10
 

Bleeding to death, he crossed the Hudson; suffering agony, he
dragged his bleeding body up the steep bank, and, with a last effort,
pushed open the door of his cabin and fell in, to die among his starve¬
lings, for whom he had made his last effort and gave up his lite.

Their pitiful cries pierced the hearts of the men in the Steel
Works. Borne across the river on the still morning air, they rung in
the ears of his slayer on Coming's Island. But they never reached
the ears of the Burdens.

Yet the weak, pitiful cries ot that widow and her starvelings may
linger in our native air until their thin volume is swelled by oppres¬
sion, until it assumes the proportions of a mighty roar of maddened
men.    And then. Retribution!

"Justifiable homicide," says the coroner's jurj'. "Justifiable
Hell!" grinds out abrawy iron-worker. "A cow would have been simply
driven out of that potato field, not riddled with bullets. But, then,"
he continued, '' animals are valuable; animals have owners, and
STEANG had none."

Among men "live and let live" is a thing of the past; and, as civ¬
ilization progresses, Murder assumes newer, safer and more enticing
shapes.

Next year three costly blast furnaces will mark the spot where
TOM STEANG fell, but not a stick will mark TOM STEANG'S grave.

Let me here write his epitaph :
 


 

IN   MEMOBY   or
 


 


 

THOMAS    STRANG
 


 


 

Who was shot on Coknino's island.
 


 

Aug. 7, 1886,
 


 

while
 

Stealing a few  Potatoes to feed his
Children.

MAT HE BEST IN PEACE.
 

Starving
 

' John Bkophy.
 

Note.—This outrage Is only one Instance ot the hundreds ot thousands oc¬
curring every day under all climes ot ihe globe, and which iiever come to day¬
light. It Socialism were the law of America, such outrages would be imposeible.
Socialism guarantees to every man and woman an Independent human exist¬
ence.   Abolish the wage system, and Join the

SOCIALISTIC  LABOR  PARTY.