Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-06-09
"NECESSITY THE MOTHER
OF INVENTION"
Yours truly,
GEO. RINKANP.
Editor Majority:


Primitive man found himself in q
cold crude world, surrounded with ma
ture in it's Widest state, the forests in
habited with ferocious animals AMI
venamous reptiles with no defense ex-
cept what nature provided. VIVA
man has he took from nature by his
own efforts. He had no inventions
the use of fire was not known; he haG
no means Of capturing or Staying thu
beasts of the forest; domestic animals
he knew not, but by accident perhap
he learned to make and use fire, he
made the bow and arrow, he fashioie'
discovered iron, and by the successive
use of these inventions or discoveries
he has subdued nature and makes d
living. Nowhere in his long ascent
through these periods covering hun
dreds Of thousands of years do we find
any help or even a hint that there
might be or was any power outside o.
his applied brain and muscle to aid
him in any Of his efforts. Each ma
terfal discovery and use of what he
found about him has enabled him tn
better protect himself and make 1t
easier for him to wrest a living from
ing upon him.
For long ages man lived in com i.
munionistic state. All were equal. M
one owned the natural resources. All
had food and the other products of
nature as long as nature gave of her
storehouse There were no rich, no
poor. No one coveted the use of wha.
nature provided.
Only when man learned that he could
subject other men to his will and make
them work for him did poverty Or
riches come to any, and classes origi-
nate
Once there was master class and
servant or slave class, where the
one, by owning the products of others,
could find leisure for self culture did
Characteristic distinction appear.
What few laws or regulations were
necessary to govern primitive society
when there was no classes were made
by all the people democratically, by
both men and women voting.
When society became more advanced
and private property appeared the
masters ruled as chiefs or kings, but
as this form of government lasted but
a short time in comparison with this
old democracy, the people rebelled and
forced a so-called representative or
republican form of government such as
we now find in France and the United
States and few small countries, but
as these representatives are elected
not because they represent the people,
but because they represent the owners
of the nations resources; the laws they
make are invariably in behalf of the
master class and therefore against thu
best interests of the people.
They make all kind of promises only
to be broken, and their platitudes are
spun to catch the unwary, but their
game is fast becoming known; thanks
to the followers of Karl Marx who
silfted them clear of all chaff and laid
them bare in all their ugliness.
The natural result of their bad laws
and the violation of their best ones
which were made like their promises
only to be broken has caused the muck
raker to come into existence.
In ages, past. primitive democracy
ruled ninety-five thousand years, kings
ruled five or six thousand years; re-
publican form OF government has been
| nexistence less than 200 years, blu.
owing to the rapid and wonderful dis ;
covery and use of machinery, the hui
man race has advanced in that time
more than in ali past history, and the
abuses inherent in that form Of gov.
eminent has developed as quickly. and
the people are not slow to recognize
it and an asking for q change. They
will ask but short time longer. They
are finding out AS in all past history
that asking win not get it, but tina;
they must go after and take it, not
like our forefathers took their liberty
or the French with their bloody revo
lutions, but the people have the ballot
which they did not have then, and IL
the masters will allow them to be
counted. all will be well. but If not.
the Socialists will not answer for what
might follow.
DIR. GEORGE B. KLINE,