The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-15
They're After You

You don't believe the Labor-Social
list class" are really trying TO take
away the savings and property OF the
Ehrffty, HOMECOMING class, 40
you?
I Probably there will be a loud Choir
i us of walls and entreaty when the
new laws go into effect ana me
"Home Owners" wake up TO mo
themselves bound hand and foot and
Trimmed of their savings and prop
erty bV the deft hand of the Labor
| Socialist class" and according 10
laws passed while the Hone-Osners
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 0efore
Congress and the various State Lesls-
latures, and will establish these laws
quickly unless stopped.
Their plan is based on one prin-
cipfe.
| If any man has worked and been
| economical and selfdenying and has
| bought a home, take 1t away ana Oh
vide I'D the proceeds among those
who are untmffty, drinking, prodig-
ate 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 cunningE
and by passing some shreWdly drawn
laws which hide the real meaning.
The Labor Socialists are working
hard to Brighten and force public men
| to pass at least a dozen oills, eaen
of which has, away down at the bot,
| tom, a plan to take away part or ali
of the thrifty mans savings and give
them TO the unthrifty-
They viii surely succeed unless the
home owners" wake up and protest
in numbers enough to win.
Don't believe a word of 1t, the
average reader says.
Naturally, because the average read
err seldom examines bills offered to
Congress and the Legislatures and II
he casually reads of these bills they
look harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when, I'M
der the new laws (if the Labor Social
lists succeed in having the bills pass
ed they find their property and saw
ings ooze away and the courts power
less to prevent.
This is a contest between the I'M
thrifty class" trying to wrest money,
-
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 1t 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 home.
The tramp.
Z The professional criminal whose
picture the police keep in the rogues
gallery. When you see him reading
a newspaper in a saloon, you can not
only name, the newspaper that nour-
ishes his criminal instincts but can
accurately locate him in his class and
probably make close guess at what
ticket he votes.
The Successful Merchant.
The Well-Trained Physician.
The Wild-eyed-dirty-f inger-nail chap
over his second pot of beer.
The Labor-Socfalist
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 Glasses" One thinks
thoughts Of hate, jealousy and re-
venge, seeking money it does not
earn. property which has been earned
by the sweat of other browsA and in
disappointment and anger, these so
cial failures" naturally tend towards
disorder. law~breaking and a general
upheaval in which they hope to take
away the savings of the other class.
The members of the Other Class"
think thoughts of work, sturdy, we'll
directed, intelligent work; work which
brings good pay, because il Is good
service to monkind The sober, re-
sponsible Locomotive Engineer. The
Skilled Mechanic, The Farmer. Mer-
chant. Doctor, Lawyer, Banker,
School Teacher, and Minister.
The capable. successful and we'll
esteemed 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 |