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Life of Albert Parsons

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to charitable purposes, and furthermore was so noble-hearted as to give employment to the wives and children of the two unfortunate workingmen who lost their lives by being crushed by the machinery." But ungrateful as I was I could not see anything noble in this. I had read in novels (secretly. my father having forbidden such literature) that famous highwaymen had given part of their booty to the poor, and I therefore saw nothing extraordinary in the "charity" of my cousin's "benefactor." I communicated my thoughts to my relative, who in return got very angry because of this comparison and muttered something that sounded like "that lad is getting too smart." This is only one example. Thus I found the brain of the toiler molded everywhere. Oh, these stupid fools! They are slaves without knowing it. They stood still like innocent sheep while their masters sheared them. Aye more than that, they looked upon them as their noble benefactors, who employed them for the purpose of saving them from starvation.

ADOLPH FISCHEL

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