ON, MAKE THE BEST OF IT." "There are two ways," says he, "of
effecting great social changes in a republic--the ballot and the bullet.
If our people are not wise--if they are otherwise--then we may have use
for both of them."

Now, if Berger is a specimen of the extreme "political actionist," a
conservative, the enemy of "direct action," who can imagine the
treasonable intentions and bloody thoughts of the immense number of
"direct actionists" who throng the ranks of these national conspirators?

It is not flattering to the State of Wisconsin to realize that Berger
has several times been chosen to represent one of its Congressional
districts in the United States House of Representatives. Yet Berger has
apt pupils. On January 12, 1919, Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee presided at a
Milwaukee meeting of 8,000 "Reds" to protest against the conviction,
under the Espionage Law, of Victor L. Berger and four co-conspirators,
and prolonged cheering and waving of "Red" insignia answered the
following words spoken by William Bross Lloyd (_Testimony, Socialist
Trial, Albany, page 1623_):

"What we want is revolutionary preparedness. We want to
organize.... We want a mobilization plan and an organization for
the revolution. We want to get rifles, machine guns, field
artillery, and the ammunition for it. You want to get dynamite. You
want to tell off the men for the revolution when it starts here.
You want to tell off the men who are to take the dynamite to the
armory doors and blow them in and capture the guns and ammunition
there so that the capitalists won't have any. You want to tell off
the men to dynamite the doors of the banks to get the money to
finance the revolution."

William D. Haywood and Frank Bohn are the joint authors of a pamphlet
entitled, "Industrial Socialism," the revolutionary tenor of which may
be gathered from the following lines:

"When the worker, either through experience or a study of
Socialism, comes to know this truth [i.e., economic determinism],
he acts accordingly. He retains absolutely no respect for the
property rights of the profit takers. He will use any weapon which
will win his fight. He knows that the present laws of property are
made by and for the capitalists. Therefore he does not hesitate to
break them."

Since Haywood and Bohn evidently had no intention of using paper-cap
pistols and pop-guns as their weapon