Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-12
They re- After You.

You don't believe the Labor-Socialist "class'
are really trying to take away the savings and
property Of the thrifty, HOMECOMING ''clsss,
do you?'
Probably there will be a loud chorus of walls
and entreaty when the new laws 60 into effect
and the Home Owners wake up to find them
selves bound hand and foot and trimmed Of
their savings and property by the deft hand OF
the Labor Socialist class AND ACCORDING
TO LAWS PASSED WHILE THE HOMETOWN
ERs SLEPT. AND WHICH THE COURTS MUST
EXECUTE.
Impossible" you say. but the game is on and
the Labor Socialists ARE RIGHT NOW ACTIVE
LY AT WORK before Congress and the various
State Legislatures, and will establish these laws
quickly unless stopped.
Their plan is based principle:
If any man has worked and been economical
and elfdenying and has bought home, take it
away and divide up the proceeds among those
who are unthrifty. drinking. prohlgste simply
failures
Take money away from the man who has it.
Give 1t to the man who hasn't.
But this must be done cunnngly and by pass
ing some shrewdly drawn laws which hide the
real meaning.
The Labor-Socialists working hard to
brighten and. force public men to pass at least
dozen bills, each Of which has, away down at
the bottom, plan to take away q part all
Of the thrifty mans savings and give them to
the unthrifty.
They will surely succeed unless the home own
ers wake up and protest in numbers enough to
win.
Don't believe word Of it," the average
reader says.
Naturally because the average reader seldom
examines bills offered to Congress and the Ligis-
latures and II he casually reads of these bills
they look harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when, under the new
laws III the Labor Socialists succeed in having the
bills psssed) they find their property and savings
| ooze away and the courts poweriess to prevent.
This is a contest between the unthrifty '.class"
trying to wrest money, property and power from
the Home Owning class
Now let the reader sort out the different char
acters in society and they are defined, locate
each man in one or the other of these Glasses"
One class earns and saves and the other seeks
to take what 1t doesn't earn.
The discontinued, surly and botch workman
tramping from one Job to another.
The Labor Agitator.
The man who poured acid in the mouth Of an
independent workingman in Chicago after he haG
been beaten unconscious.
The steady, wel-tralned mechanic who owns
a home.
The tramp.
The professional criminal whose picture the
police keep in the rogues' gallery. When you
see him reading a newspaper in saloon, you
cannot only name the newspaper that nourishes
his criminal instincts, but accurately locate
| him in his class and probably make a close
guess at what ticket he votes
The Successful Merchant.
The Weu-Trained Physician.
The Wild-eyed- dirty -fnger-nail chap his
second pot OF beer.
The Labor-Socialist
The Farmer.
The Minister OF the Gospel.
The Anarchist.
You see you can pick them out and put each
one in bis class. Inere are only TWO classes"
One thinks thoughts Of hate. jealousy and re-
| yenge, seeking money 1t does not earn. property
| which has been earned by the sweat of other
brows. and in disappointment and anger these
| social failures" naturally tend toward disor-
der. lawbreaking and a GENERAL upheavai in
| which they hope to take away the savings Of
the other class.
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thoughts Of work. sturdy, welldIrected. intelli-
gent work; work which brings good pay. because
| 1t is good service to mankind The sober, re,
| sponsibe Locomotive Engineer. The Skilled Me-
chanic. the Farmer. Merchant, Doctor, Lawyer,
| Banker. School Teacher and Minister
| The capable. successful and well-esteemed
among these belong to one class. The failures
| belong to the other.