The people were always like that. Twice in a hundred years France
had experienced the commune. Each time she had been warned, and
each time she had waited too long. Ever so often in the life of
every nation came these periodic outbursts of discontent, economic
in their origin, and ran their course like diseases, contagious,
violent and deadly.
The commune always followed long and costly wars. The people would
dance, but they revolted at paying the piper.
The plan in Seattle had been well enough conceived; the city light
plant was to have been taken over during the early evening of
February 6, and at ten o'clock that night the city was to have gone
dark. But the reign of terrorization that was to follow had
revolted Jim Osborne, one of their leaders, and from his hotel
bedroom he had notified the authorities. Word had gone out to "get"
Osborne.
If it had not been for Osborne, and the conservative element behind
him, a flame would have been kindled at Seattle that would have
burnt across the nation.
Doyle watched Gompers cynically.. He considered his advocacy of
patriotic cooperation between labor and the Government during the
war the skillful attitude of an opportunist.
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