The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-23
ANNIHILATED AGAIN
COmrade Schneider Doesn't Know he IL
Dead and Continues to Chirp

Dead and Continues to Chirp
In his issue of Oct. 1S Editor Ben
jamn once more annihilates the So
cialists in the usual manner, and as
usual quite unsuccessfully so. He
simply repeats for the ten milliOnth
time, reputed stock arguments of all
opponents of the socialist idea, who
have an axe to grind, i. e., imagine
themselves interested in perpetuating
the capitalist system of industry, in
and under what they some how man
age to ride the poor asses, whom 1t
has pleased God in his infinite wisdom
to put in this world already saddled
and bridled for democratic, republican
and so-called progressive editors and
their paymasterS to ride in ease and
pleasure. Now Mr.. Editor in recount
ing your stock objections to socialism
you have overlooked few. Will you
pardon your correspondent if he comes
to your assistance?
1t would occupy too much of your
valuable space to deal with the nine
perversions of socialism for the ten
thousandth time; suffice 1t to say that
the Common Cause" in standing for
and defending the greatest capitalist
institution on earth; the greatest ex-
ploiter of men, women and children on
earth; the greatest of all agents for
the promotion and perpetuation of ig-
norance and superstition on earth; the
most unfair, untruthful, selfish, hypo-
critical, deceitful and perverse oppon-
ents ever promulgated on earth, is
hardly fair contention to judge So
cialism by.
Mr.. Editor please disabuse your
mind OF the one stock fallacious OBJ
lection: Socialists have not invented
socialism, are not promoting the idea
from choice, because some other idea
would do as well, but as students of
history, sociology, political and indus
trial economy and particularly as deep
delivers in the theory of evolution,
they are here to tell you and all other
opponents and faultfnders, that So
sialism is bound to come and that
shortly, to save society from destruc-
tion through it's own ignorance, knav-
cry and carelessness. Society in sheer
self-defense will and must inaugurate
socialism because capitalism has
bankrupted it, has ridden it into debt,
mortgage, bondage, slavery and SER
vitude to about ten per cent of it's
most brutal, hoggish and unscrupulous
members, that the idea of ever paying
out is too preposterous to occupy a
sane man for a moment. Society must
and will adopt and inaugurate social
ism, because it offers the only way out
and no one has so far proposed any
other. Knowing what was" under
standing what is" socialists arrive at
the only correct deduction as to what
will be" in the near future and are
| therefore come to tell you and yours,
that to get the benefits of all this
| monopoly and classification, we, the
! entire people, must get on to the in
| side of the greatest trust on earth, the
| international trust OF all society. Mr..
| Editor ever since the u. S. census of
1880 the average product for man,
woman and child $50 far as the latter
in its slavery displaces, either a man
! or woman) is and has been since
that time, $10.50 per day; the average
pay for the days work of all those
| productivity and usefully employed
was and is hardly more than 81 so per
day. The difference between s1.60 and
S1O.5O went to make our galaxy of
| plutocrats from Morgan down, amount
| ing to 1 per cent of the few plutes
and 10 and II per cent of the brainy
crew, who have always just had brains
and conscience enough to live at an
others expense, without rendering
any service whatever in return: that
means product of at least $4,000 per
year per worker. but our opponents
don't believe it and won't inform them
selves on these questions, prefering to
| talk and write through their hats and
chewing the same stale, trite, antedi-
luvian cud over and over to the dis
4 hnra6nn1 of hi irIr
Are socialists wrong, when they offer
men and women $4,000 per year for a
six-hour day? Mr.. Editor tell us
where we are wrong
| AS to your fiat dollar. Well brother.
most sensible people nowadays know
what dollar-it is hardly worth
while to waste time and ink on the
subject, but we will just quiet our
friends troubled mind as to where the
money Is to come from to pay a man
$4,000 or yet s2500 per year. Brother
this man or woman has got to work
at some useful work, that is beneficial