The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13
They're After You

You don't believe the Labor-S Socialist "class" are really trying to take away l the savings and property of the thrifty, i Home owning "class," do you?
 Probably 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 hand and foot and "trimmed' i of their savings and property by the delft hand of the Labor Socialist class" and according to laws passed while the Home-Owners slept, and which the courts must execute.
 "Impossiblei you say, but the game ] is on and the Labor Socialists are right now actively at work before Congress and the various state legislatures, an1 will establish these laws quickly unless ! stopped.
 Their plan is based on one principle l If any man has worked and been eco- nomical and self-denying and has bought a home. take it away and divide up the proceeds among those who are unthrifty. drinking, profligate 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 cunnngly and by passing some shrewdly drawn laws which hide the real meaning
 The Labor-S Socialists are working hard to frighten and force public men to pass at least dozen bills, each of which has, away down at the bottom, plan to take away part or all of the thrifty man s savings and give them to the unthrifty
 They will surely succeed unless the "home owners" wake up and protest in numbers enough 10 win.
 Don't believe a word of it., the aver age reader says
 1 Naturally, because the average reader seldom examines bills offered to Congress l and the legislatures, and if he casually reads of these bills they look harmless enough.
 Some will only wake up when, under 1 ceed in having the bills passed) they find their property and savings ooze away and the courts powerless to prevent. l This is contest between the unthrIfty class trying to wrest money, property and power from the home-ownng class" Now let the reader sort out the differ ent characters in society and as they are other of these classes" One class earns and saves and the other seeks to take 1 what it doesn't earn.
 The discontented surly and botch work l man tramping from one job to another. l The labor asitator.
 1 The man who poured acid in the mouth of an independent workingman fin Chicago after he had been beaten unconscious.
 The steady well-trained mechanic wno owns a home.
 1 The tramp.
 The professional criminal whose pie ture the police keep in the rogues gallery. ] When you see him reading a neWspaper 1 in saloon, you can not only name the newspaper that nourishes his criminal in- l stincts but can accurately locate him In hls class and probably make g close guess | at what ticket he votes.
 The Successful Merchant. The Well-Trained Physician The Wild-eyed- ed-dirty-f1nger-nail chaI over his second pot of beer. The Labor Socialist.
 The Farmer.
 Tine Minister of the Gospel. | The Anarchist
 You see you can pick them out ana put each. one in his class. There are only two classes" One thinks thoughts of hate, jealousy and revenge, seeking l money it does not earn, property whicf has been earned by the sweat of' other brows, and in disappointment and anger these social "failures,' naturally tend to
 wards disorder, law-breaking and gen eral unheaval in which they hope to tak' away the savings of the other class.
 The members of the 'Other Class thihf
 thoughts of work sturdy, well directed intelligent work; work which brings goof
 pay because it is good service to man
 kind The sober, responsible Locomotive
 Engineer. The Skilled Mechanic ih'
 Farmer Merchant. Doctor. Lawyer | Banker. School Teacher and Minister.