The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-28


panies cannot possibly apply to their
own plan. ZENo.
SENSIBLE REASONING.
The Workers Must Cease Wasting their
Energies in the Vain Effort to Inn
prove their Condition by the
Ballot.
If little Socialism is good thing,
why are people SO afraid of it? When
farmers pool their issues or form alliances
for mutual protection, that is Socialism.
When merchants do the same thing,
that is also Socialism. When labor COM
bined to protect themselves against a
reduction of wages they too resort to
Socialism, but neither the farmer, mer-
chant or laborer know that they have
resorted to Socialism, IN order to pro-
tect themselves or better their condition,
such nevertheless is the case, and the
only reason that they are not always
su uccessful is, that they do not carry it
out to it's logical conclusion. The fact
is they allow their capitalistic masters
to bulIdoze them out of an examina-
ton into the subject. You are too cow
ardly to embrace its doctrines, If called
by it's right name, but adopt portion
of it under another title in the vain
hope of securing legislation that will re-
lieve you of your burdens.
Read the old war,horse Burnette q.
Haskelps brief statement of what Social
ism is, and then ask yourself in sober
earnestness if you think the remedy for
your ills is to be found in legislation.
If system is faulty or rests upon an
unsound basis no amount of doctoring
or patching up will make it good one.
A little time devoted to the study of
social economy will convince you that
the diseased body polite cannot be
cured without removing the primary
cause, government itself, and substitut-
ing in its stead the cooperative COM
monwealth. Witness the farce of elect
ing men to the legislature and then
memoriaIizing them to do their duty.
What has become of the peoples protest
against high tariffs by railroads in Color
ado. Nothing short of bigger bribe
than the railroads offer to the average
| LEGISLATOR would induce him to interfere
with his capitalistc masters plans.
Thousands are perishing for want of
proper food, shelter and clothing while
waiting for their brothers to get the idea
through their thick skulls that our pres
ent system of government must be de-
stroyed root and branch before it is
possible for the masses of mankind to
have and enjoy the fruits of their toll.
For the first time in nv life l see my
loved ones 60 to bed hungry because
there is not sufficient in our scant larder
to satisfy the cravings of their appetites.
I have walked the streets IN search of
work until the very stones and bricks
in the sidewalks have become hateful to
me. One more day and the last coal
that am permitted to call my own mot
withstanding the Colorado hills and
mountains are filled with it), will have
been consumed-then what is to become
of a sick wife and an afflicted daughter
is more than I can tell. Before this
greets the eye of the reader some unfore-
seen good fortune may overtake us; if
not, nothing will be left for US to do but
to make an appeal for public charity, and
this too in the heart of so-called civil
lied and Christian community. Mine is
now if never before voice crying from
the very depths of poverty, suffering
and degradation asking to be heard on
behalf of the thousands of homeless and
hungry sufferers, scattered throughout
our boasted land, 'The land of the free
and the home of the brave" l feel that
this would be a good time to close my
eyes on human sufferings and die, but l
cannot with our work but half finished.
No. I'll not die though may be forced
to sever family ties, to tramp from house
to house, and from town to town IN
search of the means of livelihood. If
I should be forced to the latter alterna-
tive I'll disseminate Socialstic ideas
whereverI 60, and l'll make it count too.
Capital can't silence me by refusing me
employment begin to realize how the
world was given Joan of Arc, Robes
pierre, Maral, a Deleschluse, and re-
Gently Louise Michel, and if restrain
my hand from striking deadly blow at
the vitals of some of the inhuman mon
sters that are torturing their victims by
slow process of starvation it is not for
lack of desperation or love for the
gnouls who stand by and look with
6endish indifference upon the wreck
they have made. 1 beg of you, my fel-