The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-23

messed in our recent elections.
You who read the papers Of today are
| we'll aware that there is being waeed
against socialism a continual warfare,
You are also aware that there is not a
! laborer who is we'll informed upon the
principles of cooperation who is not a
soldier in this warfare-the opponents Of
plotting labor and that class of laborers
who have not studied cooperation suffi
GENTLY to understand its benefits, and
that class of laborers who vet have a
meagcr hope of becoming capitalists. But
the cxponents of socialism are carving
on thorough and a systematic plan Of
education among the workers which all
the powers of capitalism and competi-
tion cannot check. And no one knows
this better than the parasites themselves
Listen to what William Howard Taft
said in his speech at Boston on the 3oth
of December, 1907: eff the abuses of
monopoly and discrimination cannot be
restrained, if the concentration of power
made possible by such abuses continues
that under the system of individualism
and private property the tyranny and
oppression of an oligarchy of wealth can
not be avoided, then socialism aoiH tri-
umph and the Institution of private
property 1oilt perish"
must have, known that, with our every
Official, legislative, judicial and executive
chosen on account of their indisputed
loyalty to the promoters of an oligarchy
of wealth, that this tyranny and opprcs-
sion would not and could not be re-
strained. So, then, he should have said
without so much haggling, socialism will
triumph and individualism will perish.
Socialism is coming and ere long it will
sweep this nation like mighty cyclone.
leaving no trace of graft and corruption.
While Rockefeller and Morgan and Car
negie and others of their ilk are donat-
ing their tens of millions that they have
produced it, toward their So called peace
conferences, socialism is laying the
true, the sure foundation of peace and
freedom by disseminating the principles
of cooperation and brotherhood
Did the Dred Scott decision or the
hanging of John Brown check or pre-
vent the war of the Rebellion or the
freedom of the chattel slave? Will the
Fort Scott decision or the jailing of the
socialist Editor Warren check or pre-
vent the social revolution or the free
dom of the wage slave? AS was the
effect of the other. AS was the Dred
Scott decision and the hanging of John
Brown to the war of the Rebellion, and
the freedom of the chattel slave. so will
be the Fort Scott decision and the jail
ing of the socialist editor, Warren, be
to the social revolution and the free
dom of the wage slave.
Worthy Master, my honorable oppo-
ncnt may come before you and try to
advance some argument to get you to
believe that socialism does not amount
to anything-that it is like summer
breeze; that it will come and gently
pass away; but feel assured that no
such silly argument will receive even
rassing notice by you. If the opponents
of socialism believed it would amount to
nothing more than a summer breeze, theH
would Just let it alone and let 1T expire
in peace But when they see it looming
up in such terrific power that it is al
ready shaking the foundations OF their
nm lust system. And we see all the hosts
Of capitalism and competition so earnest
ly in battle array against it. with their
modern Goliah of individualism. Teddy
Roosevelt, PROSTATE on the field, it would
be the foule=t of folly to liken it to
summer breeze.
1t is we'll known fact that almost
every class of 1aborers have ORGANIZED
into labor organizations for the promo
ton of their welfare, the Fundamental
principle of each being cooperation, ano
while they have made some mistakes, II
is fact which cannot be successfully
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