The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-15

uOuSy 10 SOuSs yOu viii say Ihe1I
Debs was right. l am socialist and
am not a dreamer. / am a philoso-
pher, if anything. If not that, l am
nothing.
Every fellow is trying to get there
and if he does you don't l don't like
this system. You say to me, just wait
hundred years and we will have
party. I say, oh, no; we want it
now'
Never was there a greater demand
for intelligent, thorough and progress
sive action on the part of the labor
ing class than now. The attendance
here today proves that the workers
are alive and determined to wage a
struggle with increased vigor until
the working class is free Not until
the capitalist system of exploitation
is overthrown and the wage system
is abolished and the workers control
the means of production and receive
The full product of their toll; not I'M
til then will the struggle cease, and
they will stand as the rulers of the
world.
Il stand before you today social
list, because l believe that all this
earth is the true heritage of man, and
that the working class shall be the,
ruling class of the world.
81 am charged with arraying class
against class; that l am doing what
| can to produce discomfort and dis
cord; setting the worker against his
employer. | would have the workers
recognize these classes and they
ought 10 organize not only in the in
dustrial field but in the political field
as we'll. They could then seize the
reins of government and take posses
sion of the tools with which they
work, and they then would in truth
be freeman.
Il admit that | am arraying class
against class, consciously, and
would have the workers recognize
their exploiting masters. What mat
tiers it to the worker whether an in
junction is issued. by the democrat
or republican government. 1t is al
ways issued in behalf of the capital
istic class. We have government by
class today and the class governing
is not the working class. According
to the theory Of our government the
majority rules The working class is
the great majority, yet they do not
rule. The working class is dependent
upon the capitalist class for employ
ment. If | am capitalist, you know
that you are dependent upon me for
work, and you are likely to be influ.
enced by me when you cast your bal
lot Many a union man wears the
union badge and advances his princi
pies, yet he protests against political
action. Why, my friend, if you fine
il to your advantage to unite upoI
, the industrial field, why not upon the
political field? You strike because
you do not like the system, yet whe1
you voCe you vote to perpetuate tina
) system.
> THE time has come when no uniol
: man can be true to his principles
p until he puts the union label on hi
ballot.
p was so easy to produce wealth as to
p day, yet there are thousands ant
8 thousands on strike or lockout. w
have all the painful hideousness o
n extremes. A few have millions an,
l. millions, because we are living I'm
a der a system where private profit i
@ of vastly more Importance than hi
r man life. The cheapest commodit
r on earth today is human flesh an
J. blood. To make profit at the e2
o pense of human life is the centrs
l. controlling motive of the capitals
O system.
!. -Four thousand silk workers are o
r a strike in Paterson, N. j.. They &c
= Sc a week for their work, and yo
who wear fine silks may feel an az
=. cusing finger pointed toward you fo
J. assisting in continuing this wag
r slavery
It Il tell you that chattel slavery fel
d and wage slavery must go. Now tha
a chattel slavery is gone you hate tn
v very memory of it. You think the
q Lincoln abolished slavery, but
# didn't. He was born to issue tn
n proclamation, just as Thomas Je
i ferson was born to iss' e the Decla
p alton Of Independence after Thoms
o Paine had inspired it.
e. my friend Bryan tells you thu
with free and unlimited coinage
is silver, wages would be greatly il
Is creased Let me tell you somethin
!? If under free coinage of silver yc
" could get SIS day, the cost of Ii
" ing would be SIG; for every Gel
" that is added to your wages, IL
~ bosses would add that much more
n the cost of living. Do not be deludt
k into the thought that the bosses a.
s. going to pay for it.
IF "The capitalist who owns the m
It. chinery of production wants prof
Nj and the worker who operates the
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