Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-06-21
Letter From salt Creek.

Heppner Gazette. Please INFORM tne
people through your paper that all II
we'll at Salt Creek as far as | know
Outside of few MINOR mlshaps, owing
to inexperience in navigating such
swift strea m of rapids and shoals, it has
been good sailing for the sociallstc
Yacht. 1t is not such Lonesome trip
as | had anticipated, as have plenty
of company of jollv good hearted hay
seeds. But the democrats who are
following up with their ill-constructed
raft. nd who have compelled US to take
the lead, notwithstanding the fact that
thew should be used to the danger
marks, seem to be somewhat down in
the mouth.
Their old decayinp, ont of date raft,
that was constructed by planks donated
by our great, gread grand fathers,
seems as though it will cspsize at any
moment; % it seems to strike nearly
every obstruction in the stream. Many
on board fear that they can never bring
the old worn out raft safely home with
out Q thorough overhauling, and are
known to be planning scheme to steal
q few plsnks from the socialists yacht
with which to mend the old Donkey. ss
some call the democratic boat; and thus
ploong it's life for a short period; while
others are throwing themselves over
board and swimming to the socialist
boat. We expect to get their whole
crew before We return. A committee
came to us the other day and said that
they believed in cooperation and
wanted us to 60 in with them and use
the material in our boat in fixing up
theirs. But remembering the parable
spoken by the greatest socialist that
ever visited the earth, of putting new
wine into old bottels and of mending an
old garment with piece of new cloth,
and having fresh in our memory the
total destruction of the populist man
of-war, we politely shook our heads.
We find the salt water some what nau-
seating to drink but the democrats say
it is not so bad when you get use to it.
Karl Marx first conceived the idea of
building this wonderful yacht of ours.
He built it and gave it to the world as a
great life boat. Although as yet 1t has
been compelled to float principally on
salty streams it has been busy throwing
out life lines and drawing on board
multitudes of dieparing mankind, and
the time il not far distant when it will
sail on the great fresh water river of
lite and disembark its great load of
bonded and oppressed mankind on the
shores OF the promised land. Then and
not until then will the mission Of this
wonderful life boat be performed.
1t is of my opinion that the candidate
who publicly made the statement that
he had no opponent. got good hint of
the time when in the near future he will
be compelled to recognize the socialist
party as = great factor in the political
field. And I would not be surprised to
see him in the near future join the un-
firing life saving crew and with we'll
directed aim fling his socialistic life line
on bosrd the elowly sinking 6. o P.
craft and have to draw on board . few Of
the once stand-patters. OF course there
will be many who will stay with tho old
boat until she goes down, because their
fathers before them lived and died
there.
If you wish to know the composItion
OF this life boat and are dissatisfied with
the capitalistio system, procure and
read the socialist propaganda. Sub
scribe tor . socialist paper. Mans
brain WAS made capable Of expanding;
90 don't be afraid of wrecking it by
thinking . little.
Ask yourself for what purpose was
man placed here on earth. What is the
goal that he muet strive to attain.
Surely it cannot be the accumulation of
. few paltry dollars; putting yourself in
. position to be envied by your less
fortunate brother. If that is the goal Of
life, the one thing sought for, it would
have been better that We bad never
been born. The acquisition of wealth is
not the natural goal Of life as II appears
to be. which ever way you may look
but the possibility of filing q paupers
grave stimulates our selfish nature to
such an extent for striving for the al.
mighty dollar that the goal is gold.
Happiness undoubtedly is the natural
aim OF life, and if We would stop long
enough in our mad rush to take a clear
view of the situation we could see that
happiness could much more easily be
obtained through cooperation IN attain
ing the means OF oflivelihood where much
time and labor is saved, than when each
one strives Individually, tearing down
what another builds; each seeking to
live off the labor Of the other; crowding
another down by trying to climb up
notch higher above the Jaws of poverty.
Under a same system the means of
livelihood would be the least of our
thoughts. While now it is the domin-
ant thought. With the wolf forever
Iispelled from the door, would you be