The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-08
today, the foundation stones of the So
cial fabric.

Inl1llOns OF WaXe-WOrkerS in the IN
tied States are twenty-five millions Of
twentieth century slaves. This is the
plain meaning OF what is known as the
labor market. And the labor market
follows the capitalisttc flag.
The most barbarous fact in all Chris
tendon is the labor market. The mere
term sufficiently expresses the animal
ism Of commercial civilization. They
who buy and they who sell in the Ia
Dor market are alike dehumanized by
the inhuman traffic in the brains and
blood and bones Of human beings. The
labor market is the foundation OF se-
called civilized society. Without these
shambles, without this commerce In
human life, this sacrifice of manhood
and womanhood. this barter of babes,
this sale of souls, the capitalist civih-
cations Of all lands and all climes
would crumble to ruin and perish from
the earth. Twenty-Five millions of
wage slaves are bought and sold daily
at prevailing prices In the American
labor market. This is the paramount
issue in the present national cam
paign.
The call of the Socialist party is to
useful trades and professions. all hon.
est occupations, from the most menial
service to the highest skill, to rally
beneath their own standard and put
an end to the last Of the barbarous
class struggles by conquering the capt.
talist government. taking possession
Of the means of production and maxi
ing them the common property of all,
abollshing wage-slavery and establish
Ing the cooperative commonwealth.
The first step in this direction is to
sever all relations with capitalist par
ties. They are precisely alike and
challenge their most discriminating
partisans to tell them apart in relation
to labor. The Republican and Demo-
cratic parties are alike capitalistic
partles--differing only in being COM
mitted to different sets of capitalist
interests-they have the same prin-
ciples under varying colors, are equally
corrupt and are one in their subser-
vience to capital and their hostility
to labor.
In referring to the Democratic party
In this discussing we may save time
by simply saying that since it was
born again at the st. Louis convention
it is near enough like its Republican
ally to pass for a twin brother The
former party Of the common people"
is no longer under the boycott of the
plutocracy since it has adopted the
Wall street label and renounced it's
middle class heresies. The radical and
progressive element OF the former
Democracy have been evicted and must
seek other quarters. They were an
unmitigated nuisance in the -conserva-
tive counsels of the old party. They
were for the common people" and
the trusts have no use tor such a
party. -5Nheres but to- thsaas Socialist
party can these progressive people
turn? They are now without a party
and the only genuine Democratic party
ty in the field is the Socialist party,
and every true Democrat should thank
Wall street for driving him out Of a
| party that Is democratic in name only
and into one that is democratic in
fact.
Trust Jubilee at st. Louis.
The st. Louis convention was a
trust jubilee. The Wall street reor-
ganizers made short work OF the free
| silver element. From first to last it
| was a capitalistic convocation. AS an
| incident 1000 choice chairs were re-
| served for the Business Mems league
Of st. Louis, an organization hostile
to organized labor, but not chair was
rendered to those whose labor had
built the convention hall, had clothed,
transported, fed and wined the dele
gates, and whose votes are counted
on as If they were some dumb driven
cattle to pull the ticket through in
November.
| The platform is precisely the same
as the Republican platform in rela-
ton to labor. It says nothing and
means the same. A plank was propos-
ed condemning the outrages in Colora-
do under Republican administration
but upon order from the Parryites II
was promptly thrown aside.
lubricating With Standard Oil.
Judge Alton B. Parker corresponds
precisely to the Democratic platform
It was made to order for him. His
famous telegram in the expiring hou1
removed the last wrinkle and left il
a perfect tit. Thomas W. Lawson ,tht
Boston millionaire, charges that Sen
ator Patrick McCarren, who brough
out Judge Parker for the nomination
is on the payroll of the Standard OF
company as political master mechanic
at $4,000 a year, and that Parker /!
the chosen tool OF Standard OIL. Mr.
Lawson offers Senator McCarren SO.
600 if he will disprove the charge. Th,
Democratic machine is fabricated will
Standard oil. -.
1t is hardly necessary to make NOR
than passing reference to Harry G
Davis, Democratic nominee for vice
president. He Is a coal baron, rail
road owner, and of course, an enenl.
to union labor. He has amassed
great fortune exploiting his wage
slaves and always strenously resiste,
every attempt to organize them for tn
betterment Of their. condition. =
Is Not 4 Capitalistic Party.
The Socialist party is not, and doe
not pretend to be, capitalist party
1t does not ask, nor does it expect, tn
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