The time was at hand when an end would be put to organized exploitation and murder, which was all that the world had thus far been able to evolve in the way of a government.
In a foreword to the readers of the _New Dawn_, however, a faintly ominous note was sounded.

It appeared that the interests had heinously conspired to suppress the magazine because of its loyalty to the ideals of free thought and free speech.

In short, its life was menaced.

Support was withdrawn by those who had suddenly perceived that the _New Dawn_ meant the death of privilege; that "this flowering of mature and seasoned personalities" threatened the supremacy of the old order of industrial slavery.

The mature and seasoned personalities had sounded the prelude to the revolution which "here bloodily, there peaceably, and beginning with Russia, would sweep the earth." Capital, affrighted, had drawn back.