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lative district from which John McB., labor politician, member of the Ohio Legislature, and President of the Ohio State Miner's Association, hails. As well might the herd of sheep appeal to the wolves for protection, as for the despoiled workers look to the statute books for redress.
I found hearty greeting in Navarre. The "rink" was crowded, and the brass band, consisting of fourteen instruments preformed by miners, regaled the people with some choice selections of music. The meeting was attended by the priest, banker, and lawyer, and none could or would deny the truths of Socialism. A large American Group was formed and many subscribers obtained for the Alarm.
From Navarre I went to Mansfield, the home of John Sherman, Ohio's member of the American House of Lords, sometimes called the Senate. Ohio's John has, by strict economy, industry, and sobriety during his term of office the past twenty years, on a salary of $5,000 per annum, amassed a handsome little sum for a "rainy day" during his old age, which amounts to several million dollars. Thrifty, industrious, sober John, you have reaped the reward of the good, the virtuous, and the true! Successful statesman, you have amassed millions out of the stolen product of the American wage-slave, while at the same time making your victim believe that you were his benefactor. But Democrats and Republicans vie with each other in playing the role of statesman; that is, the manufacture of the coward's weapon, the tool of the thief –statute law! In spite of the air of American sovereigns in compulsory, as elsewhere, idleness, who have not where to lay their weary heads.
In Columbus, the capital of Ohio, we have held three very successful mass-meetings in the city hall, a large and costly structure.
The first mass-meeting was held Friday evening, February 12, one on Saturday evening, the third held on Sunday afternoon in the city hall at 2:30 o'clock. The audiences were quite large and intelligent. They expressed hearty approbation of what they
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