St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28

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loving lIvesp The man or woman who
lives selfish life here, who uses all the
faculties fLr gaining self-agrandize
ment. money, power or place is an in
ldel, dOubter of any future, no matter
| what their church. Christ, as typica
| of the unity of all worlds and all alO ms
taught that all men are brothers. that Il
| hel p one another was the highest good
! But men who profess to be Christians
enslave their brothers today by means
! of interest, rent and profit.
| The public school, or at least its Of.
| ficiency, must gO.Or capitalism must 20
Ii the rulers in this country can make
the struggle for bread so keen that par
ents are forced to put their children az
work-parents of the working class, of
course-these children will grow up In
! Ignorance like chattle slaves. and their
control will be an easy mattel. This is
now being done in many labor centers,
! and its effect is like unto the abolition
of public schools. Fortunately, there
has grown up pride in the public
school system that will check any much
+. greater aggreSslOns on the opportunities
of children. Compulsory education,
j with free books. should agitated.
! Thousands in the great cities would al.
] tend if the public would provide one
meal per day. The cost would be small
! and the results great. Ii children grow
| up in ignorance they can and will he
enslaved. Safety lies in the broadcast
!! possible education.
The American house of lords has GA
| LAWYERS. q bankers, 10 merchants, ]
/ doctor. farmer, assorted. The Amer
| lean house OF parliament has 245 law
yers, IA bankers, 81 merchants and man
| ufacturers. editors, doctors, % farm-
| ers. 25 assorted
! This fairly represents the people. As
this country has no farmers, mechanics
or working people to speak of. they do
not have any representatives! Repre- :
sentative government. you know. 1t is
i a bad policy to vote for anybody but a
lawyer, banker or manufacturer, as
these are the men who support the peo-
pie. Ii it were not for these gentry the
people would starve, go ragged and
have no houses to live In! 1t is the pa
triotic duty of all voters, therefore, to
keep these people in office and pay them
big salaries so they will not leave the
country, and thus leave our citizens to
| Starve.
| Millions of honest. sober and in
dustrious workmen out of work, of food,
| out of home!
! Is 1t because the government owns
| and operates the lighthouse system?
| Or because the government owns and
/ operates the public school system?
Or because the government owns and
operates the postoifice system?
| Isn't 1t fact that the w0rkmen en-
| ployed i'll the really useful departments,
| Of the government are working full
! time and drawing full pay?
| Isn't 1t fact, too, that the men en-
| ployed in the useless departments OF
government are largely responsible for
! The enforced idleness of wOrkmen under
private capitalism?
| If that is true-and no living man can
successfully disprove it-what's to De
| done?
! Get rid of the useless departments OF
| government and substitute public
| capital for private capitalism.
Then you will have the labor problem
| solved and not before.
| A Chicago bank that failed last wear
| for $4,000 has Just shown up s., SOD
assets" Do you see why the banking
| system Is sustained as the best on eartha
1t would be anarchy-rank anarchy, il
| for the people to deposit their money
safe from Spectators and thieves! Why
people will support parties that created
and perpetuated system that robs
them Is one of the queer freaks of nat
ure that yet remains to be explained.
The bankers and others who profit by
the system tell the people that 1t would
ruin them, that liberty would vanish,
that men would he slaves, if the govern.
ment undertook to loan money to the
people. Can't you see why?
1t Is queer ~ how rapidly political
economy is taking the place of literary
and story matter in the trades, labor
and brotherhood papers and magazines
The great masses who labor are learn
ing slowly, but they are learning. With
nearly two thousand papers and maya
zines, to say nothing of the rising flood
of socialist novels. it will be impossible
FOR them to remain forever ignorant of
the real conditions under which they
are unjustly suffering. There's a good
time coming, boys study little harder.
Unselfishness is impossible under this
social system, where every man is strug-
CLING against every other man for the
means of living. Avarice Is the con-
trolling idea. But when labor for all
can be had on equal terms. and no one
can make profits off his neighDor then
there will be only struggle with ma
ture, not men, and selfishness can and
VIII cease, having no opportunity fol
food. To live we'll will require to pro.
duce we'll, but not to grab what others
have produced.
If men can scheme to get control Of
some article that will make one cen,
profit off each person in this cou ntry i,
will net them 100000. The people
would not miss this. but by multiplying
for each process in each article used il
will impoverish a nation. The sugar
trust skins the people out of $50, OOO, OO(
annually that could be saved to them II
the government would spend one mill
ion in erecting public re1ueries.
| Under the lying excuse of "protect.
ing" American labor, the Eanufactur.
erS nave taken from the American PEG.
pie hundreds of millions annually, and
the poor fool workmen can't see it. Let
the plutOcrat employers care for theil
wOrkmen. The dollar and cheap immi.
grant labor are their gods. If they
wanted to protect labor why didn't they
! shut out the foreign laborer years agos
How green the laborers have been.
Why do you fear to read and weigh
4 political ideas different from those vol
hold? Do you think you know all tina
can be learned, OF that you are SO lgnot
ant you are afraid that you will be de
ceived? If the latter. how do yot
know you have not been deceived, and
that your condition today il the result
of that deception? Think overit.
A days work Is worth days work.
that is, its eQuivaent. what may b,
produced in that space of time. Labor
is the cost of all products. including tn,
raw material. An hour of labor is
unit of cost, and cost Qabor) constitutes
the equitable price Of all useful service
rendered. whether IN shape of objectiv,
products or other useful service,