Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-21
THE SOCIALISTS.

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 The socialists continue to predict the terrible things which will happen to this country if their doctrine is not accepted. The socialist makes his special plea to the man who has to work for living and notwithstanding this it is a well known fact that the bulk of the socialist votes come from those who perform very little labor of any kind. The socialist spoilers gen. erally manage to live pretty well off the fruits of labor without perform ing any themselves. They are great theorists, but We fear that many of their theories would not work well in practice. The socialists would have asl the property of the country divided equally among all the people, but he gives no specific plan how this couli Sa accomplished or how such a con- GitiOn could be maintained if once es- tablished Suppose it was possible to do such a thing, how long would it be before energy and brains had cor TaIed the most of it again? Few CO., operative enterprises have ever be- come Q success and hundreds of such enterprises have been absorbed by few individuals who originally put but { minimum amount of capital into them, as an original investment. While the socialists made considerable gain in the number of votes polled last year the total was away below the total vote boiled by the populists a few years ago and il is safe 10 predict that not one of the present generation will see the socialists in control of single state in the union. The pres ent condition of the government could be remedied in many ways and no doubt will be in the near future, but We consider present conditions, even with the trusts, to be infinitely better than they would be were the social ists in control of the country. The cry Of the socialist is that there is no hope for success in life without a reyo- lution in the form of government, still on every hand We see energetic and brainy young men going up the ladder of success with strides as rapid as at any time in the history of the world.
 h this territory last fall the social ist vote did not cut any figure in the result; in certain localities insignifi- cant gains were made, but these gains were not made in the cities and min ing camps where are to be found the greatest number of wage earners, but in localities where conditions of na- lure had blighted prosperity. Where wage earners are well paid for their labor it is hard to work up a discon- tented feeling The universal pros perity of the country, high wages and plenty of work has had much to do with the success of the republican party in the face of the fact that the republicans are to blame for the ere ation and maintenance of the trusts which blocked industrial freedom and created the greatest monopolies ever known in any country. The victory of the republicans, however, is no argument to uphold the thought that conditions will not be Temed.ed and in the proper way by the sovereign and free people of the United States and this country returned to the people who were never more honest or more patriotic than at the present moment. One of the objections to socialism is that it would remove the incentive for energy in the individual who would no longer be ambitious to excel in any un- dertakiig, knowing that no matter how strong his muscle or active his brain he could never rise above the station prescribed by his government