Arizona republican., 1908-03-16

You don't believe the Labor -SOc1al- ist class are really trying to take away the savings and property of the thrifty, me-Owning class" do you
 Probably there will be a loud chorus of walls and entreaty 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 delft 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 Leg islatures. and will establish these laws quickly unless stopped.
 Their plan is based on one principle.
 If any man has worked and been economical and self-denying and has bought a home. take it away and di- vide 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 IabOr-S Socialists are working hard to frighten and force public men 10 pass at least a dozen bills. each of which has. away down at the bottom, q plan to take away part or all of the thrifty mans savings and give them to the unthrifty
 They will surely succeed unless the nome owners" wake up and protest in numbers enough to win
 Don't believe a word of it." the average reader says.
 Naturally, because the average read CT 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. under the new laws. Gf the Labor Socialists succeed in having the bills passedD they find their property and savings OOZe away and the courts pOwerless to prevent
 This is a 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 eac! man in one or the other of these classes" One class earns and saves and Ihe other seeks to take wha. t doesn't earn.
 The discontente1, srrly and botch workman tramping from ono job to another.
 The Labor Agitator.
 The man who poured acid in the mouth of an independent workingman unconscious.
 The steady, we;l-trained mechanic who owns home..
 The tramp.
 The professional criminal w'Iusc I:c- ture the police keep in the rogues gal lery. When you see him reading q newspaper in a saloon, you can not only name the newspaper that nour- ishes his criminal instincts bu. can accurately locate him in his class and probably make a close guess at what ticket he votes.
 The Successful Merchant.
 The WellTrained 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 pnt each one in his class. There are only two Glasses" One thinks thoughts of hate, jealousy and revenge, seeking money it does not earn, prop erty 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 think thoughts of work, study, we'll directed. intelligent work: work which brings good pay, because it is good service to mankind. The sober, re- sponsible Locomotive Engineer, the Skilled Mechanic, the Farmer, the Merchant, Doctor. Lawyer Banker, School Teacher, and Minister.
 The capable, successful and well es- teemed among these belong to one class. The failures belong to the other.
 The Home owning" class seek peace. steady operation of industries. Protection for every man who wants to work, and a guarantee of his right