Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-06
From MP. HilbuPn.

Editor Register - Steve Adams
the last victim of the mine owners
conspiracy, has beeEscquitted.
The evidence of Mr.. Partland was
thrown out of court and the fol-
lowing paragraphs are taken from
the address, of o. N. Wilton, Ad-
ans Lawyer:
"Why the remarkable spectacle
of this poor simple fellow, humble
in life and station, pursued for
years by the greatest and most
depraved detective organization
the world has ever seen, at an ex-
pense all told of more than $780,
900? Do you not know that
this means something, that there
is something wrong in this case?
How | wish | could tell you of
their foul crimes as | know them,
of the broken hearts and the tears
of those worse than widowed and
orphaned, made so by gold placed
in the hands of these monsters in
crime, these Pinkerton detectives"
President Roosevelt is reported
to have said in an address de-
livered at the unveiIing of the
monument of Captain John Under
hill:
"There can be no grosser example
of privilege than that set before
us as an ideal by certain social
istic writer's - the ideal thought
every man shall put into the COM
mon fund what he can, which
would mean what he chose; and
should take out what he wanted"
Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt, the
strenuous, author, soldier, states
man, is ignorant of the simplest
socialistic proposition? Or does
he deliberately misrepresent mat
ters? Let us be charitable and
call it ignorance.
Mr.. Roosevelt is fighting Com
munism. That practiced by the
Christian fathers. "And all that
believed were together and had oil
things common" Acts 2:44.-
"And the multitude of them that
believed were of one heart and one
soul: neither said any of them
that aught of the things which he
possessed was his own; but they
had all things common" Acts A:
35. Can it be possible that Mr..
Roosevelt took the book of Acts of
the Apostles for socialistic writ.
ting? No, Socialists don't be-
lieve in common fund from
which each one is to help himself.
What they do believe is that all
the industries should be merged
into one gigantic corporation.
And every worker, whether men,
tai or physical, be made share
holder and that he draw out or be
paid out of the proceeds accord
in o to his labor whether 1t be
great or small.
Does the Standard Oil Company
have a common fund from which
it's stock holders help themselves?
To ask the question is to answer
it. Dc the citizens of city own
ing its own water-works put in
their own pipings and take what
water they want? Do cities hay
ing their own street railways al
low their citizens to ride up and
down at their own sweet will free
of charge.
The people who drink, as it were,
from the lips of Mr.. Roosevelt
must be easy.
i Why is it necessary for social
lists to answer and reanswer this
twaddle of a common fund. OF a
community of woman and similar
stuff, that no socialists of any note
whatever believe in or advocate?
Surely where men combine for
the common good and bind their
energies to that end, and thereby
produce abundance for all, giving
each man according to his labor
of the combined product, surely
that could do no injury to any
one. If thousand men working
singly as in the days of our grand
sires produced thousand dollars
per day, and twenty thousand
when combined as to-day, aren't
they foolish to give fifteen thou
sand of it to the trusts when they
can or might retain it all? Ac-
cording to bulletin $50 of the CEN
sus Of 1900, labor produces on an
average nearly S2500 and gets
on an average in wages nearly
$500 per annum. So you see the
capitalist gets two thousand,
while labor gets Of its own pro-
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