The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-09-21

atof, mas at last summoned up the
necessary courage to make a round
| about and unreasonable attack on So
| clailsm, The only effect these editor
| 1als will have is to show the pitiful
and dense ignorance of the writer on
the subject he attempts to discredit.
We would advise Senator Chiffon, the
! editor-in-chief, and his sub editor to
study the principles of Socialism be-
fore they attempt to attack or dis
! credit 1t. AT least, be able to discuss
1t intelligently, and not make them
| selves ridiculous and an object of
| ridicule. This voice of the Spec1a1
Interests and trusts, the Gazette. was
afraid to approach this subject direct,
but has beat about the bush for two or
three editorials, but at last in a
roundabout way tries to answer Mr..
Hays Labor Day Speech The big
boss was present and heard Hays
speech. Why didn't he answer It
then and there: We are confiden,
nothing would have given Mr.. Hays
this question with him. The facts are
these: Senator w. E. Chiffon heard
the roar of the mighty army of labur
sleep for the first time on Labor Day,
when the wage earners refused to
listen to the hypocratical palaver of
the politician, and received the labor
speaker with applause. Senator Chill
tea even failed to hold the crowd
with that fake road story he attempted
to get off. When he tried to do the
Littlepage stunt of throwing boqucts
at himself, he was given the horse
laugh for his trouble Poor old
Gazette, your corporation owned Sen
atcr and boss has seen the handwrit-
ing on the wall, and trembles with
fear as he hears the tramp of the toll
ing masses in their onward march to
victory. In a vain effort to stay it's
progress he shoots these meaningress
and scnseless squibs in his morning
howl
The Socialist says that the trusts
are good things, but the people must
own the trust. instead of the trust
owning the people. Now, Mr.. Chill
ton in his editorials says:
This sounds good, but the farmer
will ask how? The business man will
ask what is to become of me? And
the laborers will inquire, who shall
see tnat l get my rlShtS?
1t would pay the farmers to inquire
how they are being robbed and by
whom now? Let him ask the political
crooks who have betrayed their trust
and sold out to the trust why it is
that he must toll from early morning
until late at night, year in and year
out. for bare existence? The small
| business man is nothing but a dis
| tributing agent for the wholesaler and
| manufacturer. He assumes the risk
and responsibilities, and if he makes
| more than decent living. he must
| rob his customers. The big business
| man will have to stop robbing the
public and earn his own living or
starve. But the browning joke of all
THE laboring man will ask who shall
see that l get my rights. Who is
| seeing that he gets them now? If any
one is looking after the laboring man's
rights now, he certainly is not on to
| his job. Under the present system
the laboring man don't seem to have
any rights. The capitalists. through
their ownership Of the means of pro-
| ductiSn, their control of the govern
| ment and their corrupt and baised
| courts. have robbed labor of every
vestage cf rights.
| The writer of the editorial in the
Gazette says: There are more peo-
pie VINO ow.l property than there are
| those who do not" This statement
| is absolutely untrue as statistics will
| show that ID per cent OF the popula-
| tlon of the United States own 50 per
cent of the property, and S5 per cent
| OF the population only own 10 per
| cent of the nations wealth. Statis-
| ties Will further show that about 53
per cent of the population are alb
| solutely propertyless. Further on
the writer says: The state can't do
things so economically as can individ-
| uals.' If our officials would cut out
their graft. as they will have to under
Socialism. the State could do the work
much cheaper than individuals. At
present a least 60 per cent of all
government work is graft. Then tbs
writer gets uneasy. and asks the fol
lowing foolish questions:
''Who would ride2 Who would walk.
Who would live in this house or that.
Who would wear wool who silk. who
cotton? Who would eat beef, VINO
lamb, who pork, who chichen?'