"Yet one thing more. Although every day brings the news of collissions between armed murder-serfs of the Bourgeoisie with unarmed crowds of people (strikers and the like) we must ever and again read in the so-called workingmen's papers; discussions of the question of arming ought to be avoided in the associations of the Proletariar. We characterize such pacifying efforts as criminal.

Each workingman ought to have been armed long ago. We leave it an open question whether whole corporations are able to completely fit themselves out in a military point of view with all their numbers; but we say that each single one, if he has the necessary seriousness and the good will can arm himself little by little very easily. Daggers and revolvers are easily to be gotten. Hand grenades are cheaply to be produced; explosives too can be obtained and finally possibilities are also given to buy arms on installments. To give an impulse in that direction one should never tire of.

For not only the revolution proper approaching with gigantic

steps commands to prepare for it, but also the wage-contests of to-day demand of us not to enter into it with empty hands.

Let us understand the signs of the times! Let us have a care for the present that we will not be surprised by the future unprepared.