The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-20

u Y ~ IS 49, - = tt@1i i~l 49,
iaii. We have u a On powsr . oabortes
IthIs psried Of anniah s. thouxhtihl,
couns om action. and By this alone.
AZ Henry George - III Is not that
I fear that our present sYstsm Of society
win continue, that / consider it abso-
llntely impossible. but that fe6x that
the voice Of reason win soon give WY 10
that Of passion Ne wish TO prevent
al this, we wish ron TO help Us prevent
al this, and to that end to study this
question wefl: Ask yourself, are you
satisfied to sit tamelY by seeing your
fellows in business driven one by one to
the wall BY larger capitalists, and know
! ing that even if you yourseE are 50 for
tunate as to escape. 8 similar fate awaits
yourchildrenf Are you satisfied that
in our so-called Republic whose funda-
mental principle is that everything
should lead to the public good, individ-
nails should be acquiring annually mil
l. ~ =
lions while st the same time the pro-
letariat. the propertyless class, should be
largely on the increase. And not only q
propertyless class, but class unable to
acquire property or even work. Com
pulsory idleness is one of the most glar-
ing symptoms Of the diseases which un-
derlie our social system. Ask yourself
whether it would not be better in every
sense of the word that the railroads
should be run by the government as
trustees for the people at large, than that
they should be used for money-coining
mills for Vanderbilt 4 Go. Ask your
self whether the same may not be said
of Cur telegraphs, and having got thus
far on the road of Socialism, put to
yourself this vital question. "What if
the land, on and by which alone can
man sustain life, were taken from the,
speeulators' grip and cultivated by the
people jointly for the people. What a
change would be that! No more home
less vagabonds SO long as there was a tree
/ left in our forests wherewith to build
a house no more starvation so long
as natures bounty lasted no more en-
forced idleness when the land was there
for all to work on, and it was recog-
nized that every idler was a robber Of
society. No better point was made dur
| ing the late campaign than when Ben
Butler said: Had I the making of the
laws would hang every man who spec
Iulated in the necessaries of life J" and
what necessary so great as land, the one
lprime factor of life And the imple-
lments of production, those wondrous
machines which are the boast of the age,
but which are also the product of the
UNITED brains and muscles of this and
|bye-gone generations. Why in Repub-
lie should not these too be used by the
people jointly for the people, instead of
for the bosses individual profit? Look
at the Trades Unions into which the
majority of workers in every depart
| ment are formed. Are not the lumber.
men sufficiently well organized to con-
duct the lumber industry themselves,
the carpenters the carpentering trade
and so forth or is it necessary to have
capitalists at the head of every trade,
giving employment when, and only
when, they find their individual gain in
doing so, and bringing all industry to a
standstill when it suits their pleasure ?
/ Under the boss rule we have competi.
tive anarchy; no times SO good but
that some houses fail, some workers are
thrown upon the streets. We ask for
ordered industry and we say that now.
if ever, the world is ripe for it. We
. claim that with labor duly organized
every fresh laborsaving device would be
blessing to US one and all, instead of
as is now most emphaticallY the case q
curse to ninety-nine out Of a hundred
j We proclaim that now that the steam
!, engine, and the telegraph wire, have
forced their way into every nook and
corner of the land, we have the power
to regulate supply and demand, to put
/ an end to the uncertainty that wears
men to their graves, to secure peace and
happiness for all and to turn this cont,
nent of ours into garden.
| [Issued by the Pacific Coast Division o.
IThe Red Approved by the Division Ex
ecutiye. Approved by the San Francisco
i Central Committee and ordered published
THE SOCIALIST CATECHISM
A Review, Of J. i. J0ynes' Excellent
Little Comprehensive Propaganda
/ Document.
For The Enquirer.
j This production is worth reviewing fol
a variety of reasons chief among which
is that, as it is published at a cheap price
j and written in clear legible style, it ii
likely to attain, and deserves to attain
large circulation among the labor class
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among rich folks as they scorn ,..every
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