, except
that all enemies to the American ideal are ITS enemies. That-to defend the
American ideal obliges it to attack those who have limb by limb cut from
our Liberty Tree, and now have laid the axe at its roots, and openly declare
they will utterly destroy it.
As the Crusaders of old fought the Moslem hordes because they were
In possession of what they at that time deemed holy and sacred, so THE
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and encourage them to start on a new and modern crusade to rescue the
Altar and principles of American Liberty from the polluting hands of a
pagan priesthood, Catholic and apostate Protestant, who would faw^h upon
the privileged rich, and unite in a political machine to kill Americanism and
American Ideals, and give to a hypocritical band of sworn aliens the keys of
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THE CRUSADER will not entrench upon the field of any of the patri-
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of experience on five continents, meeting and understanding the interna-
tional character of the organization of the enemy of all Liberty, KNOWS
that none of these publications nor patriotic societies really know what they
are up against as an organization. As for himself, he has escaped so far,
though all of those with whom he has been associated in this fight, were
either poisoned, or "disappeared” entirely. Here in the United StateB the
enemy cannot dare to do things that he knows they have done in Mexico
and South America. That is, he has no knowledge or evidence that would
hold good in a court, that they have done so here, but that does not prove
a negative, as matters suggestive and suspicious have happened and are
constantly happening, that if properly investigated would show that the
same things are done, only they are more cautiously managed and there-
fore not found out, or even suspected. All this and more THE CRUSADER
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'Papers such as the Menace, the American Citizen, Watson’s publica-
tions and others, are run by people who‘have only lately waked lip, but the
editor of THE CRUSADER was waked up 45 years ago, and has been ac-
tively awake and observant ever since, and for 5 years has been organically
connected with an international order that has been meeting the “great
conspiracy” on its own'ground.
The lately awakened people do not seem to realize that it is not the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy they are fighting. Does it stand to reason that
only one-fifth to one-sixth of our population would be as bold and defiant
as they are, did they not feel the elbow touch of the organized putocracy in
full sympathy with their political designs? The plutocracy are now organ-
ized internationally like the Church of Rome, and the aim and desire of
both is the death of Liberty. They are in agreement, and "death find hell
are and have made a covenant.” But for this, Rome knows her plans would
he utterly hopeless, and but for Rome, the plutocracy would feel their hopes
groundless. Mark Hanna well knew this, and declared that “the Roman
Catholic Church would be the last bulwark of capital.”
The Rothschilds, (Jews), are at enmity with "the Standard Oil crowd”
in a struggle for the oil fields of Mexico and China. One Jews, the other
nominally Christians, but on the question of entrenching privilege, they are
Chang and Eng twins, and on the question of the destruction of Liberty and
Democracy they join with Rome. What is religion between friends who are
ont to exploit the producing classes? The Smelter Trust, the Mining Trust,
represented by the Guggenheims, a catspaw of the "Jew Jack Pot,” work in
harmony in the United States Senate, in Alaska, in Colorado, in Michigan,
With the "Christian Jack Pot,” AND BOTH BACK ROME’S PRETENSIONS
AS AN AID TO THEIR PLANS. This is the combine we, the people of all
the world, are up against, and THE CRUSADER is against this combine,
because it is against Democracy and Modernism. THE CRUSADER stands
ALONE ON THIS GREAT STATE SECRET. Bismark saw this and organ-
ized state capitalism to meet it, and prepared Germany to defeat Austria
and France. He not only moved to try and smother socialism on the one
hand, but to meet the COMBINE in its attempt to denationalize the nations,
by the internationalizing of an international oligarcy of capital, the last
Stand of privilege against the rising tide of Democracy all over the world.
This Is the issue, and Rome is but A PART of the conspiracy.
The editor has been a special secret agent of two foreign governments,
•nd acted for two of their departments of state, with the sole object of dis-
covering who were pulling the wires that produced afterwards the down
fall of the Liberal Government of President Jose Balmeceda in Chili, South
America, in 1891, aud the downfall of Porfirio Diaz in Mexico, elevated and
assassinated Madero, and brought Huerta, the tool of the Roman Church
aad the “Jew Jack Pot,” into power as dictator. He has personally wit-
nessed the mobbing and killing of American sailors in Valparaiso, in order
to involve the American government against the Balmeceda government,
Vbich failed in its object. He has seen his friends poisoned, and “disap-
pear” who opposed the combine. He knows who blew up the Maine, and
•hy, and be proposes to tell all that can be told and not involve men who
•re still living, nor violate the terms of his solemn oath of secrecy. He
cannot tell all that he knows, obviously, but THE CRUSADER will be, as
Its title inferB, a champion of Liberty, a defender of the principles that
"old glory” is supposed to represent to the oppressed people of the world.
