East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-28
SAYS SOCIALISM
CAN CURE EVILS.
DESPAIR BELIEVES
LABOR Is IN BAD WAY
Declares the Iaboring Glass Has
Been Settled Into Condition of
Poverty and Subordination-Insists
That Condition Has Existed in All
Ages and Under All Governments.

boring people in their aggregate re-
lations have been gradually and in
sensibly drawn and settled into con-
dition of poverty and subordination.
While a non-producing class that did
not labor would own the developed
wealth. enabling them to formulate
and enforce such laws as would COM
pei the producing class to contribute
to their power and aggrandizement.
Every civilized and semi-civilized
government upon the face of the earth
demonstrates this awful truth at the
present moment, and the United
States having the most liberal and
equitable form OF government to Sc
cure the independence and prosperity
of the people, furnishes no exception
to the universal rule.
United States Leads All.
The United States, having eclipsed
all other nations in the profusion and
grandeur of their material resources
and development in point Of intellec-
tual advancement. and increase of
wealth, embracing every comfort and
luxury to satisfy the reasonable wants
and desires of the most highly civil
ized people in contentment, ease and
independence, yet in the midst of
possession of all this bountiful bless
ings. the laboring people as a class
are oppressed. pinched with poverty,
and millions of them forcibly unem-
ployed and suffering for the means
of living, eliminating in strikes riots
and lawlessness. This state of things
necessarily carries with it the settled
conclusion that there is something
wrong in the organism of the govern
ment that results in this unfair, un-
equal and unjust distribution of the
wealth that labor has produced. There
is some fixed and definite cause in
corporated into the laws of the gov
ernment that insidiously and unjustly
takes away the earnings from the
producing laborers and gives it to the
non-producing idlers.
To ascertain and demonstrate just
what this cause is would be the
grandest discovery ever made in the
science of government. To the hon
est. just and unselfish man there is
no middle ground. A man is either
entitled to the product of his labor
or he is not entitled to it. If he is
entitled to it, he is entitled to all of
it, and to give any part of it to him
who owns the job is only legal form
of robbery and must cease if we
would promote the general welfare
of all.
Lesson from the Family.
When a man has a family of young
to teach them discretion, justice, har-
mony and consideration in regard to
one another But, when his children
attain to be men and women. he no
longer holds a law over them, as
they have become his equals. Never
theless a just government should be
as a father over the people and not
as a separate matter against them.
But in many respects our government
seems to be one thing and the people
as another thing. That which should
be one entity has been made into
two. Any government that becomes
separate self from the people and the
people in any respect are as servants
supporting great army of idle poll
TONERS, who trade in projects and
schemes for their own profit and
glory, is on a downward tendency
and will sooner or later loose the re-
spect of its subjects. Lay not the !
blame of anarchy and revolution on
the common people where it first |
manifests. These conditions of VEN
geance are but the fruit resulting |
from the governments divergence
from the will of God and the march
Of His Light. AS, for example, the
offspring of inharmonious parents or
Of parents wrapped up in selfishness,
will have souls like a mixture Of gall |
and sugar. Though they be sweet
they will prove to be bitter in time
10 come Even do the subjects Of
/ government decline in their respect
and patriotism in proportion to the
injustice practiced upon them. The
nearer the government and the people
are to being one the closer we ap-
oroach the oft-prayed-for kingdom of
God on earth. The more diverse the
government is from the people the
'ather 1t is from his kingdom. Let
his be a guide to our students and
hinkers in prophesying the change
md the overthrow Of governments.
According TO the square of the dis
ance a government Is from righteous
less affords a correct measure Of its
coming change or distinction through
socialism, which is international. All
governments are tending toward one
less with each other. Who can deny
he wisdom Of making governments
more reciprocal towards one another.
nation that sets up itself for itself
nd against other nations Is a selfish
lation and must be rated as a sell
ish man. Through the Brotherhood
Il International Socialism, which
Gems to be guided by the hand Of
iod, all wars and expensive equip
nents Of war that at the present
ime seems so essential will no longer
'e needed for IL the ruling class
ould not get the masses to fight their I
attles, there would be no battles and
he day will soon come when 1t will
'e impossible to get a socialist to take I
m arms against his brother socialist