The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-01-26
Socialism, Anarchy
and Free Love
An Article in Which the Writer
Hurts Down the Throat of the
Slanderers Their Own Lies.

strons misery and shame with which
this wealthy anarchy has cursed and
crucified the unprotected children of
this bank and slfoal of time" Yo,,
have destroyed OUR property, liberty,
lives and homes, regardless of the awful
poverty, sickness, sorrow, agony and
death that your dabolical business and
society produces.
Again, these plutocrats, in order To
misrepresent socialism and poison the
people against it, brasenly advance the
fabrication that socialism means to di.
vide everybody's property equally among
each and all. They say it means to tfi.
vide the industrious mans possessions
with the ifdolent tramp or sot. This
falsehood is circulated to cause honest
diligent owners of property to join the
wealthy thieves in fighting socialism. so
these wealthy ruscals can continue to
pillage the public to enrich themselves.
Socialism teaches no such rascality az
dividing peoples property indscrim.
inately among the multitude But, it
does oppose the present policy of divis.
ion where the honest worker gets but
81 go of the SIP worth of wealth he pro-
duccs every day he works, while the
lazy, loafing capitalistic scoundrel takes
$500 and gives the producer only $500
of the $4,000 he creates every year. So.
cialisrn means to stop this present plan
of dividing up where the. workers are
the makers and the shirkers are the
takers of five-sixths of the fruit of hon
est toll and thought. The real and only
reason why these rich swindlcrs are op-
posed to any arrangement for n more
just division of the workers wealth is
because they know it would abolish their
established scoundrelity of stealing near.
ly everything through their murdcrous
monopolies and thieving trusts. These
pirates are opposed to socialism because
they want to steal and hoard away the
wealth OF all the world themselves, and
deprive the children of men of nearly
all they justly earn. They are against
division because they want the whole
creation for themselves.
What socialism wants and means to
have is, that the workers or producers
of wealth shall have more than one
or two dollars of the ten twelve they
create every day; that they shall re-
ccivc more than $500 of the $4,000 they
create every year. Socialism means that
the indolcnt loafcr extorting all this
property from working people shall earn
what he takes by the sweat of his brow !;
that honest, Industrious toilers shall re,
ceive and enjoy the undivided product
of their toll and thought. Instead of
advocating an equal division of wealth
we simply advocate the immortal truth
and Justice that these money mongers
present method of distribution or divis.
ion must become extinct; that the crea-
tors of the necessuries and luNuries OF
life shall be the owners to enjoy But
suppose socialism did mean an equal di-
vision: that would be far better than
the present piracy of giving several
worthless thieves from $25 5,OOO,OOo to
$4,000, 900 IL year. while millions OF
those making this money get but fo"
or five hundred q year.
No wonder these cxploiters are op,
posed to amy other division of the wealth
of work than their present thievery' ar
ranged expressly to suit and SATISFY
themselves regardless of the rights ana
liberties of man. They oppose an equa'
division for all because it would destroy
their heathenism of dividing as to pal
fer nearly everything themselves. we
want the rightful owners to retain wha'
they honestly acquire, and seek to intro
ducc a system of industry and com
mcrce that will prevent these wealthy
schemers from dividing what the poor
nroduce as to steal it nearly all and
LOT the riphtful owners slave and starve
! in misery. penury and pain.
Oh, You wealthy anarchists. calling
righteous revolution nasty Names De
cause You know the caPitais'ic
constitutes the cause OF all anarehs anu
| comprises band of aristocratic ana'