The Imperial press., 1905-07-29
Disruption of the Family

4O tel us CildG cOcldllSm Will dlSfup the family and destroy the home. In the light of what Socialism really is let Us see how this will tally. Socialism is proposition to guarantee to each in- divldual an opportunity to employ him. self at productive labor, at all times, with the best possible equipment and secure to each worker the full value of his product.
 We know that with good equipment and the elimmation' of useless labor (which now prevails owing to the want of system) all workers could produce at least as much as they do at present. Couple this with securing to each work CT his product or the full value of the same would give to such worker an ill- come of g., 900 or more per year. Now Socialism does not directly effect the domestic relations of people or of their religious beliefs or their personal or private life in any manner. If it effects these things at all it does So indirectly.
 
 effect them will be best judged by each person taking his own case as an ex- ample. You are married person you have a wife or husband as the case may be. If the former you, if fortunate, have a steady job and for being at your post promptly on time, giving close attention to details and making your self generally indispensable to your employer you receive hundred dollars per month or $l200 for the year. Now suppose that by the Socialist arrange ment your income should be increased 10 5000 per year do you really think that would be cause for rupture in your family relations.
 Or again suppose you were not so Fortunate as to be employed steady and .yas obliged to support your family on two dollars per day with certainty -nat to secure 250 days work for the ear was good fortune for your lot. And your wife, owing to your modest income, is obliged to deny herself all ,le little extras that go to make a yomau's life cheerful and is obliged to git up late at night mending clothes for you and your children until they no longer resemble garments, but rather bundle of patches and after all of this had been your lot for years then the Socialists should secure your confidence and get you to studying Socialism and you to become a Socialist. And enough others similarly situated should do the same thing to actually become major ity and this majority should inaugurate a more sane system of production and q just system of distributing the product and your starvation wage come to be tho equivalent of $2OoO per year.
 Am to presume that you would forthwith become licentious rake and vour wife forget her virtue. Your case might be that Of a farmer who tolls un- thimkable long hours, has the fewest holidays wears the plainest clothes, eats the coarsest food, enjoys the least com panionship and in most ways gets the least out of life. Who not only toil hard and deny yourself but also exact :oil from your wife and children and deny them everything that they can spare and keep alive. suppose that if ! vour income was raised to 5000 a year and your hours of labor cut down so you would have time you would at once become a beast of passion and your wife, relieved of the necessity of endless work, would forget her children and her chastity and turn her one time splendid home Gin which sine dragged ont miserable half starved ife) into a hrutlel
 If vpu think these things would effect you iu this way perhaps there is danger and it might be well for you to look closely and see how it effects those who have had their wages raised to point ! where ffe can be comfortably sustained with it. If you are so afraid that doubling your income will disrupt yom family you had best tell your employer tomorrow that you only want half as much wages in the future so as to make doublv sure that your family relations