The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-09-17
Holds; That Capitalism Will
Pass Away Because It Car
ries in It's Own Bosom the
Deadly Things That Will
Destroy It.

WHICH muSL Flna1y ana
Soon Result in It's Own Des-
truction.
not last we mean that these things
cannot last; and it is my purpose to
show that the system which involves
these things is now engaged in work
which must finally and soon result In
its own destruction.
Capitalist Contest is intense.
This Is true because (D the masters
under capitalism are engaged in con-
| fAct which lis all sthe time becoming
more and more intense. The human
nerves cannot endure the strain. The
largest percentage Of the insane Is
now found to come from the men who
under the modern great combinations
of industry and commerce are held re-
sponsibie for making the wheels go
round.
(2). The physical strength of the
workers is failing. Three times in
| fifty years the English government has
lowered the standard of requirements
for admission to the English army and
then in the last African war fifty-fi
out of every hundred Of the enlist
ments were special so called because
they could not find men enough to
serve as soldiers to reach the standard
after it had been lowered three times
in fifty years.
| CD. Capitalism il now making war
OIL the childhood of the race. The
figures just published at Washington
show nearly 100000 OF child workers
in American shops and factories The
demand for cheap goods puts the wo-
man into competition with her hus-
band, and the child into competition
with both.
"A system which drives its masters
t. insanity, its workers to physical de-
formity and stands with a mailed heel
on child's heart to win its place in
the markets of the world is self-de-
struction-is to Infamous to last
But II capitalism made no war on
the minds of the masters or the bodies
Of the workers or the strength of the
childhood OF the race still it could not
/ last
eeessity FOR Foreion Markets.
0thing 81 more generally contended
United zthanIths
necessity Of the foreign & market :ir
I which Ito dispose of ait least some share
OF tile goods produced at home-if the
home shops are to be kept going.
The late Senator Hanna, the off,
cial utterances of: the Republican par
ty-the contentious Of the democrats
for hundred years. all admit that at
least some of the goods produced at
home must be sold abroad or the shops
shut down. ''- A'
The strife for markets is the world
strife of the hour. And each new
market won is at once overrun and
the demand for other and larger mar
kets continued. This strife for mar
kets cannot last forever: When the
last remaining foreign market has
been captured and Industry shall have
developed to the point Of an over sup
ply Of that last remaining market
Still the demand for other and larger
markets will be as: urgent then as
now. But then there will remain no
other foreign markets to capture and
all goods must be disposed of at home
Or the shops shut down.
But the workers produce at home
more than their wages will buy, the
goods they produce and cannot buy
nor can their masters sell abroad when
the last market shall have been cap
tured and over grown must crowd the
store houses with goods that the mas
ters cannot sell. But they must sell OF
shut down. The market Is over-grown
The shops must close If capitalism is to
last.
The Incentive for Enterprise.
|
under capitalism is the passion for en-
largement. 1t is earning profits in Or
der to reinvest in larger and larger
enterprises. It is said that Socialism
will make impossible q commercial
career and will thus rob the Individual
Of the Incentive to, action. But what
becomes Of this incentive under the
further development Of capitalism
The Rockefeller combination is now
buying the earth at the rate Of $2.-
0O0, 900 a week. They are buying only
such property. as they need in, order
to. control. all the rest. There is some
question whether they are not already
the world's real masters. Whether
this is already true or not, there can
be no question that the ownership OF
the productive property Of the world
50 far as :its%ls needed in order to en-
able single: combination to control
all and to absorb the earnings of all
the earth. When that time comes and
the RockefeilersSh have bought the earth
what. will they: buy after that? When
the Rockefellers have bought the
earth twin 20 out tof the market. and
when the earth all Of it that will earn
dividends-iaSo owned. BY a. single COM
! bination, even Il. the small dealers
could earn profits IN what they still
own because =iss regarded by. the
single group Sc the owners of the earth
as not worth having even Il. these re-
manning small sworl lks =could d make prof
IT'S where VIII they sTeinvest them,
7: when the earth belongs 70 = group
which will not a. any price ?... .sz: S..
4 list - the 'Trrust Grows, 81: 4
And finally just a. the trust grows