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FATHER JONES COLUMN
LIBERTY VS. PRIVILEGE, NUM-
BER EIGHT, AND LAST.
Mitchell head of the miners another.
The head of the Weavers, the Ma-
chinists, later the Electrical Workers,
Well, when Masonry could not be in fact nine tenths of the Labor
........ , , , ,, „ union heads were Jesuit spies, and
killed like they killed other organ-,
[when Terence Powderly was put at
izations, because it was so wisely or- the head of the Knights of Labor_ he
ganized that it couldn’t be done, they put its quiteus on it, and when the
the spies of privilege, and tjie reac- American Federation of Labor was
tionary priesthood of Rome, kept j formed, its officers, delegates and
their agents in its lodges to emascu-, "whole shootin match,” were all de-
late its actions, and reduce them to|Vout kissers of the holy daddies
the lowest terms, and they, the spies, 'hands, and came to them for orders,
are there yet, and always "on the|oh, you say Sam Gompers the "head
job.” When the Brotherhood of the'push” wasn't a Papist. No, but a
Union was dying out under theibone headed reactionary like him,
manipulations of the Jesuit directed !and Bill Taft, can be of more service
spies, the labor unions began to dis-; t0 the skirted daddies than one of
cover that they needed more Indus- j their own kind, and then he’s not
trial unionism. The men they dis- j suspected as they would be. Then
covered to be spi-s, always were too, experience in Russia, Italy,
France, and South America has
"good union men,” hut they opposed
the amalgamation of associated
trades. Any old time men, of the
‘Amalgamated Carpenters and Join-
ers,” know that that amalgamation
between these separate trade unions
was bitterly fought, and by whom,
and it was the same critters who al-
ways opposed any talk of political
action, and often sang the song that
the interests of labor and capital
were identical, etc. Old Alec. Steph-
ens, head cutter at Wanamalcers
Clothing house at Sixth and Market
street, was the head of the Garment
Cutters Union, and organized and
held that, trade more compactly than
any other. Frank Boub, of the cigar-
makers, studied Stephens’ methods
and ideas, and the carpenters and
joiners got old Alec, ‘.‘the old war
horse,” to tell to them in their un-
ions. Between them all (Father
Jones was then a kid, aud Alec
Stephens an old man) Stephens got
the head men of the unions together
and broached his idea of The Knights
of Labor. It was to be intensely
secret, not even its name was to be
mentioned out of its lodge rooms.
Where lodges met no sign was to be
used, but the sign of a lance, and the
night, and time of meeting. No
badge,.button, pia, or emblem of any
kind was to be used. And when men
were nominated on any ticket, not
Knights, or who would not give the
best pledge to labor, they cut their
enemies, and voted for and spoke
and electioneered for Knights, or
their friends. Old John Shedden of
North Second street, “the old man
eloquent,” Isaac Rehn, James Walk-
er of South Second street, went
among the unions, and finally 63
delegates met in secret conclave at
the Garment Cutters’ Hall, north-
west corner of Sixth and Walnut,
street, diagonally across Independ-
ence Square, and there the Knights
of Labor was formed, and the first
Knights swore themselves to secrecy
even of the name of this secret labor
federation. Father Jones, then but
a kid of 21, was one of the 63. He
and Victor Drury, now dead, and Joe
Stiener, the last I saw of him was
as bugler at the National Soldiers
Home in Tennessee in 1911. We
three were Socialists, or 3 to 60.
Tom Fitzgerald, "Red Headed
Fitz," was the delegate from the
Typographical Union. After our next
general delegate meeting where Alec
Stephens was elected our first grand
master workman, the Press, John W.
