The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-12-01

| themselves Win wealthy dutoCTdlS or
realize the natural rights and liber
ties that the universe endows to man
They force their servants TO approach
their palaces and castles from the rear
TO entertain their company and eat
IN the kitchen or the basement, TO
occupy the most subordinate and sub
servient relations to these aristocrats,
OF individuality or Independence from
the honest heart and soul OF toilins
children, women and men.
These plutocrats regard domestic
servants and their hired hands with
substantially the same indifference
and contempt They consider poor
and common people good enough to
! manufacture and prepare their food
and clothes. but not good enough to
associate or dine with them. Good
enough to clean and keep their
princely homes, to dust and wash
their dirty clothes. to groom their
automobiles and their stylish steeds,
and serve them in thousand other
servile ways-but not good enough to
share the ordinary rights and privi-
leges of existence on an equality with
the naughty and remorselesS rich
They not only treat their household
| servants with contempt and scorn. but
they regard employees in their factor
les. mines and mills and stores with
practically the same contemptiblc
Sneerlng attitude. The people them
selves know that they are snubbei
and snarled and sneered at by the
wealthy and their families every day
And yet, these wealthy hypocrites,
these christian ladies and gentlemen
If you please, holding nearly all hui
mainly in disrepute-these are among
the monsters who prate and pray in
church about the brotherhood of mau
and the fatherhood of God These
are the perfldious Williams who create
nlonopolies and trusts to subiugate
and rob their fellowman.
These are the ruthless and relent.
less fends who reduce the working
peoples earnings to starvation wages
They are the atrocious and rapacious
money maniacs who force the PEG.
pie to accept whatever prices they
impose on labor and the necessarIes
OF life or starve to death, They are
the gallant christian gentlemen en-.
downing religious colleges and chur.
ches with the millions they extorted
from the toiling children. women and
men whom they scowl and scorn and
sheer as beneath these infamous and
hateful hypocrites.
Of course we have no word of rep
rimand against the ricn who dc, not
rob or rate themselves as better than
the poor; who refrain from forming
murderous monopolies and trusts to
plumber humanity; who. refuse to cor
rupt our government to manufacture
legislation giving wealthy shystcrs
power to impoverish humankind But
these wealthy thieving human hatcrs.
we defy and challenge to the bitterest
end They have assissinated free
and honest competition in society and
politics, in the world CT industry and
commerce. they have enslaved, degTad
ed and robbed the public whenever
and wherever they could. They use
the churches as cloak and shield
to hide duplicity and deceit. 10 rob
and ravaEe in the guise of ''christian
men, to hide their lesalzcd larceny
and customary crimes.
They employ the public press to
advertise and laud themselves. to be-
wilder, misdirect and dupe the honest
unsuspecting people to be trapped
and plllaged by their snean1ng. crook
ed plots and schemes They decrease
the sum of human happiness. multiply
the misery of man. misdirect the ener !
Gies of humankind and b1oCade the
highways of human progress. They !
pollute our politics. corrupt our gov.
ernnment. contaminate our courts and
bride the weakness or humanity to |
further fortify their larceny and fraud. |!
No wonder prosecuted and impov-
eriShed people are arrayed against |
such autocratic criminality and hy- |
pocrisy as that. These wealthy ty |
rants. bigots and sneaks array them
selves against the people when they |
thus subordinate andn subjugate the |
people to themselves-when they sub |
sidize and confiscate the peoples |
property and products to themselves.
And still. when the plundered suffer !