Nome industrial worker., 1908-05-01

ridiculous man talking last evening. He was espousing the rights of the working class.
 UNCLE SAM.-Is that ridiculous?
 B. J.-Why certainly. In view of the fact that the poverty of the york ing people and their so-called misery
 U. S.-Socalled misery?
 B. J.-Anyway in view of ,.the fact that their poverty and their misery are due in large measure to their ex travagances, their immortality and their aversion to work.
 U.S.-Yon are quite sure of that? B.J.-Why certainly. A man, by economy push and hard work can place himself in a position of comfort. .S.-That's all very beautiful. Now what is it you want?B.J.-I want you to agree that to espouse the rights of the working class is ridiculous.
 U. S.-1 want you to first agree with me that you are Heather Chinee.
 B. J.-But l am not
 U. S.-Certainly you are. In view of the fact that your eyes slant down. ward. that you carry pigtail and that you wear your shirt outside of your trousers, what else can you be but a Heathenl Chinee?
 B. J. But my eyes don't slant downwards; I don't carry a pigtail and as to my shirt, don't wear it outisde of my trosers. You are off your base.
 U. S.-But you will agree that if my premises were right my conclusion that you are Heather Chinee would be right too, won't you?
 B.J Yes it would but they aren't.
 us And so I would agree with you that, if your premises about the characteristics of the workingmen, and about the capacity of ''push, hard work and economy to place a man in comfort, were correct, l would agree with you that it is ridiculous to espouse the workingman' cause But these premises are as much "off'' as the prmelses from which the conclu- sion followed that you are a Heather Chinee.
 B. J.-WeN lets look into my prem ises.
 U. S.-Now you talk. When you started you incurred the very ugly eCror of starting with debatable proposition for your premises, and hen trying to debate the conclusion. The real point to settle is that which you took for fact. I deny your prem ises of "facts'' in toto, Now prove them.
 B.J Which fact do you deny? U S.-Every one of them. It is not true that the misery and the poverty of the working class is. due in any measure to their extravaganza, i'm morality or aversion to work. Each of these allegations is false. Neither is it true that economy push and work are enough to put man in comfort. Now trot out your proofs Begin with tine "extravagance' the work ing man.
 B. J.-Hem; hem we'll
 U. S.-Stuck? We'll, proceed on his immortality.
 B. J.-Hem: hem We'll
 U. S.-Stuck again? Now take up his aversion to work.
 B. Hem hem. WeN-
 U. S.-Stuck third time. Now see here, even the lying census reports don't allow the average workingman over a dollar day the year around. What is there to economize on? If man has to hire himself to capital ist he can't get more pay than his market value, and that is determined by the supply of labor and the de- mand. If he gets job, the price is barely enough to get long with. In order to get along without hiring himself he must have capital enough to employ others. Where is he going to .get that capital from! The poverty of the workingman is not the result of aversion to work or the like, but of the private ownership of the machin- cry to work with ;he, not owning that, must sell himself in wage slavery, and wage slavery allows no margin to rise from. If economy was wealth producer then the workers would be millionaires and the millionaires would be paupers. Just invest in some Labor News Company and Soc ialist Books; the reading of them will have upon your head the effect of a duster in neglected house