The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-06-22
Socialism Inevitable.


(Continued-)
BY way OF DEPRESSION, we notice last
week we omitted a very important
fact in connection with the carpenter
and contractor, and that is, IL is only
a question OF a short time, until the
lumber interests will crowd the con-
tractor out OF business Had that
thought ever taken you? The fact
will some day. Who are getting the
contracts 0Ow2 The man who has the
best stand in with the lumber trust
And they congratulate thesmelves that
they art OutdOing their competitors.
After awhile, when the people get a
little more used to il, the trust, seeing
its opportunity is ripe, viii say to
these men VINO now are the cOntrac-
tors, we are going to build a house
for Mr. SnObrOcracy, and we will give
you (naming the amOunt), so much
per day Mr.. Contractor vOciferOuSly
protests against such proceedings, but
the lumber trust says we are going to
do the building ourselves hereafter,
on account Of your serving our aims
well in the past, we viii give your firm
the job Of foreman This will not be
as hard work as labOring carpenter.
Where are you now, Mr.. Contractor,
up against il amt you ?" Can you
see IL coming. Open your eyes and
you will not have to look long to see
the trend is in that direction. Now,
Mr. Carpenter, talk this matter over
with each other and see il you can
devise a way out There is only one
way-vOte IL out.
We might add, the coal barOns Of
the east are thinking Of retailing their
coal in local offices, thus driving the
local dealer out Of business into the
labor field The same thing viii apply
to retailers in general, and one by one
Mr. Retailer will be driven out Of
business intO-the field OF labOrers- Mr..
Retailer you are doOmed-the trust
has you spotted If you are real good
il may give some Of you a position
in managing its local department You
may rub your head You may say
socialists are fools. But it's coming,
coming, coming, Mr.. Retailer. It's in
the air. you can smell it now
Now that socialism teaches a CO.
operative commonwealth, you object
TO il as a man did the other day, when
he said, that Will not work as it viii
afford too great an opportunity for
graft"
The trusts have positively proven,
that cooperation drives out all oppOr-
tunity for its employees to graft from
them. Take the Standard oil interests
transacting business in America, Mex
leo, Philippines, England, and we
know not where else Now tell US,
please, when you have read Of a
Standard oil employee being arrested
for grating them. It's many a day
since It happened
Take the steel trust. While it is
steel by name, it is steal BY nature.
When have you read Of any Of its en-
ployes being arrested for grating
them. It's in the long, long, ago.
Now our argument in socialism is:
These men have demonstrated the
feasibility Of cooperation, thus kill
ing competition, and at the same time
shutting out all avenues for employees
grating them. They have taken hold
OF the reins Of government and will
demonstrate 1t there. Now cO-Opera-
ton is going into our gOvrnment eth
er by capitalism or socialism, and you
cannot keep it out If you oppose So
cialiSm, then capitalism will put CO.
operation into the government for pri-
vate gain of the few. and relegate you
to hard work and small pay all your
days Poor fellows, We pity you with
the tender sympathy Of a kind moth
troll OF the United States gOvernmnt.
You viii not vote then
If you fight capitalism, then social
ism will put cooperation into the gov
but a national cooperative common
wealth owned and controlled by all.
For the benefit OF all. In the evOlu-
ton Of society, socialism uses capital
ism strongest weapon, cooperation, to
put into the government for all to de-
And the capitalist sends up the same
pitiful wall the STAKEHOLDER did forty
five years ago. What it to become OF
me and my sacred property" He
is afrighted, terrOrized at the thought
Of using his strongest weapon to put
into the government for the benefit OF
all Why2 Because he knows il will
win and work He has proved that
Can you not see not that Socialism Is
Inevitable AS competition paved the
way for the trust, capitalism has
paved the way for socialism. And
capitalism is making more socialists
today than We are Every time they
make a move to oppose socialism, they
demonstrate more clearly the power
Of cooperation which they fear will
be used for all instead Of for them
Hence they fight. II they have proven
that cooperation viii work, we do
not have to prove that, but simply
transfer the power into government
ownership.
Some object to socialism on the
ground that 'the government will be
one big trust" Admit It II the
Standard oil trust is a good thing for
those who are interested in it. why
would not a trust be a good thing for I
all IL all were interested in it2
So far as a benefit for all IS con-
cerned. you might as well vote the
democratic ticket as the republican |
Benefit cannot come through either, /
because both work on the same SyS-
tenn and sooner or later viii unite to
fight socialism Listen at BOurke
Cochran. in the following paragraphs: |
The strongest appeal OF the social |
ist to public opinion Is an assertion /
that unless government assumes
OwnershOp Of the corporations
the corporations viii acquire |
ownership Of the government |
Both political parties are controlled /
by corporate interests so completely |
that while the leaders pose as oppon- /
ents in politics they are in fact part ]
ners in business And what appear to 1
be their conflicts over matters Of pub /
lie interest are but devices which /
they combine to despOfl the people for /
their private INTEREST,"
This belief has grown in the pub /
lie mind to a positive conviction. and /
has become rooted and strengthened /
By the financial and political develop
ments Of the past year The senate 1
each day for the past FIVE months has /
made more socialists than all the 1
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