Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-12
They're After You

You don't believe the Labor Social
list class are really trying to take
away the savings and property of the
thrifty, Home Owning class, do you
Probably there will be loud chorus
of walls and entreaty when the new
laws go into effect, and the Home
Owners wake up and find themselves
bound hand and foot and trimmed
of their savings and property by the
deft hand of the Labor-Socialist
class" and according to laws passed
while the Home owrers slept, and
which the courts must execute.
Impossible" you say, but the game
is on and the Labor-Socialists are
right now actively at work before con-
gress and the various State Legisla-
lures, and will establish these laws
quickly unless stopped.
Their plan is based on one princi-
pie.
II any man has worked and been
economical and self denying, and has
bought a home, take it away, and d.
vide up the proceeds among those who
simply failures"
Take money away from the man
who has it.
Give it to the man who hasn't.
But this must be done cunningly,
and by passing some. shrewdly drawn
laws which hide the real meaning.
The Labor Socialists are working
hard to brighten and force public men
to pass at least dozen bills, each of
which has, away down at the bottom,
a plan to take away part or all of
the thrifty mans savings and give
them to the unthrifty.
They will surely succeed unless the
home owners" wake up and protest
in numbers enough to win.
Don't believe a word of It," the av-
erage reader says.
! Naturally, because the average read
er seldom examines bills offered to
congress and the legislatures, and If
he casually reads of these bills they
look harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when, I'M
der the new laws, Gf the LaborSo-
cialists succeed in having the bills
passed. they find their property and
savings ooze away and the courts pow
erless to prevent.
This is a contest between the I'M
thrifty "class" trying to wrest money,
property, and power from the Home
Owning CLASS"
Now let the reader sort out the diff
ferent characters in. society, and as
they are defined, locate each man in
one or the other of these Glasses One
class earns and saves and the other
seeks to take what itdoesn't earn.
The disconnected, surly and botch
workman tramping from one job to
another.
The Labor Agitator.
The man who poured acid in the
mouth of an independent worl1ingman
in Chicago after he had been beaten
The steady, we'll trained mechanic
who owns a home.
The tramp.
The professional criminal, whose pic
ture the police keep in the rogues' gall
lery. When you see him reading a
newspaper in a saloon, you can not
only name the newspaper that nour-
ishes his criminal instincts, but can ac-
curately locate him in his class, and
probably make close guess at what
ticket he votes.
The Successful Merchant.
The Well-Trained Physician.
The Wild-eyed- dirty finger mail chap
over his second pot of beer.
The Labor Socialist
The Farmer.
The Minister of the Gospel.
The Anarchist.
You see you can pick them out and
put each one in his class. There are
only two Glasses" One thinks
thoughts of hate, jealousy and re-
venge. seeking money it does not earn,
sweat of other brows. and in disap-'
pointnent and anger. these soclal"fa
ures'' naturally tend towards disorder.
and a general upheaval,
in which they hope to take away the
savings of the other class.
The members of the '"Other Glass"
think thoughts of work, sturdy, we'll
directed. intelligent work; work which
brings good pay. because 1t is good
service to mankind. The sober, re-
Locomotive Engineer. The
Skilled Mechanic, The Farmer, Mer-
chant, Doctor, Lawyer. Banker, School
Teacher, and Minister.
The capable, successful and well es-
teemed among these belong to one
class. The failures belong to the other.
The Home Owning class seek
peace, steady operation of Industries.
fori every man who wants
to workand guarantee of his right to
enjoy the fruittof his labor; Just laws