The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-16

| property Capitalism confiscates the
/ bulk of the product of the wage work
! ers. This makes it impossible for the
average wage worker to own his own
home 1t makes ii impossible for him
! to own anything but the cheapest
| household furniture. He has the
! cheapest carpets ON his floors He has
the cheapest curtains on his windows.
Ee has the cheapest clothing for his
family He has the cheapest food for
hiss table. He is not able to afford
books, pictures and statuary.
Why all this? Profits.
Who gets all the wealth of the ma
| tion? The capitalist. How do they get
it? Through profits, rent, interest and
dividends How? BY owning all the
tools of Production. How are We to
change this form of government? BY
the ballot. Who must the working
people vote for? Themselves. How can
they do it? By organizing In one body
and electing their own class to form
laws to take over the tools of produc
ton and distribution.
Mr.. Davis wants TO know how We
can keep the capitalist from squeez-
ing tine life out of u.s. By selling us
raw material. Why? By owning the
land collectively, the same as the tools
-cf production There will be capital
then; but no capitalist All will be
workers, for the worker VIII get his
or her full product of the toll.
When all the world becomes social
iSt, We will do away with our army
and navy, and become civilized.
Capitalism is Faborisdn, and the army
and navy is part of capitalism. The
capitalists use it to keep the working |
class down.
in Chicago. Chief Shippy, chief of po- |
lice, dubbed the heads of the unem- !
ployed class on the road to the city |
hall to ask for work This Is a free |
country. isn't it, with its fine churches |
and 10000 licensed saloons, houses |
of prostitution, nIillOnaires and pau
perS, chain gangs and Christians, /
money and misery, home and hunger, |
vice and virtue? 81
Isn't it true, Mr.. Voter, that you
are to blame as much as any one in ,
dividual? Isn't If true that when you
vote democratic or republican ticket |
you vote to keep the present system. 1
which Is wrong? Isn't it true that this |
country produces more than enough /
food for. all, and the capitalist gets 4
it all, except the crumbs that it throws
the workers?
If you vote the republican or demo Il
cratic ticket you help to strengthen Il
and perpetuate the rule of your enc
mics, so that they can continue to rob
you. IL you vote the socialist ticket, II
though 1t does net win, you strength
en-, and build UP the party which is
destined to emaacipate you. To vote
any other ticket is TO vote to make |
your chains thicker.
Mr.. SfDley said working man
should humble himself and take any
Thing the capitalists offer him. How
much lower down do you want the
masses to go in poverty?
1t is not true when you say this is
AN isolated case. 1t is of the masses
m general.
Victor Hugo said: abandoned. an !
orphan alone in boundless creation, :
made an entry into this gloom you e
call society. The first thing l saw was
aw under. the form of a gibbet- The
second was wealth under the form of
A woman, dead of cold and hunger
The third was luxury in the shape of
/ hunted man chained to prison
walls. The fourth was your palaces. .
beneath the shadow of which covered
/ tramp Paradise built over hell tot a
ers.' L
Since these words were uttered by ! !;
Hugo, countless inventions have filed /
he world. The productive powers of {
nan have multiplied q thouSa dfold. v
md yet there is more poverty. more I
II lime, more misery in the world to- t
lay than ever before. 5
Was not Ingersoll right when he n
;aid that cannibaL*sm after all, is the q
most merciful form in which man has O
ever lived upon his fellow-man? Ii
Con1rade. let us unite and join hands