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CLASSES.
Many good people scout the
notion that there is any such dis
tinction as that ot class in the
United States. They proclaim the
political equality that prevails, and
they dwell upon the alleged equality
before the law. They quote from
the Declaration of Independence
and refer to constitutional rights as
showing fliat equality is something
more than a sentimental figment
of the imagination.
None the lesr. there are classes
here; the question of raste Is not a
modern introduction at that. 1 he
classes as such is an economic dis
tinction, not a political or a legal
one.
Hut any person that has carefully
followed the facts of history knows
•well enough that here economic
equality does not prevail, there can,
lie neither political nor legal equal- •
ity in the true sense.
That society in the United States
can ho divided in'o two classes, that
of employers and employees, econ
o*uh divisions which do not admit
of any questioning, will surely lie
granted, but so many will not he j
found to agree that on account ot ^
tljat division into two classes, there
is also :t political aiul legal inequal
ity prising.
^ff!»>niWi fae^ociety is founded
1 * ' as tirall *ts *nsmtufons on an econo
mic basis. Political manifestations
■m' manifestations of the economic
activities and more often than not |
of the economic activities of the eco- ;
nominally powerful.
It is a truism that government is
dav by day becoming more ati ad-|
junct of business for business men. |
Such questions as the tariff, eonsu- j
lar representations, fiscal policies,
taxation, agricultural aids, protec
tion against adulteration, milling
bureaus, geological surveys, coast
surveys, departments of commerce
and the like, take up at least four
fifths of the administrative activ
ities. Practically all the extra-terri
torial activities of government are ,
connected with trade or finance of j
the United States The troubles in :
Nicaragua, in Guatemala, in Costa j
Rica and so on, arose from financial
activities which demanded a govern
meip allianee for their perfection.
Almost all the diplomatic crises j
which arose with reference to the 1
European situation have arisen by
reason of the trade and financial ae- j
tivities of the United States in tne •
war zone, and although the Indus- j
tries concerned with the . > activities j
may have been relatively small, they:
occupied no such relatively small '
part of government functions.
Society as at present constitute!' j
is not concerned with any such pure
ly abstract questions as good gov- !
eminent, human welfare, social pro- ,
gres,. community happiness or the ^ ,
li';c. These are questions which j .
receive official attention only in so h
far as attending to then^ aids in the
unhampered progress of business. ,
Otherwise they will be relegated to ,
the back ground where they can oc
cupy the fatuous attention of noisy ;
theoreticians. t
All reforms that are ad-■ i
voeated are advocated because j (
of an ulterior motive, and
that is the welfare ultimately of i
business enterprise. The many later i
day progressive measures are intro- (
du<»d that business may be itself <
improved. £
Most people laughed to scorn the i
crazy humanitarianism of Henry i
Ford when he paid his employees s
the minimum of five dollars a day.
But Ford had worked out that pro i
blem long before he had introduced <
the reform, and saw, he himself ad- i
mits, that it would pay. Guy E.
Mills tells the story of the superin- \
tendent who complained to Ford of 1
the ingratitude of a Polish employee s
The Sup’ had gone to the Pole and i
congratulated him on having such 1
good boss as Ford. The Pole told v
the Sup’ to forget it, “I owe nothing
to Ford. When I was paid three
dollars a day I made three hundred
bolts working ten hours,' now I get
five dollars a day and working eight
hours make nine hundred and eighty
holts”. Ford expressed himself ag
delighted. That is how he wanted
them to feel, he said, “man to
man”.
When the safety of employees was
urged, social workers assembled sta
tistics to show that safety of em
ployees meant saving to employers.
And so on with a variety of im
proved conditions inside and outside
legislative activities.
There is a general misconception
that nations which cal! themselves
religious have some higher object
than the mere development of bus
iness. Such pretentious speakers as
Roosevelt promote this idea on
every occasion and would have the
public believe that there is a higher
incentive than dollar making, that is
economic supremacy, at the bottom
of it all. "No nation was really
great whose greatness depended
niton material pror.pertiy alone". Ir
point of fact that is the only great
ness, the greatness that carries with
it power to control others, to ex
ploit, to enrich itself, to conquer
and subdue.
Those who see blind ambition's
gratification in the march of the
Roman legions and not the effort of
the great patricians to enrich them
selves still further through con
quered labor and plundered loot fail
to understand that that slave econo
my was the basis of all those great
nations of the classic period. And
from the days of the robber barons
to the robber industrial chiefs the
sjmc spirit of self aggrandizement
has been the animating incentive ot
ail national life.
It is ridiculous to suppose that
we can discover any real religious
or humanitarian incentive in the
imperialism of today when such
finer sentiments or more supersti
tious. as one may care to regard
them, appear but spasmodically or
at the close of the human chapters.
And it is not to be overlooked
that the dollar making incentive,
the effort to exploit and obtain
greater commercial and hence great
er-social pre-eminence and power, is
urged as one of the strongest rea
sons why religions and churches
should be maintained.
In India Great Britain has been
tide to rule over almost two hund
red million subjects with a handful
)f men by carefully respecting" the
>riesthood and religions whether
fiudhists or Brahmins or Mussul
nen. The same official recognition
s given them all and their ceremo
lies and rites punctiliously observed
>y the magistrates and soldiers al
hough the latter be British aristo
•vats believing in the Church of the
Vrchbishop of Canterbury, everyone
>f them.
