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Nome,
January 24, 1918.
THE AVERAGE PERSON.
Sucli is the inconsistency and con- ■
»ervatism of the average person
that he will not move until the
house falls on him. But the aver
age person is never counted, except
on election day; and then he is
numbered with the “safe and
sane.”
If the average person counted for
anything there would be very little
progress made in the world. He
will shift about and complain when
hard pressed, as he has done in the
recent election; but he will never
<lo anything new. He lack3 the
power to do what ho ha3 not done
before, or seen his grandfather do.
The way his ancestors did is good
onuf for him.
Left to himself the average per
son would crystallize into a fixed
habit, and finally decay. Races of
men have done so in the past.
Ancient Egypt went down before I
the ravages of the average person.
The Egyptians regarded the dead
body a3 a most holy thing. To
touch it was to become a defiler of
tho sacred sanctium of t^ie soul,
and death was the penalty. Science
could not see the inside of a human
body. It might dissect some of the
lower animals, but the one it most
needed to examine was tabooed.
That human heap of pestilence,
ldlled by disease, must be preserv
ed intact with embalming fluids, tor
tho spirit of crumpty crum needed
it in his business beyond the sacred
lake.
There was the stopping place of
science. Tho average chump was
all powerful and put up that breast-j
work of superstition beyond which
the wise men dare not go.
Iir art, literature, mechanics, the
same palsy hand was visible. Every
avenue ef progress was barricaded.
No person dared, under penalty of
death, to deviate from the fixed
forms laid down by tho average
mummy. The nation crystallized
and crumbled away, and is now the
historical horrible example of the
reign of the average person.
But in modern tmes a repeti
tion of Egypt is quite impossible.
Today there are two forces at work
on him.. One, the capitalist minor
ity. attacks his stomach. The other,
the intelligent slave minority, hom-|
bard his brain. Between the two j
he has no rest, and abandons his.
ancestral worslitv bit by bit.
The capitalists are taking every- j
thing in sight, having him pinched
with hunger, or the fear of it, tho
working hard. While in such a
■state he becomes more or less
ready to listen to reason on the
the system of property his fathers
handed down to him.
In this broad America with an
area so vast that were it equally
divided each family would have one
hundred and sixty acres, the aver
age man is a renter paying, tribute
for what is rightfully his.
It is a sad commentary on the
average intelligence, but it is none
the less true, that the average man
never thinks about freedom until
he is so hopelessly enslaved that
nothing short of a savage outburst
of passion will release hm. There
is hope for the average American.
He thinks he is free. He imagines
that in a country where the people
elect the government the governors
are the servants of the people.
When he opens his mind to facts
and casts oft the fairy tale about
the freedom conquered by his fore
fathers; when he looks around him
and roes things as they are he gets
very indignant at the system and
wants to go right out and end it at
once.
No man is ever half so angry as
the proud man who discovers him
•self a fool The awakened Amer
ican is that man. He is a danger
ous man ta dally with. Ho is not
easily pacified Tie will not bow his
head to tha yoke and go on in sil
ent submission. He gets out and
«loe3 things. In him Is the hope
of the average man.
SOCIAL OWNERSHIP.
There is but one way to solve the
trust problem and that is through
social ownership. This will cotne
to pass in the natural course of
evolution, but this presupposes thej
intelligence on our part to see the;
inevitable and to guide the forces
that are transforming society from
a capitalist despotism into a So
cialist commonwealth.
It is vain and foolish to talk
about regulating the great indus
tries by a government which is it
self the creature of that same in
dustrial power.
They who control the industrial
life of a nation of necessity con
trol its government and any hope
or expectation of relief based upon
reliance in government, as long as
the nation’s industries are in pri
vate hands, is certain to meet with
disappointment.
The industries constitute the na
tion's means of life. The private
owners ot these have in their hands
the power of life and death over
the people.
Social ownjrship of these indus
tries is the only means of economic
freedom and social salvaton.
