The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-12-19
A Socialists Dream

working at all. Still the one that is
not working gets double the pay. Now
the difference in the first is eight
hours and the difference in the sec-
ond is thirty-two hours. Still you are
content with the latter. Further, no
child under twenty years of age should
be allowed to work, for they need ed
ucation. No woman should be allow
ed to work for they need strong
healthy bodies that the rising genera
ton should be better than we. Peo-
pie over the age of forty-five should
not be allowed to work, for that would
not be necessary. Then you say the
burden of the whole thing comes on
able bodied men between the ages Of
twenty and forty-five. I do. How else
should it be? With ever mans
shoulder to the wheel, the burden will
be carried with no effort. Even if it
is an effort, it comes to those and in
time Of life that they are able to
stanl it.
The government should issue time
checks for labor but they should not
be trans ferrable. Any individual
should be allowed to raise or manu-
facture any article or thing for his
personal use, he sees fit but should
not be allowed to transfer the same.
A man should be allowed to trade
any article bought from the govern
ment for any other article purchased
the same way. So long as he can not
disturb the means of production, he
can not compel the people to suffer
unless God Almighty permits fam
inc to cover the land. Even that for
one year would cause very little more
suffering than a money famine under
the present system. Our present sys-
tenn compels us to be robbers or poor
men. We are divided into three clas-
ses of robbers, namely: first, second
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millionaires, the stock and bond hold
ers of our country. They are first
class robbers because they can get
money and we do not know where
they get it. The second class are the
middle men that beat us at sharp bar
gains called business. Third class
are the gamblers and highwaymen
that beat it out of us by foul means.
We as small school children and be.
gin the system of robbery by playing
marbles for keeps. We see on the
financial ladder, long side of the first
round, the word robber but it is so
small that we can not discern it
with our naked eye but the next
round, the inscription gets larger and
on up and up we go until we are
abreast of Jim Hill, Pierpont Morgan
and Rockefeller. Then the word rob-
Der has grown till the one word en-
circles the earth.
In the mention of birthright. What
is ones birthright today? You say
that depends upon onets ancestors"
Then that is thousand times wrong,
but such being the case, what is the
birthright of those having poor paren-
tage? First, they receive the compe-
titiye system which licenses them to
either earn their living and remain
poor or steal it and become rich
Then as the anxious father and moth
or sees the babes eyes open, their
hearts are mingled with hope that
this innocent babe which they have
brought into this world by no cause
of it's own may after 1t is done with
it's LIES work, be able to grasp
earth's highest reward which is the
almighty dollar which is found in the
largest quantities at the very gates of
hell.
Again we look at the child's birth
right Of poor parentage under sys-
tenn of government control. First it
is given a system of association which
license it to earn it's living only which
is by divine decree. Next, birthright
entities him to free clothing, shelter
and education. Free until he reach
es the age of twenty years then if he
is an invalid either in body or mind,
it entities him to all the necessities
during fe. It entities all women to
all the necessities of life free until
marriage, next it entities all men or
women whether married or single
over the age of forty-five to all the
rights and necessities for the re-
mainder of life. Then again we see
this same anxious father and mother
as they mingle their hopes over the
newly born babe with the satisfac-
ton that it will be able to obtain
earth's highest reward which is honor
and which is found in large quantities
mi.