longer efficacious. Fourth-of-July liberty in terms of the
Declaration of Independence and of the French Encyclopaedists is
scarcely apposite to-day. It does not appeal to the working-man who
has had his head broken by a policeman's club, his union treasury
bankrupted by a court decision, or his job taken away from him by a
labour-saving invention. Nor does the Constitution of the United
States appear so glorious and constitutional to the working-man who
has experienced a bull-pen or been unconstitutionally deported from
Colorado. Nor are this particular working-man's hurt feelings
soothed by reading in the newspapers that both the bull-pen and the
deportation were pre-eminently just, legal, and constitutional. "To
hell, then, with the Constitution!" says he, and another
revolutionist has been made--by the capitalist class.

In short, so blind is the capitalist class that it does nothing to
lengthen its lease of life, while it does everything to shorten it.
The capitalist class offers nothing that is clean, noble, and alive.
The revolutionists offer everything that is clean, noble, and alive.
They offer service, unselfishness, sacrifice, martyrdom--the things
that sting awake the imagination of the people, touching their hearts
with the fervour that arises out of the impulse toward good and which
is essentially religious in its nature.

But the revolutionists blow hot and blow cold. They offer facts and
statistics, economics and scientific arguments. If the working-man
be merely selfish, the revolutionists show him, mathematically
demonstrate to him, that his condition will be bettered by the
revolution. If the working-man be the higher type, moved by impulses
toward right conduct, if he have soul and spirit, the revolutionists
offer him the things of the soul and the spirit, the tremendous