The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-03-04
PROFIT SYSTEM
SACRIFICES LIFE.
OF the Worker for the Golden Shecl1els
and Destroys Happiness in His Home

ono OF the many things of
"hich our Rooseveltian prosperity
IS guilty, is the manning and kill
lng of more than, forty thousand
persons each year in this country
through the operation of machinery
with out regard tohuman happiness
or human life. 1t is this reek
less regime of operating the ma,
chin"ry of production, distribu-
lion and exchange that is gorging
capital at one end OF the scale and
making of life fearful chance at
the other.
This is the profit system that
HpltalIsm calls prosperity of the
Hooseveltian kind.
If Socialism will not abolish
these fearful conditions pray what
VIII! We offer you our plan,
&ou say you do not like it. Then
give us your plan. You must
'naugurate q plan to save this
country from this brand Of pros
perity, you must not only devise a
plan but you must justify that
plan before men who have as
Keen Il brain as lou.
DO not believe that the Socialist
moYement is only the economic
revolt Of the working class. 1t is
the most stupenduous moral revolt
earth has ever known. 1t is
"arth's grooming of, outraged HUI
manity-the righteous protest Of
men and women who refuse longer
TO countenance an unholy, unjust
economic system that is neither
progressive or constructive.
The most profound writer's and
thinkers OF the world today are
Socialists. The whole trend of
economic development is to ward
Socialism. Can shallow witted
PERSONS whose idea of progress and
prosperity * the accumulation of
"therl peoples property, can
such as these, | repeat cope with Il
monument based upon the physi-
cal strength Of the working class
pierced with the light of the
k"cncSt intelligence of the race;
Our best American manhood is
coming to despise the soiled plume
"l modern success. Chat murders
thousands each year for profits)
not content to have, while it's
brothers have not, it has at last
c"me to the conclusion that it is as
unjust. as immoral to knock a man
huwn with ones Intellect as to
N@ock him down with ones fist.
~" are behOlding Il new manhood
That viii be too noble to lounge in
't."ness while. babes everywhere
e u
Your SO called Captains of in
'iUstry have gotten civilization into
~ort OF tanglc. They have
""lther the intelligence nor
reu"omic insight with which to
.",'e the problem confronting
jaenc.
" hats to be donee Are the
rIt miners to freeze because they
move mined too much coal? Are
'A" ShocmakerS to go bareioOted
''''.'uSe they have made too many
-."r>' Are the bakers to go
.nngry because they have baked
."p nuch bread: We have many
.I..Iuu OF earnest loyal willing
Workers who cannot earn money
.Hiicient 70 buy back the things
-.'"Ir own hands have produced.
" hat has modern capitalism
~ay to this fearful Indictment
H"thing. VIII" is responsible?
iuitalism. Why? Because it
has Congress, the state legislatures,
'u" courts. The SubServient min
r"- Of organized greed whine for
-.a" vote of the workers but the
""rH"lS are not represented.
lin" workers scarcely know there
. law until Il rapid fire injunc-
"n strikes them in the region of
." solar pleNuS because they at
..'Hpi through collective action to