s, and since they certainly did not
mean to shoot at stone walls and forest trees, it seems strange that the
Socialist Party, if it does not advocate such doctrines of violence,
should sell these pamphlets at $6 per 100, according to a price list of
its national office in Chicago.

To make matters still worse for the apologists of the Socialist Party of
America, no less a personage than Eugene V. Debs commented as follows,
in the "International Socialist Review," February, 1912, on the
doctrines of Haywood and Bohn just referred to:

"We have here a matter of tactics upon which a number of comrades
of ability and prominence have sharply disagreed. For my part, I
believe the paragraph to be entirely sound. Certainly all
Socialists knowing how and to what end capitalist property rights
are established, must hold such rights in contempt.... As a
revolutionist I can have no respect for capitalist property laws,
nor the least scruple about violating them. I hold all such laws to
have been enacted through chicanery, fraud and corruption, with the
sole end in view of dispossessing, robbing and enslaving the
working class. But this does not imply that I propose making an
individual law breaker of myself, and butting my head against the
stone wall of existing property laws. That might be called force,
but it would not be that. It would be mere weakness and folly. If I
had the force to overthrow these despotic laws, I would use it
without an instant's hesitation or delay, but I haven't got it, so
I am law abiding under protest--not from scruple--and bide my
time."

In the "Appeal to Reason," Girard, Kansas, September 2, 1911, there is
an excellent specimen of one of Debs' revolutionary articles, which
reads in part as follows:

"Let us arouse the working class and invoke their power to smite
the conspirators and set our brothers [the McNamaras] free. They
can be saved in no other way. The lawyers will plead for them to
deaf ears; organized labor will protest against their taking off in
vain. We are confronted by a heartless, soulless plutocracy. Let us
buckle on our armor and fight!... Let us marshal our forces and
develop our power for the revolt! Let us develop without delay all
the power we have, and prepare to strike in every way we know how.
With a general strike we can paralyze the plutocracy