The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20

tudes of them. These are farmers. Most of them began with nothing but their hands. They were willing to work. and were sufficiently alert to take advantage of their opportunities. In time they secured land and improved it, and little by little they made them selves independent. As the years passed they secured better stock and, by more intensive farming, increased their profits. Thus they became pros porous and have plenty with an assur- ance against want 50 long as they live. Those men are not grumbling: 1t is the fellow who, starting out with the same opportunities. has frittered them away. who growls about privileged classes
 Another paragraph of the preamble says: Capitalism can never be de- throned and wage slavery abolished until the natural resources of the earth and the machinery of production and distribution shall be taken from the hands of the few by the political power of the many, to become the collective property Of all mankind. to be utilized for Ire use and benefit Of all humani- ty."
 Our socialistic politicians delight in talking of wage slavery" but nothing could be more misleading. Mankind is so constituted that some will be em- ployes while others are employers. The man who works for wages is one of the most independent people in existence. Those most energetic push on into the class of employers. Of those that re- main as employees, very large propor- tion could not conduct business for themselves, lacking certain qualifica- tions. These are better off as employees than they would be as independent op- orators. What would become of our in dustries and our people if these were none to give employment? Suppose ev- cry individual were thrown upon his own resources, obliged to make his liv- ing directly from the resources which nature placed at the command of our race! It would be a nice civilization, indeed There might be no privileged classes" nor would there be any pros porous, contented workmen. The Dig ger Indians have such a civilization, each digging out his sustenance from the ground-or compelling his squaw to do it for him.
 None of the business of modern civil
 ization could be carried on without
 workmen: and. on the other hand, the multitudes of people who earn their liv ing by working for others would be left | without any means of making living. An extinguisher might be placed upon those who are ambitious. capable and energetic, but at the same time those not so endowed would be thrown into squalar. The steel worker. the miner, the mechanic, the workman of any oth- CT class, would not live in a neat house with everything needed for his comfort he would have to find hut and live
 much as the cattle roaming over the hills.
 But the political Socialists say that all would have to work under such a system as they propose, and that all | would have their rewards. That is the last thing that the curbstone Socialist desires; he is not looking for an oppor-
 tunity to work. desiring only to live | without work. If a system were de- vised under which the divine order to | work should be enforced impartially
 upon all this class of people who prate
 of privileged classes" and wage
 slavery" they would be the most un- happy of the race.
 l The miners should be the last to fall l into the embrace of this school of
 worthlessness. Where is there miner
 who has no ambition to benefit himself?
 As class they earn good wages while
 employed, and when they go out into
 the hills to hunt for something for
 themselves they stand on an even foot
 ing with all the world. They may or
 may not find mine that will make
 them rich, but they live happily and
 hope always gladdens their pathway.
 How many of that class would be will
 ling to give it up and fall into the dead level os the commonplace, with no op-
 portunity for improving their own con-
 dition through their own efforts?-Ida- ho Statesman.
 
 !