riest, Father Peter
Durban, and to him made confession. So important did it seem
to the priest, that he had the confession taken down in
writing and sworn to. What happened after this we can only
surmise. The document was certainly important enough to
find its way to Rome. Powerful influences must have been
brought to bear, hence its suppression. For centuries no
hint of its existence reached the world. It was not until
in the last century that Lorbia, the brilliant Italian
scholar, stumbled upon it quite by chance during his
researches in the Vatican.

There is to-day no doubt whatever that the Iron Heel was
responsible for the bomb that exploded in the House of
Representatives in 1913 A.D. Even though the Pervaise
confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt
could obtain; for the act in question, that sent fifty-two
Congressmen to prison, was on a par with countless other
acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the
capitalists.

There is the classic instance of the ferocious and wanton
judicial murder of the innocent and so-called Haymarket
Anarchists in Chicago in the penultimate decade of the
nineteenth century A.D. In a category by itself is the
deliberate burning and destruction of capitalist property by
the capitalists themselves. For such destruction of
property innocent men were frequently punished--"railroaded"
in the parlance of the times.

In the labor troubles of the first decade of the twentieth
century A.D., between the capitalists and the Western
Federation of Miners, similar but more bloody tactics were
employed. The railroad station at Independence was blown up
by the agents of the capitalists. Thirteen men were killed,
and many more were wounded. And then the capitalists,
controlling the legislative and judicial machinery of the
state of Colorado, charged the miners with the crime and
came very near to convicting them. Romaines, one of the
tools in this affair, like Pervaise, was lying in jail in
another state, Kansas, awaiting trial, when he was
approached by the agents of the capitalists. But, unlike
Pervaise the confession of Romaines was made public in his
own time.

Then, during this same period, there was the case of Moyer
and Haywood, two stron