The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-15
VOICE OF The PEOPLE
Continued from page Four.

everyone is to have a hand in the rake
on" The state" Is going to see to It
that everyone is supplied with the neces-
stiles of life and there is to be no more
worrying about providing for ones self"
That last statement Is a ''beaut." It
comes very near being a "Peacherino."
as the boys say.
Everyone will be supplied with all the
necessaries OF life and yet the people
toll not. neither do they spln." In order
TO produce these things which are neces-
sary to sustain life among the people.
No, j. W.. that Is not the Socialistic
commonwealth; you have got things a
trife mixed. 1t must be a common
wealth OF the free trade aristocracy that
YOU have In mind.
1t Is a confusion OF ideas that will do
no harm to Socialism. az anyone OF or
Ginary intelligence can easily see such
plan IL either the limit of folly or q
weak ridicule OF some plan by one who
has no real argument to offer In opposi-
ton. In the last article. published July
l3, j. w. tells a story quite common
when we were blessed with free trade
idleness. An old man 72 years OF age.
disappointed at not securing work, F"
went across Charles street and smashed
a couple OF windows. Arrested, fined
500 and costs. This was quite common
when the wage Garner could find no
steady job under free trade idleness.
and the wage Garner. too honest to steal,
too proud to beg when he got ION his
uppers." would commit some petty Of
fence in order to get sent over"
j. W. continues the story In his own
inimitable style as follows: Evidently
here is Socialist who believes In the
doctrine he preached and knew how TO
attain the conditions for which he longed
His example Is commended to some OF
the writer's TO your voice OF the people
column"
Not a note OF pity or sympathy sounds
In his letter for the old man OF 70 who
had to commit some offence against III 3
state laws tefore the state would furnish
him worr and shelter. What kind Of a
system IS u. that after a man has given
his li,o TO Il. tog' ther with his best ef-
forts In his early manhood. that offers
him NJ helping hand when old age comes
upon him and he Is no longer capable OF
holding up his end" in the battle Of
life7 II he had received the full product
OF his toll lac would never have had 70
smash a couple OF windows" In ord or
to obtain steady job
Is J. w. sure that his old man was n
Socialist? lie was a wage Garner look
ing for a job and therefore j. w. thinks
he must have been an anarchist, for to
be a wage Garner is to be one OF the low er
classes, and a wage Garner looking for
steady job" is one OF the most con-
temptible things that the aristocracy OF
this country ever gazed upon, and any
one outside that noble body are anar-
chlsts. for they are either trying to
blow" their way into that exclusive set
or else they are trying 10 rob them OF
their rights.
J. w. considers the place 10 which
the old man was taken a good place for
some OF the other writers" to this col
umn. IL j. w. imagines that any " us
Socialists are going 10 try his Socialists
home" he has another think coming"
| We had rather stay on the outside and
/ work for a system that will abolish such
places II II is good place for some
writer's" there Is better place for
other writer's" TO this column II is run
by the state" furnishes all the things
which j. w. mentions in his first article
and besides all that they will pad the
| walls OF your room n you are in need
OF Il. Some people call IL the bug house. "
| speak from hearsay. not from expert
ence but II l run against many more
OF these arguments CD such as have
been reading lately | shall be able 10
speak from experience. for no mind can
ponder over such weighty arguments and
| retain It's balance. But In the meantime
we Socialists will bear I'm mind the fol-
! lowing quotation from Holmes and work
| for the cooperative commonwealth and
| the brotherhood of man:
Stick 20 your aim, the monsrel's hold
viii slip.
But only orow-bars loose the bull dogs
lip;
Small as he looks. the jaw that never
yields
Drags down the believing monarch OF the
fields"
JOHN II. NtCKERsoN