Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
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SOCIALISM is THE NEW pA1,p,or,c..

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Human life depends upon food o
and shelter r. Only When these are
assured are ire edom, culture and higher
duce food, clothing and shelter IN pro ,
IiaehiheIy are needed. Land bv itsaIf
u ho, NOT satlsiy human needs. Human
~ i seis raw materials and food ont
OF the soil by creating machiner"1y ~ umai
usins 1t upon the land. Wbaayer has
trol of on land and machinery has con
man life and III berry. u hu-
TO-DAY the machinery and the land
by a rapidly decreasing minority V"h s
ions as maehih ery is simple and ga siLl
nahaiea by on man it does not make
dominate the sources of life Of others
nut "nen mac hinery becomes more and
uuires 1 ION ana expensive. and re-
canned effort of many WORKERS It's IN
iif uence reaches over wider circles of
become the don ninant class.
The MAS SEES N Subsection.
IN pfoportioH as the number of such
nita ei ! owner : ompared To all other
n .a1se ueerea4es their power in the
nation and IN the world Increases. They
bring ever lars er masses OF Working neo-
PIE uhuer thelr control, reducing them
70 the point where muscle and brain ara
their only proc uctive property Millians
OF formerly sci employing workers thus
become the he pless wage slaves of the
industrial masters.
Inc more the economic power of the
iuilnS class grows, the less useful does
:. peu3lne IN tie lie Of the nation. The
o.eI WhelmlnS Dulk of the useful work
OF the nation falls upon the shoulders
OF the classes that either have no othel.
productive qperty but their manual
and mental lal or power the wage worn
ers-or that ave but little land and
ildtle macilinely outside OF their labor
farmers. The ruling minority is stead
ny peconlns u beiess ana parasitic
tb IA na,ter str4sgie over the division of
the exploiting propertled CLASS ON the
one hand ana The exploited, propertyless
class on the o lher. In this struggle the
wage working class cannot EXPECT ade-
quate relief ire IN any reform of the pres
society.
The wage workers. are therefore the
most determined and irreconcilable an
tagonists OF ~ ruling class. They. are
also the class which, suffers most from
the curse OF 81 lass rule. The fact that a
small number OF capitalists is permitted
TO use all the counIry's resources and
social tools I'd a their individual profit,
and to make / he production of the neceS
sarles OF our lives the object of their
competitive pr waite enterprises and spec
ulatlonS lis at the bottom OF all the So
cial evils of gu time.
MODERN INDUSTRY PAINLESS.
In spite of the organization of trusts
pools and combinations. the capitalists
are. poWerless 10 regulate production for
social ends. Industries are largely con-
Quoted in, a planless manner Through
periods of teverish activity the strength
and health OF the workers are merciless-
~ undermined and during periods OF e..
forced idleness the workers are fire.
quently reduce to starvation
the chmaXe S OF this chaotic system
OF production are the resdlatly recur-
ring industrial depressions and crises
which paralyzt the nation every fifteen
or twenty years
in its mad and reckless race for prof
its the capital list class is bound to ex-
plot the wor kers to the very Limit ~
their endurant e and to sacrifice their
physical. moral and mental welfare to
keeps the mas SEES of workingmen in pow
erty, destituti ion, physical exhaustion
from their no mes to the mill and fac
tory. 1t snatches their children from
the Fairgrounds and schools and Sflnds
their slender Hodies and uniformed NH ds
into cold doila S. II Wantonlv d~lsflgufes,
malm and ki Us hundreds Of thousands
OF workingmeb annually in mines on
millions OF " prkers INTO the ranks Of
the unemploydd and forces large MIN,
beers OF them INTO begSaIS- YaSraneF ana
all forms OF G lime and vice.
PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE CORRUPTED
To maintain their rule over their fel-
low men. the capitalists must, keen IN
their paw all organs OF the public pp@-
ers, public m nd and public conscience.
They control the dominating parties ana,
through them, the elected publle critic
ials. They elect our executives. hflbe
our legislature and corrupt our courts
of Justice. They own and censor the
press They sway our educational ne,ido ,o,i IN l.
cally and int leetualy lust as tteY own
it industrially-
The slruggld between the wage work
ers and capifa lists grows ever ilefcef.
and has become the only vital issue be-
fore the AMT rican people, The wage
vital and dir ct interest in abolish1nS
the capitalist system But IN abolish.
xrin fraa nnt LnnlV Inelr own cllSS. Dul
also all othet classes of modern so
ciety: The S mail farmer, who is today
reetly but not less effectively than is
the wage labPref; the small
d darnsr AND a ,rafe losing mno s Is eRsai for en- eco a
nomic indepeH dence IN i ace OF .ns
a~ll-conquering power OF Concentrate ca
ital; and even the capitalist himsel VIII
is the slave Ct his wealth. rather than
its master. The struggle of the WORKING
class against the capitalist class while
il is a class struggle, is thus al the
same time a struggle for the abolition
of all classes and class privileges.
MUST CONQUER THE POLITICAL
POWER.
The priavte ownership of the land and
means of production used fer expion,a .
is built. political Is It's IN
dispensable INSTRUMENT The wage WORK
and substitute M collective and demo
cratic administrator IOG private pWHti
shin of the land and the means OF pro-
duction used for exploitation
The basis for such transformation Is
ranidly develoIing within the very bosom
Of present CAPITALIST society. The fac
forv sytem with its immense machin-
ery and minute division of labor. is rap
idiv destroying all vestigeS of individual
nrodncfion in manufacture. Modern pro.
dnction is already very largely a col
lectiye and social process. while the
great trusts and monopolies which have
Strung llp in recent years have had the
effect of organizing the work and man
agement of some Of our main INDUS
tries on a national scale. and fitting
them for national use and operation.
AN M TO CLASS RULE.
In the struggle for freedom the inter-
esfs of the Workers of all nations are
IDENTICAL The struggle is not only ma
tionai' but International 1t embraces
the world and will be carried to ultimate
tba nnitad workers of the