The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-16
They're After You

to work, and a guarantee of his right to enjoy the fruit of his labor; just laws which hold each and every man accountable to the law and to do his share towards the support of public works and charities.
 The Labor Socialists are opposed and their measures arc right now be- ing pressed with great strength to make them into laws.
 The intent underlying each one of them Is to directly, or in a round about way, take money and property from the Home Owners"
 Now let's have a look, and in con sidering each bill or act, keep in mind the underlying plan.
 Extract from the thrifty and home-owning people at least part of their savings, to be divided among the unthrifty Labor Socialists.
 You may have to search step by step through the apparently harmless l part of these proposed laws, but l carefully follow the steps and it will be seen that the final end and aim is to take money away from the House. owning, thrifty class and give it to | the unthrifty class.
 Let's first consider the Employers | Liability" movement. They have adroitly sought to have It apply first ! to Railways for 1t is now popular to attack them. Any employee hurt, I even by his own negligence, Is to he 1 paid a sum to be extracted from the stockholders. There are over 77,000 l stockholders in one American Ky l Many are widows and in some cases 1 their hard earned money and savings | invested thus, Is the main source of their bread and butter. But a part at least is to be taken from them to be given to the unfortunate "Un- thrifty"
 That would be benevolence If 1t was not legal robbery of some to make gifts to others
 1 Then it is the plan to extend this forced benevolence to the individual employer just as the Labor Socialists have succeeded in doing in England. IL is an active working law there now in operation under which, if, for in- stance, house servant has an acci- dent no matter whether about the house or elsewhere and becomes dis abled. the employers property is held to pay one pound (about 5000 a week for the balance of the life of the servant.
 Thus in few years with had run of luck the home might have saddled on him a half dozen such pensioners and his property held to pay perhaps s25.00 to s50.00 a week. ! Do you see how adroitly this ex- tracts money from the thrifty?
 We will all admit that the injured should have help; that is human be- nevolence, Every permanently injur' ea poor man should have a public home to live in free. all the balance of his days; he has, we will say, done his share of the work of the world and is entitled to its care. The law should provide that he had. during his we'll days. contributed his share. small o- great towards the support of such homes. That is the German law. Tn other words. every man, Labor-Soc-
 ialists and Home Owner should con
 tribute for this pension.
 But the Labor Socialist plans tc
 take only the money of ono class, tht
 thrifty. and give it to the unthrifty.
 That would be fine levied on the
 man for being thrifty and offer re
 ward of immunity to the man who
 would drink mp" his extra money |
 says, don't own a home or you VII
 become member of a class whlcf
 we propose to milk.
 Later on we are to have 'old Ae'
 Pensions" for every man when h' reaches. say so years.
 ; That law is under consideration il ; England now. The plan is nohl'
 one. for if would remove that awtu ghost of fear which haunts mos [ people. Every man should pay small tax towards this desirable ben evolence But notice. when the La : Socialist leaders in England wer l asked if, the members of their clas } would contribute, the answer was Not one farthing."
 They propose to secure the entir : sum from the Home-Owner Glass. l Back again to their principle, yo' | see.
 : Ii seems benevolent to vote larg ? sums for public work for the "unem : ployed." That class is made up large ! lv of Labor Socialists and incapable
 hotch workmen. The worthy work : men are seldom unemployed. 2 Many of these "unemployed' are tn 2 noisy chaps who called strikes dur
 ing the prosperous years. The k wouldn't work themselves and ker ]. thousands of good men from wori s They boycotsed factories and destroys