Quotes from Stephen Puleo

The event had been organized by the International Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the "Wobblies," who had engaged in protests across America, sweeping eastward from the Rocky Mountain states,

their goals was to organize workers into one giant union that would one day topple capitalism, a mission that suited anarchists just fine. The

Wobblies favored a Socialist form of government while anarchists believed in no government—their

When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them." William

Authority meant nothing to these people, White thought, nor did the spirit of the season. If they were capable of sneaking a bomb into a police station and exploding the device during the holiest season of the year, they were capable of most anything. Now

History is to record us," he warned his colleagues at the time. "Is it to record that when the destruction of the Union was imminent … we stood quarreling?

By developing new, often revolutionary products, by moving the country forward, Big Business believed it was doing more than making money; it was doing something virtuous. "The man who builds a factory builds a temple—the man who works there worships there," Calvin Coolidge said.

Laws are cheap of passage, costly of enforcement. They do not execute themselves.

There is only one way to deal with anarchy and that is to crush it, not with a slap on the wrist, but a broad-axe on the neck.