Forney’s paper, came out with an
account of the general delegate con-
vention. of the “Knights of Labor,”
and told of Stephens’ election, and
pretty nearly a correct account of
the Knights. Victor Drury had told
the Knights to be awfully careful
about letting in Romanists, and to
not be stuffed with spies as they had
been in the .labor movement of
France and Italy, etc., and this
showed not only the work of a spy,
but a bold and reckless one. Some
hot heads said: “Find who he is
and we'll kill him,” but Old Alec
said: “We’ll be careful as we can,
but that wouldn’t be being careful.
We are known now, but that should
make us hang together all the
stronger.” Myself and Drury sus-
picioned “Red Headed Fitz” at once,
and we got word that Fitz had a long
talk alone with the Press night edi-
tor. That was not positive proof, he
might have been after a job on the
paper, and that night a coincidence.
Drury set a man to shadowing Kitz,
and just before an important meet-
ing, all three of us shadowed Fitz
one night, and followed him to Bis-
hop Ryan’s house next to the Cathed-
eral on Logan Square. We were seen
by men outside the Bishop’s house,
but that was the last we ever saw of;
shown, that men not known to ever
go near a R. C. Church, were found
to be Jesuits of higher grade, edu-
cated for the very work they are in,
and given dispensation, if necessary,
for stragetie purposes, to speak
against the church. Besides that,
just as a practical common sense
question, what difference does it
make if a man wears a Quaker drab
suit, but does the deeds and work of
a Jesuit? Its deds, work and results,
not words, iahels, clothing of names.
Sure, that’s awfully simple but say
fellow citizens, that the simple prop-
osition that the Jesuits have, and are
fooling a whole nation with.
Well, then the Federation of La-
bor was formed, the Militia of Chirst
was in, control of it and of the Un-
ions, and then the Civic Federation
was formed and paid Gompers and
Mitchell $500 per month or $6000 as
"Leaders of Labor,” that is Jawn
Mitchell sported a diamond pin
worth some $300 and the labor he
led could not sport a overcoat in the
winter, or their children shoes, or
enough grub to keep off the hunger
line. And some fiannell headed
gumps, wonder why American La-
organizations never get anywhere.
The Militia of Christ, all wired up
by the R. C. Church, has the Labor
unions thrown, roped, and hogtied.
They don’t intend the unions shall
amount to anything for labor, but
only for the master. Do you under-
stand now' why the Civic Federation,
a master guild, pays Gompers,
Mitchell, and other Labor Leaders,
a monthly bribe of $500. Bribo money
is generally passed quietly in an en-
velope, and in a bath room, or some
dark alley, but these bribes, to the
tune of from $18,000 to $25,000 as
a whole are passed openly and shame-
lessly. Why you ask? Well because
we’uns spell our name thus E. Z.
Mak’s. See? Ameican Labor Unions,
with a few exceptions wouldn't take
a tumble to themselves, not if a
brick house fell on e’iu. Say, Alec,
that's no joke. Therefore we today
havereached the point in the fight be-
tween Liberty and Priveledge, where
Priveledge has the R. C. political ma-
chine solid, it has a balance of con-
trol of the labor organizations and
“Leaders,” it holds the courts and
judges, congress and the president,
aud only about one tenth of the peo-
ple awake to the ideals of Liberty.
As an example, December, 26th,
the National Secretary of the Social-
ist party, wired the president, re-
questing an investigation of the Cal-
umet, Michigan, strike. Will the
President ever see it, or even know
of it? Just according as a Jesuit, the
assistant president and private
secretary sees fit or not. Just con-
sider that fact for a moment, turn it
over, study it, and think what it
means. Yet it is, and has been despite
such conditions, that Liberty has
constantly gained during the last
3,000 years, and privilege has just
as constantly lost. That is, to put it
plain, that contrary to apparently all
natural law and reason, Liberty
steadiy, like the drift of mighty
glacier, advances, and privilege,
armed with all the power of govern-
ments, armies, navies, legislatures,
courts, judges, police, money the pul-
pits, the press, the rostrum so organ-
ized in Lecture Bureaus, that only
the doctrine of privilege can get a
hearing, and labor, with the unions
officered by Militia of Christ men,
and spies, and informers of privi-
lege, why it’s all one sided like the
handle of a jug, yet the real and true
leaders of labor like Eugene V.
Debs, and a few others, still have a
firm faith that Liberty it to win.
You may ask: Has Debs lost his
goes on the devil’s side. The church
tries to serve God and mammon and
Jesus in the sermon on the mount
cald it couldn't ho Sid. What do you
think?
