Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-13

II the point Of believing tha: ,cialist
governor in any state in the Onion
would order out the mill ia to shoot
down the working class for asking
for an increase II their wages or de-
handing decent working conditions.
There is not an intelligent labor un-
Zionist in the world who believes that
4 Socialist mayer would order the.
policeman's club upon the heads Of a
peaceful gathering for the discussion
Of working class grievances. On the
other hand they KNOW and Be
LIEYE that the capitalist governors
and courts and militia and police
force WILL do the very thing they.
believe the Socialist Wouli NOT per
NIT if they were in power Then, in
the name of common sense, why do
the working class continue to vote;
for the policemen's clubs to beat their
HEADS, the bullets and bayonets of the
militia to pierce their bodies and the
capitalist courts to deprive them Of
their rights by injunction and impri-
sonment. BY rational exercise Of
the powers Of the ballot, all these
things could BE- changed in their own
favor. It seems more like dream
than a reality. For thousands of
years the laboring people have been
made to believe that they are not
capable of running their own affairs.
For thousands Of yeasr the have
been dashed and robbed and enslaved.
They have been made to look up to
their masters and believe in their
own inferiority. viii the laborers Of
our country as class ever rise to the
/ occasion whereby they may set them
selves free? or viii religious super
stitions and fanaticisms and political
and Industrial imbecility. and craft
Ehatreds and warning colors and ma
tioAalities forever blind them and pre-
vent them from uniting and coming
into their own? If the working class
of the United States do not unite in
the Socialist movement and effect a.
1 peaceful solution Of these gerat Qnes-
tions at the ballot box, 1t is my ii. !.
Ibelief that there is no other recourse
than OPEN WARFARE. The Social
lists are working night and day for a
PEACEFUL solution at the BALLOT
BOX and If, through economic and
political ignorance, this country
should be plunged into war in the
settlement Of these questions, the
blood will be upon the skirts Of those
OPPOSED TO SOCIALISM.
Every working man and working
woman should be subscriber to the
Labor and Socialist papers. They
are your friends and are fighting your
battles. The capitalist papers are
you renemies and are aiding and
abetting the capitalists in holding you
in perpetual slavery. Hence it is
your duty to aid those who help you
rather than lend aid to those who are
your recognized enemies in the ever
/ present class struggle
PREES Of America is denouncing the
kidnapping of the Mcnamara Brothers
as unconstitutional and a menace to
the life and liberties Of the working
people, and the CAPITALIST PRESS
Is pronouncing them guilty before
trial and asking that they pay the
penalty with their blood. TheN Social
list Locals all over the United States
have denounced the kidnapping Of the
McNamaras IN unmeasured terms.
but not single Democrat or Repub-
lican Club in all the United States
has passed resolutions Of condemns
ton against the act. ACTIONS
speak louder than WORDS. The cap
italist class know where the Social
] lists stand on all these great questions
and are fighting them tooth and nail.
Is it not about time that the working
class learn the Socialist position?
When the working class Of the world
arouses from its age long slumber
4 and the vision of Socialism is impress
led upon its brain. ''life will lengthen
joy win deepen, love will intensity,
humanity will be enthroned and the
world set free" The Mcnamara kid
MAPPING case may prove to be the
bred Scott decision Of the Twentieth
Century.