The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-13

You don't believe the Labor Socialist
Glass" 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 cntreaty when, the new
laws go into effect and the Home
Owners" wake UP TO 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
Homo Owners slept and which the
courts must execute.
Impossible" you say; but the game
IA on and the Labor-Socialists are right
now actively mt work before Congress
and the various State Legislatures and
viii establish these laws quickly unless
stopped.
Their plan is based on one principle
II any man has worked and been
economical and self-denying and has
bought a home, take 1t away and divide
up the proceeds among those who are
unthrifty. drinking, profiigate or SIM
ply failures"
Take the 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 frighten and force public men to
pass at least dozen bills, each OF
which has, away down at the bottom, a
plan to take away a 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 4 word OF it, the
average reader says.
Naturally, because the average reader
seldom examines bills offered to Con-
gress and the Legislatures, and If he
casually reads OF these bills they look
harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when. under
the new laws Gf the Labor Socialists
succeed in having the bills passed.
they find their property and savings
ooze away and the courts powerless to
prevent.
This is contest between the un-
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 classes One class
take what 1t doesn't earn.
The discontinued, surly and botch
workman tramping from one 1op7 20
another
The Labor Agitator
The man who poured acid in the
mouth of an independent workingman
in Chic ago after he had been beater
unconscious.
The steady. wcll-trained mechanic
who owns a home.
The tramp.
ture the police keep in the rogues' gal.
lery. When you see him reading q
newspaper in saloon. you can not
only name the newspaper that nourishes
his criminal instincts, but can accurate
ly locate him in his class and probably
make a close guess at what ticket he
votes.
The Successful Merchant.
The Well-Trained Physician.
The Wild eyed dirty tinger-nail char
over his second pot Of beer.
The Labor-Socialist.
The Farmer
Tho Minister of the Gospel
The Anarchist.
You see YOU can pick them out ant
put each one In his class. There are
onlyt two Glasses Ono thinks thought;
OF hate. Jealousy and revenge, seeking
money 1t does not earn, property which
has been earned by the sweat of othel
brows and In disappointment and an
ger, these social failures" naturally
tend towards disorder. law-breakine
and a general upheaval In which they
hone to take away the savings of tbs
other class.
The members OF the 'Othcr Class
think thoughts of work, sturdy we'll
directed. intelligent work; work which
brings good pay. because 1t Is good ser
vice to mankind. The sober responsi
bio Locomotive Engineer, the Skilled
Mechanic, the Farmer, Merchant, Doc
tor, LAWYER, Banker, School Teacher
and Minister.
The capable, successful and we'll es
teemed among these belong to on'
class. The failures belong to the other
Tho Home Owning class seek peace
steady operation of Industries. Pro
lection for every man who wants tt
work. and q guarantee Of his right +