The Nevada County picayune., 1910-02-23

TO THE HONORABLE
 SONS OF REST

For the good of the order, will say, after having reviewed Ancient Medevial and Modern History, in regard to good gov ernment, there has never been a free people, civilized nation. a real rebublic on this earth. Human society has always con- sisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been, anu are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric. Wage labor Is but name; wage slavery is the fact. The twenty-five mil lions of wage workers in the United States are twenty-five millions of Twentieth century slaves. This is the plain mean
 ing of what is known as the labor market, and this follows the capitalist plug. The mos Darbarous factin all chrlstendon. l the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization. They who buy ana they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman trafic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings. The labor market is thc foundation of so-called civilized human life-this sacrifice of manhood and womanhood, this barter of babes, and this sale oI souls. The capitalist civilization of all lands and all climes would crumble to ruin and perish from the earth were 1t not for the labor market. Twenty-Five mil lions of wage slaves are bought and sold daily at prevailing prices in the American labor market. Let me say at the very threshold of this discussion that the workers have but the one issue in the campaign of 1912 the overthrow of the capitalist system and the emancipation of the working class from wage slavery. The capitalist may have the tariff. finance, imperial ism ard other dust-covered anG moth-eaten issues entirely to themselves. The rattle of these relics no longer deceive working men and women whose heads are on their shoulders. They know by experience and observation that the gold-standard, free silver, fiat money, protective tariff, free trade, imperialism and anti,imperialism all mean capitalist rule and wage slavery.
 Their eyes are open, and they see; their brains are in opera ton. and they can think. The very moment a working man be- gins to d. his own thinking, he understands the paramount issue parts company with the capitalist politician and pulls in line with his own class on the political battlefield, the political solidi- arity of the working class means the death of despotlsm, the birth of freedom, the sunrise of civilza
 tion. But there has never been any solidarity of the males sects of the working class on questions of vital importance in which the masses ot people be benefited.
 When they are confronted on these issues they quote you a bible lesson which reads. The poor we have always with us" That settles it; 1 find now that woman is going to assert herself.
 You have noticed in different towns cities for the past five years that a small per cent of ladies are parading the streets on horseback in the same position that man rides. 1 don't object to that. It's much easer on the animal; thlS as little all man thinks, is typical of what women intends doing. She is educating herself, this is the twentieth century movement by the woman.
 Man so for as instigating any good government has proved a fraud, a farce and failure.
 Woman has been reading and thinking for herself of recent years. She commenced with ancient history and has read up to date, and she finds that she is in no way inferior to man but superior to him in every spect, so far as being social and human ic concerned and that is the