Show A revolutionary ELEMENT THE increasing struggles between labor and capital combined with the socialistic cia listic agitations that are causing widespread commotion are of broader and deeper significance than is generally attributed to them they indicate the inauguration before long of a revolutionary epoch of terrible portent for ages the ruler and the capitalist have held the reins of power The they have wielded the sceptre tre as a rule with an unscrupulous and unmerciful hand selfishness being the controlling cont roling incentive to action after long ages of abuses and oppressions oppress ions that have ver verified i 1 the saying of the scottish bard that mans inhumanity to man makes countless thou thousands sando mourn the turning point has come the signs of the times say plainly to him who reads them aright that the masses are the masters of the future no earthly power can prevent it they have struck the key to their prospective power organization solidified by that process the they are as resistless as the ocean tide if they continue to progress in that direction they will sweep down all opposition as straws before a flood it is not to be expected that as they begin to feel a growing power increasing in their hands they will exercise it with greater magnanimity than their former masters have ave done strikes and boycotts are but bat the incipient symptoms of open violence in the enforcement of their decrees force has already been resorted to some degree and an application of it is sure to extend meeting it by the same means may check its earlier stages but so soon as the masses become sufficiently aggravated in temper and intelligently aware that ahat on that ground they are in a combined capacity invincible bloody operations will extend until the most condition will be inaugurated if there is a pacific solution of the labor and socialistic cia listic question now a striking feature of the times it has not yet been enunciated it is no longer a one sided issue a portion of the power bein being already in the hands of the masses it is no L longer monopolized by the rulers and capitalists A struggle for the mastery must continue un until til one side or the kotlier is victor or botti both are destroyed by the varying phases of the gigantic controversy this republic bids fair to be one of the chief battle grounds of the fight it presents a fruitful field for the co combatants m on either side the fact that the civil authorities have even so far as the dispute has proceeded toward the ripening point been insufficient to cope successfully with tile the disturbances that have grown out of it is a discouraging symptom tile the intervention of the military has been necessary but even that force may yet be found to be a featherweight in opposing the operations of the masses in a great crisis dependence would have to be solely placed in the national troops as it would be discovered that the states militia would soon exhibit their sympathy for the side of the bulk of the people it au gurs poorly for the safety of a republic burs c when it becomes necessary to ito introduce the military wing of the government to preserve the peace of tile the country and prevent internal uprisings |