Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-12


vou will consider yourself . walking
encyclopedias IN wisdom and an Apol-
10 in looks. It was Karl Marx who
said that the history of all society
thus far is the history Of class strife.
The social movement 10 nothing but
society seeking to readjust itself.
Men disseminated with their lot trying
10 overturn the present order for the
sake of controlling the law-making
power. There must be an issue.
What Ia the issue today. haye
tried to show, that the working class
OF today, theso-called proletariat, was
the result of the Introduction of ex-
pensive machinery. Production on q
large scale had as it's result large |
army of workers, who have nothing to |
sell but their labor; they must find
employment or starve. This causes q |
competition among the workers for
employment, resulting in lowering of
wages. The employers who own the
product must find q market to sell in,
at profit over the cost price of pro-
duction. Now man who does a
thing the cheapest, is the one to hold
the market. II q man tries to do the
same thing in more expensive way,
he can not sell the product because
there is no profit in it. This causes
competition among the sellers. This
two-fold competition IL q real war.
Instead OF guns and powder, cheap
products are used and the ammuni-
ton is human flesh and blood. AS I
said before, under competition things
are not produced for use of the maker
but to sell. The capitalist being the
owner of the product, stimulates in
dustry because his profit is in the sale;
the more he sells the richer he gets.
Having the power to control legisla-
ton, he wants laws passed in his ia
vor. The political questions today
between all civilized nations, Is how
to keep or extend markets for home
products. In this struggle between
workers and sellers, the weakest are
being trampled down. The large store
forces the small one out of business.
the small mandatory is being bought
up or ruined by the trust, because if
it so wishes, it eau sell cheaper than
they can. Small towns are dying out
because industries are destroyed or
their growth IL arrested because of
people moving to large centres of pro-
duction and distribution. Because
that the object of all industry is to
change things found upon the earth
into useful forms, the capitalist now
reaches out to control the raw ma
terial, to own all the mines producing
coal, iron, copper, silver and gold,
and also the timber and oil. Here an
enormous waste il noticed. The SELF
ish desire of the capitalist is to change
everything at once into q saleable and
exportable form Chat which bened-
cent providence, intended to be use.
full for generations of men) in order
to realize an immediate profit on it's
sale. Real wealth ia perishable and
must be continually renewed. Their
realized wealth is in form which is
nothing but burden on present labor,
from which they draw all their sup.
plies. What will be the effect now on
the next generation, when they have to
meet increased taxation to keep up the
splendor and waste of the rich; who will
also withdraw from useful production
able men for standing army, and
set others at Improbable employment
in building navies and palaces? Are
we considering what that effect will be
when we convert our mines and forest
and fertile soil into interest-bearina
bonds and mortgages? When We
change the Inheritance they were en-.
titled to as blessing into a blight
ing curse? In place of the rich mines
they will find a hole in the ground; In
place offorest, dead stumps and burned
over territory and in place of q virgin
soil, a ground exhausted by a waste
full system of farming. Will We eve,
stop this battle. and and consider the
glory bought at too great q sacrifice
When will we see it?
THEoPHnUs.