The Labor enquirer., 1886-06-26
THE GRADUATE.

Denver daily press (capltallstlcJ as DIS
essay is very like the editorials which
are occasionally found in the press COL
umns. The same repetition of the sane
old OBJECTIONS" are found in this paper
by ths graduate. Socialism will kill all
ambition in man it is impractlcable !;
1t is Utopian; it will DESTROY individual
freedom" etc., etc.
The graduate shows the shallowness
of his research on this question when, he
asks how arts and sciences are to be
propagated, and tn beautiful will be
allowed to die.
He SAYS, under Socialism man could
not own his house, his coat or his hat,
nor could he have anY freedom OF
choice" Young graduated sir, you must
read up on this great question. You
must also learn the fact that you cannot
get correct information on it from the
capitalistic press, whose business it is to
mislead and misinform you on this
theory of political economy.
The graduate says, there are certain
desires and motives that were born with
man and do and will continue to control
his actions :" that the strongest of them
is the desire for possession. He says
this desire nerved on Casa, Pompev
and Napoleon to do the deeds which.
have made tleir names part of history.
The graduate, true to the instinct of the
power loving class of capitslistic Caesars
whom he speaks for, takes as an exam
pie the man who made Rome howl with
his licentious brutalites and incestuOus
intrigues; this great Cesar" who, like
the Caesars of to-day wanted about him
no men who thought, but men that are
fat; sleek headed men, and such as sleep
o'nights; yon Cassius hath a lean and
hungry look; he thinks too much such
men are dangerous do not know the
man I should avoid so soon as that spare
Cassius. He reads much he is a great
observer and he looks quite through the
deeds of men"
This historic robber who made the
world his field for plunder with which
he built up his empire; this ancient
Vanderbilt who sank the people into
such depths of poverty and degradation.
that degraded as they were they asked
themselves, Upon what meat doth this
our Cesar feed that he is grown 80
great?" and rose and slew him while
the shouts of the populace proclaimed
Liberty Freedom Tyranny is dead
This is one of the examples of men who
have been prompted and nerved on to
do and dare, by this great love of pos
session, says the graduate. Boss Tweed
was imbued with this same love of pos
session.
Napoleon, says the graduate, is an
other grand example of what this love
Of possession can do for men. He says
also that all the advancement in modern
Europe is due to Napoleon's Intense
love of possession"
Undoubtedly the graduate is right.
Napoleon livel in an age when it was
the proper thing for man, possessed of
genius for getting human beings killed,
to make incursions into neighboring
countries, with an armed band of fanat-
ical followers who were happy in killing
or being killed.
Napoleon undoubtedly possessed an
Intense desire for possession" of the
name of the greatest setter-up of human
ten pins in the bowling alley of war, and
he achieved his Intense DESIRE" as the
CORY record from Jena to Waterloo too
plainly shows that almost countless
thousands of the flower of the French
nation were sacrificed to crafty this
butchers thirst for fight"
Then the graduate says we can't build
church, a school, or a railroad, without
private capital. There is federal build
ing being erected in our city which is
not being built by private capital, but
by human labor and the peoples capl-
tal-public money.
There is being done yearly in our
country millions of dollars worth of
manufacturing in the line Of postage
stamps and general postofice necessa-
rles, printing and transportation, to pay
for which there is used not one cent of
private capital. 1t also a generally
understood fact that the Union Pacific
railroad was not built bv private capital.
Now the people have con-
troll over the government" saws the
graduate. If he knew that ninetv-fve
per cent OF the United States senate was
made of railro ad attorneys ani the re-
mainder Of Standard Oil and TELEGRAPH
lawyers, he possibly might see the in.
consistency of making this statement.
The Socialist would give the state
powers before unbeard Of" saws the
graduate. The Socialist would have a
state which was the people, not as it is
to-day, the corporations. The Socialistic
state will comprehend the needs and
wishes of the people. To-day the sena-
tors and congressman from this state are
the state of Colorado. If the people
wish any law passed they have to take
chances on whether it will suit Messrs.
So and So, who are sent from this state
presumably to represent 1t, but in reality
to represent but their own choice and
personal feelings.