Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-07-28

least once month. IN 4 month or two

'sysialdi Son Eeauds the work sine 9nef
fonSth and The people. would haY9 tIE
spend an they st IfEe. sThuss
Hisl rs NplaipBy WrSpg IS alrigNs9o
individuals to save, but for all the PEG
pie to save would at once disjoint ali
industries
None of the above would solve TIL"
Sexisting ills of saciety.
For this country today one percen:
of the people own fully three-fourths
of all producing industries, and as
owners they of course own the pro
ducts.
Nature has furnished all raw mater
ial, and the worker is paid wag.
which according to the United States
statistics is 7only($6, 000, ,O00) six ~bil
lions a year, out of total value o.
($25, 900, 000000) twenty-five billions o.
dollars-or in round numbers one-fourt q
of what they produce.
Now the one per cent of the peopl:
must get rid of three fourths of all tn
products as soon as the other SO pc
cent of the people get rid of the one
fourth or we would have hard timer
due to over-production of goods While
means under-consumptien by the PEG
ple because their wages will not bus
back what they produce.
Fifty years ago those owning half z
million or more, possessed but one pc.
cent of the nations wealth., and it i.
I getting worse.
This same rich class own and con
troll nearly all the daily papers of tn
country and will not allow them Il
publish anything to show the peopl'
how they are robbed, nor Will they al
low them to print anything pointinl
to a solution.
Out of the total wealth produce,
| each year. The workers get six bill
| lions, and the owners get 10 billions
How do the workers. spend their in
come? AS it is less than N$555.0e1 Ito eacl
worker he spends it all to live ant
| needs more
| How do the owners spend theirs?
How do the owners spend\ theirs
Granting it takes IS per cent Of thu
total or 5000, 000,000) six billions 70
! wear and tear and new machinery:
! leaves them thirteen billions or count
inng people to a family, $4,000 90
| 1870 times as much as the average work
! ing mans family.
They must get>-rid of this, they arr
buying up all the industries whic7
makes the gap wider.
They squander what they can in high
living, monkey dinners, etc., etc. bu'
they cannot squander all. But they
must get ride of it, the workers as We
| 6oi &c
The industries are getting into fewe
and fewer hands, the small bushes.
man is getting competed out of bust
ness and lands in the ranks of The
workers. Foreign markets are sough'
! and here he meets the excess product.
of all other capitalist countries, AM
astually sells his goods for less tina,
4 to his own workers at home. Foreign
markets are however nearly of the pas
J as machinery in vast qquanities ha,
| been bought by nearly all foreign
countries which is being used to pro
duce their own goods
All these things working together
are fast winding up the whole capila
list system, making unemployment ant
panics-for panice is unemployment
always with us.
/ Now the capitalists cannot offer anc
solve the, question, if they would. The
capitalists of the world will not ac
together to give labor more. If an in
dividual capitalist would, he soon lose,
all and is precipitated into the rank
4 of the workers: so he is compelled t
hold on, although an increasing mum
her are down and out each year in spite
of their efforts.
The end of capitalism is not far off
1t has nearly broken down. 1t is how
ever compelled to go on to it's own de
struction, it has no other recourse.
4 - The millions of people who are nov
down and out, and all those who ar
precipitated, are studing the question
and are casting about for solution.
That they will be compelled to unit
/ for self protection is inevitable unles
they wish to see the world of cfviiza
ton drop back to a period of dark age
rs it has done in the past,
We are not trying to scare anyone
| AS said, the diffusion of knowledge
makes it possible for all who will tt
investigate for himself, hence it woult
Ne folly to try to blind those who d.
not wish darkness.
We would above all things as yo,
to be, honest with yourself.
The daily papers are fast losing thei
present administration of penal servi-
hold with the people, even the newsie'
say they print nothing we can believ
Unless we know it from someothel
source. The magazines have usurpet
their place in moulding public opinion
We offer Socialism as solution fol
al the ills of society
Prove it otherwise if you can.
If you cannot, be a man and say so
Socialism has grown from a few thou
sand in single country 43 years agc
to ten millions now scattered all ovel
the world. It increases with a stead,
! relentless pace and Prof. Wenley O.
! the university says, Socialism is in.
evitable, its coming in some form which
will revolutionize society, giving great.
er justice, and more opportunity to the
| wage Garner is simply a matter o.
1 time TT 10 on ethical mr.