The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-09


talist in his efforts to suppress the
spreading Of the light. and with the
same fervor denounce the very men who
are endeavoring to overthrow the lega
state of robbery and establish a state
wherein all men shall have the unlimi
tied and unfettered opportunity for the
pursuit of life, health and happiness.
Tt is sad to see the almost superhuman
efforts put forth by the labor organiza-
tions to obtain small advance in the
rate of wages, ora few less hours per
day of labor, when the same amount of
force expended in the cause of Socialism
would bring about state in which this
perpetual struggle on the part of the
working people to obtain little more
pay would cease. Why2 Because the
causes would be taken awav aud there
| would grow system under which all
men would have all that they produced.
The capitalist sees that under state
of Socialism m he would be an utter i'm
possibility, so he is using everv effort,
every device which can suggest itself to
his mind to suppress and misrepresent
Social SUI. He finds that most powerful
weapon KIN own to this age to be the
public press, and he finds intellectual
prostitutes on every hand who will sell
their brains as woman will sometimes
sell her virtue, and he sets him to work
filling up the papers with lies and mis-
representations knowing full well that
the major part of the masses whom he
is exploiting will believe the miserable
rot which his paid college prostitute
writes 50 smoothly.
So when we look back upon the war
of the rebellion we find the poor whites
who being made almost brutes by sla-
very in their nidst, were the most
ardent supporters. Cast look into the
future and listen to the denunciation of
Social sm by the poorly fed and clothed
workers fiud them supporting aud de-
tending land rent, interest, profit taking
and profit sharing We see as in days
of old tha the very class who are de-
bauched bv these abominitions are to
be their supporters. Where then are
the supporters of the higher state OF
men to come from2 Trere are in society
at the present time, as it is organized,
three classes First, the money power,
who have in their control the major
part of the means of production then
the SO called middle class, and last the
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
History tells us that the PROMOTION
and promulgation of all social reforms
on the part of men have come from the
the so-called middle class. Theu if this
be fact, whv do we not in this country
take up question which has but to be
presented in proper manner, when it
at once appeals to the judgment and hu
manitv of the very strata of society we
sha be forced to RELY upon TO sustain a
movement for the people
The men and women of trained minds
see the utter fallacjes of manv of the
methods and objects of the popular labor
movement. They know that labor, as
at present organized, is to be over
thrown; that the control of the meanE
of life is what the masses must look for
ifthey would be free and equal and
must say that it i almost like renewlnE
ones life to find at least one paper tina
seems to have comprehension of th'
case and will not stultifv itself at the
demand of popular clamor, and applauc
the capitalistic methods of crushing ou
free speech, and by so doing kill the agi
tation of all social reform.
F. S, PICKETT.
RoSTON Massach husatts