Dear Sir: While not a Socialist
the writer notes with hopeful satis
faction the closing paragraph of your
editorial, “The Appeal to Reason,
and Freedom of the Press,” in the
Weekly Jeffersonian of April 18th,
1912.
To the extent that he is human
and has the right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness the Nigger
is our brother. So is the Jap, the
Chink, and the Hindu. Asoeconomic
units these races are being used
against us by centralized wealth as
brother against brother, to destroy
the industrial freedom of the Anglo-
Saxon. To the writer it seems, there
fore, that, he we Democrats, Repub
licans, Socialists, or what not, we
must in economic self protection
deal with these races .as industrial
brethren. By so dealing we may
organize and use them for industrial
freedom instead of permitting them
to be used as unorganized units by
centralized wealth against industrial
freedom. You are familiar with Mr.
Bran dels’ statement that “Industrial
slavery and political liberty cannot
exist together.” And practically to
the industrial classes of our country,
to a very large extent, already Free
Speech is denied; Public Assembly
is denied; Freedom of the Press is
denied; Liberty of Movement from
place to place is denied; PROTEC
TION OF THE LAW IS DENIED.
I am sending you (under separate
cover) some of our local literature
from which I hope you may find
time to glean some comment that,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
given the force of speech which your
comments usually have, may be of
benefit to many in other sections of
our country. S. L. S.
San Diego, Cal.