THE GIHZENS’ ALLIANCE
“Red Headed Fitz.” We waited reason? No, but its this way. No
around until daylight. He disap-: matter whether you call it, what
peared as completely as if he had | Haeckel says, "a constant drift to-
dissolved into the air. I have given ! wards melioration," the name is not
this in detail as it will illustrate oth-1 material, but most people use the
er things that happened, that space : term God, and Father Jones says:
don’t permit fo mention. When ‘he “Debs and others have fa’th in L.b-
American Federation of Labor was city, because he knows God is with
broached in the unions, Mi' ia of it and in L. aud that one man with
Christ men, or tb«> _ xanizatiou now God, is a majority. Those who are
openly known, ana pnofishing its o> tor liberty are on God’s side The
gan as such, got busy, and soon the church gets on the side against God,
heads of all Unions, their secretaries, and then prays to God ‘o be on the'r
treasurers, etc., were full oi these (sid<\ The rku:i h pray* that ii
spies John Lynch head of (he Typo- may be on God. . |... nui al ,i\j;
graphical Union was one, John that God may tv on t.. jo, and then
(By Clarance Darrow.)
The members and sympathizers of
the Citizens’ Alliance Association of
Calumet, Mich., wilfully assaulted,
heat, shot and then deported Charles
H. Moyer, president of. the Western
Federation of Miners, from the cop-
per country. It is fair to presume
that the mob was composed of mine
owners, their agents, hired gunmen
and sympathizers.
The excuse they make for this
open and serious violation of law
and this vicious attack on the leader
of the union, is that he slandered the
citizens’ association. The mine own-
ers say that Moyer charged that
someone wearing a button of the citi-
zens’ association, gave the alarm of
fire which caused a stampede at the
federation hall, which resulted in the
death of about seventy of the children
of the striking miners.
■ Of course, no person believes that
the mine owners or their agents de-
liberately murdered more than sev-
enty children in violence and cold
blood. These children at least were
innocent and when the facts are dis-
covered, if they sometimes are, it
will probably appear that whoever
did it was either insane or lost his
head and was in no way morally re-
sponsible for the act; but the con-
duct of this mob might furnish a les-
son to the leaders and inspirers of
the mob.
Since July the miners of Calumet
region have been out on a strike. Mr.
Moyer is president of the Western
Federation of Miners, who has this
strike in charge. From the time the
strike was called, the mine owners
and their agents publicly and priv-
ately have made all sorts of criminal
charges against Moyer and the West-
ern Federation of Miners.
They have called them murderers
and assassins. They have made these
charges through the Associated
Press, to the governor of the state,
to every person with .whom they have
talked or for whom they have w'rit-
ten. They have charged Moyer and
his associates with more and greater
crimes than were inferentially
charged against the mine owners aud
their paid gunmen and citizens’ al-
ance. .
They have never felt that either
Moyer or the miners were in any way
justified for violating the law, no
matter what slander has been uttered
against their name and their organ-
ization.
Beyond all this, the killing of sev-
enty-two people, mostly non-cambat-
ants, was a serious and dreadful
catastrophe. It shocked every per-
son all over the world who read or
heard of the horrible holocaust, but
horrible as it is for seventy-two to
be trampled to death, this is u !!
matter compared with the slow s.ar-
vation of many times that number
which has been going on in Michigan
for the last six months.
All the women and children among
the striking miners of that unfortu-
nate district have been on the verge
of starvation and no mine owner and
no hired thug has been shocked to
see them die.
Th£y have been slowly starving
while the agents of the government,
the governor of the state and good
citizens everywhere have been urging
the mine owners to settle this strike.
The mine owners have persistently
refused all negotiations to end this
strike. They have demanded of the
men that before they work, they
must abandon their unions. They
have refused to submit the questions
in dispute to a board to be appointed
by the president of the United States
or the governor of Michigan, or in
any other way. They have openly
said to their workers and their
wives and children that they will kill
them by slow starvation unless they
go back to work with their com-
plaints unheard.
What the mine owners lack is not
so much human feeling, as imagina-
tion. If seventy women and children
are trampled to death under their
eyes, they can suffer with the wom-
en and children and raise money to
bury the dead, but if 40,000 are dy-
ing of slow starvation because of
their stubbornness the only sensation
they get is one of satisfaction and
pleasure.
it is really unfortunate for the
country that these mine owners have
no imagination.
