The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21
THE CONSPIRACY
OF SlLENCR BROKEN
Hayes Speech and the Labor Day Demonstra-
tion Force Reply from Gazette.

I Who is riding and who is walking
now? Who rode and who walked Lab.
or Day? Who. living IN mansions and
who in novels now? Who is wearing
the cotton and shoddy now? Who are
| eating the best the market affords ?
ana VINO living on corn bread and
| beans now? That is where the So
| clallSt kick comes in. The idle rich
parasites are riding in palace cars and
automobiles and yatchs, while the
| workers who created these necessities
are walking. The workers and pro-
! ducers are wearing the cotton and
| shoddy. The idle rich are wearing the
| wool and silk. The workers live in
| novels, the rich live in palaces. The
| rich parasites eat and drink the best
the land affords, the workers and pro-
ducers must subsist ON the plainest
| coarsest food. The Socialist says let
those producing the comforts and lux
uries enjoy the product OF their labor
and thought. The answer to these
questions is simple. The producer
will enjoy these comforts, and the
idle parisitcal class will have to work
and earn these things, or do without
them.
The people constitute the govern
ment, and if the government takes
over these Industries and operates
them for the benefit of all the people,
the farmer, the merchant and laborer,
all classes of people doing necessary
or productive labor, will receive the
benefits growing therefrom.
who will see that labor gets its
hn 1ol
to it themselves, and will not trust
treacherious politician to do this
for them, as they have in the past
Shall the State take over everything
under Socialism and pay for it.? Then
a few who get the pay would live off
those who have nothing
That is just as it is now. A few
live in idleness ON the work of the
| many.
All the wealth Of the world was
created by labor. All necessities,
luxuries and'comforts are the product
| of the brain and Drawn of labor The
wealth that now has centered III to
| the hands of the few was stolen from
labor. Call it confiscation if you
please, but we call it retribution to
| take back that of which you have
| of the Gazette, the Honorable Senator,
was it confiscation when the state
made him pay back some sixty thous-
and dollars he was short when
| he went out of Office as
Secretary of State? No. the State
| got back her own, and this gentleman
was too glad to save his hide from
the prison to think about connscation.
All Of the wealth of this nation has
beer stolen from Labor. We shall
jusc take back our own. i'iis hog
wash Gisncd up by the Crzettc is too
| ridiculous. too senselHss and shallow
| to Use much space in answering. The
mos. .in;culous thing eoo,.t the whole
! aiTa:- Is that Mr.. Chiffon took the
trus. a. an excuse to take 4 rap a:
the Socialists. Think of Chiffon and
! Watson fighting the trust. Watson is
the htGC of the large1t coal trust in
the state. and w. f. Chiffon is the
paia crl: loye of every corporation and
monopoly in this section of the State.
These two multimillionaires and COR
rcration tools would be great trust
| busters indeed.
| In the future, if you want to take
a jab at Socialism, come out and hit
straight from the shoulder Don't go
around the bush about it, but before
you give it another trial, we would
advise. you to study the question so
YOU can make at least an intelligent
attack on it. We hate to see a United
| States Senator expose such ignorance,
| as it casts a reflection on the intelli-
Gence of his constituents. The out
siders don't know he bought his seat
in the Senate, they think he was
actually elected to that high Office.