Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — REED’S REVOLUTION, [ARTICLE]

REED’S REVOLUTION,

The Denver Divine Say* He 1« an Anarch. | lit and Predicts lied Kuln. The Rev. Myron W. Reed delivered an address at Denver, Sunday, before a large mefcting held under the auspices of the A. R. U., in which ho declared ho was an anarchist. lie continued by saying: Jesus Christ was not only an anarchist, but was killed by the representatives of the law, the church and the State for daring to practice humanity. Jesus Christ was an anarchist and a socialist, but I never read of his being a deputy sheriff. [Cheers]. Nothing lias discouraged me so much in the past weeks as to see so < many men anxious to take a gun and offer to go out and shoot their followmen for the mere pittance of three dollars per day. 1 look at this effort now being made by such men as Pullman as aneffo'rtto break up all o.y aui/.atlons (it laboring men, so that they can deal with tho workingmen one by oho and gradually got them down to pauperism and serfdom. 1 have been criticized for saying that any man had the right to take his labor away from any employer, but had not the right to interfere with ar.y other man for taking his place. I say now that he has a right to interfere if he does it in a peaceable wav. It is right and just for every man to protect his wages and his job. I also sav that a man who does not belong to a union and stands ready to take another man’s piace at less wages is an enemy. a spy and an obstructor, and ought in .some peaceable way bo removed. He predicted that upless something was speedily done for the laboring classes this country would be plunged into one of the greatest revolutions the world has over seen.