here in our own city. Fifty thousand Socialist votes in
Chicago means a municipal-ownership Democracy in
the spring! And then they will fool the voters once more,
and all the powers of plunder and corruption will be swept
into office again! But whatever they may do when they
get in, there is one thing they will not do, and that will
be the thing for which they were elected! They will not
give the people of our city municipal ownership -- they
will not mean to do it, they will not try to do it; all that
they will do is give our party in Chicago the greatest
opportunity that has ever come to Socialism in America!
We shall have the sham reformers self-stultified and self-
convicted; we shall have the radical Democracy left with~
out a lie with which to cover its nakedness! And then
will begin the rush that will never be checked, the tide
that will never turn till it has reached its flood -- that will
be irresistible, overwhelming -- the rallying of the out~
raged working-men of Chicago to our standard! And we
shall organize them, we shall drill them, we shall marshal
them for the victory! We shall bear down the opposition,
we shall sweep it before us -- and Chicago will be ours!
_Chicago_will_be_ours!"_ CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!

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