The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-03-16

From 1920 to 1860 the contest
over the two forms Of slavery was
the biggest question in American
politics. In the south the rulers had
two schemes for skinning the work
ing class, The wage system for the
white man, and the chattel slavery
system for SHINING the BLACK man.
Up north they had only one, the
wage system, for skinning both
kinds In the south. west of the
Mississippi River were millions and
millions of acres Of territory unin-
habited and uncultivated. The lead
Ing citizens in the south with their
systems wanted the new territory
west of the Mississ ippi River for
their schemes-and they were going
10 have it. too. In the north the
leading citizens wanted the vast
territory west of the Mississippi for
their wage system, and did not want
any black slavery system, for skin
ming the working class, (applause) !,
and it got to be the biggest question
in the United States Congress.
In 1860 South Carolina said. we
States Good by. We are going to
skin them our way Isn't that so?
isn't that the way Of it?
OF course the working men went
10 war. they didn't realize what it
was. They went to fight to see which
way they should be skinned. cloud
alDausel
Do YOU see the economical ques-
tion in our Civil War? am not
sNeaking of the Civil War lightly.
From the north and from the south
went from their homes some of the
0ravest. finest lads the world ever
saw. Every northern soldier knows
mat when he met a southern soldier
he met his equal as fighter and a
Gentleman. and they know in the
south. too. the northern men were
good fighters. What was determined
by the war?
What I would like to have you see
next is how marvelously developed is
mis- system now. What would you
'Alhk of a man. who being, told that
ne would have a fight in the future,
oeSin at the age of twenty to develop
.aIn set of exercises to develop his
HrSt and his right arm. so that he
could pat on nine hundred pounds
F@aSir" To the square inch. and sup
pose he had developed his fist be-
EItnin% when n boy. what would you
m'hN Of the man who would do that?
ION would say he is crazy.
want to show that the modern
system Is developed in that way. the
@Eih% IS needed for three purposes in
oDr day:
FlrSl- 70 help the ruling class force
Tie working class to stand still. if
,.'y 90 ont on a strike-to force
"'M 10 produce more than they
'"r" permitted to consume.
second. the armed guard is needed
" "h"n nr foreign markets in which
10 soil goods produced by the Amcri-
van Ia'or"r, which he is kept TOO
poor to buy.
'A.Id. the armed guard is kept for
.'' HHfn1So Of defending the foreign
Ear5"-
N+a any body tell me why we
soil portcr-house steak to
.''@.-a markets when our American
''Fk!asaan are 10 poor to eat it at
homo"
We lave got thousands and mil
~S 'L mon working for wages in
=. ",'" and the wages less than the
'''. '."t 'Hcre may be a profit for
'" a-'f The wages are so much
- ..a. hat which they produce
'.F cannot buy what the labor
0nl 50 the capital has tc
part 1s it out of the country
modern machinery and
"lS there must be over
o.. .'... Some are going to bt
"s. and they have to have
.r 3.' E1ard and they have t.
" .a.' ia use the rifle and the
u"lh down the employed