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Show Pixley After Them. The following excerpts from the leader lead-er in a recent issue of The San Francisco Argonaut shows that Frank M. Pixley has taken up the cudgels to defend in earnest the outraged poor of our land: The crimes which organized capital perpetrates upon the laboring poor are more cruel, more deliberately malevolent malevo-lent and a thousand times more indo-fensible indo-fensible than all the offenses which arise from working guilds and labor strikes or bread riots. The one class of offense of-fense comes from a sense of personal danger. It is the universal sentiment of self defense aroused for self protection. Capital combines from cowardice and in order to satisfy its lust for gain. Capital Capi-tal is the bully that oppresses the weak because they are weak, poor and indefensible. inde-fensible. Labor cannot be patient, for while it deliberates and plans it starves. The crimes which capital perpetrates are too numerous to mention in detail. Oppressive Op-pressive and tyrannical government depend upon and result from wealth. Trusts, corners, combines and moneyed syndicates, all are criminal organizations whioh men of wealth resort to in ordor to enhance the values of the necessaries of life indispensable to sustain physical strength necessary to enable the work-ingman work-ingman to endure the hours of toil which the master exacte usurious interest, in-terest, a monopoly of lands, special laws for the protection of property, the cost of legal expenses. There is only one proceeding at law which is conducted by the state at the expense of the tas paying public, and that is prosecution for crime. . The rich may oppress the poor by aor-porate aor-porate or other exactions, may deprive the poorer man of his land or estate and drive him to a ruinous .defense at law, the success of which may impoverish him. If against any of thesa modes of oppression and devices to which rich and unscrupulous men resort to increase their capital there should be strikes and unlawful un-lawful combinations, and out of them should result destruction of life and property and an interruption of the law, let all reasonable, intelligent and just minded men calmly consider whether labor has not causes for dissatisfaction. |