Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-05-07
H0N.THOS.E.WATSON
TACKLES SOCIALISM IN HIS MAGA.
zine FOR MAY.
IN Criticism OF the Great Socialist
Book "The jungle" }" by Upton Sim
clair, nr. Watson Plainly Exposes
the True Meaning OF Collective
Ownership.

No matter what frills and fiOunces,
laces and embroideries. may he placed
upon Socialism, let no man doubt for an
instant that the reason why the Have
nots, the poor, embrace it is that they
understand it to mean AN EQUAL DIVISION
AMONG ALL MEN OF ALL KINDS OF PROP
ERTY.
collective ownership" 10 to take the
place Of individual ownership, and all
those who now own nothing are to be
given an equal share with those who
now own everything.
The Astor estate 10 not the only one to
be confiscated, divided up and handed
around; the fortunes Of the Vanderbilts,
the Goulds. and the Standard Oil group
are not the only ones to be seized and
distributed; every house and lot, every
garden and farm. every small accumula.
tion of money, or chattels. is to be taken
away from those who have earned it, or
Inherited it. and there is to be a glorious
universal-brotherhood division OF every.
thing among the good and the bad, the
weak and the strong. the white and the
black.
The meanest thing on the Bowery, the
6lthiest harlot Of the Tenderloin, will be
given an equal share with the worthiest
laborer in the field Of honest industry
and with the virtuous woman. whose
pure life and lofty character are the saw.
ing power OF the human race.
The most vicious negro that ever
iurked in the bushes by the road to
clutch the innocent white girl as she
comes from school-to clutch her and
drag her into the woods, to leave her
torn, bleeding. dying, tho victim Of his
british lust-will have just the rame
share. in all the accumulated wealth OF
the age, as will be had By the very best
man on earth. &
collective ownership" has its mean
ing, and that meaning cannot be shirked.
No matter how much difference there
its TODAY, when it shall be inaugurated
as a system, all things must be owned
COLLECTIVELY, and THAT means that the
high and the low come to a common
level; the coed and the bad start even !;
the idle and the Industrious share and
share alike; the illiterate and the
learned, the capable and the incompe-
tent, the fool and the wise man, the vir.
gin and the troll, the negro and the
white, all come to the Universal Brother
hood pot, and ladle out All equal por.
ringerful of pottage.
God! What a sordid, sickening dead.
level! What an enforced equalizng of
all men and all women. in world where
God never made two grains of sand, two
leaves OF the forest, two birds OF the air.
two fish of the sea, two beasts of the
field exactly equal.
Only in political sense can anyone
even dream of two men being equal. for
our eyes, our common sense, tell US that
such thing as equality in strength,
capacity, character, or in the elements
and achievements of manhood has no
existence among men.
Socialism proceeds upon the idea that
equality is there, or can be put there:
and the effort to prove that the idea is
correct has been made time and again
and again. 1t was not only tried among
the Ancients, but it mas been tried in
modern times ard it was tried by the
colonists who first settled in North
America.
Failure, dismal failure has been the
result of every experiment. Why? Be-
cause Human Nature is radically, etern.
ally different from what the Socialist
assumes it to be.
If all WERE equal, and all were GOOD,
Socialism would be unnecessary, even
from the standpoint OF the Socialist.
Give us absolute equality and universal
goodness, and We don't need anything
but little time to reach an equal distri.
button of wealth and an era OF Peace on
Earth and Good Will to Men.
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