The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-12

You don't believe the Labor-social-
ist class are really trying to take
away the savings and property of the
thrifty, HOMECOMING class." do
you?
Probably there will be a loud
chorus of walls and entreaty when the
new laws go into erect and the
Home Owners wake up to find
themselves bound hand and foot and
trimmed" of their savings and prop
erty by the deft hand of the Labor
Socialist ''class" and according to laws
passed while the Home-Owners 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
Congress and the various State Legis-
Iatures, and will establish these laws
quickly unless stopped
Their plan is based on one prin-
ciple
If any man has worked and been
economical and self-denying and has
bought a home, take it away and
divide up the proceeds among those
who are unthrifty, drinking, profligate
or 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 I4abor-Socialists are working
hard to brighten and force public men
to pass at least a 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 word Of it," the av-
erage reader says.
Naturally, because the average read
err 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. df the Labor-So-
cialists succeed in having the bills
passed) they find their property and
savings ooze away and the courts
powerless 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 it doesn'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 workingman
In Chicago after he had been beaten
unconscious.
The steady. well-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 nourishes his
criminal instincts but can accurately
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 -finger-nail 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 ''classes." One thinks
thoughts of hate, jealousy and revenge,
seeking money it does not earn, pro-
perty which has been earned by the
sweat of other brows, and in disap-
pointment and anger, these social
failures naturally tend towards dis
order, law breaking and a general up
heaval in which they hope to take
away the savings of the other class.
The members of the Other Class