The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-08
NEWS PAPERS
AND EDITORS
By JOHN NYE
Whole No. 261
By JOHN NYE

to fight for white women and white
children. and to bring freedom and
Justice to the working class.
Garrison's name stands out among
those honored today IN this country,
because he dared to tell the truth.
He did not crawl on his hands and
knees because bankers or adver-
tisers threatened to ruin his BUSH
ness
He told the truth. He called the
men who sold human beings Mon
sters. Would that we had a thous-
and like him today to talk plainly
to those who deal in flesh and blood
on a basis Of wage slavery.
When they started to drag him
through the streets of Boston he
dehed his enemies. saying: Il will
be as harsh as truth, and as un-
compromising as justice"
GarriSon'S friends told him that
he was nice young man, and might
do we'll financially If he would ex-
erclse common sense. be moderate
and listen to reason. He replied:
'On the subject of slavery I do not
wish to think or speak with mod
era:ion"
He put nothing above right He
did rot put the Constitution of the
ohlteu states above human liberty
or above his own conscience. When
the respectable element protested
that the Constitution authorized hu-
man slavery. he said: Then burn
the Constitution"
That is not the way the publish
ers and editors of the capitalist pa
pers talk. What they do is to seek
the approval of the powers that be-
They jog along day after day, know
ing in their own souls and con-
science that they are thing for
sale--to be bought by the day or
week. by the column of the inch.
Now the concern OF the Socialist
press is unlike the concern of the
Capitalist press. For that reason
every Socialist owes it to himself
ana the cause he holds sacred to
support our press with every avail
able dollar he can spare.
The Socialist press is not support
ed by railroads, private city corpor-
atoms, or insurance companies. For
that reason our papers are poor.
Every department must hold down
expenses to the lowest point possi-.
BILE. which results in a stinted news
paper.
However. when you buy Soc
ialist publication you are assured of
the fact that it is devoted to the
interest of men, women and child
rem of the working class.
Little girls and boys are hustled
out OF their homes at daybreak to
"oth in the mills, their little bod
les are worn out in the grind for
a scant lfvlihood. They are its con-
cern.
In the mines, on the railroads, in
the shops stands a crushed and
dwarfed manhood. All these men
get from the ruling class is long
hours, low wages. and slaves life
They are it's concern
And the women and motbers
Driven like prisoners at hard labor.
to1llnE in factories and kitchens,
scrub bling floors of office buildings.
wearing themselves into skeletons
at the washtub. watching over sick
babies through the weary hours of
the night. poverty-stricken without
the aid of a physician or friend
they struggle to keep alive the race.
They are the Socialist newspapers
concern.
If yo" want to read about horse
reaching, golf links, scandal
business mergers and wheat pits,
buy Capitalist newspaper. All
these are only superficiaIities Of a.
flirting civilization. If you are in
terested in society and aristocracy,
monster thefts and retty Iarcenies.
big business and small grafters,
read the Capitalist newspapers. For
that's their concern.
But if you are interested in the
working class. if you want to help
shake off our financial parasites, IL
you favor taking possession of the
earth for the benefit of every hu-
man being. then you should read
anG support the Socialist press