WOMAN’S COLUMN
WOMAN IS POPULAR.
Prof. Emma Perkins is a membe
of the board of education of Cleve-
land, Ohio, and while many of th
men are not considered for re-elec
tion, she is always ou the list. She
is the only woman member of the
board.
MANY WOMEN VOTERS.
The College Equal Suffrage
League of Northern California has
been collecting reliable information
as to the success of equal suffrage in
that state. In thirty-seven counties
statistics were obtained in regard to
the voters. In most of the counties
] more than 50 per cent voted and in
two counties over 90 per cent voted
For the whole state the average of
registered men voting was 56.4 per
cent.
WOMAN WITH Si25,000
IN HANDBAG DROPS DEAD
WOMEN AS A POWER.
“If ever the time comes when wo-
men shall come together simply and
purely for the benefit of mankind, it
will be a power such as the world
has never dreamed of.”—Matthew
Arnold.
FIGHTING FOR THE LAST
CHANCE.
Chicago, Jan. 7—Carrying receipts
for securities worth $125,000 in a
handbag, Mrs. Henry B. Wombacher,
wife of the president of the Standard
Typesetting Company, dropped dead
early today, while waiting for a car
at a street corner. She has been es-
tranged rrom her husband and had
spent yesterday liBting her bond
holdings.
(By R. A. Dague.)
Under the above heading Mary
O’Connor Newell, in file Chicago
Record-Herald, of November 30, de-
votes an entire page of that paper in
which she describes and illustrates
bow women employees are selected
to serve as janitresses and scrub wo-
men by the city officials of Chicago.
Recently there were 115 vacancies to
be filled. A notice was posted for
applicants. On the day set for exami-
nation of' those who applied, 650
poor, anxious women were on hand.
The writer said they mingled, with
the surging, poorly-dressed women
and questioned a good many of them.
They were nearly all mothers, wid-
ows with small children to support.
As to their former occupations, the
correspondent said:
“Scrubbing in department stores
at $5 to $6 a week—$1 a day of
eight and a half hours—was the
commonest experience. One woman,
earning $6 a week, reported four-
teen years in one department store,
beginning at $5. Her hours were
from 7 tb 5.
“One woman scrubbed at the coun-
ty hospital every day from 8 a. m. to
4 p. m. for $45 a month.
.“ ‘With meals? 'Oh, no; I keep
itouse. I have small children going
to school.’
“Her job is much better than the
usual one—night work that pays
ebout $1 a day.
“The city pays janitresses about
$45 per month.
They come on duty at 4:30 in the
afternoon and quit at 12 at night, ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday. On Sat-
urday they go on duty at 1 and are
through at 5.
“To the women who stand on life’s
firing line, who must, have bread for
themselves and their children and a
roof to cover them, an- have only
physical labor to exchange for it, the
city’s janitress jobs are sinecures.
Even though as hard, back-breaking
chill and rheumatism-producing as
any office scrubbing, they offer the
enviable, much sought after oppor-
tunity of combining home-making
and wage-earning.”
“Far from being of the type recog-
nizable at sight as scrubwomen, a
surprising number of the applicants
were refined of speech, gentle of
manner, dignified, even cultured to
an extent.
“Why were they so keen to get a
place on the very firing line of hu-
man existence, where the only weap-
on is physical strength?
“Some were not armed even with
that.”
Maggie Maloney, age 23, the moth-
er of three children, frantically plead
for work. She says:
“But let her tell the story in her
own way.
“ ‘You see, miss the good man died
only last month in Mercy hospital. It
was the cancer in his throat. He
was hardly sick before he was dead.
He left me with the baby, and Janie
and Jimmie. So I’m takine this job.
It’s to be home with the children all
day I’m thinkln’.’
“The floodgates were open. No
use for Mrs. Pratt to try to shut
them until some the pent-up emo-
tion had flowed.
“ ’Oh, miss, if you only knew how
bad I need the job, you'd give it to
me. 'hie baby’s 4 months old. There’3
no putting any of them in an insti-
tution. Sure they’d break their
hearts after mo. It’s no use ieiUn’
me I’ll have to give ’em up. I won’t
give them up. I’ll scrub my fingers to
the bone first. So there.'
