Have courage and energy;
they may put us in jail,
but imprisonment is not defeat.
Yours for economic freedom,
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho.
-WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 4, 1906
From Ada County Jail, Idaho – Big Bill Campaigns for Governor
In the latest issue of the Appeal to Reason we find messages from William D. Haywood to the people of Colorado. These messages were sent out to the Appeal by Big Bill from behind the bars of the Ada County Jail where the Socialist candidate for Governor resides awaiting trial in an attempted frame-up on a charge of having murdered the ex-Governor of Idaho. Also found was a notice announcing a meeting with Eugene Debs in Denver on Monday, November 5th, the day before the election.
Haywood Denounces Democrats
Haywood Denounces Plot of Democrats
———–“No Compromise in Colorado!” is Still the Slogan Which the Socialist Candidate for Governor of Colorado Sends from His Prison Cell in Idaho to the Loyal Comrades of the Centennial State.
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Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kansas.
I have just received information to the effect that Alva Adams, democratic candidate for governor of Colorado, in his canvass is reading telegrams purporting to be from my representatives. I desire to say to the working class of Colorado that no telegram or message of any description to Alva Adams or any one of his class has been authorized by me. Moreover, no one but the state committee of the Socialist party is empowered to speak for me politically. In every conversation I have had on the subject, in everything I have written, I made it distinctly understood that there shall be NO COMPROMISE IN COLORADO. I accepted the nomination in good faith. There has been a magnificent campaign made. I stand or fall by the decision of my class-the wage-earners. Union men and women, fellow-workers, Socialists, I have never betrayed you-and, by the Almighty, I never shall. I am with you in this fight to abolish special privileges, to establish equal opportunities, to insure justice, life and liberty.
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 20.
Yours to a finish,
WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.
Haywood to Colorado Comrades
Haywood Sends Message to Colorado Comrades
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The “silence” is not so dense and heavy as it was. There must be a terrific fire under the pot political to have caused such a terrible eruption in the press. More is coming. Everybody must tighten up their armor. Cool heads and strong hearts are needed where the struggle wages fiercest. Our good ship will weather any political storm. Keep the bearings. No compromise! Nothing to arbitrate!
If the democrats are really and truly afraid the republicans will be elected and thus perpetuate corporate control in Colorado, there is nothing to prevent them becoming Socialists, when they see the light. They must eventually get on one side or the other. What is the use of them “voting in the air?”
The democrats are afraid of corporations. We are not. For years we fought the “system” as economists, and with considerable success. Now we have determined to couple with our economic power our political strength, always keeping in view the same objective point-industrial liberty, the right to work for ourselves, when and where we please, subject only to our own arrangement, independent of authority other than stipulated by the producing class.
The Rev. Mr. Buchtel announces that he is decidedly opposed to agitators. As for me, I would rather be a Socialist proclaiming from a prison cell the truth that means the betterment of humanity, than to be a preacher of a fashionable pulpit in fawning, subservient sycophancy propounding doctrine and dogma that science proves false and holds responsible for fifteen centuries of mental servitude and darkness. Have courage and energy; they may put us in jail, but imprisonment is not defeat.
Yours for economic freedom,
Ada County Jail, Boise, Idaho.
WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD.
[Photograph added.]
Haywood on Industrial Freedom
The following article, appearing on page two of this week’s Appeal, is a long one, and we offer here a portion while recommending that readers seek out the entire article:
HAYWOOD SHOWS THE WAY.
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From His Prison Cell in Idaho, the Socialist
Candidate for Governor of Colorado Points
for the Workers the Path to
Industrial Freedom.
—–(Specially written for the Appeal to Reason by William D. Haywood.)
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To appreciate the political situation in Colorado it is necessary to consider the gigantic industrial corporations that have acquired vast interests in the state. The monopolies that are so bitterly complained of throughout the nation are probably more strongly entrenched in Colorado than in any other state of the union. The wonderful resources of the most bountiful section of the West have been a most attractive field of operation for the worshippers of Mammon. Every field of industrial activity is being relentlessly squeezed for the precious red golden drops to fill the cup that runs sweet to foreign stockholders. From the wine press of insatiable greed Colorado is left naught but the dregs, a miserable stipend in wages. A poor recompense indeed for her bountiful harvest of riches…..
Capitalism, in mockery, said, “Suffer little children to come unto me.” Millions of innocent babes have answered the call, and capitalism has crammed their helpless souls and bodies down the dirty, black, repulsive throats of the coal mines, down deep into the abysmal depths of despair. It has thrust the little ones into the gnawing, frothing jaws of the cotton mills and factories, there to have their tender bones and marrow ground into its “white bread,” their precious blood squeezed through the wine press of hell for the nectar of its cup. This is “prosperity”!
Capitalism has degraded the home with its iniquitous tenements and sweatshops. It has lowered man and woman to the level of beasts of burden, harnessed them to its profit-making machine.
Capitalism is the growth of private monopoly of things collectively used. The republican party is political capitalism.
The Socialist party is political industrialism. Industrialism is to the producing class what capitalism is to the private monopolist.
The producing class objects to competition in the labor market. The capitalist class forbids competition in privileges and the marketable wages of labor.
In vain the working class of Colorado have looked to republican and democratic parties to enforce the labor laws now on the statute books. The Socialist party will absolutely and with certainty enforce the eight-hour, adit, safety appliance, ventilation, check-weighman, bi-monthly pay day, anti-contract labor, truck store, child labor, eight-hour law for females, and all labor laws that have been dead letters, mute and silent witnesses to the inefficacy of democratic and republican administration.
Moreover, the Socialist party is for all legislation that will advance the interests of the working class.
Mr. Bryan, democracy’s idol, said in a recent speech that “the republican party is responsible for the Socialism in this country today….The republican party’s theory and practice is that competition is a bad thing, and that the privileges of monopoly should be owned by the few. If the issues should finally come to the point of whether the monopolies should be owned by a few people to the detriment of the many, or by all the people for the benefit of all, Socialism will triumph in this country as surely as daylight follows dark.”
Mr. Bryan has shown the way to industrial liberty and blighted the democratic party in one breath. The issue has finally come to the point! The monopolies shall be owned by all the people for the benefit of all! It is the triumph of Socialism!
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[Photograph added.]
A Poem for the Election of 1906
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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Nov 3, 1916
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Debs in Denver Nov 5, AtR, Nov 3, 1906
& Haywood to voters of CO, AtR, Nov 3, 1906
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Haywood for Gov, AtR, Aug 4, 1906
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Haywood for CO Governor, AtR, Aug 25, 1906
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Vote Old Ticket Poem, AtR, Nov 3, 1906
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