Their attitude tk precisely identl
al with the attitude of most of the
•uptains of industry towards the
rnrious Christian sects in America:
l helping hand for them all, for all
if them aid in subduing the discon
ented classes who are so profitably
■xploited.
Indeed, within recent times, an
.ppeal has been made from two ot
he leading Christian sects in this
ountrv for monetary assistance be
ause of the protection they afforded
gainst radical views and irreverent
deas concerning the oligarchy ot
realth that was ruling from Wall
treet.
How completely the popular idea
if legal equality fails to deceive the
-xploiters is to be seen in a recent
lational appointment.
When to a vacancy on the Su
ireme Bench of the United States,
Voodrow Wilson saw fit to appoint
,n attorney and a Jew who had some
eputation for radicalism, and at
east for unconventional views upon
lealth accumulation and its distrl
bution, as well as alarm for the
concomitant social power that the
great wealth so accumulated entail
ed upon its possessor, the entire plu
tocratic press sent up a howl of rage
at any such a desperate appoint
ment. The notion was promulgated
with energy and tir.eless zeal that
the presence of Brandies woud rese
crate the Supreme Bench and all be
cause he had not given assurances
in his public statements that the in
terests and privileges and usurped
rights of the oligarchy of controlling
wealth would be adequately pro
tected. i
They know very well that the
legal equality is a myth and they
take care that it will remain such.
Because a few more such appoint
ments could, not remotely, be realiz
ed as threatening their interests and
threatening to make legal equality
something within the bounds of
possibility notwithstanding the eco
nomic inequality, they fought with
great determination to prevent the
confirmation of Brandeis. They had
their political satraps in Congress
delay the confirmation by an investi
gation and by other means which
they devised at the eleventh hour,
even if they devised in vain.
It is quite' aparent that all these
powers are vested in proprietary
rights. Just as soon as one set ot
men control by private ownership
the means whereby the others live
they can only continue to so enjoy
the labor results of those who are
expatriated by an exertion of some
power. Hence it is that there has
been in every age a clash between
the interested parties; those who
owned what the rest needed and
those who were compelled to give
service for permission to use what
the others owned. Class struggles
followed and at the base of all social
currents in history is the story of
these class struggles. *
There were master and slave, I
there were over-lord and serf, there
were employe and wage worker. The
one had. the other had not. The one
who had necessarily compelled the
one who had not to work for him.
There was the possibility of revolt
against this condition. The one who
had not must be persuaded to !
venerate as sacred the parchments,
deeds and legal settlements upon
those who owned, failing that, force
was necessary. And indeed force
is always in abeyance. The whole
system where there are classes in
volved, is maintained orderly and
lawful through the latency of that
force which can be called out to re
I press a revolt in times of such crises
! and emergencies.
Hence it is that police protection
! is increased during times of depres
sion when hunger makes the unem
ployed destitute also desperate.
Hence it is that injunctions are is
sued depriving men of their so
called constitutional rights, martial
law is invoked and deputies, militia
and gunmen are made use of to pre
vent the outraged feelings of the;
workers striving for a greater por
tion of their product from over-rid
ing the property "rights” of the em
ploying classes.
A great English jurist said that
were society to remove the force that
is hidden behind its legal forms and
to endeavor to preserve the struc
ture of the present system without
such violence if required, it' could
not last a year. It is taught that
it can last if the minds of the work
ers are properly educated to a duti
ful sense of their positions in the
structure of society, but he said that
the tendency was quite otherwise.
The spread of education among the
masses tended to inspire a determina
tion to rid society of classes. Un
doubtedly this view is correct. Back
of the amenities of international re
lations are the army and navy.
Back of the relations between em
ployer and employed are the courts,
the statutes and the arms and men
to enforce them. Society not alone
internationally, but quite within the
domestic sphere, rests upon bayo
nets. The man who runs counter to
the conventional views which are
the views of the employing classes
will have to submit to repression. It
is done every day. It is done every
where. It develops in every effort
to spread radical views, to agitate
socialism, to realize the facts of free
speech and free assembly within
strike zones, or within such special
spheres where the employing classes
determine there shall be no indepen
dent working class action. There
is not a state hardly which cannot
at one time or another show us ex
amples of this. The story of the
suppression of unionism in a variety
of camps is simply such a story.
The antagonisms of the classes
today are impressing thdmselves
both upon labor organizations and
upon employers’ associations. The
bitterness is intensifying. Here and
there wiser employers who notice
the tremendous possibilities if labor
ever realizes its power, deprecate
the expressions of hostility which
are growing in many of their own
organizations. The passsivity of la
bor in the past, their acceptance ot
the role of Sons of Martha, their
acquiescence in things as they are.
their conservatism, and the natural
inertia of such an enormous social
mass, have helped many to deceive
themselves into the belief that that
passivity was eternal and that their
economic suprem&cy was as divine
as the divine right of kings was
claimed by monarehs.
It is the growing and irresistable
function of labor organizations to
disabuse employers’ associations of
their conception on these things,
and to teach that industrial freedom
is the heritage not of a few- but
of the many, not for some men but
for all men, and that there will be
no rest in the restless current of
the social life until the struggle of
the classes is stilled in the great
ocean of the abolition of all classes.
Hasten the day!
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