more than any other single recent declaration or action to cause a
public distrust of such unions as favor it. IT HINTS OF A CLASS
SEPARATION THAT IN TURN HINTS OF ANARCHY."

The OUTLOOK, February 14, 1903, in reference to the rioting at
Waterbury, remarks, "That all this disorder should have occurred in
a city of the character and intelligence of Waterbury indicates that
the industrial war spirit is by no means confined to the immigrant
or ignorant working classes."

That President Roosevelt has smelt the smoke from the firing line of
the class struggle is evidenced by his words, "Above all we need to
remember that any kind of CLASS ANIMOSITY IN THE POLITICAL WORLD is,
if possible, even more destructive to national welfare than
sectional, race, or religious animosity." The chief thing to be
noted here is President Roosevelt's tacit recognition of class
animosity in the industrial world, and his fear, which language
cannot portray stronger, that this class animosity may spread to the
political world. Yet this is the very policy which the socialists
have announced in their declaration of war against present-day
society--to capture the political machinery of society and by that
machinery destroy present-day society.

The New York Independent for February 12, 1903, recognized without
qualification the class struggle. "It is impossible fairly to pass
upon the methods of labor unions, or to devise plans for remedying
their abuses, until it is recognized, to begin with, that unions are
based upon class antagonism and that their policies are dictated by
the necessities of social warfare. A strike is a rebellion against
the owners of property. The rights of property are protected by