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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Outrages Committed by Dastards

Outrages Committed by Dastards

on the other side, who have supplied strikers with beer in order that they might be tempted to commit excesses; I do know of religious employers telling the men to kill each other; of the parties of "law and order" agitating the men to strike and riot; and I do know where the police have been corrupted, where the men have been paid large sums of money to do mischief, to set fire to buildings (covered by insurance of course), in order that the blame might be put upon us. I do know that the capitalists have sent along to our own ranks men who have encouraged the vilest deeds: and whenever I have heard of them I have had them court-martialled, and after investigation they have departed wiser and sadder men. I have seen that: so those gentlemen who are so anxious to discredit our movement should look into the doings of the other side. As a student of the history of my own country, and as a student of the economic growth of our own and other countries, I say that there is no record in the history of any nation where the workers of that nation have sent their country to ruin. But I can point to many a country that was saved from downfall by the peasantry and by the humbler workers of that country. (Applause). I feel pride in making a statement of that description, and therefore on all occasions I make it to the best of my ability in order that we may not be led astray. Now, you in this country are getting into that