midnight
Destruction . Total annihilation . Nothing less can purify this rotten hell they call the world ! '' Amid storms of applause he unrolled a manuscript and read without emphasis : `` Therefore , the Workers of the World , in council assembled , hereby proclaim at midnight to-night , throughout the entire world : `` 1 . That all debts , public and private , are cancelled . `` 2 . That all leases , contracts , indentures and similar instruments , products of capitalism , are null and void .