The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-24

follors In the sticks are not cX-
pcctcd t1 enjoy II Ike We would a
picture show. All the more reason.
William. why you should give us
the high.browcd dope straight II
you feel that you are Just naturally
bound to hand Ms that stuff. all
We ASH Is that you sort Il out for
us properly SO that If by chance
wc might want to use 1t again, say
In a school house debate or In
our Literary Society We would be
sure and certain that you hadn't
given ue what Ralph Waldo Emerson
would call a bum steer"
For instance. noN. william You
can tell us that the earliest poli,.
ical writer's. such as Kar' Marx, In.
gees aud BJllrbodlm mo-. Rodburtis-
beg pardon divide mankind into
Capitalists" "burgcssc' and "prolc-
tarats" You say they defined the
capitalists as those who sought spo-
cial privilege. tho 'prolctarians' a.
the msklml. uucducatcd persons,
having neither property country or
home. family or religious ties or scn-
timcuts. aud the "burgcsso' as
representing, Ia short the bulk Of
mankind between the extremes Of
capitalist and prolctariat
Now this is al right except ia
three particulars. First. 1t does no;
give Kari Marx or any other po.
litlcnl economists definition of a
capitalist Second. there were M
such persons known TO Karl Marx
or any other political economist aS
the "burgcssc." Third. there are
no such persons classified by So
Cialistic or other economical writer's
as "prolctariats.' There was a class
designated collectively the 'prole-
tariat." but II did not comprise. nor
was It meant To designate people
without property. country. home,
family. or religious tics or senti-
mcnts" which practically means 'hu
man beasts" With these exceptions.
MIR. Murray's excursion into socio-
logical science is otherwise all right.
by the word 'burgcssc." MIR. Muir
ray very evidently intended To des.
ipnate the persons or class coming
under the French term bourgeois"
on "bourgcoisie." used by socialistic
writer's to designate the commercial
og middl, class property owning
class-as against the capitalist on
one hand ana the prolctariat class
on the other llut We can readily
understand II Mr. Murray dictated
that speech TO his private secretary.
how the word dropped into print rs
"hurgossc." That was pro baby Mr.
Murray's guess at the pronunciation.
And as To the persons which Mr..
Murray says were called "prolctari
ats" there are simply. as Betsy
Prig said, no such persons The name
pIOlctariat was used t. specify \ /
class an arbitrarily formed class, it
i, true, and in America aud cspr.
c!aily i'm Oklahoma. by the way. this .
class idea is "a thoroughly obuoN .
ious one. But the point is, that whom F.
Mr. Murray uses the word "pulc. .
tariats rs referring to the pcrs ur F.
supposed 10 comprise this class. he
is using a misn'myr, to begin with .
The persons are "prolctariaus'
the class they make up is the "pro' /
ctariat' And this class, il they
could be- conscious as class, would T.
certainly revolt with Indignation at
Mr. Murray's definition Of ite con
stiucnts as 'tramps, the unskillcd .
the uuodu,atcd persons, with1u,
country home. family or religions
ties, definition which Nr Murray.
Go put 10 plain has evidently man
ufacurrd for the purposes ,f dem
ousu1uug my system of govern .
mcnt,' or olso 10 Vls given ont from
the Nmit bale at N'ms in pure
rcrrrsNug ignorance "PJo'ctar'at" ia .
used hy every economic or socialist .
be- doJrnur. to mean the class
yompr .us "tlr Nlrr.vorkcrs of thr
state CO.. ot the world. collectively
regarded .e the producers II capita
and tA. creators %, wealth. th, laho-