Readers are reminded that “on his
toric Boston Common 100,000 voices
echoed the refrain of the Appeal and
its army: ‘lf Moyer and Haywood die
twenty million workingmen will know
the reason why;’ ” and that “the shout
was taken up in old Manhattan and
echoed and re-echoed, causing the
plutes to rub their eyes in startled
amazement.”
President Roosevelt is alluded to as
“the spectacled sham that poses as
the champion of the square deal,” and
a letter from a correspondent is print
ed pretending to quote Mr. Roosevelt
as saying in 1895 that “men like Alt
geld, Bryan, Towne and Tillman should
be stood up against a brick wall and
shot to death.”
“Freeborn American citizens” are re
quested to take notice that “the kid
napping Governor of Idaho,” Frank-
Gooding, is a foreigner and a British
subject, while the grandsire of William
Haywood, “his kidnapped victim,” was
minuteman at Concord and a signer of
the Declaration of Independence. “It
is the old issue of British gold against
American freedom.”
Judges are called “the real kings
of the land; whoever can buy a judge
can rule.” An opposing newspaper is
“a moribund old scab.” A report about
Moyer is characterized as a “cold
blooded hatched-to-order lie to blacken
the reputation of an honest working
man.” The owners of the San Francis
co car companies “instead of having
troops to defend their loot” ought to
be in prison. The kind of justice
American work-people get is “the same
kind the czar dishes out to his work
people;” he shoots them by platoons
“legally,” but he makes the laws just
as American capitalists make them
here. The “plutocratic plunderbund”
and a “satanic press” are denounced.