The Socialists are the only peo
ple who have a definite plan of
social ownership and who are ac
tively at work educatirg the people
to ar. understanding of the struggle
which must finally culminate in in
dustrial and r.ocial democracy.
INDUSTRIAL. UNITV.
The call today sounds to the na
tion’s worker to get together. The
industrial workers of the mills and
factories, in the mines and on the
railways must unite, and the work
ers on the farms and in the forests
and in the agricultural districts
must make common cause with
them.
Industrial unity of the workers is
of the first importance in the
struggle to abolish wage-slavery.
Political unity is of vital import
ance but unity on the political field
alone will not suffice.
The class struggle is a struggle
of daily clashes. Every hour
marks a battle. In this battle tho
workers are beaten in advance if
they are not organized. All theso
battles are life and death battles
between tho capitalist exploiting
class and the toiling exploited class.
In every such battle something is
gained or lost.
But not alone for fighting these
battles must the workers be indus
trally organized, but that they may
be prepared to take control of in
dustry and operate and manage it
The Elke Hotel and Baths
Now Open
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. REFITTED THROUGHOUT.
Hot and cold Baths.
Steam Baths.
Fine l.nrge Tubs
Competent. Attendance.
MASSAGE IF ORDERED. OPEN NIGHT AND DAY’.
Elect riot Lighted and oteam Heated Rooms nt Reasonable rates *’>
Day, Week or Month.
EVERY MODERN ACCOM* DATTON AND IMPROVEMENT.
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CARLETON HARDWARE CO.
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when the change comes.
Every great modern industry
should express the industrial unity
of the workers engaged in it. Not
by craft, not by trade, not by occu
pation but by entire industries
must the workers organize thedr
economic power to use in the daily
struggle for better conditions and
Anally in the hour of victory to
take control of the industries of tho
nation.
KNOWLEDGE AND PROGRESS.
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Knowledge is the result of edu
cation observation and experience/
and knowledge is the power that
promotes progress. This is as true
of nations as it is of individuals.
Would ’ you develop your power
and make it count so that your
body has again mingled with the
dust? Then acquire knowlodge and
set about it without delay. Sound
and wholesome ^ooks and papers
are within easy reach. Begin a sy
stematic course of reading and
study. Train your faculties and de
velop your mind. Resolve to be
somebody and to do *.mnAthing be
sides satisfying the mere animal
wants of existence. Berkely has
well 6aid:
“He that would make real pro
gress in knowledge must dedicate
his age as well as his youth—the
latter growth as well as Arst
fruits—at the altar of truth."
There is no service more exalt
ing and at the same time more ex
acting than service in the cause of
truth. Men may not think it worth
while to go to the pains of Atting
themselves to serve the cause of
truth and juctice , and the world
does not think it worth while to re
remember them when they return
to dust.
There is nothing grander than to
At ourselves by education, know
ledge discipline and co-operation,
to make this earth beautiful and
lifo happy and noble and elevating
for all the children of men.
Someone wants to know the
cause anti cure o£ high prices.
The cause is, the products are in
private hands and a tribute of pro
fits is exacted on every article the
people use. The cure is to control
making and marketing by collec
tive ownership of the machinery
of production and distribution,
which would end the whole profit
system and give the people every
thing at actual labor cost
The ijverage man can’t with his
income "pursue happiness” very far
—not far enough to see the world.
Editors who sell their braii.s for
money ore white slaves along with
women who sell their bodies.
The moral stamina of a man can
easily be judged by the principles
ho advocates and the cause he sup
ports.
The religion that would be de
stroyed by giving oveiy child good
food, good clothes and a good home
is really not worth preserving
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ISCAVANGER 00. ?
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WE GUARANTEE THE BEST CUP OF COFFEE IN TOWN.
We recommend as a Speciality our VIENNA BREAD, for family J
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AVe serve Hot Cake, Ham and Eggs etc. from 7 A. M. to 1 P. M.
Lunches from 12 Noon to 7 P. M. Every Day.
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