Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-10-07
The Speaker in Advocating the Doctrine Fully Sustained the
 Above Assertion.

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 believes in realizing the highest ideals and making the most beautiful dream living reality. He has winning manner which brings his audience in- to sympathetic mood and at once dis arms antagonism. Never once has he indulged in abuse. He says he has no fight with men but with sys- tenn that makes men hoggish and sell fish and brutal. He said the cause of the inequality of the present day is the economic system-the wage system the method employed by the race in producing and distributing wealth, which permits the man or group of men who are the best getters to get the unlimited private ownership of all the means by which the people must live. Five per cent of the pop ulation now own 90 per cent of the wealth and thus have power that enables them to levy tribute on every man, woman, and child for the privi- lege of staying alive. He quoted sta tistics to show that while with our boasted labor saving machinery-wage saving machinery-labor produced an average of 5000 annually, the la borer receives but s437 as an average wage That so long as the voter con tinued to vote to perpetuate such system he could not expect better con ditions, and had no one to blame but himself.
 l Ownership gives power and the req son five per cent of the population have the power to dictate the policy of our government, and the terms on which we may stay alive is because they own our nation. We must vote for the power that ownership gives and inaugurate system based upon the collective ownership by the entire people of all the means of producing the means of life, ,democratically man. aged by the producers, in order that the more abundant wealth resulting from cooperative industry may be justly distributed to all who are will ing to work, in proportion to the ser vice rendered Tn the process of pro duction, and this is socialism.
 It is not "divIding up" We have the collectively owned school house but do not think of tearing down the school house and dividing it up among the citizens of the community. It is collectively owned and collectively used. But socialism does seek to stop the "divide up'' that is going on now. Every laborer produces an average of 5000 worth of wealth and receives an average of s437 which means "divvy-' of over $500 apiece. | Again. Socialism is not anarchy, but would establish more harmon ious, rational and just method of pro- ducing and distributing wealth than the chaotic, brutal method now in use. The wage system the speaker characterized as anarchy gone mad. | He says that even the strenuous ''Teddy" declares in his message that the methods now employed are no longer adequate to cope with the new conditions resulting from modern machinery and concentration of capi- tal
 The trust, he says, is good thing, the latest and best modern machine for producing and distributing wealth, but instead of it being owned by few and operated for their profit, let it be owned by all the people and operated to produce things for use and at cost of production.
 Modern capitalism, he said, had its birth with the beginning of modern machinery and has grown hand in hand with the machine. It was pos sible for the mechanic century ago, by few days labor to save enough to provide himeslf with the simple tools | of that period and be an independent | producer But when steam came in | the tools began to grow to do the 1 work of ten or hundred or a thou | sand men requiring an ever larger ag | gregation of capital to successfully run them, hence the combination | known as partnership, next the cor poration then the trust and finally | the international trust controlling not | only the home markets but the mar kets of the world.
 Now with the billion dollar trust | what possible alternative has the la borer but to organize? Combination of capital is inevitable under the wage system and combination of labor was thus rendered absolutely neces sary.
 So we have the trust and the trades union and between the two must ever wage an irrepressible conflict so long as we maintain system which per mits the ownership of the machinery by man or group who are smart enough to get it.
 Labor by organization has been able to secure living wage, better condi tions and shorter hours, but only share, and that the smallest share, of the product of his toll has the laborer been aEle to secure, and if every la borer in the land were organized in the union of his craft-and only small proportion are so organIzed- they could never secure more than a share of the product since the system compels the capitalist to make profits and in order to do this he must ex- ploit labor.
 It is good to organize in your un- ion. It is noble to stand together in your struggle for better conditions, but the strike at the shop door will never solve the problem. Strike at the ballot box by voting for the col lective ownership of the machinery of production and distribution. Own ership gives power and this class , will never cease so long as one class-the capitalist class com prising but five per cent of the popu- lation-own what the other class-the