Now comes a statement of the
damning outrage which the capital-
istic system has adopted in Chicago.
It seems that the petty tyrants in a,u«
.ority have instituted a brutal sys-
m of physical examination through
hich they put weak, half-starved
omen before employing them. Dr.
. . T. Olson superintended the tests
oi these 650 poor females, whlcn
consumed an entire week.
Mrs. Newell says:
“Thereis a machine for finding out
the strength of the forearm muscles,
another for learning the power of the
individual’s upper arm and chest
muscles, still another for finding out
the strength of her back.
“After pulling and pressing and
tugging a little at each of these in-
struments the would-be janitress was
required to raise a twenty-five pound
dumb-bell, and skip for twenty yards,
j first on one foot, then on the other.
“No matter how weary and worn,
toothless, even palsied, or so nervous
.hat even their heads shook, the wo-
nen went gamely through the tests.
“One old woman with high-bred
face, whose experience had been
j i.-ora teacher to housekeeper to day’s
■ ork, couldn’t get the dumb-bell to
her shoulder. Other women swung it
high in the air and brought it
straight down to the ground.
“The skipping test brought many
a laugh.”
Mrs. Newell further says:
“Chicago’s commission is' very
proud of its physical tests for civil
service applcants, Chicago was the
first of any city to work out such for
employees outside of the police and
fire departments. Numberless re-
quests come to it from oueside cities
for its methods. The Chicago com-
mission reasoned out six years ago
that people put on the civil service
list should be good physical risks, and
year after year it has perfected its
system.”
I am not sure that Mrs. Newell fa-
vors this infamous outrage upon
working women, and yet she says:
“Every housewife who has to hire
domestics ought to have a set of the
testing instruments used by the com-
mission to test the fitness of jani-
tresses. With these at hand the mis-
tress could quickly learn whether
Katie would not work because she
was lazy, or was lazy because she
could not work.”
What a damning disgrace is this
brutality to not only Chicago, but to
the state of Illinois, to the United
States of America and to this, the
twentieth century! And we are in-
formed that "numberless other cities
are considering the advisability of
adopting this Infamous Chicago out-
rage upon poor women who apply for
work. Here is a loud call to organ-
ized labor and to Socialists to get
busy and again go to the defense of
the helpless, homeless, friendless
victims of a system of brutal capital-
ism. Don’t wait for the protests of a
muzzled capitalistic press, aad of a
cold-blooded, mammonized church.
With few exceptions, they will be as
silent as the Sphinx in regard to the
outrages perpetrated by capitalism
on wage-slaves.
In these day's of war between
brutal plutocracy and outraged hu-
manity there are few- defenders of
the poor outside of organized labor
and the Socialist party. Now let la-
bor unionists and Socialists from
ocean to ocean demand that poor,
homeless, helpless mothers of little
children shall not be subject to the
diabolical outrage that they are com-,
pelled to endure in Chicago, and let
organized labor and the Socialists
of that city see to it that the tools of
a heartless plutocracy who are prac-
ticing the outrages named shall, at
r future election, be turned out of
offices they are unfit to occupy.
Creston, Iowa.
COMER.
D. B. Comer Is candidate aga
for the governorship of Alabama,
is business to run for whatever poi
tion he desires.
But at the same time it is t!
business of the people of Alabama
see that he is defeated.
If the devil in person should pr
sent himself as a candidate again
Comer the people of Alabama shou
elect the devil by unanimous vote.
D. B. Comer is a well-known fi
ure In our contemporary hlstor
He is the man who, in 1908, was i
sponsible for the defeat of 18,01
coal miners in their efforts of reslf
ing a reduction of wages; he is tl
man who threatened to have all tl
strikers arrested and sent to tl
penitentiary; who gave orders to tl
soldiers to destroy their camps; wl
| trampled constitutional and humi
i rights; who permitted a mob eoi
posed of the vilest elements to ru
with a reign of terror and brutalit;
who swapped his honesty, his oa
of office and the trust which he on
held from the people, to wear tl
livery of his corporation master
His candidacy for the highest c
fice of the state is an insult to ir
man decency, his election should
considered by the civilized world
a dishonor to the fair name of ai
country, Russia, China and the 111
of the anthropophagi includmfc
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