We were without ideals beyond the dollar; without desires save those to be glutted by material wealth.

It was the high aim of the _New Dawn_--said the associate editor, Merle Dalton Whipple--to dethrone the dollar, to hasten and to celebrate the passing of American greed.
Not until the second number was it revealed that the arch criminals were to be found in the exploiting class, a sinister combination, all-powerful, working to the detriment of the common people; an industrial oligarchy under whose rule the cowed wage slave toiled for his crust of bread.

This number unflinchingly indicted the capitalistic ruling class; fearlessly called upon the exploited masses to rise and throw off the yoke put upon them by this nefarious plunderbund.

The worker's plight was depicted with no sparing of detail--"the slaves groaning and wailing in the dark the song of mastered men, the sullen, satanic music of lost and despairing humanity." Succeeding numbers made it plain that the very republic itself had been founded upon this infamy.

Our Revolutionary War had marked the triumph of the capitalistic state--the state that made property sovereign.