The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-12-16
BIG MONEY IS CRIME
OF AMERICAN NATION
Editor of Mesaba Ore at Hibbing
Believes McNamaras Fish and
Big Money Fowl.
Calls Attention in Able Editorial
to Greed of Capital and
Slaughter of Men.

While the labor papers of the coun-
try have very wisely refrained from
attempting to justify the crimes Of
the McNemaras by the wrongs in
t11cted through the greed of profits
by capitalism, other papers are not
all so merciful. The Mesaba Ore of
I1ibbing, with perfect propriety
sounds a very timely warning. It
says:
There was no justification what
soever for the taking of life and the
destruction of property by Nc
NamaraS, yet this may be taken as a
forerunner Of what Is coming unless
there is radical change in the man.
ner of the government of the nation.
THE signs are in the air.
McNamaras Hunted Down.
THE McNamaras were hunted
down and punished for their crimes,
and no good citizen will there be to
cry out for mercy for them, and yet
crimes of greater magnitude and more
'far-reaching destruction are being
committed every day in this land IF
the free, and the perpetrators remain
unmolested.
big Money is the crime of the
nation.
1T is responsible for the deplora BILE
condition that exists today, but it
could NOT be were 1t not upheld and
made fast by a governmental fabric
that seems to stand upon nothing
more solid and substantial than the
majority vote of this political party
or that.
1T is alone responsible for the con-
dition that is driving good men to
suicide because they cannot bear the
sight of their starving children;
THAT is driving good men to lives
of petty thievery and making buns
of them:
'"That is driving young women to
lives of everlasting shame because
they cannot earn enough by honest
toll to live on;
Curse of Big Money.
THAT is driving men and women
and little children into premature
graves because they cannot keep up
in the awful struggle for the mere
existence;
"That is causing more misery and
more hell than all the wars of his
tory;
THAT is creating a chasm of class
hatred and incipient anarchy that can
never be bridged.
"Is it not enough to turn these
longing and hungering eyes toward
anarchy when they read of the mill
ions of dollars annually declared as
dividends by the Big Money concerns
of the country? .
Idlers of Privilege.
Million; and millions of dollars for
the idlers of Special Privilege, while
the toiler willing to work cannot gain
the pittance to keep body and soul
together.
ut is the condition that today is
filling up the ranks of the Socialist
party, not with the rabble that mark
ed the history Of its early days, but
by big, broad-minded, thinking men
of parts, who are sickened at the
sights about them on every hand, and
who are welcoming with outstretched
arms anything that gives promise of
freedom from the CALLING irons of
plutocracy.
mo man whose religion is the
creed Of the Republican party or the
Democratic party is longer safe
ruler of this nation-What is needed
is a MAN.
Thousands Are Killed.
ITO the twenty-one souls sent into
eternity by McNamaras, the murderer,
there are thousands and thousands
killed every year by the slow, heart
shredding process of the greed Of the
Big Money power-murders, too, that
are not so human as the McNamaras
brand-anG yet these murders Of cold
and deliberate mien are pampered and
petted and continued in the power
that is pauperizing and degrading the
nation that a few may be enriched.
IF this is not so, will you kindly
tell US why 1t is that there are peo-
pie, many Of them, right here in Hib-
bling, the richest spot on Gods green
earth, that are ragged and dirty, hun
cry and cold, and who haven't thing
on earth to help themselves with?
"These people want to live. are
willing tn work, and they are not to
blame for their confederation who
is?
Twill you answer that?"