The Springdale news., 1909-08-06
Advertisement Socialist Principles.

 clothing and shelter Only with these assured are freedom. culture and higher human development possible To produce food, clothing or shelter, land and machinery are needed Land alone does not satis- fy human needs. Human labor ere ates machinery and applies 1t to the land for the production of raw materials and food. Whoever has control of land and machinery con trols human labor, and with it human life and liberty.
 To-day the machinery and the land used for industrial purposes ar owned by a rapidly decreasing mi nority. So long as machinery is simple and easily handled by one man, it's owner cannot dominate the sources of life of others. But when machinery becomes more complex and expensive, and requires for it's effective operation the organized eff fort of many workers, it's influence reaches over wide circles of life. The owners of such machinery be- come the dominant class.
 In proportion as the number of such machine owners compared to all other classes decreases, their power in the nation and in the world increases They bring ever larger masses of working people un- der their control, reducing them to the point where muscle and brain
 Millions of formerly self-employ- ing workers thus become the help less wage slaves of industrial mas ters.
 As the economic power of the ruling class grows it becomes less useful in the life of the nation All the useful work Of the nation falls upon the shoulders of the class whose only property is it's manual and mental labor power-the wage Worker-or of the class who have but little land and little eff fcetiee machinery outside of their la bof power-the small traders and small farmers. The ruling minor ity is steadily becoming useless and parasitic
 A bitter struggle over the divis- ion of the products of labor Is waged between the exploiting prop ertied classes on one hand and the exploited propertyless class on the other. In this struggle the wage working class cannot expect adequate relief from any form of the present order at the hands of the dominant class.
 The wage workers are therefore the most determined and irreeon- cilable antagonists of he ruling class. They suffer most from the curse of class rule The fact that a few capitalists are permitted to control all the eountry's industrial resources and social tools for their individual profit, and to make the production of the necessaries of life the object of competitive private en- terprise and speculation Is at the bottom of all the social evils of our time.
 In spite of the organization of trusts. pools and combinations. the capitalists are poWerless to regu- late production for social ends. In dustries are largely conducted in a planless manner Through periods of feverish activity the strength and health of the workers are mercl- lessly used up. and during periods of enforced idleness the workers are frequently reduced to starvation.
 The elimaxes of this system ot production are the regularly recurr- ing industrial Impressions and crises which paralyze the nation every fiji teen or twenty years.
 The capitalist class, in it's mad race for profits. is bound to eX- ploit the workers to the very limit of their endurance and to sacrifice their physical. moral and mental welfare to it's own unsuitable greed
 Capitalism keeps the masses o workingmen in poverty. destituton physical exhaustion and ignorance It drags their wives from their homes to the mill and fac tory. It snatches their children from the playgrounds and schools and grinds their slender bodies and uniformed minds into cold dollars It disfigures, mains and kills hun oreds of thousands of workingmen annually in mines. on railroads and in factories It drives millions oi workers into the ranks of unemploy ed and forces numbers of them into haooarv vapranpy and all forms Ot