“At this moment the news is being flashed around the world that the forty tyrants and the forty martyrs have been gathered to their Maker in a single day.

“Again is the message that was first uttered in the Garden of Eden sent to the world:  ‘Labor is the God-given heritage of man.’  Nor shall anyone keep man from his inheritance.

“To you, men and women of this Trust-ridden community, is given the opportunity to reap the full benefit of to-day’s atonement.

“That you should waste your efforts on the mere gratification of revenge, was but natural when you did but know of the result of one deed in the plan of emancipation.  Then it might have been enough that you should destroy the breakers and tear down these palaces.

“But now that you have heard of the National blow that has been struck for you, all thoughts of violence must be swept from your minds.  Now you must realize that a greater triumph awaits you than to watch the flames lick up the property of your tormentors.

“That property is now yours!

“These breakers, furnaces, factories; these houses, the mines beneath the earth’s surface, the lands above them, all, all, are yours.  It needs but for you to take possession of your own; for you to enjoy the full measure of the profit of your labor.

“Return to your homes, filled with rejoicing that you have not been called upon to stain your hands with blood; that your rights have been restored through the sacrifice of forty men to whom you and your posterity shall give immortal fame.

“You will have to work as hirelings only until you yourselves place your government in the hands of trusted men of your own selection.

“Fraud will no longer seek for public office; avarice will no longer scheme to gain possession of the world’s wealth for the satisfaction of inordinate desires; inhumanity will no longer vaunt itself in our mills, our mines, our fields, for to-day the edict has been sent to the world that death awaits those who shall again seek to enslave labor.  There will be forty martyrs ready for another sacrifice.  Who will dare to be their foe?

“Choose your leaders with care; see that they are sincere in their determination to work your will.

“When this is done the hovels you now live in will be supplanted by decent homes; the poor food you now eat will be kept for your swine; your children will grow up to manhood and womanhood without having had their minds and bodies stunted by premature toil.

“A Republic of universal happiness and comfort will be yours.

“Such a Republic will be a monument to endure for all time to the memory of Carl Metz and his thirty-nine co-workers, to the honor of yourselves and to the security to future generations of the liberty that this Republic will afford all men.

“Pick up the body of Metz, and I shall help you bury it.  I leave the body of Purdy for whomsoever may be inclined to care for it.