The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-06
THE ONE ISSUE.
Which Confronts the Workers Is 10
Abolish Private Ownership In
Means of ProdUction-Fioht
Must be Fought on Glass
Lines

What We have TO face Is a bitter
class antagonism between the classes
who own the means Of production
which they use TO enslaye their fe!-
lows to those means OF production and
the laborers who are thus economi
cally and socially enshved With
these laborers must be numbered a
large portion OF the lowest middle.
class who practically depend upon
and are a portion OF the proletariat.
clerks, etc, who are learning how
tncy arc being exploited themselves
oy their employers, and the domestic
servants, whose seryile, degraded po-
sltions Will be felt more and more as
education spreads Here Is the last
class of -Sntagonism. which ipdeed is
world-wide-th antagonism between
the slaves of the machine, the mere
social engines for producing surplus
value and contributing TO luxury.
against the capitalist class and their
haugerson, the landlords All other
autagonisms, complicated as they
were. have now faded into this sim
ple unmistakable hostility OF clearly
, defined inimlcal interests between
the proletariat and the bourgeoisi.
The Injuetlce Of Today.
Proletariat oduction-capitalis
appropriation; workers make-traders
take, Socialized production: indiyid-
ual exchange. Work in concert: eX.
change at war. Supremacy OF town:
subseryience of country. Overcrowd-
ed cities: empty fields Such are the
bricfest possible statements OF the
economical and social forms which
result In our present anarchy. not
for one class alone, though that suf-
fers far the most. but for all. And
tho system, as a whole, is now world
vide, though in different shapes Cap
ital dominates the planet, acts ir-
respective OF all nationalities, grabs
its profits irrespective OF all creeds
and conditions; capital is interna.
honal, unsectarian, destitute OF re.
6ard for humanity OF religion
The proletariat must learn from the
system which they have 10 overthrow
to be equally indifferent to class.
creed or color, religion or nationality,
SO long as the individuals sink their
personal objects in a Hcsolute en-
deayor against the common enemy.
When a glut of goods exists on one
hand, aud men eager for those goods
and anxious TO work stand idle ana
foodless on tho other, when those two
factors OF well-beiug cannot be
brought together because of the ne
cessity TO produce for profit which
the very glut itself prevents. surely
anarchy in production and exchange
has been driven 20 the last ditch of
ebsurdlty When hundreds of thou.
sands OF children are brought into
the world under such conditions that
good food. good health. good educa.
tion are for them possible-the es-
sential foundations though al! three
are, Of true morality and sound cit
izenship In later life-surely here too
the anarchy in our commonest social
relations is clearly manifested. When
also we look around at the complete
division between classes. their utter
ignorance of what one another think
and feel, the incapacity OF men and
women of different classes to sit com.
fortably at the same meal table
though of the same race. language
aId creed, here, even apart from the
necessary antagonism of economical
interests, the social anarchy which
the middle-classes call order once
IJore stares us In the face.
We say once more this Is clas9