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THE AMERICAN FLAG
Reproduced By Request From Daily
People, May 12, 1912.
When, at the late Union Square May
Day demonstration in this city, held un
der the auspices of the Socialist party,
Haywood Anarchist associates c f the S.
P. fired by the crv : “This is International
Day we will not speak under that flag!”
rushed to the platform and sought to
tear down the American flag, there was
exhibited that feature of the anarchist
which has been more than once com
mented upon and demonstrated in these
columns as under developed mentality
and over-developed bestiality.
He who know history knows the his
tory of flags. There i s hardly a flag i n
Europe that was not born of rapine,
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and does not svmbolize rapine. Whether !
it be the British flag, with its “Three
Crosses quartered” symbolzing the prac
tically forceful annexation of Scotland
and Ireland to England ; or whether it
be the Austrian flag emblematic of the
mailed hand that organized feudal dis
order into an imperial system, and
crushed down the peasantry ; or whether
it be the Russian flag, a testimony to the
theory that bloody tyranny is of divine
right, and, the bloodier, all the more di
vine ; or whether it be the German flag,
the insignia of militarism rampant; or
whether it be the flag of Spain harken • |
ing back to terrorism of body and mind ; I
whether it be the flag of any
of these and most of the nations of
Europe, their flags are living modern
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mementos of cruel oppression in the Past
and reminders that their Past reaches
into the Present. Even the flags of Holl
and and Switzerland, born though they
were of national aspirations for indepen
dence, are not free from the soilure that
attaches to the others. Aye, even the
Tricolor of bourgeois France is no ex
ception. ’Twas not the Rights of Man
alone that it proclaimed; it simultaneous
ly proclaimed, b y the early statute a
gainst the right of the French proletariat
to organize itself economically, that the
proletariat had no rights, and that, by
Man, the bourgeois alone was meant.
While all the European flags rose out
of the fumes of human sighs, were plant
ed upon the prostrate bodies of subjects
and were meant defiantly to proclaim
the double wretchedness as a social prin
cipal, it was otherwise, it was the exact
opposite, with the “Stars and Stripes”.
Apart from the circumstance that the
American flag was first raised by men,
who, however, and pardonably, mistaken
i n their sociology and economics, did
sincerely believe that the American flag
raised over the boundless natural oppOr
tunities which the land offered to indus- '
try, would insure the citizen the power j
and responsibility of being the architect!
of his own fortune ; apart from the cir- j
cumstance that the American flag was
the first to wave over a constitution that
“legalizes revolution” ;— apart fromi
these and many other circumstances, the
historic fact that the scientist, the noble
minded, the venerable Franklin, when
the scheme of the flag was presented to
him, a blue field with a star for each
state, expressed the hope that the d a v j
would dawn when every nation in the ;
World would be represented in that blue
field with her own star,--that fact con- j
fers upon the American flag the lofty
distinction of being the first on earth to ]
urge the Brotherhood of Nations; the
first to herald the solidarity of peoples ; j
the first drapery-symbol of Peace o n j
Earth ;-- that fact renders the American
flag the anticipation of the Red flag of;
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International Brotherhood, and endears j
it to the heart of civilized man.
Oi all this the under-developed men
tality of the Anarchist knows nothing,
can feel and know nothing.
Hatred being the active element i n
his sufferings torn heart, the mi 1 k of
human kindness having soured in his
breast, the Anarchist knows only of the
oppression that flags, generally have
symbolized— and he acts accordingly.
The flag of Franklin and of Jefferson 1
the Anarchist knows, of only in the hands
of the modern bourgeois, who seek to1
conceal their civic crimes by its folds.
Hatred bereaving him of his mind's eye
to-see, the Anarchist perceives not that
the misfortune that has befallen the
American flag has, in spots, already be- ;
fallen the Red flag itself, in so far as it!
has fallen into the hands of the Passaic :
County Focal and of the Officialdom-and j
-Press of New York City Focal of the S. 1
P., who under its folds, and in gratifie- !
ation of their personal ends, sought but ;
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yesterday to stab the I. W. W. proletar- j
iat on strike in the back in northern New i
Jersey. Finally, the milk of human kind
ness having turned to gall in his breast,
and over- developed the beast in him,
the Anarchist,, like a demented bull,
bellowingly wreaks his vengeance upon
a flag, desecration of which is desecration
of the Red.—THE WEEKFY PEOPFE.
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