PLANNED MISCHIEF, and allow ourselves to be blinded by this far more dangerous gang of LIVE SCOUNDRELS, who for years HAVE BEEN AND STILL ARE ENGAGED IN THE ACTIVE EXERCISE of their dastardly treason? Why should we execrate a dead traitor, about whom there are at least some noble, redeeming features, when we have nothing but praise for an Agency that is corrupting thousands and tens of thousands of our young men, robbing them of their honor and their country of honest citizens ?
Is not the treason of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency against our individual honesty, collective integrity and national morality far blacker, fouler and much more dangerous to progress and civilization than the treason of Benedict Arnold in 1780?
The main question is, how long will the betrayed majority of workingmen in the United States submit to an underhanded tyranny that cheats them of their rights as citizens and makes them impotent before the will of a few? The cunning that represses free speech and liberty is not the statesmanship to preserve a republic