The Detroit times., 1908-03-12
They're After You

You don't believe the Labor-Social-
list class are really trying to take
away the savings and property of the
thrifty, Homecoming 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
OF their savings and property by the
def hand OF the Labor-Socialist
class" and according to laws passed
while 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 at work before con-
gress and the various State Legisla-
lures, and will establish these laws
quickly unless stopped.
Their plan Is based on one principle.
III any man has worked and been
economical and self-denying and has
bought home, take 1t away and d.
vide UP the proceeds among those who
are unthrifty, drinking, profiigate 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 cunningly
and by passing some shrewdly drawn
laws, which hide the real meaning.
The socialists are working
hard to brighten and force public men
TO pass at least a dozen bills, each III
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-O Owners" wake up and protest
In numbers enough to win.
Don't believe word of it. the
average reader says.
Naturally, because the average read
er seldom examines bills offered TO
Congress and the Legislatures and II
he casually reads of these biffffs they
look harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when. un-
der the new laws Qf the Labor-Social-
lists succeed in having the bills pass
ed, they find their property and saw
ings ooze away and the courts power
less TO prevent,
This is "a contest between the un-
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 other OF these classes One
class earns and saves and the other
seeks 70 take what 1t 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 workingman
in Chicago after he had been beaten
unconscious.
The steady. welltrained mechanic
who owns home.
The tramp.
The professional criminal whose pic
ture the police keep in the rogues'
gallery. When you see him reading a
newspaper In saloon. you can not
only name the newspaper that nour-'
ishes his criminal instincts but can
accurately locate him In his class anil
probably make a close guess at what
ticket he votes.
The Successful Merchant.
The well-Trained Physician.
The Wild-eyed-dirty-fin chap
over his second pot OF beer.
The I.abor.Socialist.
The Farmer.
The Minister OF the Gospel.
tue
You see you can pick them out and
put each one In his class. There are
only two classes" One thinks
thoughts OF hate, jealousy and re-
yenge. seeking money It does not earn.
property which has been earned by
the sweat OF other brows. and In dis
appointment and anger. these social
failures" naturally tend toward dis
order aw-breaking and a general up
heaval in which they hope to take
away the savings OF the other class.
The members OF the Other Glass"
think thoughts OF work. sturdy, we'll
directed. intelligent work: work which
brings good pay. because II Is good
service TO mankind. The sober. re-
sponsible Locomotive Engineer. The
Skilled Mechanic The Farmer. Mer-
chant, Doctor, Lawyer. Banker, School
Teacher. and Minister
The capable, successful and well es-
teemed among these belong TO one
class. The failures belong 10 the
other l--------
The "Home.Owning" class seek
peace. Steady operation OF In.
dustries, Protection for ey-
sry man who vants- to work.