The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-07-28
The New Revolution.

The capitalist class not only own and
control the machinery of production, but
they also own and control the machinery
of government. They own and control
the government because they own and
control the industries and business of the
country-because they own the jobs.
The old Southern slave owners had all
the laws made, interpreted and enforced
in the interest of the slave-holding class
and against the interest of the slaves be-
cause they were the owning class of the
South. The capitalist class of today
another set of slave owners) have the
laws made in their own interest, inter-
preted in their own interest, even if their
judges have to twist and stretch the law
all out of shape in doing so, and enforced
in their own interest, because they are
the owning class of the country. The
owning or employing class of every
nation always controlled the govern
ment, and through the government they
overawed and controlled the working
class, whether the working class were
slaves, serfs or wage earners. The big
capitalists, or trust magnates, are gradu-
ally getting control of the government be-
cause they already own nearly everything
worth owning.
Don't you know that the colonists en-
dured the oppression of King George for
many long, weary years, and during all
that time all they did was to beg for and
demand just little more freedom or a
little less oppression? And the more
they begged and demanded, the more the
king oppressed them, until at last they
quit asking for lust little more" free
dom and demanded all their liberty?
Don't you know that this long struggle
before ITS was necessary to prepare the
people for citizenship in the coming re-
public? Not only that, but this struggle
gave them confidence in each other and
inspired them with the courage and the
manhood to strike the blow for political
freedom when the increasing oppression
of the British ruling class forced them to
demand the overthrow of the system of,
the private ownership of government or
king rule, and the setting up in its place
of the system of the public collective
ownership of government, or a govern
ment of the people.
This was the most revolutionary step
that any people had ever taken; this
change from the system of the private
ownership of government, or king rule. to
that of the public collective ownership
of government, or the rule of the people.
No wonder the people hesitated so long
before taking this leap in the dark, as it
seemed to many. No wonder they were
content for SO many years to demand
that their king just be a good king; be.
cause most of them did not then see how
they could possibly do without king to
rule them and protect them. But not
until the king became so "bad" that
they could no longer endure him did they
see the necessity of doing without king
rule altogether. And you will notice
that this revolution did not destroy gov
eminent. 1t merely changed the system
of government. That was all.
We see that the founders of this gov.
eminent overthrow king rule and set up
system of political democracy Tor a
government of the people) as result of
long years of oppression by the British
ruling class and of long years of resistance
to this oppression before war was
declared -Searchlight.
And so, too, are the masses, the bone
and sinew of our nation, being ground
down and oppressed by the trusts, these
private owned combinations of capital,