Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-16

way industries are managed and the
price Of commodities Will show these
things as plainly as two and two are
four This i capitalism, and Is only
possible WAars it has III fts eornhnadHad
masses Of prepsrtylsss workers de,
Rs1lius upols It Tor access to tbs
naAals Of life. Capitalism only hires
hands A. it nssds thenTand gcannpt
Dire all who wish work fhus the
asa With Jobs are IN constant fear 81
Aeingt displaced BY the horde Of idle
men ever Already. waiting. -
Evsa before IaBorers run short, the
capitsliats bring Others from the
hordss Of Europe or Japan, or Mexi-
60. These foreigners wills always
work for less than Americans ana
are even now the vast majority of the
miners, mill men, an. din short are
the majority of the men on the pub
lie works of the country.
Machinery is ever being improved,
thereby throwing an eyer-increasing
humber of men out of work, thus
widening the chasm between wages
Ind the production. !.
With the ever improved machinery
and the less wages, the commodities
arep reduced for less, but the price Of
commodities is going up. up as we ali
know, and as the price OF commodi,
ties goes up and work is hard to get,
rhine increases. and dissatisfied
people multiply, s;f.
Where, Oh. where is the stopping
or turning point? There is none,
here can be none as long as capital
SIN lasts. Monopoly, with its private
ownership, has most OF the industries
in its grsap, and dictates prices, laws,
who shall be elected, the judges, and
the judicial decisions. Il.
No student, no thinke rand scarce,
ly any dispute these facts.
We all know something is wrong.
but do not know what remedy to APP
ply or how to apply it to change
them.
II Washington and the other pa
trtots had folded their arms when
England fired on her child the colo
nists,. there would have been no Dec
laratioAJ OF INDEPENDENCE,
The. government at Washington has
deserted the, people and are doing
the will Of Wall street. The country
is being plundered, the people are be-
inggs round down, and they have moi
awakened to the fact. They but faint
~ realize the trusts, and they will
continue to suffer and pay tribute to
Wall street as long as. the two old
parties elect their candidates. to Office.
as both are owned BY capitalism,
The nrEt thing. to do is to sever all
connections with them. and then gel
together and. do, something. Political
idleness Is as bad Is electing the enc
missS 70 ONCE. a. the monopoliee are
in politics ALI the, time. They never
slseh, They may INTO appear to be
doing much, but they control all. Nc
kold. party politician does anything I'M
til he. knows what the monopoIies
want, For If he opposed their wants
| no would be reelgated to private life
Why DO not the representatives dc
|hcmething for the people? Simply be
cause The people do not know. what
they. want, They are not crystalized
i4to, party to dictate to their repre-
seAtatiYes, nor to punish them when
they sell out to the capitalists. Rea1iz-
ing these facts. and in spite Of every
thing that has been done thus far;
things are going, from bad to worse.
the question arises, what shalI che
people do? n
More than half the people are alb
solutely without any income other
than what their labor produces. and
this they must sell in market al!
ready overcrowded,- while fully go
per cent, Of the balance cannot hope
ito compete in business with the. CAPT
talists, and vast numbers Of them are
being competed out Of business and
into the ranks Of the workers, which
makes work harder to get.
The opportunity to makeaa living is
absolutely gone to all who cannot sell
themselves to some one, and even
those who succeed In finding a master
are getting poorer. If there is any
way out Of this wilderness Of despair,
an anxious public is awaiting it.
The Socialists propose as a start,
public or collective ownership Of the
means Of producing and distributing
wealth, and how would this benefit
the workers.
In round numbers there is wealth
to the value Of twenty-four billions