Publication information |
Source: Iowa State Register Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Code of Instructions to Czolgosz” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Des Moines, Iowa Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: 46 Issue number: 215 Pagination: 1 |
Citation |
“Code of Instructions to Czolgosz.” Iowa State Register 12 Sept. 1901 v46n215: p. 1. |
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Keywords |
McKinley assassination (investigation of conspiracy: Buffalo, NY); Leon Czolgosz (connection with anarchists); Free Society [organization]; anarchism. |
Named persons |
William S. Bull; Leon Czolgosz. |
Document |
Code of Instructions to Czolgosz
Buffalo, Sept. 12.—The Courier says this morning:
Superintendent Bull now has in his possession the code of instructions imparted
to the selected assassin Czolgosz. The platform of the Free Society was also
added to the cumulative evidence of the anarchist conspiracy yesterday. This
document binds its members together to advocate and work for the destruction
of the existing social order, and continues:
As in former times, no privileged class ever relinquished
its tyranny, no more can we take it for granted that the capitalists of the
present day will forego their privileges and their authority without compulsion.
It is therefore self-evident that the fight of the proletarian against the upper
and the middle classes must be of a violent character and that mere wage conflicts
can never lead to the goal. We show by numerous illustrations that all attempts
which have been made in the past to do away with the existing monstrous social
system through peaceful means—for example the ballot box—have been useless and
will be so in the future.
Force, the only remedy.—We know, therefore, that
the ruling class will not voluntarily relinquish its prerogatives and will make
no concessions to us. Under all these circumstances there is only one remedy
left—force.
Our platform is simple and divided as follows:
1. Destruction of existing class domination through
inexorable revolution in international activity.
2. The building of a free society on communistic
organization or productions.
3. Free exchange of equivalent products through
the productive organization without jobbing and profit making.
4. Organization of the educational system upon
non-religious and scientific and an equal basis for both sexes.
5. Equal rights for all without distinction of
sex or race.
6. The regulation of public affairs through agreement
between the independent communes and confederacies.