The Labor enquirer., 1888-02-04
The Radical Has The. Courage
OF His Convictions and
Voices Them
DOODLEIHN, DO0DLgPAPBRS
Are the Tools the Capitalist Uses 4
Blind the People to the Light
or COmmsn Sense.
For the Enquirer.

INTO three distinct classes, namely.
the radicals, the conservatives and
the Doodle conservatives. Now.
who are the radicals? The radicals
are those who think they have
found out the true cause of pow
erty among the masses and have
a scientific remedy to offer by
which poverty can be abolished
forever. The remedy is to dis
place the competitive system and
inaugurate system of co-opera-
ton in it's stead.
1t is not necessary for work
ingman to advocate the use of
dynamite or the assassination OF
the capitalists to be called, by the
DOODLE press, a radical or an an
archist. All the workingman
needs to win this distinction is to
know the truth and have the cour-
age to state It. If he tells his
fellow workingman that he is a
slave and is being robbed by the
capitalist, who never did an honest
days work in his life, he is called
a radical, a bomb-thrower and an
assassin who ought to be hanged.
The honest conservative is one
who has given the economic ques-
tions no thought. or. in other
words, has not awakened to his
own interests, but lets the editor
of the Doodle press do his think
ing. and his master. for whom he
tolls for a mere pittance, adxise
him.
The Doodle conservative is the
most contemplate of creatures;
and while the honest conservative
is pitied by the radical or pro-
gressive class, the Doodle con-
servative should be held in utter
contempt for the reason that, un-
like the honest conservative, he is
not in ignorance as to the present
state of society and its cause, but
he is to be found in every election
ostensibly working for the inter
ests of his(1) fellow workingman;
but somehow he is in reality
always found where he can get the
most money for his dirty work.
He tells the poor. deluded, honest
conservative that the republican
or democratic party, as the case
may be (where the most money is J
is the only friend the workingman
has, and that he must steer clear
of the labor party. as they are
lot of damned socialists or anarch-
lists who are trying to break up
this government. He succeeds in
poisoning the mind of his victim
and succeeds in securing his vote
to place the weapon in the hands
of his worst enemy. by which the
chains of slavery are riveted
tighter and tighter.
Now. how long. Mr.. Conserva.
tive. will you allow this confidence
game to be practiced upon you
Does it never occur to you that
you have as good means of getting
at the facts as this whisky-soaked
political ward hummer. who tell:
you with a wise air how you shall
vote or Think think you have
Then don't you think it is time
you were giving this question
little time in the way of an homes,
Investigations
1t certainly ought to be clear tc
your mind that there is something
radically wrong in the organiza
tion of society to-day.
Our interests as workingmer
are identical if we are honest, anC
the sooner we can think and worl
together. the sooner we will sue
ceed in bettering our condition.
mean the honest conservative ano
radical or progressive elements
Just so long as the capitalists ane
their ally. the Doodle press. car
succeed in keeping US divided
with their rawlings about socialism
dynamite. enemies of organizet
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