The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-08-10
Destroyers
And The Builders
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IN America, the growing capital-
Ism found it's paradise. Here was
= Land fabulously rich, Natures
great store house, containing within
its granary enough of riches to en-
low the whole human race. Here
100, was almost total absence of
the lettering ties of feudal instiu-
lions. Here was that freedom from
interference so dear to the hearts
Of the new capitalist exploiters.
Flying the banner of political free
aom to lev tribute IN the masses,
they won political independence
Hrom II mother country. . From
'tlis hour their rise was a trium-
pi:al march. At a later hour they
same into conflict with that remnant
~ feudalism which had found a
footing in the southern states. For
u, too, the our had struck. The
slash was short, sharp and decisive.
With the capitulation of Lee the last
the vestiges of the fcudaI regime
were to be swept ~ ay from Amerl-
can soil.
The Southern States had sue
rumbed and the question of chattal
slavery had bcen forever laid TO rest
Upon the ruins of the DESTROYED feu-
Sa!ism, the new ~victors were to erect
= new industrialism, more terribly
Srnel. and not less Il slavery than
th2t which had beer displaced. II
bourgeois class. was to enfranchise
I'll" negro by force of arms. and
afterwards 10 watch his disfran-
with approval, when his
note was more likely TO be a menace
than protection"
IN place OF the black slave the
c industrialist was to be substi-
tute the white child, and the cry of
agony from the flogged White free
child was to take the place OF the
~himpe of the beaten egro. Great
factories We're 10 arise throughout
Georgia and the Carolinas where
the worst features of the early Eng
lish factory system were to be re-
produced, and the corruption in po-
litical circles was to render any lc-
gal effort to remedy the conditions
more or less futile" CLewis. Rise
of the American Proletarian."D
The discerning eye of Lincoln saw
the trend of events. and they
brought from the lips OF the great
emancipation these prophetic words:
Il see in the near future a crisis
approaching that me. and
causes ME to tremble for the safety
OF my country. AS a result of war.
corporations have been enthroned.
and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money
W of the country viii ~endeavor
tn nrn1nn" it- ,;- H. -.
the prejudices of the people until
ALL THE WEALTH is AGGRE-
GATED IN 4 FEW HANDS. AND
THE REPUBLIC Is DESTROYED.
| feel at this moment more anxiety
for the safety of IL country than
ever before ever in the midst of
war"
Since the assassin's bullet stilled
the bursting heart of the heroic Lin
coin, the magic wand of Capitalism
has brought all America under it's
sway. With unprecedented rapidity
it has developed our natural re-
sources and dotted the land with
mighty cities. 1t has Invested the
toiiers of the wealth and forced
them to pay hourly tribute Side by
side with the work of i~mpOverish-
ing the masses there has gone on
their education in class-conscious-
ness. The very mechanism of cap
italist society has inevitably created
a proletariat-a properties work
ing class that is destined to be the
Crave-diEGers of tho eNhultant bour-
SCos- Capitalism was the destroy
err of the old regime and the builder
of the new. Now it has reached
its period of senility and decay. and
it turns with affrishted face 10 look
upon the spectre of the headsman.
4 new destroyer and n new builder
stalks through the land.
This new destroyer is laying the
foundation of a new human society