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The Feudal Boss
And The Modern
When John do Warren, Jtarl of Surr
f f, was asked in Court to produce his
iitl«deed* to hits lands, he drew his s
vvid and #aid, "Hen?, sirs, is my wa
: ftctl My ancestors came oyer with
William the Bastard At)d won their lan
is with the sword, and with the sword
-J mean to keep them against all who
try to seize them,” The feudal baron,
taast as he was, cruel, remorseless and
tyranuous, was at least possessed of the
animal virtues of courage ami enduran
ce, Our modern masters have gained
iheir power, by low cUmting, theft, chi
canery arid niurdef»d>y the arts of the
iootpad and the, sneak-thief, Compare
Rockefeller witn Du Guesclip ; Sir Ch
ristopher Furness with John do Warren
; Rord OvertoUn with the Black Doug
las ; the greasy, unctuous, blapk-coated,
silk;hatted, psalm-snivelling swindler
with the mail-clad baron who grasped
wliat he could by right pf the strongest
without troubling himself to hire law
yers, professors, parsons and lalx>f fak
irs to devise sophistries to legalise his
thefts.
—From The Development of So
cialism in Great Britain.
RKGRKTS
‘‘Brudder Johnson, will you lead us
in prayer?"
"Ah’s sorry to disappoint de Lord to
night, Parson, but Ah has a cold on
mah chest. "—Puck. i
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There afe many different kinds of
Socialist books sound and unsound. All
kinds of reformers, many of them henc-,
hraen of the capitalist class, have taken
it upon themselves to write books on ;
Socialism. The capitalist class cannot
stop the Socialist movement so they
try tp„ misrepresent it.
\V'e have two pamphlets that you
should liave to study during the winter
months which will make you class “Cons
cious and put you on solid ground
The Preamble Address
And
The Power And Weakness
Of Trades Unions
will be seaf to anyone «sn receipt of
twenty five ceats*
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Socialism
Do you know what Socialism is? S
omc of the working class know wha
it is and some do not. Some of them
have been in the habit of relying on ca
pitalist politicians to tell them and yon
know that the politician's long suit is
telling funny stories. They are gener
ally too busy grafting to take time to
study Socialism. The office-seeking pol
itician tries to tell you that it’s this t
hat and the next thing and, after he is
gone you begin to think it over, then you
come to the conclusion that he has b
een giving you the bunk. The workin
g class is the class that will profit by
Socialism and and they should unders
tand what it is .In these columns all s
ides of the question will be discussed:
the socialism of the office hunter ; the
socialism of the capitalist dictionaries ;
and the kind the working class is inte
rested in—Socialism as set forth by Ma
rx and Engels.
The following poem illustrates to a
nicety the foolish ideas in sonic minds
regarding Socialism;
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much,inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That e$oh by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The first approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”
The Second feeling of the tusk,
Cried, llo! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me tis mighty ..clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spea:!
The Third approached the auimal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a sjjake!”
The Fourth reached out his eager hand
And felt about the knee.
“What most this wondrous beast is
like
Is mighty plain,’’ quoth he;
“’Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”
The Fifth who chanced to touch the
ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny that fact who can.
This marvel of an Elephant •
Is very like a fan!”
The Sixth no sooner hart begun
About the beast to grope,
Than seizing the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, the Elephant
Is wry like a rope!”
And so these iwen of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
If you arc a worker yoti need
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CAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
DO ANYTHING EOR THE
WORKINGMAN
The two planks in the Platform of
the Democrat party, which they have
been dangling in front of the noses of
the people, as a remedy for social ills,
so that they could get into office,
are Tariff Reform and banking legislat
ion.
Tinkering until the tariff and curren
cy reform haw always been favorite to
pics with Democrat politieans, and es
pecially with the great W, J. Bryan.
Whether he is better off by receiving li
is wages in gold coin,’ paper money,
or by being allowed to retain part of
his product as in Oklahoma, Texas
and many other states of the South; or
whether it is better to receive part of
hsi product in time checks or not at
all, which is the way many of the wor
kers in the Tanaua valley are
paid— all this will be told in succeed
ing issues.
We take from the Weekly People the
following:
THE CONFLICT OVFR THIC CURRENCY
BILL
After wcafes of wrangling, brangling,
jangling—a jangling, brangling and wr
angling that more than once threatened
la “rough house” —the Democrats of t
he House Committee on banking a
nd Currency rejected all the amendme
nts that the democratic “Insurgents”
on the Commettee endeavored to impr
: ove the bill with.
What was the nature of those troubl
, esome amendments that demanded the
! whole power of the Adminisnration to
| squelch, and that earned for proposers
■ the title they are proudly hearing of
| “Radicals”?
