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Show MAYOR GAYNOR 8 HOT. This time there Is no chance tor the lourceols press, lay and clerical, to pretend to believe thAt the would-bo a&sasaln of Mayor Gay nor was a Socialist So-cialist "bred to tho gospel of class hatred." All tho reports agree In giving- Jas. j. Gallagher a "clear title," as a "regular" in bourgeois society. He was a "hand-down" of the Tammany administration. So sound and sane was he, so "patriotic" and bo staunch I a "pillar of society" that ho was tak- ' en care of with a job In the Dock department. de-partment. Poor Gallagher! ) The machine of capitalist evolution i steadily grinds out more and more proletarians, and, simultaneously, i burns the bridges behind them. ! The proletarian whom tho light of Socialism has reached loses not his i . balance. Disorder, riot, let alone as- J sasslnatlon. Is the last thing to enter i his mind Such thoughts can gain no I admission with him for the sufficient j reason that, seeing So-clalm shows him a way out. a civilized way, re- j venge can not rise In his breast. He looks above tho Individual, he sees the system, and labors to overthrow that, gathering strength In his labors from tho acquired consciousness of the loftiness of bU labors labors that pursue the goal of human emancipation, emancipa-tion, of actual redemption. Otherwise with the benighted ones whoso heads are kept under the wafers wa-fers of denest ignorance by th clerical cleri-cal and lay agencies of Capitalism. Few, If any, are those whom the narcotic nar-cotic of "liapplness in heaven" bo completely unstrings as to remain passive pas-sive under the harrowing workings of the capitalists harrow. Most of these, disillusioned of the economic lies they were Btuffed with, and, Nature Na-ture asserting herself over prelatlcal nursery tales, becomes lrresponsibl. Of these benighted ones the most wretchedly Irresponsible aro they who find asylum In a political job. and lose it Tho others might still "seek." work elsewhere, aud In the "seeking" wear out their animal energy; the benighted proletarian whose only asylum asy-lum was the political job that he lost ho runs amuck. |