The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

viduls for profit, the price Of your No.
cessities will advance even faster than
your wages. The only successful strike
You can make is at the ballot box, and
you must do that before your masters
take away that right.
Just balances, just weights, just meas
ure, and just treatment you will have
when you become your own lawmakers.
Study the question of Socialism, for
under it lies your only salvation.
Perhaps, it the workers would boy
colt the scab platforms of the Republi-
can and Democratic parties for trip or
SO. possibly, there would be no need to
boycott scab workingmen who, many
times, are scabs not from choice but
from necessity.
Labor Commissioner Wright says it
costs the railroads about IA cents on an
average to carry a passenger 100 miles.
Yet the railroads demand and receive
from 100 to 500 cents. When the peo-
pie. collectively, own and operate the
railroads transportation would be fur
nished them at cost.
The New Zealand government has,
during the last six years, bought back
from the original settlers $4,000 acres
OF land. This land was used originally
for sheep RUS, but is now farmed bv
1850 families.
A pair OF bob-sleighs when made by
hand furnished employment for five
men - woodworkers, blacksmiths and
painter-for total Of 115 hours and 80
minutes and paid them $21.80. In 1894
the same class of work was done by the
divided labor Of 81 people in % hours
and four minutes, and paid them 1926.
There is no danger of people knowing
much about Socialism if they do not
have Socialistic literature.
Sya, John. when the capitalists want
anything they organize, go after it, and
generally get it When the wage-slaves
want anything, they usually have to
beg for it; sometimes they get it, oftener
they don't. Now, it is self-evident
fact that. the workers thoroughly organ
lied under the banner of Socialism and
with their combined power at the ballot
box could soon have everything they
desired, and that too, without being
obliged to beg or strike for it as now.
John, it will be much to your credit
it you will read up on Socialism, find
out just what it is, and what it is not.
Do not take any stock in what the capt.
talistic papers say about Socialism or
Socialists; the editors are paid by their
masters, the capitalists, to write against
it and to make the people believe that
it is everything vile and foolish and that
Socialists are the vileet of the vile. I
would advise you, John, to procure
copy of Merrie England. price 10 cents
and read every word it contains. It will
explain to you in the most simple and
pleasing way just what you wish to
know about Socialism, what it is and
what it is not. Another book you should
read is Equality, by Bellamy. You will
find in our Public Library many works
on Socialism all of which it will be to
your advantage to read and study.
Keep out of politicsr' Yes; if the
people can only be persuaded to keep
out of politics the gilt-edged contingent
will be we'll pleased. They will cheer
fully take upon themselves all the bur-
den of making the laws and relieve the
clod hoppers and grimy sons of the
shop, of all care and responsibility
in this respect. OF course fearing the
PEOPLE, Hamilton like, they will disfran-
,hise all they can, and seek to persuade
he rest through the columns of a sub
'idized press to keep out Of politics. y
CAsCA ST.. JOHN.