One set of the amendments typifies
; the rest. The set is collectively known
las the “Ragsdale-Henry amendments.”
i These provided that the paper currency,
i which the proposed Federal Reserve 15
: anks are to be empowered to issue, sh
[ all be issued, not on metallic values
' only, but also on cotton, corn and wh
j eat held in warehouses.
Paper “currency” is the .latest link
| of a long monetary evolutionary chain
; a chain in which economics ar.d sociolo
; gy are as closely interwoven as veins a
| re in flesh.
I These are the links:—
i 1st. Values (wealth) are the product
I of labor;
j 2nd. Profits (gains) arise from with
! held wages—the surplus value produced
i by Labor, but kept by the Employer;
! 3rd'.' Commerce produces no values; it
I only exchanges values. Seller and pu
| rchaser swap value for value;
4th ,The merchant’s (manufacturer’s)
gains (profits) «re in his pockets before
he sells He got his gains during the
process of production, which includes t
ransportation and distribution;
5th. Sale only liquidates the mercha
nt’s wealth (which, of course, includes
his gains) by transfiguring the wealth
into one species of merchandise, to wit,
the precious metals, gold pre-eminently;
6th. The singling out of gold as the
one merchandise into which to translate
and transfigure wealth flows from the
commercial necessity to translate ftHc)
rattsfigure wealth into a commodity, t
hat is article of merchandise, that com
bines the qualities, first, of intensified
value; secondly, of being easily carried
; and, last, not least, of being indefini
tely divisible;
7th. The commercial facilities, attain
ed by the economic evolution of gold
(the precious metals) into the medium
of exchange, led %o a farther step, pro
ductive of still greater commercial facil
ities —tl\f creation of "coin," or metal
lic currency;
8th. Coin, metallic currency, saves t
he dealers the trouble of weighing the
metal at each transaction. The coined
metal carries its weight, hence, its va
lue, stamped upon its face; finally,
9th. The increased commercial facilit
ies, attained through the creation of
metallic currency., led to still another
step, in turn productive of still greater
commercial facilities ,— the creation pf
paper currency.
The economic reasov-s which designa
ted the merchandise gold (the precious
metals) as the medium of exchange, a
nd which, combining later with the so
ciology development that made the cr
eation of coin possible, dictate the nat
ur of paper currency, to wit, the shad
ow of metallic currency, or authorized
bullion.
Paper currency needs must be the e
vidence of the tr-ietence, to au equal
amount, of metallic currency. In other
woids, paper currency needs must be
plarv d upon that one merchas;dise. an
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cl only that, which economic and social
evolution have combined to distinguish
as the one medium of exchange.
The Ragsdale-Heury proposition to b
ase a paper currency upon cotton, corn
and wheat amounts to a motion to rec*
onsider the i^ictates of the evolution of
currency. Many a reconsideration of
many a principle of general modern ac
ceptance would lie healthful; indeed,
the revolutionary pulse of our generat
ion is moving many such reconsiderati
ons. What, however, the unhealthy n
ature of the .Ragsdale-Heury amendme
nts is transpires from the fact that, no
sooner were those amendments presen
ted, than the representatives of the pe
anut interests demanded that peanuts be
made, together with cotton, corn and
wheat, a basis for currency issues. And
then the trouble begrn to brew. The
stomach of the Committee had eaten e
conomic “green apples.”
Money must go. It is a fetid super*
ation that of private production for sale
But “Money” can go only when the
economic system which superates it lias
been stamped out. Until that day, the
day that Socialism is urging on, Rags
dale-Henry “radicalism” is the radica
lism of the mule backing a cart down
a precipice.
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Ashamed Of His
OWN Party
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If Chief Postal Inspector James Cor
i lelyou vwmki take a night course in ge
j ography, lie would discover he is livi
! ::g in America and not in Russia.
! This -obscure official is twisted in his
j boundary' hint s, because he says he ne
i ver will permit copies of the Philadel
i phia Vice Commission’s report to be se
j nt throi g:i the mails.
The report, while hardly fit for kind
: ergarten work, will -open the eyes of a
i lot of grown-up children, and for that r
i eason Rt. Rev. fiercer of the Protesta
I nt. Episcopal church of Philadelphia r
i ecom mended that his diocese purchase
i lO.fKkl copies of the report and circula
| te same in the interest of moral reform
But Office Holding Cortelyou has ha
nded down his ukase to the effect that
“not a copy will leave the po.stoffice, as
lit is not proper reading matter.”
