The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-05-21

and action depends. 1t comes to res
cue the people from the fast increas-
ing and successful assault of capital
ism upon the liberty of the individ-
ual.
AS an American socialist party, we
pledge our fidelity to the principles
'of international socialism, as embod-
led in the united thought and action
of the socialists of all nations. In
the industrial development already
accomplished, the interests of the
world S workers are separated by no
national boundaries. The condition
Of the most exploited and oppressed
workers, in the nose remote places
Of the earth, inevitably tends to drag
down all the workers of the world to
the same level. The tendency of the
competitive wage system Is to make
labor's lowest condition the measure
or rule of its universal condition. In
dustry and finance are no longer ma
tiona but international, in both Or
ganiZation and results. The chief
significance of national boundaries,
and of the so-called patriotisms
which the ruling class of each nation
is seeking to revive Is the power
which these give to capitalism to
keep the workers of the world from
uniting, and to throw them against
each other in the struggles of con-
lending capitalist interests for the
control of the yet unexplored mar
kets of the world, or the remaining
sources of profit.
The socialist movement, therefore,
is world-movement. 1t knows of
no conflicts of interests between the
workers of one nation and the work
ers of another. 1t stands for the free
dom of the workers of all nations
and in so standing, it makes for the
full freedom of all humanity.
The socialist movement. owes its
birth and growth to that economic
development or world-process which
s is rapidly separating working or
/ producing class from a possessing or
I capitalist class. The class that pro-
I duces nothing possesses labor's fruits
/ and the opportunities and enjoy
ments these fruits afford, while the
class that does the worlds real work
! has increasing economic uncertainty
and physical and intellectual misery
! for its portion.
The fact that these two classes
have not yet become fully conscious
of their distinction from each other
| the fact that the lines Of division
and interest may not yet be clearl!
drawn. does not change the fact o.
the class conflict.
This class struggle is due to thu
/ private ownership of the means o
employment, or the tools of produc
tion. Wherever and whenever MAJ
owned his own land and tools, ant
by them produced only the thing
which he used, economic independ
ence was possible. But production, o
the making of goods, has long ceased
} to be individual The labor of score
or even thousands, enters into al
most every article produced. Pro
, duction Is now social or collective
, Practically everything is made o
/ done by many men--sometimes sep
arated by seas or continents-work
ing together for the same end. Blu
J this cooperation in production Is no
Tor the direct use Of the things mad
: by the workers who make them, bu
FOR the profit of the owners OF tn
: tools and means of production: an
+ to this is due the present division G
2 society into two classes; and from
2 have sprung all the miseries, inhai
I monies and contradictions OF our ci,
c ilization.
! Between these two classes ther
can be no possible compromise q
: identity of interests, any more tina
there can. be peace In the midst {
e war, or light in the midst OF darl
l ness. a society based upon this cla'
I division carries In Itself the seed