The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-31
VOICE OF The PEOPLE
Continued from page -Four.


ious types; the working people are ser
vile. submissive. ignorant. they will not
stick together. what are you going to do
about II. Nobody can make them wiser
That we know as we have tried to edu-
cate them long enough, say the intellec-
tuals. We must have long and pain
IL. work OF physical and moral regenera-
ton of the iaboring class, say the mud
die class. Populists, Prohib.tionlsts.
Social. Democrats and various reformers.
The emancipation Of the wage working
class, IL II ever shall come, must come
from above. We. by our superior knowi.
edge and position in society. ara destined
to free society and lead the miserable low
and ignorant workers into the promised
as the Brotherhood of Man.
What says the Soctalist-Labo parD! /!
II says: The emancipa ton of the working
class must be the intelligent work of the
words of the great revolutionary philos-
opher: He who desires TO become free
must himself strike the blow
crate forces of capitalism arecst work.
and that masses of the Proletariat are
retrogressng. We know that the ma
Of literature. Of poetry. Of art and in. short
OF everything that is generally classed
under the heading Of education.
We know that the workers are vastly
too submissive and are easily duped into
the shambles OF capitalism. We know
all this only too well. and yet to us this
is not the whole perspective which the
modern working class presents.
We look about us. not at each individ-
ual worker. but at the whole class. as
an industrial class. and what do we be-
hold7
The working class as a useful active.
industrious class 1t produces not only
Its own maintenance, but everything that
goes to make up modern civilization. and
fllrfherm0re maintenance
tire mass of people who are not enga aged
I In useful production. II is the only por-
is not in some degree parasitic. On the
other hand, IL Is itself thickly beset with
parasites There Is but one thing lack
ing to the members OF the working class.
Labor party to teach and inspire-namely
class consciousness.
When the workers have learned that
they belong to different economic class
In society than that to which the capt.
talists belong; when they have learned
that these two classes have interests
which are diametrically opposed. when
they understand that the capitalist class
is a parasitic class that derives its very
livelihood and all the luxuries in which
II revels. together with the means TO carry
on this exploitation OF the workers from
the working class itself. when they
furthermore learn that they are the
they have the power in their hands 10
remove the capitalist class from its posi-
tion as ruler and exploiter as soon as they
have become intellisently orsanized 70 DO
then the intelligence which they as a
class manifest in the production of wealth
will be utilized also TO awaken their class
and TO sgitate for its emancipation from
wage slavery.
Their diligence and perseverance will
then be used In the organisation OF the
working class. II II the mission OF the
working class 10 free Itself from wage
n receives the full product Of ite labor
and that only-sll exploitation will disap-
pear as an inevitable result
Hence n follows a. a natural oonse-
duence that upon the revolutionary force
OF todsy-upon the Socialist Labor Party
rests greater responsibility than ever
in all history rested upon an advance
guard Of progress To teach class con
sciousness 10 the workers IL, therefore
the duty Of the Socialist Labor Party
when the worker, once become class
conscious. their vision becomes clear.
their duty 10 themselves and their class
becomes well defined ana strongly felt.
their actions uncompromising and defiant
and their work Of educating and organ
lzing their fellow workers one OF pleasure
and love
when the workers thus become class
conscious incorporating and denant
they may also become imbued with the
most noble and Kind hearted sentiment
for the suferings of the members of their
class, and there is no danger Of their u.s.
ing balance and being sidetracked ry
reforms. Therefore IN class conscious
ness and In ~ alone can there be any
n, stion Of moral and phvr resi rseensr-
alton % the working class. ard as seen
this can far more prop srlv I've csi'ei On
awakening ~ the class 70 on understand
ina of its own interest
THOMAS F ITERRlcK.