It is one of the few words in
the vocabulary of Might. Without Might there would be no such word, and
the weak have ever been the prey of both. But it is a plain word. As
plain as are the conditions under which we are now living. There is no
mistaking its meaning. And having the same momentous work ahead of us -
of gaining our freedom, and throwing off the yoke of our latest master -
as that which confronted the founders of the Republic, we cannot go to a
nursery rhyme for a word to describe that work.
It is the way in which Might is to restore our lost liberties and
resources that is of the gravest concern to all, and not the word used
to describe the result of what Might shall do.
Justice is due. But how is it to arrive? By way of the ballot, or over
the same bloodstained road in use before the ballot was discovered?
If the plundered and starving have lost faith in the ballot, and sheer
want has brutalized them until they see no way but the brute's way of
saving themselves, then place the horror of it all at the doors of
incompetence and grasping greed where it belongs.
It is a plain word. As plain as are the conditions under which we are
now living.
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