The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-20
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The People
A SOCIALISTS VIEWS.

Editor Providence News
In an address before the members OF
the Mems club OF the Cranston street
Baptist church on February nth. Chief
Justice Stiness made the statement that
labor and capital are arrayed against
each other.
II this were true. IL would be suicidal
TO both" as one cannot exist without the
other" The strife is not between labor
and capital but IL is between labor and
capitalism.
We are all after capital and large
number Of the wage earners are becom-
ing aroused and are now getting after
the capitalist. He also stated. never
has there been a time OF greater unrest,
and near the end Of the address he said.
"and so men are thinking how the greedy
clutch of power and gain can be stayed
without a social revolution.
Those two statements are correct. as
all who are In any way conversant with
our times will admit. Yet he can only
see the beginning. Perhaps II he had
looked a trifie longer he might have seen
the end III II don't end I'm government
ownership then II must end In condl-
ton far worse than the old Russian serf-
dom.
Has he no remedy to offer US. Perhaps
he thinks free trade would benefit US,
or is II protection he would give U.S. That
is what we want protection for our homes
and families from the grasping hand or
capitalism
Combinations are the order OF the day
and the wage earners should combine
| Cor should / say ''merge"?) their power
| at the polls and vote for socialism.
Socialism and the cooperative COM
monweaIth is the only thing that will give
/ the wage Garner what he produces. II
the wage Garner wants laws TO beneht
him, he must have them made by wage
| earners whom he has helped to elect.
| You can have laws enacted now, Tor IN
| stance the 10-hour law for railway en-
| ployes, and. for instance, they can be re-
| pealed as soon as they become operative.
| Corporations are the only ones who can
| have laws made that cannot be repealed.
You can obtain what is justly due you
| n YOU will only act. The citizens Of this
city wanted transfer tickets and they got
them In spite OF the efforts Of Mr.. Perry
| and his friends on the hill The citi-
| zens of this city do not want police
| commission and when they make up their
! minds that II has got to go 1t VIII be
abolished.
When the voters wanted protection
why protection was the result. Wher
the voters want socialism and get awak-
ened to the fact (as many are) that II Is
the only hope for the wage Garner, Their
we will have socialism. / think IL would
be a good plan for the wage earners tc
read that verse in Proverbs that the
Wage Earner's Advocate" from Woon
socket gave for ~. w" Wisdom Is too
high for a fool. he openeth not his mouti
in the gate"
Now we wage earners who are no
averse to being known as Socialists sr
generally classed as fools. but we Away
take the chance when in the gate Z
open UP our mouths for Socialism tn
time Is not far distant when we Will hav
= 10 stand the gate post as the gat
| will be full OF "disconsolate workmen
looking for a chance to open up and tai
for Socialism Why not AXE advantag
, for Socialism. Why not take advantag
that Is with tho people and for the peo
ple" and voice your sentiments o
Socialism or any plan for the bettermen
OF the wage Garner?
, JOHN H. NICKERSON.