Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-15
k Editorial Page Of the News. ~~~=-
of "The jungle

fthWzw HE Ammencah nation IS at present facing the GkEAItol
wa CRISIS hinifis history. Corruption, which has been iced,
ing upon the body polite for a generation, - now aqmi''ea
10 be threatening its very life. Our public spirited ana
thinking men, who for decades have been wrestling WIN
this corruption. HAVE FAILED UNIVERSALLY.
They have failed because they did not. appeal to labor because
labor was asleep. And now at lastlabor is beginning towake up. lhe
wo1kingman is beginning to realize the part which he plays IN the
political game. 1t is his business to FURNISH THE VOTE. tie
sells it to the political boss, perhaps for a dollar or two, perhaps just
for a kind word and a little buncombe. So the political bsss gets the
offices, and then he sells the privilege of governments to the capitalist
who uses his advantage to SQUEEZE MORE MONEY OUl VI
TH WORKINGMAN. aa E
There is natural and obvious limitation to the continuance OF that
process. It can go on until the capitalist begins to have 50 much
money that the nottingham has NOM AT ALL; and then the
[workingman goes into politics. ~
do not talk buncombe when I talkfo workingnens. donot tell
them about the Importance of delivering the american bIgblic. The
present day. conditions Keep the workingmans nose on taegrindstone,
and he has no time TO think about anything but MAKING A LN-
ING and keeping his family alive. And so when Il talk to worklngmen
/ show them how they are. being robbed and ask them how much
longer they propose to standit 49, q >2s#&f@&v
< r@iT is TIME ENOUGH TO THINK OF DETAILS WHEN A MAN
sHAs ENOUGH TO EAT. y sgam4 qes%%9~~@sMaA5
AL. thinking men among our capitalists are agreed that we are on
the verge Of h~axNtines such as the country has not yet known. When
those times come several millions of men will be out of work, the
unions will fall like houses Of cards, and THE NORWEGIAN
MILL BE1SOBT hGNHfTHE STREETS. I tell him about it in ad-
vance because Ehnew~ that if it catches him suddenly he may take to
brickJand clGbg Mich is a wasteful process, while fhe has had time
to think abputit he will be organized and ready to GO INTO POll-
TICS.
1t is the same al. over the world, the same story OF corruption ana
oppression, and Of a new hope of justice and right conditions, depend
ing solely upon the WuKKaN Gs CLASS toFforcss them Az the
present moment ali are forced to- recognize that the 'orgahizedrevolu-
Ftioiatya prelesarmtAef Russia is the only power apableaof4makln
headway~ against the bureaucracy. In Germany I'll IS the working class
Socialishc party which holds the emperor in check and prevents him
from ushingstheSaussi struggle for freedom. Great Britain stands
upon the threshold Of an era of long needed domestic reform, and the
time has observation-disclosures her public men realize that the working
class is ptepaTSdarOs FORCE IT. The same time must come soon
in this country.
1T IS TIME THAT WoRKINoMEN HAD ENOUGH 'or BEING
euNKoED BY POLITICAL BOSSES AND TRUST MAGNATEs. 1T IS
TIME THAT THEY THOUGHT OF PUTTING THEIR OWN REPRE-
sENrATlvEs INTO CONGRESS TO LOOK AFTER THEIR INTERESTS
AND TO RESTORE DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS TO AMERICA