Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-24
(Goldheld News,

In its issue of April 6, The Indus trial Union Bulletin" of Chicago. which prints across its first page the line "Oficial Publication Of the Industrial Workers of the World" devoted it's entire editorial space to a review and criticism of editorials on the local la Dor situation. appearing in the News of recent date. The article refers to the News as the "mouthpiece of the business and mining interests of Gold field"
 The News does not intend to take ID it's editorial space today in a re. ply to the Industrial Union, for the Industrial Union does not discuss the labor situation as it exists in Gold field but contents itself with a defense and elaboration of the principles and theories of socialism. With this we have no concern, for in the language of an eminent statesman it is "con- dition and not a theory than confronts us," and it is this condition" which concerns every man. woman and child in Goldfield who has dollar invested, or who depends upon his daily labor for the sustenance of himself, wife and children.
 There are two well-defIed classes Of socialists. The educated theorist who claims to have eliminated greed from his nature, and who prates of the equality of man; and the uneducated socialist who thinks it a crime for anyone to have any more of this worlds goods, and more happiness than himself The theorist is fraud. and should be watched by the authori- ties, as mild forms of lunacy soon drift to violence. His only danger is to himself and the bad reed he sows ill the minds of the ignorant.
 The uneducated socialist is the dupe and tool of the theorist. He is to be pitied and reasoned with. But as a rule, he has passed the stage of reas- on and has arrived at that fixed posi- ton where he is actuated by prejudice, malice and passion, He is soured on mankind, and everyone is his enemy. He speaks of his employer as his master er'-his owner" and he is the wage slave" and his condition is that of hopeless serfdom." It never oc- CUTS to him that by saving a little from his wage that he could soon re- lease himself from wage slavery" but he has come to the belief that the
 
 his employer and loot and destroy his property. Pull all down to his level and not build up to common level. is his idea
 It is with this latter class we have to deal in Goldfield. in this crisis. The theorist who is poisoning the minds of the toiler, is to be found behind his desk in his comfortable editorial sane T1trs {,, far AfCfo mi aff Nynn fad t1ra1 housed, well clothed His labor is no more arduous than that of evolving pictures and platitudes from the wreathes of fragrant smoke that curls above his head, as he leans back in his easy chair and thinks of the time when all men shall live like monkeys, without wage and without work. These theorists are to be found here in Gold field, well fortified in the inner re- cesses of the socialist headquarters, drawing fat salaries and living on the best in the land. They are the fel- lows that set up the job that puts the well paid wage worker "on the bum" and sends him to the bread line and soup house of charity. There are hun dreds of gaunt, hungry-eyed men staTv- ing or the streets of Goldfieiu await ing until the high moguIs at head quarters finally consent to permit them to go to work. It is a long wait. , The leaders" must get a little more salary; they must make a little more out of the stock market; the graft is too good to give up yet awhile. The mine workers are not yet to the very brink of starvation; they can go a lit tie while longer; a few more loaves of bread will keep their starving wives and children from the mad house and morgue until they can complete the cleanup; the mine owners will prob ally buy them of; that is the big killing" So they reason.
 Millions for Defense But No Tribute.
 But let 1t be understood, the mine owners and business men of Goldfleld will let their houses burn to the ground and their mines cave to the bottom, and their goods rot on their shelves before they will ever pay cent of tribute to these highwaymen. Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute" is the watchword now as when Patrick Henry flung it into the