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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday February 17, 1918
Eugene V. Debs on the Coming Social Revolution
From the Duluth Truth of February 15, 1918:
Towards the Rising Sun
by Eugene V. Debs
The earth is in travail; the race is suffering from the pangs of parturition. A worldwide, humanity embracing revolution is on the calendar—in red letters—of the 20th Century. The impending social crisis is the most portentous that ever issued from the womb of time.
Historical epochs mark the growth of man, the progress of events, the rise and sweep of civilization.
Prophets and philosophers, catching the spirit of coming events, force and proclaim them; and as they approach, poets and pamphleteers, orators and agitators, dramatists and musicians, animated by the new spirit, acclaim the glad tidings of the sunrise of the morrow.
These are the heralds of the dawn; the torchbearers of progress, the evangels of advancing civilization.
Living, they are hated and reviled, crucified and damned.
Dead, they live again and forever.
Freedom is the universal shibboleth of the present age.
And as the cry for freedom surges from the soul and leaps from the lips of Labor, a thousand and million proletarians, in all the zones that girdle the globe, lift their bowed bodies from the dust, and join in the swelling anthem of the Social Revolution.
