Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-04

and understood, nearly every one
accepts. There are also certain
social facts now well verified by
the researches in the various social
sciences ~ sociology, economies,
criminology, charities, ETC., which
go together with the socialist
thought. From these two sources,
viz. social and biological science
and the principles referred to, the
/ Socialists formulate their program.
In the last analysis socialism is
a demand for elemental Justice.
The specific form which this de-
mand takes may be stated in diff
ferent ways, as follows:
We assert that labor is entitled
to the full products of its toll.
Socialism demands a social system
that shall guarantee to every one
who tolls the full product of his
labor.
In order to guarantee to every
one who tolls the full product of
his labor, Socialism demands the
elimination of all unearned in
comes, or, in other words, the pro-
lection of all who toll, from the ex-
ploitation of the private capitalistic
monopoly and trust.
Every man who labors today is
exploited of a large part of the
, products of his toll. In other words
he has to ''divide up'' the wealth
| which he produces with the capital
!; lists. And then after he gets his
, wages ne has to ''divide up' some
more with the landlords for rent,
. and then some more still with the
D groceryman, coalman-for meat,
/ ice, clothing and the rest, and the
T share he has left after the capital
2 list system gets through with him
f at the end of the year is very
e small proportion of the wealth
e which his labor creates.
g This exploitation of labor ha:
1 been recognized by all acute think
O ers and writer's, and has been term
e ed variously as ''unearned incre
!. ment, - ''unearned incomes, - ''sur
: plus value,' and the like. No les
n a writer than Professor Richard T
It Ely, of the State University o
o Wisconsin, in discussing this point
% makes the pertinent remark tina
c ''the very purpose of monopoly i
r to secure uncarncd income.
,e (s'Socislism and Social Reform,
a p. 722-
70 This exploitation of labor Social
Is ism would end once and for all
Is And then to think that we Shout
as be charged with wanting to divid
= upi We socialists don't want tn
I'd products of any one else's labor
10 but we do want the products {
u our own labor. We are cxactl
10 the ones who do not want to I'd
o. vide up.'' We have divided up S
sc much and SO long with the ric
es that we have nothing left. That
lie just what is the matter with tt
laboring people now. We want
We stop the dividing up' business
n. and give to every man the pre-
ed ducts of his own labor, that an
d. that only.
II An illustration will serve to sho
e. what is meant. According to Ca
rn rol D. Wright, it costs one-fifth
Mt cent mile to transport passci
us gers. (Sce Labor Bureau Repor
10. vol on cost of home and machiI
r. labor), and yet every time one bu
ticket he pays 20 to 80 times tn
I'm amount. In other words, the raj
al way company says to everyone, 8
zee you want to go somewhere, 'divi
of up'-or stay at Ehome, or walk.
list And we divide up. And this is n
a meant as a criticism of the M
,m who run the railways. 1t is t
Us system that is at fault, and we a
he only pointing out the fact. VIII
,st happens in the above illustrate
of happens everywhere in our pre-
on ent social system.
ill The meat trust recently declar
ial dividend for a single year-incor
IN above all running expenses of Sill
NV 600, 900. A little later the stt
trust declared an annual divide
al of SLY, 10000 And that sins
no dividend means that the Americ
en- people had to ''divide up'' wi
the the steel trust $1.25 for eve
, ,, man, woman and child in the r
hat ton.
ted This is injustice. Everyo
knows it. But what makes I
of philosophy of Socialism CLEAN w
hat the beauty of a Damascus blade
vet truth is the fact that it sees the
m justice how it arises, a
of points out the program by VIII