St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21

81 SOCIALIST
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Human life depends upon food and
clothing and shelter. Only wher
these are assured are freedom. cul
tire and higher human development
POSSIBLE. To produce food, clothing
aid shelter, land and machinery are
needed. Land by itself does not sat
icfy human needs. Human labor gets
raw materials and food out Of the sol
by creating machinery and using u
upon the land. Whoever has control
OF land and machinery has control Of
human life and liberty.
Today the machinery and land use'
for industrial purposes are owned by
rapidly decreasing minority. Sc
long as machinery Is simple and
easily handled by one man, II does
not make It's owners 50 powerful that
they can dominate the sources OF
life of others. But when machinery
becomes more and more complex and
expensive. and reuiros for It's effect
I've operation the organized effort OF
many workers. It's influences reach
IN over wider and wider circles oi
life. The owners Of such machinery
become dominant classs.
"In proportion as the number Of sJcl
TschiDe owners. compared to all 9th
classes decreases. their power In the
nation and in the world increases
They bring ever larger masses OF
people under their control. reducing
them TO the point where muscle and
brain are their only productive prop
erty. Millions of formerly self.emplo!
'Dg workers thus b. come helpless
wage slaves of the industrial mas
tore.
The more the economic power oi
the ruling class grows. the less use
ful does Il bccomein the life Of the
hatlon. The overwhelming bulk Oi
the useful work OF the nation f,llf
upon the shoulders ~ the classes that
either have no other productive prop
erty but their manual and mental la
Dor power-tho wage workers-or
have but little land andlittle effect.
I've machinery outside OF their Ia.
Dor powors-the small traders and
small farmers. The ruling minority
II steadily becoming useless and par.
asitlc.
a bitter struggle over the a. 'is'
len OF the products OF labor IL waged
between the exploiting propvrtlcd
clnsses on the one hand and the *.
plotted propertyless class on the
other. In this struggle. the wage
working class cannot expect adcquat.
relief from any reform OF the present
OF der or from tho 'loriinant class OF
society.
The wage workers are therefore
the most determined and irreoonoil
able antagonists OF the ruling class.
They are also the class which suffers
most for the curse of class rule. The
fact that a small Lumber OF oapi.
taiists is permitted 20 use all the
e'untrys resources and social tools
for their profit aand 10 make the
production OF the necossaries OF life
the object OF their competitive pri.
yate enterprises and speeulations. Ia
NJ the bottom OF all the social evils
of our time.
"in spite OF the organization Of the
trusts. pools and combinations. che
capitalists are poworless 10 regulate
production for social ends. Indus.
Iries are largely conducted In 4 plan.
ess manner. Through periods of fe.
rerlsh activity. the strength ana the
health OF the workers are merci!, rs.
y undermined and during periodic
u enforced idleness 'he workers are
frequently reduced 10 starvation.
The climaxes of this chaotic sys.
em of nroduction ara the ree,,Isrly