| Show threatens confiscation and predicts revolution S sometimes Ome times the light breaks through and even our capitalist journals J see conditions us as they are at suell such times they utter sentiments and half truths a socialist would be imprisoned for below we reprint re print an editorial from the now new Yorki york journal ourn of february 3 that is signi signify fi cant in iii that it comes from such a fore force e and is full of so many in eximina eliminating criminating ting admissions it is time to point out to men rob the city of now new york and other cities that they will not have every thing tiang in their hands always we remind them that while they can buy M mayors byors I 1 and pub I 1 c service vice commissioners and legislators and bigger officials throughout the country thoy thay cannot prevent the people f from rom taking 0 back that which has been baen stolen from f rom the people P eo P io you oust owners colloy man manipulators and exploiters of the public you have had a very pleasant easy time you have taken the peoples people money ma aey in in millions in tens of m millions eions you the peoples streets st roots their franchises franchise s all of the property which should be theirs you ill treat them you laugh at them you select or af after ter election you buy their judges when you need them you bribe their senators and control their lawmaking ing but remember and there is danger in the memory for you remember that you cannot perm anOl own the people thern them solves selves and confiscation loons looms ahead of 3 ou on N what you big men forget is fact that the people outnumber you one growl from the crowd would frighten you another growl at the ballat box and the property that you have stolen can be swept out of your hands bands overnight that happened in france remember it has bapp happened ened in other countries it will happen here if you go too far with your robbery and insolent disregard of public rights remember that confiscation by the people f property taken f from roin them is not robbery it woul I 1 be rb rubbery bery in the language of your paid lawyers in the decisions of your bought judges but it would he justice in the eyes of history mr r morgan is is in france while lie he is away his agents engage go e in in robbing the people they have corrupted the public officials dials they tire are not buying but stealing pg the cites bonds since they give less for them than they are worth they are not negotiating 0 t for the city streets but swindling the people out of their subways permanently your year crooked lawyers your dishonest dis bonest judges your less officials put the city in in bankruptcy and then you big rascals aro allowed to loot it at your leisure but remember re confiscation remember that the people can take tor to morrow norro w what you ba have va tolen stolen today if mr morgan came home and found that his clothes his furniture his picures picuris pi cures had been givena away by his bis servants or sold to some dishonest dealer fora for a small part of their value what would he do would he not u go to court and immediately get an order restoring his property he would say give me back chy my furniture my clothes my pictures 0 and lie he would get them back IC anybody talked to him of con fisca uon or asked that the amount to the re receivers e eivers of stolen goods be restored by him he would say not at all I 1 do not deal with rascus you k bribed my m y servants sor you steal my y property you g it t my goods and you must lose allt 3 on oil in ve vested sted in this dishonest tran faction sac tion I 1 want my property back 7 one fine day you big public exploiters the people will talk taft to you in that fashion thoy they willnell will tell you you cannot go on forever taking what belongs to the people the day will come and if you persist 4 in in your p present resent methods the day will come soon when the people will apply your methods to you and take back from you yoa that which you imagine to be yours you dont own these streets you dont don own these subways you cant forever awn own public officials vials the people can put in other officials that won wont t be owned thoy can take back the streets take back the property as you would take baek back your own if it had been stolen or sold by dishonest servants servant remember member Ke that the power of eminent domain which your you i r lawyers can explain to you the power of the people to take whatever they want with or reason never dies the people can confiscate what they choose tomorrow and and mr morgan if the day comes I 1 as ii 41 will it your methods methi ds and those of youri fellows continue when the people shall take your subways sub ways it will do you no good to weep jn in time of war when it is necessary the people take a woman s only son lead him to battle and have him killed fa for r the benefit of the public tens ten of thousands of boys are taken from their mothers and killed for the public welfare when war comes it does the mother no good to say that is my only boy aou ou have no right to take him and mr morgan when the day of f confiscation is forced upon the people by you and those like you it will do you no good to say that is my only subway don t take it the people will say dawe we need it you stole it i t from us ir the beginning now we begin over again with the peoples pro property petty in the I 1 p peoples i eol brands bands and this will teach you who have bave superior intelligence but less conscience to be moro more c care a re ful il for this particular sermon on confiscation which hien is i f s coming if financial morals dr do not improve we select mr morgan as a s one to fco I 1 4 whom it should be addressed in view of his subway ing 0 g continued next week |
