The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-04-13

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IAny one wishing information or
desiring to subscribe for socialist lit
erature ,'an be accommodated by ad-
dressing secretary Of Local, Good
Iand-l
Local GoOdland will met at usual
place, in special session Saturday,
April IA, at ? o'clock Business OF
Importance requires full attendance.
Only one more week and then
comes the meeting at the opera house
for all interested in labor. Tell your
friends, do all you can to make
good attendance Do not forget your
money to help defend Meyer. Hay
wood and PettibOne from the gallOWS,
for no other crime than that they are
on the side Of organized labor instead
Of organized capital This is a death
struggle between the classes $50
caIled). The leaders of labor Organi-
cations must be hung to break up
their unions. It would be awful to
hang the leader of the Mine Owners
assOciatiOn-the daily papers would
ring with the murderOuS plot. The
large daily is not for yOU-it's for the
pluteS. Hanging is wrong anywhere,
but when men will hang a man for
asSOciating themselves with the men
who dug the coal to keep the rich or
free country" But that's the way
they do business in COIOTadO-IdahO /
It's as mean as a man who would kill
his mother, simply because she gave
him birth, Come to the meeting, Fri !
day. April 20, at s P m, at the opera |
house,
The Wrongs That Demand a Remedy |
Man is a peculiar being. The most
intelligent animal that lives on the
stupid. Possessed with an inherent |
love for justice, he is blinded by that |
very love itself. Let him even i'm /
agine that he is being wrOnged BY an /
ether and he Will fight TO the utmost |
to defend what ne considers to be his /
rights. But let him be wrOnged most |
previously, and he will endure with !
marvellous patience, the direst power |
t,ythe greatest hardships and the
most acute mental and physical tor
lures, so long as he believes there is |
no one to blame that whatever his /
sufferings or his sorrows may be, they /
are not the products OF injustice |
From the earliest times selfish men /
have sought to take advantage Of this /
weakness Of their fellows To rob a
man without letting him know he is |
being robbed, has, therefore, become |
the art of robbery. And since most
men are deprived of their own not by
brigandS, VINO come at them with
gun or pistol, but by the crafty, cal |
OF the powers OF government greater |
possibilities for depredauOns than !
were ever Afforded by FIRE arms or |
bludgeOns, what is more natural than /
that this class should have dictated /
the enactment Of laws that would ap-
pear to help those whom they, in fact, 1
Fobbed2
The elder Pitt, in the British parlia- !
ment, more than hundred years ago, |
laid bare this highest type Of robbery 1
in speaking Of the advantages Of in |
direct taxation over direct taxation |
1T does not require much direct tax |
alton" said he, to make a people |
rebel But by direct taxation, you
can tax the clothes of their backs and |
the crusts out Of their mouths, and |
they will not only endure it, but they !
viii give up their lives on the battle /
field, if necessary, to defend such a /
government"
That is why indirect robbery, like |
indirect taxation, is the safest for the /
robbers, but the most dangerous for /
the victim. Direct robbery would be |
resented and stopped before it had |
hardly started, while the other kind I
goes on indefinitely, because those
who are being robbed do not know it |
That is why the first chapter Of this |
book on socialism is devoted to power |
ty-tO the poverty of the working
class that produces all the wealth OF !
the nation and gets so little Of it So
cialism is a cure for poverty, and the /
criminals, the insane, the deprayedy |
and ali who are usually regarded as |
zunfOrtunateS. This being true, it |
would be idle to advocate or explain /
those who do not believe that such a !
sfhing as widespread poverty exists in !
this country. They must see the wrong /
before they can see the force Of the |
remedy. The first step in explaining
the philosophy Of these things is, :
therefore, TO point them out
That prosperity is one Of the 1
most abused words in the English 4
language. Ask a definition Of pros |
perity from q man who has been &C !
custOmed to getung-nOt earning
100000 a year as his rake-On for /
financing water stock corporations, /
and il the decreased guliability Of the /
public had reduced his income to /
S1s00G,6OO a year, he would doubtless
declare that times were very bad ST. |
milar ideas OF what constitutes pros
perity for themselves are held by all /
OF that cunning little class that never
created anything Of value to society, |
yet get a tremendous proportion OF |
what is produced by those who DO toll. |
From Allan L BensOn's Socialism
Made Plain
You who have read this column, |
do not forget that all men do not take
this paper, and It becomes your duty I
70 tell every man you know, Of the
meeting at the opera house Friday
April 90, at s D. m
Why is il that when Idaho wants
TO kfdnap men from Colorado, who
are poor laborers. the men are easily
found and taken 70 Idaho. And YET
ia Missouri, when the courts want
John Rockefeller, who is in New Jer-
sey, cannot get him. And Henry ROg-
eSers in Washington pleading with the
president that Rockefeller be not al
lowed to testify in Missouri courts, as
it viii cause a panic in Wall street
Suppose you IL Rockefeller was a
poor man, they would fool away any
time on his account at Washington
Not much. But they say Rockefeller
g where the law cannot get him If
he vas poor they would get him, law