United labor bulletin., 1910-12-22
ON WITH CIVILIZATION.
(By Marshall Dewitt.)

rewarded its friends and punished its
enemies" The psychology of campaign
excitement has departed and soberly we
can now congratulate the workers on
their great achievement On with our
grand civilization. On with interest,
rent and profit, say the workers, and
why not? They own all the mortgages
and the watered stocks and bonds and
the millions of idle among them can put
in their spare time clipping coupons and
such of them as own all the lands,
houses and tenements can pleasantly put
| in their vacations collecting rents or
complacently gather in the immense
profits of the trusts. On with child la
Dor. The children of workingmen have
no need of an education. 1t may make
agitators of them, besides, the immense
wages they earn are needed by their
wise daddies for dog dinners, monkey
receptions or Bradley Martin balls. On
with the exploitation of the child. 1t is
its future, while the exploiter needs the
money for yachts and automobiles. The
exploited worker enjoys the yacht. too.
He builds it and sails it and sometimes
can take passage on it as a lickspittle
the coal, forges the steel and builds the
automobile. and for these insignificant
services gets all the pleasure out of 1t.
He gets the smell of the gasoline. On
with the rule of our great governmental
masters. Down with the proletariat Up
with the paunch. The workers always
have full paunches. hence they vote for
paunch rule.
| On with militarism, the rage for bat
tleships and standing armies. Hurrah
for the soldier. that licensed destroyer
of human life whose training educates
in brutality and whose vocation is idle
ness-that uniformed creature OF the
night. floating down on the crimson tide
| of human misery from the hideous
regime of barbarous days. Labor gets
all the benefit of the soldiery. 1t clothes
them. feeds them. pays them and PEN
sions them and for this paltry service
gets the full enjoyment of their bayonets
and lead.
On with the degradation of men and
the dishonor of women. Labor has all
the money to spend in these debauch-
cries and comes in for the full enjoy
ment of the revels. Its masters furnish
the sons 1t furnishes the daughters.
On with the manning and slaughter of
men and women in factory, mill and
mine and on the rail. On with this beau
tiful dance of death. The workers get
90 per cent. of the enjoyment of this de-
lightful orgy. They furnish the cripples
and the corpses.
On with deception. hypocrisy and
sham: that is the workers stock in
trade. He conceals everything. makes
unreasonable demands and refuses arbi-
tration He controls the rostrum. the
pulpit and the big daily press and with
these powerful accessories of misinfor-
nation is master of the situation
On with idleness. 1t is the only safety
valve OF the worker when millions Of
his fellow toilers are out of a job. On
with starvation. 1t is so civilizing and
spiritualizing to fast If workingmen
would stop kicking for full stomachs and
20 TO church the dream of the preacher
would be realized. On with the mental
suffering and torture OF the unemployed.
Open the flood gates of dependency and
swell the tide OF human misery. on. on,
with hell On with the doctrine that this
beautiful world was created as the gate
way to hell. On with this slander of
God. There are millions of fools who
still believe it. just boost it along and
be popular Truth is nothing Popular
ity is everything The unpopular truth
seeker is better of dead.
On with ancient laws created for con-
ditions that no longer exist, keep them
in force and reverence them for the
profit and convenience of vested author
| ity. on with the tyranny of the dead.
The tyranny of the dead is the most ap
propriate authority for dead electorate.
On with law and order against the poor.
On with the oppression of the lawless
rich. To the grave with the robbed an
archist of poverty. To the pedestal with
the robed hypocritical anarchist of the
bench on with privilege-the privilege
TO bribe. to graft, to rob and steal. The
workers have all got rich at the business
and wisely voted to keep 1t up.
On with the politicians creed that
honesty don't pay. On with the system
that means slavery, dishonor or death
to workingwomen. On to the vanishing
point of the manhood of men and the
womanhood of women. That these grand
qualities should suffer extinction is n
cheap price for society to pay for few
thousand millionaires and ninety million
slaves-the priceless heritage of our
beautiful system.
On with precarious employment, that
discourages marriage, enforces bachelor
hood. drags women and children from
the home into the industrial infernos of
capitalism and debauches love Civiliza-
tion needs more of gold and less of
love so by all means don't interfere with
its god.
But seriously. brothers, there is one
grand division OF the human race that
will not say "on' with these terrible
things nor for scores of others the writer
could mention did not space forbid-a
grand army of organized, disciplined.
self-sacriHcing men and women scattered
all over the civilized world who are de-