Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-28
q VAMPIRE SYSTEM.
Socialism Points the Way to Higher
and Better Civilization.


Capftalism is a vampire system.
While it absorbs the labor and life Of
tbe competitive wage slaves, the COM
netting capitalist masters, preying upon
one another, destroy each other until
tbus we have but a few monster YAM
hires sucking the last dregs of vitality
from vastly increased proletariate,
and finally comes the crisis-the sin Of
wageism is death-the collapse Of the
caDitalistic system. Labor unions and
fake LEGISLATION for the strangling little
rapitalists dixie impotent railroad con-
trol law may paIliate and prolong the
nresent agony for a brief time, but the
end is fatally doomed, as is the dis
pased person who will not cut out a
life absorbing cancer. The huge mod
ern plutocratic parasites, initiating with
interest and profits, must finally expire
with the death of what they feed upon
-wageism. The vampire patrfcians Of
ancient Rome sapped the plebeian and
slave basis of their economic system,
and the empire fell in 476.
No system of civilization can adj
vance or live when a feasting, revel-
ing class drinks from the toilers' veins.
The knell of it's own death is now be-
ing rung by capitalism which hypocrt-
tlses religion, perverts morality, makes
the law unjust, prostitutes education,
promotes war, corrupts politics, prac-
tees robbery, swindIing and gambling
as business; betrays friendship, sends
love out street walking and makes
marriage mercenary, calls attics lodg-
ings, slums cellars, corporation shacks
and hobo novels ''homes;" offers little
children to the Moloch of commercial
ism and in the mad scramble for it's
dope Observation-Disclosures materializes
the rich, vuIgarizes the we'll to do and
brutalizes the poor. Such is the re
suit of the economic determinism of
capitalism. And herein this result is
the awful Indictment of it as an eco
nomic system today. Now for tomor-
row and Socialism:
AS capitalism, by the inevitable law
Of economics. ruthlessly overthrow feu-
dalism las feudalism before that dis
placed slavery, so Socialism is 1prepar-
ing to grasp its opportunity at the near
crisis and establish the cooperative
commonwealth Labor, long PROSTATE
and enslayed, is at last arising, en-
lightened and armed with it's collec-
tive intellectual, Industrial and polit-
1cal power to save itself and the world.
This is the great mission of Social
lists. Their motto is: Workers of all
countries unite. You have nothing but
your chains to lose and a world to
win"
Labor today, trained in the vast in
dustrial armies of capitalism and dis
clpdned IN the unions Socialists are
finishing this education) and given the
trusts for model, together with the
political form necessary for the ac-
qulFement and operation Of industry, is
preparing to Socialize the ownership
OF the land, the shop, the machine, ETC.,
DIS tne operation Of these has already
Oeeh Socialized in economic evolution
ana viii carry the justification of in
ouStry to its ultimate stage of uni
FelSaI trust in which all the people are
partners and their own collective CAPT
tdIlSL First came the single working
proprietor, then partnership Of groups
VI partners, then the corporation or
partnership OF s"oups of partners, then
tne trust or partnership of corpora
tlohS' and now finally must come the
mIiglng OF the trusts into the grand
puDnc partnership-the peoples trust
or Socialism.
socialism IS the ownership and OPP
efauon Of all the means of production
ana distribution that are social and
puDilc IN their nature, by the people.
loF the people. It means the tools Of
employment shah belong in common
- the1r creators and users, that all
p.ouuctlon shall be for the direct use
= me producers, that the making Of
soouS Tor profit shall cease. that we
Snali all be workers together and that
- opportunities shall be open and
equal 70 all. Socialism is the demo
s.1'lzatlon OF industry-fulflling our
II,t t, educational, social and po-
a n.tcal democracy. It means the appli-
salion 81 the Golden Rule in business,
f feaee on earth, good will among men,
WI ~. through it we shall federate the
WINS INTO United States of the
ana realize the brotherhood OF
I an.-ReV. G. e. Littlefeld, West
FUR SALE. Three horse power