The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-11-16

Gathsie. Okla nov is soelallAs
lecturers and speaksra always pride
themselves nDon shelr logic and learn
snr ana are uanally charitable enough
Ia aaeue their readers and bearers
that the only reason why the said
readers ana hearers are hot socialists
a because of their ignorance Then
from DIT their vast store u learning
fbey proceed b begin with the beginn.
INK ana % ten how man u a deeend'
ant from q monkey. the monkey from
the kangaroo. the kangaroo from 9th
er mamai, and finally they trace the
decent through amphibl0us animals q
ehe iish of the sea and from The fsh
10 worms and the lowest forms 81 ami.
ma. Ilfe. a great many people Who
are nor socilalsts have already sub
acribed to this Darwluian theory of
the evolution o. mankind but the so-
clalIsta enlarge upon the progress of
man from the tlme ~ bis latest
monkeyhood Or earliest manhood.
They tell us how ID the struggle for
existence this man.monkey Or monkey
man has gradually bot persletently de.
veIoped. They law stress upon the
fart that f0r thousands of years when
man was a savage IN his struggle With
the elements and with other aavages
he developed hia mental powers until
he fnaIly became barbarian. We
say thousands of years when n fact
according 10 their theory Il was ml'-
Hons of years The socialist speakers
assure ia that during sayagery and
great part Of the period Of barbafism
that mankind enjoyed what they call
collective ownership Some times Il
was a tribe which constituted me unit
81 society. sometimes i was q patri.
afchial form of government, but that
during All of this period which *
tended clear into civilization coilec-
live ownerslp was about the only
ownership at all The socialist speak.
era then take uD civilization and show
how for many years the ruling class
depended upon The labor of slaves 70
perform the labor 81 the world The
slaves caused them great deal 81
trouble and this wise ruling class hit
upon the expedlent Of owning the land
and Instead Of having slaves 70 re-
dnee the slaves 10 aerfs which really
became a part of the real estate that
they owned This reduced the respon
slbllty Of the owner from seeing that
hls slaves we're provided for. and We
are greatly assured that The serfs were
more profitable to the ruling class
than we're the sIayes The ruins
class however. hit upon a still more
profitable expedient which divorced
them from every responsibility con
nectcd with the worker They began
10 pay wages This Is what the 20
elaiist agitator calls the period ol
capitalism and under this system ol
wages they declare that the rulinf
class get more from the laborers thar
they ever did under slavery or serf
dom. They declare that under thii
system Of capitalism or wages that
ali Of the property Of The world is fast
passing into the hands Of few favor
"a indlylduis. and IN order 70 avoid
this calamity they demand that all in
digiduai property rights be- anninIlat
ed and that thc property be owned col
lectlvcly OF course. from this point
the real discussion d the merits and
dangers Of socialism begin but II g
not the purpose of this article 70 dia
cuss The merits or dangers Of social
lam. but merely 20 show how illoglca
an socialist writer's and speakers are
Of retrograde What Is It they ash