Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-08
CAPITALISM AND DEBAUCHERY
Temperance Advocates Condemn the
Competitive System as the Source of
All Misery, Vice and Crime.

ISIS satlSlleu tNat DRUNKENNESS Is al
most entirely the result Of present social
conditions, met last week in this city
and drafted the following "tract",
which they propose to distribute in
large quantities.
Are you out of work, poorly paid,
living in an uncomfortable tenement, or
overworked for some person or corpora.
ton who makes profit out Of your
labor?
II SO, carry one Of these tracts with
you everywhere, discuss its points with
all your fellows, prove them either true
or false, and when you are sure of the
truth, act like men, not like slaves
THE Declaration Of Independence
demands for the whole people the right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit Of hap
piness. Have you got itt
2-That Declaration proclaims that
| call men are born free and equal. Are
they born free? DO they have an equal
chance If not, why nott
3-Our present government is not Of,
for, or by the people, 1t has been stolen
by money kings, and is run for their
interests. Many of its laws are cOnsplra
cies to defraud the people Of their right
full inheritance.
4-The controlling politicians of both
parties are in the pay Of the money
kings and do their bidding, while they
beg and lie for your votes. Count all
the leading politicians you think of.
! Who pays them? Who controls their
income Can you trust them2
5-Better never vote than vote for
either. They only want your votes to
crush you and cut your throats with.
| 6-The people zen masse', must res
tore our stolen government to its
original purpose, and do it soon, or it
will be too late, and the dawn of one
year 1900 will look upon nation of the
hundred million slaves in America,
Your children will be there, if you are
| not, ~ years hence.
| This il the result of a well planned
conspiracy of few thousand money
kings, who by sham-iight on election
day dupe the people into fighting each
other, against their own interest, while
they, the money.kings, carry out their
own purposes, whichever party wins
S-Money, that can be bought and
sold, borrowed and lent, is their best
tool for robbing labor of what it pro-
duces. Those who do produce nothing
get everything by juggling with money.
| 9-lgnorance and superstition are
favored by the moneykings, az tending
to keep their victims in subsection. La
1860 il was n crime to teach a black
child to read or write. In 1890 onefun-
bred thousand of New York citv's chill
dren were kept out of school for lack of
decent accommodations Education is
for the rich only. Are all men born
free and equal?
| 10-Following the history of every
dead republic, money kings ia, or the
dehauchery of the people, az aiding to
their subsection. Gambling is legaIized
in many states; made respectable. Off
Gals of the nation bargain for IA charter
to agreat lottery, Prostitution is licensed
for the so,called benefit of the schools,
and the liquor traffic is defended by
every great money interest Slaves must
be kept debauchcd.
1l-These things have gone 80 far
that nothing short Of Il most radical
change can restore this country 10 the
purpose expressed by jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence. For the
purpose of such restoration will you
honestly study the following PROPOSE
tons:
Interest and rent are but legalized
robbery; a means of proiiting by an
others necessities.
2-All are entitled by abstract right
to own and hold the full value of what
they produce, and no more.
| 3-ThG earth, with all its natural re
sources, is common inheritance of us
all. No one can rightfulIy claim to own
any part of it. Any so.Called titles to
any part Of the earth, when traced to
their first record, are found resting upon
force or fraud.
1.-The earth produces so beautifully.
and the skill of man has SO increased by
labor saving machinery his means of
production, that in properly organized
socIety-free from the waste of compe-
tition, SO systematized that every able
bodied worker should have the KIND of
work for which he is best fitted and
no ahle-bodied idlers were permitted
there would not only be plenty, but
luxury, in every family such as is now
only enjoyed by small fraction of the
people.
1t is proposed to abolish the present
system of misgovernment and Unequal
ity, by declaring every person an equal
partner in all the natural wealth the
earth can be made to produce from its
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