arsenal. This terrorism, however, must be clearly
understood. It is directed solely against the scab, placing him in such
fear for life and limb as to drive him out of the contest. But when
terrorism gets out of hand and inoffensive non-combatants are injured,
law and order threatened, and property destroyed, it becomes an edged
tool that cuts both ways. This sort of terrorism is sincerely deplored
by the labor leaders, for it has probably lost them as many strikes as
have been lost by any other single cause.

The scab is powerless under terrorism. As a rule, he is not so good nor
gritty a man as the men he is displacing, and he lacks their fighting
organization. He stands in dire need of stiffening and backing. His
employers, the capitalists, draw their two remaining weapons, the
ownership of which is debatable, but which they for the time being happen
to control. These two weapons may be called the political and judicial
machinery of society. When the scab crumples up and is ready to go down
before the fists, bricks, and bullets of the labor group, the capitalist
group puts the police and soldiers into the field, and begins a general
bombardment of injunctions. Victory usually follows, for the labor group
cannot withstand the combined assault of gatling guns and injunctions.

But it has been noted that the ownership of the political and judicial
machinery of society is debatable. In the Titanic struggle over the
division of the joint product, each group reaches out for every available
weapon. Nor are they blinded by the smoke of conflict. They fight their
battles as coolly and collectedly as ever battles were fought on paper.
The capitalist group has long since realized the immense importance of
controlling the political and judicial machinery of society.

Taught by gatlings and injunctions, which have smashed many an otherwise
successful strike, the labor group is beginning to realize that it all
depends upon who is behind and who is before the gatlings and the
injunctions. And he who knows the labor movement knows that there is
slowly growing up and being formulated a clear and definite policy for
the capture of the political and judicial machinery.

This is the terrible spectre which Mr. John Graham Brooks sees looming
portentously over the twentieth century world. No man may boast a more
intimate knowledge of the labor movement than he; and he reiterates again
and again the dangerous likelihood of