8/15 They have taken away free speech and free assemblage, free press and universal suffrage. They have limited the right to vote, by property qualifications that have deprived the proletariat of every chance to make their will felt. They have put through this National Censorship outrage and--still worse--the National Mounted Police Bill, making Cossack rule supreme in the United States of America, as they have made it in the United States of Europe. With the absorption and annexation of Canada, Mexico and Central America, slavery full and absolute settled down upon us. |