The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-16

You don't believe the LaborSocial.
lst class" are really trying to take
away the savings and property .of
the thrifty, lIomsOwning class" do
You?
Pronably there will be loud
chorus of walls and entreaty when
the new laws go into effect and the
Home owners wake up to find
themselves bound han dand foot
and trimmed of their savings and
proper ty by the def hand OF the
.abor.Socialiat class and acord-
ing to laws passed willis 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 &C work be-
fore Congress and the various state
! Legislatures. and VIII establish these
laws quickly unless stopped
Their plan IS based on one princi-
pie
III any man has worked mad been
economical and self-denying and has
/ bought home. take 1t away and
divide up the proceeds with those
who are unthrifty, drinking, prOhig
ate or simply failures"
Take money away from the man
who has t.
Give it to the man who hasn't
but this must he done cunningly
and by passing some shrewdly
ldrawn laws which hide the real
meaning.
The LaborSocialists are working
hard TO frigften and force public
men to pass at least dozen bills,
each OF which has away down at
the bottom. plan to take away a
part of all of the thrifty mans saw
ings aud give them to the untrifty
They viii surely succeed unless
the home owners wake up and
protest In numbers enough 10 win.
Don't believe a word of Il" the
average reader says.
Naturally because the average
reader seldom examines bills offer
ed to congress and the legislatures
and II he casually reads OF these
bills they look harmless enough.
Some viii only wake up when un-
der the new laws az the Labor-So.
cialists succeed in having tile bills
passed } they find their property
and savings ooze away and the
courts powerless to prevent
This Is a contest between the I'M
thrifty class trying to wrest mon
ey property and power from ths
HOMECOMING "class"
Now let the reader sort out tsh dif
ferent characters In society and as
they are defined locate each man In
one or the other OF these CLASSES" "
one class earns and saves and the
other saeks 10 take what II doesn't
earn
The diseontented surly and botch
workman tramping from one job to
another.
Tie Labor Agitator
The man who poured acid in the
mouth of an Independent working
man Ia Chicago after he had been
beaten unconscious.
The tramp
The professional criminal whose
picture the police keep la he rogucs
gallery When you see him reading
a newspaper In "A saloon, you cannot
only name the newspaper that nour
ishea his criminal instincts bat can
accurately locate him in his class am,
probably make close guess az what
ticket he votes
The successful merchant
The welltrained physician.
The wildeyed, dirty finsernai
{ chan over his second pot of beer.
The Labor Socialist
/ the former
, Tins minister OF the gospel
& The anarchist
I You see you can pick them on
I and put each one ia his class
/ There are only two classes. on,
thinks thoughts Of hate. jealousy an,
4, lreNenge, seeking money it does no
, earn property which has been earne,
4 by the sweats 0l either bfows. and "a
!, disappointment aud anger. these socia
I failures naturally tend towards dis
I lorder lawbreakins and a general up
lheaya In which they hope % talk
laway me savings OF the other class.
+. The members of the Other Class
y think thoughts of work, sturdy, We'll
directed. Intelligent work; work Whicl
: briags good pay. because It Is goo'
p SERVE t0 mankind. The sober, respon
= sibie locomotive engineer. The skill
Il ed mechanic. the farmer merchant
Z doctor lawyer. banker school teacher
3 and minister.
u The capable. successful and We'll os
n eeemed among these belong 60 on
g class. The failures belong % GA
.r other.
'r The Home Owning class see
Ie peace, steady operation Of lndustrie