Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-17
Gene DEBS' ELOQgief
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advantage Of to make her work at
/ still lower wages than the, male slave
gets who works at her side. 81
AS an economic dependent, she is
compelled to sacrifice the innate re-
| flnement, the inherent purity and no.
bility of her sex, and for q pallet OF
straw marrfes the man she does not
| love. 4
The debauching effect. of the capt
talist system upon Womanhood is ac-
curately registered In the divorce
court and the house of shame
| In socialism, woman would stand
| forth the equal of man-all the ave-
nues would be open to her and she
would naturally find her fitting place
and rise from the low plane of men
ial serviIity to the dignity of ideal
womanhood.
| Breathing the air of economic free
{ dom, amply able to provide for her
self in socialist society, we may be-
certain that the cruel injustice that
is now perpetrated upon her sex and
the degradation that results from it
will disappear forever.
II Consider again the barren prospect
of the average. boy who faces the
world today. If he is the son of
workingman his father is able to do
little in the way of giving him a start.
He does not get to college, nor
even to the high school, but has to
be satisfied with what he can Get
in the lower grades. for as soon as
he has physical growth enough to,
work he must find something to do,
SO that he may help to support the
family.
His father has no influence and
can get no preferred employment for
him at the expense of some other,
boy, so he thankfully accepts any
kind of service that he may be al
lowed to perform.
How hard it is to find a place for
that boy of yours!
What shall we do with Johnnie?
and Nellie? is the questions of the
anxious mother long before they are
ripe for the labor market
1.-THE child is weak. you know.
continues the nervous, loving little
mother, land can't do hard work;
and l feel dreadfully worried about
him."
What a pictured Yet so common
that the multitude do not see it.
This mother, numbered by thousands
many times over, instinctively under
stands the capitalist system, feels its
Il cruelty and breads its approaching
horrors which cast their shadows up
on the tender, loving heart.
Nothing can be sadder that to see
the mother take the boy she bore by
the hand and start to town with him
to peddle him off as merchandise to
Esome one who has use for child
slave.
To know just, how that feels one
must have had precisely that exper
fence.
| The mother looks down so fondly
land caressingly upon her boy;,land
he looks UP into her eyes so timidly
Land appealingly as she explains his
Egood points to the business man or.
factory boss, who IN turn ,insp pc &
1.-THE lad and interrogates him. to. YER
lily his mothers claims, and finally IN
forms them that they may call again,
mot think he can use the boy.
\ Well, what finally becomes of the
boy? He is now grown, his mothers
4 fWOIIy Is lOAS S1uCO SuOCOs d5 buS
grass grows green where she sleeps
and he, the boy? Why, he's a factory
! hand-a hand, mind you, and he gets
a dollar and a quarter a day when
the factory is running. T-tt
+ That is all he will ever GET
He is an Industrial life prisoner
no pardoning power for him.. no
flowers, no pictures, no comrades, no
love, no joy for him.
Just a hand! A human factory
hand!
| Think of a hand with soul In 1t!
4 In the capitalist business the soul
has no business. It cannot produce
profit by any process Of capitalist
calculations.
The working hand is what is need
ed for the capitalists tool and SO the
a hand.
A thousand hands to one brain
the hands Of workingmen, the brain
of capitalist.
A thousand dumb animals, in hui
man form-a thousand slaves in the
letters of ignorance, their heads hav-
ing run to hands-all these owned
land worked and fleeced by one stock
dealing, profit-mongering capitalist.
| This is capitalism!
| And this system is supported al
Iternate1y by the Republican party
and the Democratic party.
These two capitalist parties relieve