The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-30


cratic ana Republican Parties; they
| own the newspapers. they buy the
editors; they build the churches;
| they hire the preachers; they endow
/ the colleges, academies, universities,
libraries and Y. NJ. c. AS over the
door of which should be written the
legion Hell on the instalIment
plan" Here GOVERNMENT, COS
PIE and GREED have comb ined to
rule, state prostitutes justice, greed
prostitutes Christ, the Capitalist
wage system prostitutes man, the
toiler, whose sons shall be the rich
mans slaves by day, his daughters
their slaves by night" The private.
ownership of these natural resourc-
es has filled modern society with a
chronic state of hydra-headed woe.
1t has-Siven us rotten civilization,
which breeds and prizes the blood
ed brute, and deems as worthless
the newborn babe for whom Christ
died; that disconnects the babes
lips from the mothers breast, and
drains her milk into profits and
rents; that has poisoned every foun-
tain and stream designated to bless
the world. 1t has filled our tails
with criminals, our poor houses
with paupers, our asylums with lun-
arics, our highways with tramps. our
streets with prostitutes, our church.
es with hypocrites, our palaces with
Shylocks, our law courts with venal
lepers Gncludins Judge Burdctt)
and our State House and legislative
halls, national, state and municipal,
with thieves, knaves, Erafters and
political demagoSues of every shade
and every dimension.
Who Controls the Republic?
The control of this Republic by
such enormous wealth, means minor
ity instead of majority government,
since in all coutrics, under all gov
ernments, wealth is power. Capital
Sratihes It's desires according to it's
ability to exploit, and just so surely
shall riches and selfish luxury pro-
tccted by law and the prostituted
courts, dig the grave of this nation
it. debauches and enslavcs Blind
to it's own fate and coming horror,
wealth flaunts itself in poverty's face,
precipitates cruel hunger-breeding
strikes rather than to decrease by
few dollars its bloated dividends,
builds palaces within sight of
swarminE novels, encourages Sank
ey Song Missions, Good Govcrnme
movements, Men and Religious For
ward Movements, composed OF de-
signing politicians and canting hy-
pocrites, who shout blood and fire
while hell is here, to save souls
while they rob bodies, or to snatch
n few brands from the burning while
the whole forest OF humanity is on
fire. We are proffered Bibles for
bread, soup for satisfaction. blessings
Tor beefsteak, mansion above with
4 coffin nail for n latch key, and {,
lot of cheap cant about the love of
God in place of that humane love
one for the other, for want of which
men and women and babes rot and
die.
I'm political party dominated
by these canting hyEocrites the
American mechanic, with ballot in
hand, and American Sovereign
chalked on his back, asserting hi:,
independence at the polls. while his
family in one-slum room sing
When | can read my title clear to
| mansions in the Skies" is a spec
tacle to make Hell's -Fiends laugh
and Holy Angels weep. What n
! mockery in manhood: what a lie in
language, what handcuffed freedom
this citizen presents to the world!
| In his hand the vote that for him
! never counts; on his back the load
that never grows less.
There is Il sense in which history
repeats ITSELF and IL which like con-
| ditions produce like results. Il is
we'll to remember that in this res
| poet unsurpation of political pow
er will undermine an empire of ada.
| mite Pharo and his drowning
taSk-maSt orS grasDc1 this lesson in