photograph was taken there on that occasion and his picture appears in it in the background. It is well that information about Donald Vose, alias Meserve or Vorse, turning out to be a Burns' detective should be spread broadcast. More about the Judas may be published in the next issue of Mother Earth. RALLY TO THE DEFENSE OF CAPLAN AND SCHMIDT T HERE are very few men and women in the labor world, either as workers or otherwise, who have not heard of the now famous case of David Caplan and Mathew Schmidt. But as with all matters in which the workers should take an active and passionate interest, this most important of all cases has received only a fraction of the support that it legitimately deserves. It appears as almost unthinkable that in New York, where the struggle of labor against capital is so intense, so unrelenting and above all so class-conscious, there should be necessary any kind of an appeal for support and action. This appeal is not for another. It is for yourself! The fight is not another's. It is yours! The duty is not another's. It is your own! Remember, it is yours, and if you are at all deserving of the struggles and sufferings of others on your behalf, you will heed our call. It is up to you now! Caplan and Schmidt indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles, where the most corrupt influences were used to obtain their indictment. The jury was packed with laborhaters and was directed by a Distict Attorney who, like all District Attorneys, fights on the side of Capital. Do you remember the case of the seven cloakmakers? Do you remember what the District Attorney did there? He tried to do his best, namely to send the labor men to the Electric Chair. Did he succeed? No! And, do you know why? He failed simply because the working class raised its loud and mighty voice in protest. PROTEST. Do you hear? Do you understand? And the seven workers were freed. Caplan and Schmidt were indicted. Will you let the District Attorney and the blood-hounds and the gangsters and the money-sharks of Los Angeles hang your brothers by the neck until dead? Will you? Then raise your voices in a mighty protest. Let the capitalists of California hear that Caplan and Schmidt are not alone. Let them hear that they have brothers and sisters 3000 miles away, who will demand justice. Let them hear that not only Caplan and Schmidt are to be reckoned with, but the entire labor movement of America. Can you be quiet while they tie the noose around your brothers' necks. Can you eat, sleep and enjoy yourself while your brothers who have sacrificed themselves for you are lying in prison for months and months; and who may soon lie in the graves that graft and corruption is digging for them? Wake up! Wake up! Do not wait! Every minute counts. To-morrow may be too late. Now is the time. Help your brothers. It is your holiest duty. Help your brothers and your Cause. We need your help, financially and morally. They are already preparing the gallows. Help now and stop it! We There are millions of dollars on the side of corruption, fighting against Caplan and Schmidt. We have nothing. To fight the money powers, we must have money too. must let our brothers of the West know that in New York City the workers will help. We need $10,000! We need more than that. But that we must have. Give us what you can. More or less, whatever you can. Send it to the treasurer of the Conference, Comrade Bernard Sernaker, 123 East 100th Street, c/o Blecher, New York City. The Conference meets every Sunday afternoon at 3 P. M. at 209 East Broadway. If your organization is not as yet represented, see that you elect two delegates at your next meeting. Come and help us in this struggle for freedom, for the cause of justice, for the cause of humanity. Fraternally yours, ABRAHAM BLECHER, Press Committee. DON'T SUBMIT! IT is right and necessary to attack tyranny, organized violence and privileged exploitation in every shape and form. Still, at the same time, it should not be forgotten that the real basis of tyranny is not so much the special "badness" or ferocity of the tyrants, but the servitude and the humiliating obedience of the tyrannized. Oppression by the few is the result of submission by the many. A French thinker, Stephen de la Boetie, who lived about 300 years ago, knew that. He wrote a treatise "Le Contre Un"-in which some passages may possibly have more significance to-day than they had three centuries ago: "He who so plays the master over you has but two eyes, has but two hands, has but one body, has nothing more than the least among the vast number who dwell in our cities; nothing has he better than you, save the advantage that you give him that he may ruin you. Whence has he so many eyes to watch you, but that you give them to him? How has he so many hands to strike you, but that he employs your own? How does he come by the feet which trample on your cities, but by your means? How can he have any power over you, but what you give him? How could he venture to persecute you, if he had not an understanding with yourselves? What harm could he do you if you were not receivers of the robber that plunders you, accomplices of the murderer who kills you and traitors to your own selves? You, who sow the first fruits of the earth, that he may waste them; you furnish your houses, that he may pillage them; you rear your daughters, that they may glut his wantonness, and your sons, that he may lead them at the best to his arms, or that he may send them to execution, or make them the instruments of his revenge. You exhaust your bodies with labor, that he may revel in luxury or wallow in base and vile pleasures; you weaken yourselves, that he may become strong and better able to hold you in check. And yet from so many indignities that the beasts themselves, could they be conscious of them, would not endure, you may deliver yourselves, if you but make an effort to show the will to do it. Once resolve to be no longer slaves and you are already free. I do not say that you should assail him, or shake his seat; merely support him no longer and you will see that, like a great Colossus whose basis has been removed from beneath him, he will fall by his own weight and break to pieces." DATES OF EMMA GOLDMAN'S LECTURE TOUR Dec. 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Sunday the 12th, afternoon and evening St. Louis, at The Open Forum. Dec. 14th and 15th, Indianapolis, Ind., at Odeon Hall, Metropolitan Music Bldg., cor. Pennsylvania and North Street. Dec. 15th and 17th, Columbus, Ohio, at Masonic Cathedral, 186 South Third Street. Dec. 18th, Akron, Ohio, at Kayser Hall. Dec. 19th, at 3 P. M. and 8 P. M., at Pythian Temple, Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio, also in Jewish at Royal Hall, Dec. 20th. Dec. 21st, Youngstown, Ohio. Sunday, Jan. 9th, 8 P. M., in New York. Hall to be announced later. CAPLAN-SCHMIDT DEFENSE FUND Previous total (as per report November Mother Earth) Ladies' Waist & Dressmakers Union, Local 25. Subscription List 42 Coll. by Rose Felberg. $1,637.10 5.00 2.00 1.00 1.50 1.75 1.65 5.00 13.15 $18.00 Radical Library, Branch 273, Workmen's Circle.. Correction: In the October issue it was stated that $41 was collected at a Mass Meeting in Philadelphia. It should have read $41 was collected by the Radical Library, at A. Berkman's meeting in Philadelphia. TO ART STUDENTS There is room for a few more pupils in the Art Class at the Ferrer Centre, 63 East 107th Street, New York. The Class is held on Monday and Friday evenings. The Tuition Fee is two dollars a month. The Instructors are Robert Henri and George Bellows. WANTED-Anybody who has a first edition of Edgar Lee Masters, "Spoon River Anthology" and is willing to part with same at a reasonable price, communicate with Leopold Fleischmann, General Delivery, Pasadena, California. Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the Act of August 24, 1912, of MOTHER EARTH, published monthly in New York City, for April 1, 1915. Editor, Emma Goldman, 20 E. 125th St., N. Y. City; Managing Editor, Emma Goldman, 20 E. 125th St., N. Y. City; Business Manager, Dr. Ben. L. Reitman, 20 E. 125th St., N. Y. City: Publisher, Emma Goldman, 20 E. 125th St., N. Y. City; Owner-Emma Goldman, 20 E. 125th St., N. Y. City. Bondholders and security holders-None. BEN. L. REITMAN, M.D., Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of October, 1915. GEORGE W. BURNHAM, (Seal) Notary Public, No. 1127, N. Y. 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