The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-16
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 class" do you?
Probably there will be a 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
of their savings and property by the
def hand of the Labor Socialist
class" AND ACCORDING TO LAWS
PASSED WHILE THE HOMETOWN
Frs SLEPT, AND WHICH THE
COURTS MUST EXECUTE.
Impossible" you say, but the game
is on and the Labor Socialists ARE
RIGHT NOW ACTIVELY AT WORK
before congress and the various state
Legislatures, and viii establish these
laws quickly unless stopped.
Their plan is based on one principle.
If any man has worked and been
economical and self-denying and has
bought a homo, take it away and di-
vide up the proceeds among those who
are unthrifty, drinking, profligate or
simply failures
dhS itiohey away from the man
who has it.
Give it TO the man who hasn't.
But this must be done cunningIy and
by passing some shrewdly drawn laws
which hide the real meaning.
The LabOr-Socialists are working
hard to brighten and force public men
to pass at least a dozen bills, each of
which has, away down at the bottom,
plan TO take away a part or all of the
thrifty mans savings and give them to
the unthrifty.
They will surely succeed unless the
home owners take up and protest
in numbers enough to win.
Don't believe a word of it," the
average reader says.
Naturally, because the average read
er seldom examines bills offered to
congress and the legislatures and If he
casually reads of these bills they look
harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when, under
the new laws, Gf the Labor-SociaIists
succeed in having the bills passed)
they find their property and savings
ooze away and the courts power ess to
prevent.
This is a contest between the I'M
thrifty class" trying to wrest money.
property and power from the Home
owning class"
Now let the reader sort out the diff
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
seeks to take what it doesn't earn.
The disconnected, surly and botch
workman tramping from one Job TO
another.
The Labor Agitator.
The man who poured acid in the
mouth of an independent workman in
Chicago after he had been beaten un-
conscious.
The steady, well-trained mechanic
who owns a home.
The tramp.
The professional criminal whose MIC |
-ure the police keep in the rogues' gall /
cry. When you see him reading a |
newspaper in saloon, you can not |
'nly name the newspaper that nour- |
shes his criminal instincts but can ac-
locate him in his class and |
make close guess at what |
ticket he votes.
The Successful Merchant
The Well-Trained Physician.
The wildeyed- dirty finger-nail chan
'ver 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
Tut each one i'm his class. There are
My two classes One thinks
houghts of hate, jealousy and revenge.
eeking money ii does not earn, prom
rty which has been earned by the
weat of other brows, and i'm dfsap-
ointment and anger, these social fall
res" naturally tend towards disorder.
aw-breal<ing aud a general upheayal
n which they hope to take away the
avings of the other class.
The members of the "Other Class"
hink thoughts>of work, sturdy, WE'LL
ireeted, intelligent work; work which
rings good pay, because it is goodl
ervice to mankind. The sober, re-
pOnsible Locomotive Engineer. The
killed Mechanic. The Farmer. Mer-
liant, Doctor. Lawyer, Banker, School
eacher and Minister.
The capable, successful and well es-
semed among these belong to one
ass. The failures belong TO the other