Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-05

no difference between the chattel slave and the wage hlreling. Tn 1865 Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, summed up the labor prob lem in the following striking sentence:
 In point of fact, however whether q man works three days of the week for himself on his own field and three days for nothing on the estate of his lord or whether he works in the factory or work shop six hours daily for himself and six hours daily for his employer, 1t comes to the same thing.
 This surplus value over and above that which is required by the slave, the serf and the wageworker to main tain his physical existence is the DOT tion which the master, the feudal lord and the capitalist have taken by force of arms in the first case, by ownership of land in the second and by owner ship of tools and cunningly devised laws and court decisions In the last instance.
 The slave master built up civil and political system which protected his right of property in the bodies of his slaves and the wealth they produced. One does not have to go very far back in the history of this country to find confirmation of this statement. Prior to 1860 the laws enacted by congress and by most of the several states, backed by the decisions of federal and state courts. had for their object the protection of the slave master in his right of ownership of men, women and children. The man who dared raise his voice in protest against the ex- ploltatlon of the black man was brand ed as a traitor to his country. If he attempted to speak he was thrown in- to jail, and if he attempted to print a newspaper voicing his sentiments his press was destroyed and he was mob bed and murdered.
 What was true in the two revolu- tionary periods which marked the dis. appearance of a political system based on kingcraft and a political system based on chattel slavery is true today.
 Marked For Persecution.
 The men and the newspapers that have espoused the cause of men, wom- en and children who work in the fields, factories and mines of this nation are marked for persecution, as were the Revolutionary and abolition editors be- fore them. For ten years as editor of the Appeal to Reason l have been iD constant conflict with the ruling class and the men who hope to pick up the crumbs which drop from the tables of the great captains of industry, on whose will employment depends, not alone in the industries. but in the gov ernment and municipal service.
 Postoffiee and Courts Versus Appeal.
 The postoffice department was first employed to hamper and harass the Appeal to Reason in its work of edu- cation and enlightenment The most absurd rules and regulations were spe- cially formulated to apply. as Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden wired to the Glrard postmaster, ito the. Appeal to Reason" In every in stance where our right to the mails was questioned the Appeal won sig nal victory, because we strictly obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law
 Then the aid of the courts was Irl- voked to accomplish what the postof- fee department had failed to do. The couxts today. as prior to 1860, are with the owning and ruling class. Daily this fact Is becoming more apparent. One has only 10 refer to the long list of decisions in which the interests of labor and capital are opposed to veri- fy this statement. The blacklist has been legalized and the boycott out lawed. The injunction has been used with telling effect in labor contro- versies to terroriZe and crush the men who work, while if has proved ineffec- tive and of no avail when directed against great capitalist interests, as President Roosevelt pointed out when he was engaged in his battle with the great packing industries.
 The people of Missouri in their ca pacity as sovereign voters recently elected a governor and legislature on a platform demanding relief from rail. road extortion. X two cent fare bill was enacted into law This law was upheld by the state supreme court. The railroads went to the federal courts. which with the stroke of pen nullified the will of 100000 people. So closely allied has become the fed eral judiciary of this country to the great corporations that even now there is pending In congress resolu- ton demanding an investigation of the acts and conduct of inc federal judges who have prostituted their high office to the profit of these corporations. three-fourshs of which. according to a statement made by Governor Hadley, are either illegally organized or un- lawfully conducted
 Fighting Industrial Despotism.
 For years the Appeal to Reason has been waging almost single handed a fight against he oppressive and intel erable industrial and political condi- tions which confront this country. We frankly admit having been unsparing -N.l1