Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-07

of the work OF building n house or
making machine. Each tradesman to
his last has been the fundamental prin-
ciple upon which modern civilization
has grown from the barbarian of the
berry patch and hole in the hill.
"Oftimes the employer and the land
lord are the Same person" continues
Hanford Both are exploiters and
robbers of the working class. Our
| Man with the 100000 might have put
It into land and charged workingmen
! for the privilege OF living on the
earth" Then the socialist remedy Is
suggested: ITO stop our Man from
getting $4,000 n year for doing nothing
but owning things we should not allow
him to own those things" Then the
socialist candidate appeals to the
shoemakers. the printers, the wood
/ WOTkcDS, WE tIUtIlUlSIl iDh az WIN
ingmen tn unite with the socialist par
| ty and outlines what they could do by
saying. "All the public powers are
yours IL you see ut to take them. You
have the votes. Use those votes to Sc
cure to your class tho law making pow
en- the law Judging power and tho law
executing power. Having done that
your officials will take from Our Man
and every man his means OF getting
$4,000 a year without working for It..
Having done that. your officials VIII
see to H. that you and every one of
you shall have an opportunity to work.
and that, having worked, you shall re-
ceive, therefore. the full product or
YOUR labor which Is three times as
much as you get now and which can be
secured In one-third Of tho hours you
work now. if you are SO fortunate as to
have work
There Is the proposition. 1t Is fair
and impartial, for not only will we
take from Our Man." but from "ev-
cry man" And this is what 1t means:
| In n certain town q young Swede has
| worked In q dry goods store for many
years as a clerk. He mover received
over $45 per month, but his wife was
| careful and saving. They lived well
but economically He raised garden
and MIXED cows, denied himself ex-
pensive habits and they saved money
They bought n home, then another
| house which they rented and thus I'D
ded to their income. This year the
| family went back to Europe on pleas
ure trip OF education and recreation.
| In the same town q man worked at
trade craving SIS per month. He was
| reckless. improvIdent and spent his
money drinking beer, buying tobacco
and playing billiards. His wife was
no manager. She was extravagant and
wasteful. They were always in debt
and never owned anything. Our So
cialist would take from the thrifty
Swede from every man." all that he
owned and guarantee TO both IAN OPP
portunity to work. Flow much longer
would the Swede economize and save!
lf he couldn't keep what he saved why
should he save? He would live as ex-
travaeantly as the next man. There
would be no money in savings banks.
| No sobriety, thrift or personal interest
in any piece OF property. Every farm
would look like rented place, every
house would have bed ticks stuffed In
the windows where glass was missing.
Everybody would do Just as little work
as possible and production would be
reduced twice, three times and a num-
dred fold. Pretty soon collectively we
would not be making things very fast
for each fellow would be hanging back
| in the hope that the other fellow would
do the work. If things were not made
we wouldn't have them to use, ana we
would find ourselves drifting back to
the simple life' OF the stone age with
hurricane rapidity. A few of us, the
thrifty, would run away into the woods
as far as we could from such n system
and start over again, where we could
own what we made. We would thrive
and grow strong while the laggards
and improvident stayed with socialism
until the production Of useful things
should grow so small that men would
go to fighting among themselves for
bone to gnaw and skin to wear. Then
the strong man would overcome the
weak. Socialism would make way for
monarchy, masters and slaves, and by
and by the thrifty who had run away
| to grow strong under the ownership OF
the fruits of their toll would overthrow
the monarchy abolish slavery and we
| would have reached a reconstruction
period. Such are the beauties Of the
system.
PARKER PETTIFOGGED.
A. lifeless campaign has suddenly
been revived by the remarkable letter
OF Roosevelt's replying to the SANDER
Gus charges of his democratic oppc-