People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — WE MUST VOTE OUT. [ARTICLE]

WE MUST VOTE OUT.

The Ballot Is Mightier Than the Sword, and the Offspring of the All-Powerful Pen. The questions now confronting the American people must be solved by sober reflection. We do not need hotheaded passion so much as intelligent thought We want to win people by reason, not prejudice. Hence all talk of any labor war is ill-advised. If bloodshed unfortunately should come in the course of the industrial revolution, let it be brought about by the plutocracy. Education is the “open sesame” of our movement—the magical word which will throw back the gates upon the road to the new era. The ballot is the - most powerful weapon ever put into the hands of the people. It is more powerful than the sword. It is more powerful than the torch. It is more powerful than the dynamite bomb. And by its intelligent use we must solve the problems which now confront us. We must draw men to the new ideas, not frighten them by wild utterances. The way to get out of our difficulties is to “vote out.”—Alliance Independent.