Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-05-08
the WORKERS AND the SINNERS
Profit, Interest, Rent, the New
Slave-Whip for the Industrial
49,. Slaves Of Capitalism.


integrity of the nation, outrage the
tenderest ambitions of the heart. ~':
There is but one issue in the wide
world worthy the attention Of the
thinker, i. e.:
1.-The war between the ehirkers and
the workers.
The shirkers are that fine class Of
men who ride in palace cars and
yachts, live in mansions and sell their
daughters to European libertines for
titles-pol(uted with scrofula and
idiocy.
The workers are those who fight as
privates in war time and produce the
wealth of the nation in time of peace.
Wealth is all of those things which
are used by civilized man in the con.
duct of his affairs from the railroad
and steamships to the buttons on his
breaches. All Is the product of labor.
Labor extracts from the earth every
iota Of wealth.
Who does the land belong to-
Ask God, All Mighty, VINO breathed
life into all things that live on it, and
work on 1t.
All men should work. No one can
claim the land whose brow does not
sweat. He, therefore, who lives
without work, BY rent, interest and
profit, is q thief-and robs human
ity of div iue Inheritance.
What is the situation today
A class called capitalists live in
luxurious idleness, while the masses
OF the people toll and suffer poverty.
Why2
Because the masses are economically
ignorant, and allow the capitalists
land-title to 60 unchallenged, also
vote for political parties which be-
lieve in slavery.
The republican party was organized
in the days when evolution was strik-
ing the shackles from several million
chattel slaves. The democratic party
believed in chattei slaves, but when
she lost in that she joined the republic
cans in their scheme to establish an
Industrial slavery more odious than
the other, and now both parties siren
uosly advocate the present infamous
system of wage slavery, which is
based on the individual ownership of
land and capital, and the lash, keener
than any slave boss whip, is sp-
piled to the bending backs Of the
workers by the shirkers. through inter-
eat, profit and rent.
Therefore to abolish this new form
of slavery, We must abolish the whip.
/. e.:
Abolish interest by giving the work.
or all he produces, 80 he will not bor-
row.
Abolish rent, by making the land
the common prop erty Of ell, it's cult
walton conducted on plans laid down
by all the farmers, through the initia-
tive and referendum system Of govern
ment. The homes of mechanic popu-
lation to be maintainen as they see
fit with the assurance that the land
lot is theirs as long as they live on it.
Air and sunshine are free and land
must be-if man is to be free.
Abolish profit by making capital
the common property of all the people
conducting the industries after the
same manner as described in the land
paragraph.
In other words-let the cultivation of
land and the operation Of machinery be
for the purpose of furnishing the peo-
pie with the good things Of life and
not for the purpose of giving the capt.
talistic parasite profit or the wage
slave more work.
Oh, but, I've Gods and little fiahes),
that would be Socialism. Yes.
And Socialism Is the only power in
the world today which can make men
equal in opportunity to achieve the
fruits Of the earth by toll.
Every dictionary in the language say q
good word for Socialism. See Web
scr. The Ency olopedis Briattnica says
the ethics of Christianity and epthics
of Socialism are identical. See tn at
also.
With this rather crude opening up
of the issue and promising that I will
tell q startling story of the New
Southern Slave in my next letter,
close with thanks to the editor for the
valuable space in his enterprisine
paper.
VIM. s. Wier.
Decatur, Ga.
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