It's a question with thinking people
i whether to laugh or “cuss" at bantam
roosters of the Cortelyou breed.- Toled
o Union Tveadet
If the report of the Philadelphia Vice
Commission is so foul as to smirch the
United States mails by admission, then
how foul must be the conditions which
breed vice and crime?
If the report of the vice commission
contains language that would bring the
blush of shame to the cheek of our av
erage citizen, then the conditions wliic
h bring forth such an ill-smelling re
port must be a disgrace to our boasted
civilization.
Capitalism shrinks in terror from the
exposure of the depraviity and debauc
hery bred from the profit system. The
people, however, will know the facts,
regardless of the ultimatum <*f offi
cial lickspittle who prostitutes his pos
ition to smother the infamies born of an
industrial system that is so criminal that
even its publicity is so monstrous that
it must be denied admission through t
he United States mails.
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“FOR CHRIST’S SAKE”
Ilobo to preacher: “ 'Ow’s chances t
tr get somethin’ ter eat?”
Preacher (Bringing him a piece of br-.
ead) : “I do not give you this bread for 1
your sake but for tV Lord’s sake.”
Hobo : ‘(Then fer Christ’s sake put :
some butter on it.”
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He Wit! Be Acquitted
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Joseph McDonald, who has been in
jail at Juneau, Alaska, on the charge
of murder has been admitted to bail
in the sum of $50,000. When McDonald
was brought to Alaska and brought be
fore the court for arraignment, he was
denied bail, but it seems that men of
wealth getOmsy and were able to bring
such a. pressure on our incorruptible j
udiciary that the man on the bench su
ccumbed to the power of corporate inf
luences.
The following appeared in an Alaska
journal relative to the admission of M
cDonald to hail:
“Joseph MacDonald was given his
freedom by Judge Peter I). Overfield
at 3 ;36 p. m. today, subject to his g
iving a bail bond in the sun of $50,000
The details of providing this are being
carried out rapidly, and it is believed
that the former ' superintendent of the
Treadwell niirie will be given his liberty
by 5 o’clock day. The sureties will be
B, I/. Thane, general manager of the
Alaska-Gastifl'fcau Mining Company; B.
M, Behrends, pioneer txuiker and mer
chant of Juneau; Pinery Valentine, pi
oneer merchant of Juneau ; J. C. McBri
de, manager of the C. W. Young Com
pany, of Juneau ; P. H. Pox, a pioneer
merchant of Douglas ; M. J. O’Connor,
pioneer merchant of Douglas, and perlx
! aps others.
‘‘MacDonald said that be came l«c
k of his own accord and that lie hail
no intention of running awajr
I - He was glad the court had decided to
! admit-him to bail. He seemed very gl
ad, indeed, and as he hastened toward
the telephone, he said: ‘‘i must telep
hone Mrs. MacDonald.”
The bondsmen ef McDonald are all
I gentlemen of power and influence.
They are men of wealth and as McD
j onald has always shown himself to have
' been a willing tool of minging corpor
ations, it is not surprising that those
! whom he was always anxious to serve,
: should come to his rescue and convince
| a court of the injustice of holding a
murderer in a jail whose freedom was
desired by our best people.
McDonald made a reputation in Idaho
■ during the stormy days of the bull-pen
j and the old pioneers of the Couer il’A
! lenes remember the man who was- eq
j uipped at ali times to conspire against
the working class.
As the superintendent of the Treadw
: ell Mining Company he made a record
as brute and tvrant, and at no time did
; he ever hesitate to resort to any means
to suppress labor in its demands for be
tter conditions.
He is now arraigned for murder, but
it is safe to predict that he wiill never
pay the penalty for the crime he is ch
arged with. The same influences that 1
iberated McDonald on bonds, will be s
ufficiently powerful in Alaska to expel
justice from the courts anil acquit the
willing tool of a master class,
—Miners Magazine
The Miners Magazine is correct in
its prediction that justice has been exp
elled from Alaska but the Socialists
will bring it back and rescue Alaska
from the bunch of pirates that have in
fested it so long.
Slayer Of Girl
Is Ready To Die
Rev. Hans Schmidt Is Pre
pared To Meet His fate
In Chair
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.- Rev. Haas
Schmidt, who confessed a week ago to
having mtrdered his domestic when it
was apparent that see was about to be
come a mother, says that he is willing
to die now or within a month for the
murder. He claims that he alone is re
sponsHl.lt: for the murder of the girl, and
he is quite prepared to go to the chair
to expiate the crime.
The above, from the Fairbanks Timea,
is another of the many cases reported
recently of preachers murdering iheir
sweethearts.
A social system that makes it such a
crime for preachers to Rgct children
that they Wvu to murdtt ther: *
system that should be abolished _J
V.v asp. s.uMe