The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-25

front OF the stage.
Mr.. Debs began by saying that n
mighty social revolution was in pro-
grtss. The world was gradually becom-
! ing cooperative instead of competitive.
The social decentralization Of the world
was passing away. He would not appeal
to the prejudice OF his auditors. His
sole purpose would be to appeal to their
reason.
Becomes a Savage.
>, Years ago the United States was not
bothered with r-production. Man
Is tool-uslng animal. Deprive him OF
the tools which he works and he be-
comes a savage, he Is helpless. This
tool has become ponderous machine
that has cost hundreds OF dollars.
If men are fit to be political equals they
are.fit to be economic equals and they
arc fit to be social equals. This Ques-
! tion Is understood by the dominant cap
ital class of this country.
No power on earth can arrest the CEN
trallzatlon of power. The trust is the
modern tool Of destruction and it can
moi be destroyed. 1t is not an evil but
simply perverted good. The socialists
Will convert this question into q bless
Ing by taking 1t and operating 1t to the
good OF the people.
Both the Democratic and Republican
parties are in favor OF ownership" said
Mr.. Debs. The corporation has had full
sway and It has controlled every act OF
this government. The economic master
has in every age been the political ruler
That class is not the working class. It Is
the capitalist class. Have you ever
heard OF q governor calling out q state
militia to shoot capitalists? Have you
ever heard of capitalists using an in
junction against workinSman to keep
him from robblng him?
Self-lnterest Is the main spring Of
human action. What is true OF nations
is true OF individuals. because the ma
ton is the composite individual. Mr..
Debs then stated that both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties were cap
italist parties and obscured the real Is
sues. He took the Democratic party to
task for its ever changing issues. Pol
itical equality was rooted In economic
freedom. He said II he was 4 corpor-
alton and n man depended on him for
employment that man was slave.
Capital Versus Labor.
The capitalist class own all the ma
chlnery. They didn't make 1t but they
owned 1t. Your life depends on the tool
OF production. Your wife and child de-
pend upon 1t. The workIngmen have
dug all the mines In the country and
yet not one OF them own a single dol.
lars worth OF stock in any one OF them.
The workingrnen OF this country have
built all the railroads and all Of them
do not own single spike in any one
OF them.
Mr.. Debs proceeded to pay his re-
spects to this paper and said this paper
and himself understood each other.
Continuing. Mr.. Debs said the work.
ingmen secured only one-hfth Of what
they produced. Had not the working
men long since organized they would
have been reduced to atoms. The par
ties say. Don't appeal to the class"
didn't make this class. They have
been produced by the prrsnt conditions.
Are you In the same class with Mr..
Carnegie and Mr.. Rockefeller, whose
salaries are thousands Of dollars per
q day? Mr.. Rockefeller don't work, does
he? He works those who do. don't he?
am for the principle that gives the
laboring man the full wealth OF what
his labor produces, The producing
power OF one man has Increased
twenty-four in the last nifty years. Tho
workingman OF to-day no longer con-
trolls the tools with which he works.
That tool Is controlled by the capitalist
for his own profit. Production Is limit
ed by consumption. And consumption
IS limited by wages.
We are told We are prosperous. How
many OF you have thousand dollars
In the bank? A man who has thous-
and dollars In the bank Is 4 poor man
and you arr not even poor man.
ar. Debs suld II no were elected
he would change the Hystcm OF
private ownership to n system Of coll
iee,iye ownership. The tour.htths OF n
mans labor was divorced from him.
Tho markr; is gluttCd with this and I,
is called panic. He predicted tina,
there would be q panic within the next
three years whether Bryan or Mckinley
were elected. lie said many OF the mills
were now closing down. 1t would only
be short time until we would havn
over-productIon based upon under-eun-
sumption. When this condition came
he said he wanted hIH hearers to know
that was what they voted for.
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