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with lynching. He called the working people present to witness that in South bend, as everywhere, the authorities and the "law and order" people were the enemies of the poor, and that it was the sole mission of the government and its authority to keep and hold the wage-slaves in their slavery. There was continued interruption and threats, but for a half hour longer the speaker urged as the only hope of labor for deliverance from bondage to capital was to organize, arm, and prepare for the final struggle between the master and his slave, between the enemies of progress and liberty and the defenders of Liberty, Fraternity, Equality; a victory that would secure to every human being an equal voice in all the affairs of human existence.
The meeting then closed with cheers for the social revolution.
The papers of the town were filled with abuse and ridicule of the meeting. The people were stirred, however, to a depth never known before, and some day there will be a terrible harvest for those South Bend czars who fatten and thrive upon their miseries, degradation and slavery of the workers.
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