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principles of Socialism, at the close of which circulars, pamphlets, and copies of the Alarm was the result. The capitalistic papers denounced us the next day, and threatened your humble speaker with lynching, but it is farm more probable that the workingmen of Topeka would lynch the capitalists of Topeka than to allow themselves to be mobbed by them.
The next day I departed for St. Joseph, Mo., a beautiful and very wealthy city of 50,000 inhabitants, were Comrades Christ, Mostler, Nusser, and other had prepared a mass-meeting, in Turner hall on Saturday. There had been considerable talk to my advent in the columns of the capitalistic press of that city, and many were the remarks, favorable and otherwise, made about the appearance in their city of Parsons from Chicago. As was to be expected, the conservative workingmen, who profess to have faith in the curative powers of the ballot-box, strikes, arbitration, etc., were loud in their denunciations of the revolutionary Socialists, and they were at great pains to have the public understand that the Knights of Labor was an organization which had nothing whatever to do with these "Communists," etc. Well, at the hour named the largest audience ever brought together in St. Joseph on such an occasion were gathered in the Turner hall, where those who could not get seats stood in the sweltering weather of a hot July day for over three hours, attentively listening
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