Workmen's advocate., 1890-10-11

not observe that the consumers will receive no benefit whatever from the change; they may, on the contrary, find themselves more exploited than ever. But when we shall have reached this last stage of capitalism, that is, when production and distribution shall have been so concentrated in the hands of a few great monopolists that there will be no field open to private enterprise in any branch of industry or commerce, then, perhaps, will the people realize that Socialism is they out of slavery and substitarty of the O.orpo- rate and co. o.ohe right of all men to duc- tion and sunders of the American re. oto
 secure every citizen in the enJe"'e ana conditions we hold, furthermcIy'
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 hith the founders of this republic WI, U'a hinery of government muS'' oi the interest beii4 fll5 Nfoou during the past nineteen months, They do not say that it has been accomplished at a cost of about forty million dollars, which have been paid in premiums to the bond holders.
 Cato the Censor decreed it to be i'm moral to kill or to abandon, because of old age, the OK, horse, or COW, that had done work; and in the days of slavery the semi-feudal South spread roof over the head of the superannuated negro, not infrequently buried him with decency. The Adams Express Company thrusts into the streets, to hustle for themselves with impaired vigor, probably to starve and be buried in the Potter's Field, the trusty and exploited employees who for a life. time have given their life strength to the company, but who are now become too aged to further grind out surplus values for the employers. Such is the morality of the bourgeois social system.
 In the past ten years lending June 30, lS9O), the recorded immigration was 5,242 ,53O To this must be added the immigration across the Canadian border, which was not included in the official reports of the last five years and is estimated at about 300, ,O0O
 When the luxurious palace car in which the President is now upon a junketng and political expedition stopped at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va., last Monday, this chief magistrate of the plutocracy addressed the gaping crowd of worklngmen who thronged the depot with these remarkable words:
 My Friends-I have travelled for the first time over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and 1 have noticed with great interest and pleasure the development which Is being made along the road of the mineral resources of the State of Virginia. (Cheers) What I have seen moves me to offer my sincerest congra- tulations on what you have already ac- complished and what is surely in store fer you if you make use of your resour- ces and opportunities. (Cheers.p
 The cheers may or may not have been given; yet the congratulations offered can surely not have been accepted as "sincere" by any but the grinding cor porations who control that State. Con- sidering that the average wages of the West Virginia wage earner fall below $1,4O a day; that, to the number of l3,O00, they have had again and again within the last few years, to strike or fight against reductions; and finally that, strange as it may seem, no state organization exists there for the educa. tlon of the people; the motley crowd who formed the Presidents auditorium had reason to expect condolence instead of tatfy.
 Last week, Rhode Island celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the introduction into this country, by Sa- muel Slater. of cotton spinning by power. The most eloquent speech that might have been, but was not, delivered on that occasion can be read in the re. port of the Rhode Island Bureau of La. bor Statistics, where the condition of slavery to which cotton operatives, including children of tender age. have been reduced by the cotton plutocracy of that State, is described in the simple words of those poor people.
 The city will print, and the people will pay for 1,OS5,O00 official tickets for Al