The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-03-30
THE sOCIALISTIC MENACE.
Trouble Between Labor and Capital not
ALL Due to The LabOring Classes.

Scylla and the Charydis, be-
tween the upper and neither
millstone. The rich corporations
and trusts grind long-suffering
public on the one hand, and the
labor unions, in their ceaseless
warfare against capital, gr}sld il
! en- 5 the, other. Strikes abound
and the clamoring contention Be-
| tween the two parties is heard,
in season and out Of season.
|; And so long as the claims of the
weaker party are just and rea-
, sonable, the sympathies of the
public will, as a matter of course.
ever bewith the laborer.
But back of the earnest, hard
working masses of our populace.
who are sending out their sons
continually to occupy command
ing positions in life;, and wli6, at
a turn of the wheel, flaaysbelong
testhe capitalistic class tomorrow
stands the gaunt-faced shadow of
socialism. A socialism whose ram
ltications have spread throughout
the length and breadth of our
laboring classes, and whose voice
is ever raised in a way which
causes alarm to the patriot and
the Christian.
However we may turn the
problem of human existence.
from whatever angle we may
view it, the fact remains for us,
who believe in God, that <'riches
and poverty do not come to us
by chance, but by his fatherly
will" God makes rich and he
keeps poor. He may work med
lately, and the way of his provi-
dence may often be dark, but
the final outcome is unquestion-
ably of his ordering. We. who.
believe in the divine providence,
comfort ourselves with the idea
that, whatever befalls us, we
are not the playthings of cruel
fate, but "clay in the hands of
the potter"
This is utterly denied by Social
ism. Its favored motto is that
possession is crime.' Power
ty is the result of cruel oppres-
sion; riches is the fruit of knav-
cry; labor is slavery; society, as
now organized, must be Destroy
ed and on its ruins the Socialistic
millennium is to be erected. All
law and order are repugnant to
the true Socialist, who usually
has advanced much further to
the camp of the anarchists than
he is aware.
Perhaps the utterances of the
Socialistic press of the country
in behalf of the men accused of
foully numbering Ex-Governor
Steunenberg, of Idaho, will be
the means of awakening our peoS,
pie to the seriousness of the situa-
ton. AS our readers know, the
confession of the man who act
ually rugged up the Internal ma
chine which killed the Governor,
inculpated the leaders of a pow
erful labor organization, who
were apprehended in the State of
Colorado. Of this arrest Eugene
.Debs, in the Socialist, has this
to say:
All workingmen and all other
men who have red blood in their
veins, will rise up against this
murderous plot of the plutocracy.
They have stolen our country,
detached our politics, defiiled our
judiciary and ridden over us
rough-shod, and now they pro-
pose to murder those who will
not abjectly surrender to their
brutal dominion
He wants the laboring men to
hold mass-meetings everywhere,
he wants to pull down the Bas-
tile, he calls his readers to arms.
In the Appeal to Reason, similar
infismmatory language is used,
and the men who are accused
of being accessories to the
foul murder of Ex-Governor
Steunenberg, are described
as martys, whose only crime is
that they are at the head of
great industrial movement, which
aims to give the working classes
liberty and freedom"
With these frantic appeals to
class prejudices, in our ears, and
the tabulated increase of the
recognized Socialistic vote, in