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Show The Infamous Debs. The Worker, of New York, publishes Eugene V. Debs' welcome to Maxim Gorky. It is appalling, not the welcome to Gorky, but the spirit that run through the article. To read it a stranger would imagine that there was just as much tyranny, just as much oppression of the poor in the United States as in Russia. Then all through, the relations of Gorky with the mistress he brought with him are treated as just and right relations and infinitely purer than the marriages of rich Americans. The whole article ar-ticle is revolting in its denunciations of decent society and the usages of civilized men and women. wo-men. The startling part is that Debs is the mouthpiece! of increasing thousands in this land who, night and day, are planning the overthrow of all order and all law, and the introduction of universal chaos and loot. We do not charge this to the Socialists though Debs pretends to be a Socialist. It is another school, the school of universal uni-versal plunderers, the anarchists who are preaching preach-ing that their day is swiftly coming and that it will open with universal robbery and close in a wild debauch of anarchy. And these miscreants steal the honored title of labor men and pretend to belong to that order of society, though there is no other thought so terrible to them as that of being obliged to earn the bread they eat by honest labor. The hope is that dumb working-men working-men will learn to estimate their incendiaries at their real worth and repudiate them, for when men seek the overthrow of the free institutions of this country their crime is not only treason against this government, but against the hopes of the earth. |
