The evening world., 1908-03-13

to enjoy the fruit Of his labor; just
laws which hold each and every man
accountable . The law and to do his
snare toward the support of public
works and charities.
The Labor Socialists are opposed
and their measures are right now
oeing pressel with great strength
TO make them into laws.
The intent underlying each one of
tnem is 10 directly, or in n round
9 ABOUT way. take money and property
from the "honIe Owners"
Now, let's have a look, and in con-
slderins each bill or act, keep in
mind the underlying plan.
"i:Atract from the thrifty and
nome -owning pc opie at least part of
/ their savings, 70 he divided among
the unthrlfty Labor-Socialists."
You may have 10 search step by
step through the apparently harmless
part or these proposed laws, but care
fully follow the steps and it will be
seen that the final end and aim is to
take money away from the House
Owning. thrifty class" and give it
TO the unthrifty class"
Let's first consider the Employ
ers' Liability" movement. They have
/ adroitly sought TO have it apply first
to Railways, for it is now popular to
attack them. Any employee hurt,
even BY his own neg igence, is to be
paid sum TO be extracted from the
stockholders. There are yer 1900
stockholders in one American Ry.
, Many are widows and in some cases
their hard earned money and saw.
ihss invested thus, Is the main
( source of their bread and butter.
But a part at least is TO be taken
from them to be given to the unfortu-
nate "unthrifty."
That would be benevo!ence IL 1t
was not legal robbery of some to
make gifts to others.
linen 1t is the plan to extend this
| Iorced benevolence to the individual
employer, Just as the Labor Sociali,..
nave succeeded in doing in England.
IL Is an active working law there now
IN operation under which. it, for in
stance, house servant has an acci-
dent. no matter whether about the
mouse or elsewhere and becomes disa-
/ Dled, the employers property Is neld
to pay one pound (about. S5.OO) a
week for the balance Of The life of the
servant.
! Thus in a few years with a bad run
OF luck the home-owner might have
saddled on him a half dozen such
pensioners and his property held to
| pay perhaps $500 to $1,000 a week.
| DO you see how adroitly this ey-
tracts money from the thrifty?
! We will all admit that the injured
should have help; that is human be-
nevolence. Every permanently in
Jured poor man should have a public
home to live in free all the balance
OF his days; he has, we will say. done
his share of the work of the wor,,
and is entitled TO its ca e. The law
should provide that he had, during
his well days, contributed his share,
small! or great, toward the support of
such homes. That is the German
law. In other words, every man.
Labor-Socialist and Home Owner,
should contribute for this pension.
But the Labor-Socialist plans to
take only the money OF one class.
the thrifty, and give it to the un-
thrifty
That would be a fine levied on the
man for being thrifty and offer a re-
ward of immunity to the man who
would drink up his extra money.
1t says, Don't own a home or you
will become a member OF class
which we propose TO milk"
Later on we are TO have "OId Age
Pensions" for every man when he
reaches say co years.
That law is under consideration in
| England now. The plan is a noble
one. for it would remove that awful
ghost of fear which haunts most peo-
pie. Every man should pay a small
tax toward this desirable benevo-
lence. But notice, whe: the Labor
Socialist leaders in England were
asked if the members of their class
would contribute, the answer was:
"Not one farthing."
They propose to secure the entire
sum from the Home-Owner Glass"
Back again to their principle, you
see
1t seems benevolent to vote large
sums for public work for the "unem-
ployed" That class is made up large
~ VI l-iDOl -'7oIldIioI5 anu
botch workmen. The worthy work
men are seldom unemployed" Many
Of these unemployed are the noisy
chaps who called strikes during tn,
prosperous years. They wouldn't
work themselves and kept thousands
of good men from work
They boycotted factories and de-
stroyed business. compelling other
workmen to lie idle.
They stopped the loading and un-
loading of ships and Ry. cars; stopped