The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-15
MARKHAM Club Socialists
Editorial Committee:
KATE S. HIlliARO.
e. A. eATTElL.
ROY e. SOUTHWICK.

by King George there would have been
no American Revolutionary move
mcnt. With everyone enjoying eco
nomic Independence, good wages. COM
Portable homes. security Tor the future
and ample leisure for self-lmprove-
ment-what less than this can be
called Success" NATURALLY there
would be no Socialist movement. But
, there is just the rub. Our present
economic structure is SO framed up
that everybody cannot be successful.
For few to be successful" vast
number must be kept under. And
hence comes the justice and necessity
Again, with a free field and oppor-
tunIties equal, failure may be dis
grace But with field obstructed by
entrenched might. and opportunities
pre-empted by those in possession.
failure becomes not a disgrace. but
the inevitable state of all those not
on the inside track. Today the vast
majority oil us come into the world
handicapped. Property-less and capi.
tal.less, VIC are also powerleSs against
those who have already usurped to
themselves the tools We need TO live
by, Under such conditions failure"
loses its shame, the charge of fail
ure" Its opprobrinm Under such
conditions the charge that Socialism
is the philosophy of failure" Is not
point against 1t, but rather the strong
est point I'm its favor That philoso-
ply has q world TO conquer.
Furthermore, the simile oil the foot
ball game is absurdly beside the
question. Football is not a matter OF
compulsion. None need tread the grid
iron unless he so elects He has full
and free choice either to play the
game as it is. or leave il alone How
IS il. though. with the game of the
struggle for life? Here one may not
take IL or leave IL. rs he pleases.
With all its iniqulties. with all its
injustices whatsoever, II is forced
upon him, and he must play. What
better right can there be. then than
his to demand that its rules be
framed so as to give him his equal
chance
Socialism the philosophy OF fail
ure?" So is the desire for drink
the philosophy OF thirst and the
desire for fire the philosophy of
being cold" and as thirst cannot be
stilled save BY drink, nor cold dis
PEELED save by fire, so can the neces-
sity of failure" for the many in o.
der 10 afford success to the few
never be abolished except by Social
ism While its opponents worry its
flanks with oots of failure" that
movement marches ON TO success.
Miss Anne Morgan. daughter OF j.
Pierpont Morgan. has Joined The
Womans $ Shirt Waist union. How
kind of her indeed Miss Morgan is
not under the lash OF the capitalist
eXploiter. therefore, she can derive
no benefits from the union
Tho working class can take care Of
itself, and needs no help from a
charity worker and the daughter of
big capitalist
Stop the exploitation OF human Ia
bor power. and there will be no need
OF charity. Charity organizations
show that the exploitation of the
worker is unbearable. and that they
are not making n living wage.
Letting Miss Morgan into the Wom-
ans Shirt Waist union shows the
pure and simple character of the
trades unions. and Miss Morgan is in
the Womans Civic federation. an
other pet organization OF the capital
list to keep the workers In subsection.
Workers Of The world do not accept
charity from the capitalist class, but
take possession OF the means BY
which YOU make your living. and
there will be no need of charity.
The militant workers must educate
and organize their fellow workers
on a revolutionary basis to do away
with capitalism and stop the exploit
alton OF man HOWARD HALL.