Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-05

bul, +hl' AthlilS'Hl, now Is II tnat one
third of the population can live from
robbing the two thirds of their toll and
their property? Take all your cash,
keep 1t, but you must not interfere with
us when we take charge of all the
means of production; no doubt Won will
cry out, you have no right to interfere
with the way ! am getting all that
wealth. Labor toiM This is the only
value OF a shoe, of a coat or any other
article. Do what you please with your
money, but you shall not get an iota in
the way you are used to get it, We
need no old mems house, no homes for
the friendless, no beneficial asylums for
the poor, We hate your sympathy, we
demand our right, that's all we want.
We cannot do without capital but we
can do without private capitalists; we
want the control of the means of pro-
duction. Force! that means little. Put
your foot on worm and it will employ
all its force to become free again We
are the worms. But when YOU impose
upon us too much then we shall, like the
worms, gather all our power against
you to become freemen, free people,
that is force, Socialists say: Machinery
and land to the people; but SAYS Jay
Gould You rob me by doing that Oh,
no! says the Socialist, you have nerves
and muscles, you are healthy and
strong, are you not able to work as we
Socialism is not to make all men equal.
Socialism means equity We possess
that equity from the first moment of our
life; we have equal rights to live; we
have at the same time equal duties to
work; we are equal, because YOU cannot
exploit me or any of your tellow.beings.
We don't know whether we reap any
thing of the Socialist seed which we
sow, but we have children whom we
don't like to become inhabitants of the
old mems home. Socialism DESTROYS,
admit, but only our glorious system CO
misery and robbery; that's all. 1t ere.
ates equity with the motto, MAN is man.
who is more There is one power that
is able to do everything, Was it not the
power of Labor that led Napoleon to
Moscow? Power is in your hands this
is Socialism Take your device ! Long
live humanity, Long live Socialism
Great applause
All our papers had reporters present,
but no report i'll the press, No wonder!
our considerate worllmen might be dis.
turbed from their idle fancies.
The American Section held its regular
weekly meeting at Turner Hall, 4l6 +.
Baltimore street, last Sunday night.
Comrade G.. A. Hoehn delivered a short
lecture on "Wage System and Co-opera-
ton" during which he showed how
detrimental and injurious the wage sys-
tenn has been to the working-people;" by
the continuation of this destroying sys-
tenn the natural result could only he The
entire enslavement of the workers and
finally the ruin of the human race. We
see men driven to despair by want Of
work and employment; men who are
willing to work. but are refused. Com
petition i'm the labor market forces them
out Of existence. While fifty years ago
the mechanic the toiler, was the owner
of his tools, oppression of this kind was
impossible. Nobody had an opportunity
to employ 1000 men in furniture fac
tory, shoe factory, etc. To-day you
have workshops employing even more
than the number mentioned. Now sup
pose such number Of men produce in
a certain time a million dollars worth of
goods; the wages they receive amounts
at an average to $500, 600 for said guam.
tity of goods; and say that the pro
ducers shall be the consumers of this
produCt-but they have created an over
production Of 100000 worth of goods.
The natural consequences of this evil
must be constant Unemployment of la
Dor, followed by disgracing poverty and
prlvation. The extensive competition
amongst the toiling masses is to get en-
pIoyment, consequently a rapid decrease
III wages must follow. Finally all the
raw materials and means of production
will be concentrated into the hands of a
few individuals. This concentrated DOW
err destroys our middle class of people.
the retailers; regulates the market of the
worid-in one wOrd-it rules and gov
erns independently. The workman does
not possess anything but his muscles, his
nerves, his brains; the means whereby
he produces, and the materials which
thy produce u. 'Fken out of his hands.
What shall he i | : Shakespeare SAYS
somewhere: "1ou ! - my life when
you take the means whereby live"
Dut 10 TAKE tne NE Oh ANYBODY IS muir
der; and such crimes Socialism must
abolish. Is not the sugar, oil and flour
business regulated by limited number
of men? Should not the Government,
the people, be able to regulate their own
atfairs-to institute the cooperative
commonwealth? Private cooperation is
failure; and the cooperative enter
prises of England will furnish MS the
necessary proof, as they have dwindled
down within one year from GOO, 900 to
100000 shareholders. There cannot be
such thing as liberty without educa-
ton. The proletariat will never accom-
plish their emancipation unless they are
convinced that it is their own power
which can tear asunder the chain of
slavery and to carry out the principles
of the Socialist Labor Party.
The lecture was followed by a discus