Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-08-29

ductiOn and the regularly recurring
industrial depressiOns and crises which
paralyze the nation every fifteen or
twenty years.
The capitalist class, in its mad race
for profits, is bound TO exploit the
workers to the very limit of their en-
durance and to sacrifice their physical,
moral and mental welfare to its own
Unsuitable greed. Capitalism keeps
the masses of workingmen in poverty,
desttution, physical exhaustion and
ignorance 1t drags their wives from
their homes to the mill and factory.
It snatches their children from the
fairgrounds and schools and grinds
their slender bodies and uniformed
minds into cold dollars 1t dlstgures,
mains and kills hundreds of thousands
of workingmen annually in mines, on
railroads ana in factories. 1t drives
millions of workers into the ranks of
the unemployed and forces large num-
Der of them into beggary, vagrancy
and all forms of crime and vice.
To maintain their rule over their
fellowmen, the capitalists must keep
in their pay all organs of the public
powers, public mind and public con-
science. They control the dominant
parties and, through them, the elected
public officials They select the exec
utives, bribe the legislatures, and cor
rupt the courts of Justice. They own
and censor the press. They dominate
the educational Institutions They
own the nation politically and intel
lectually just as they own it lndustrl-
ally.
The struggle between wage workers
and capitalists grow ever tiercer, and
has now become the only vital issue
before the American people. The
wage working class, therefore, has
the most direct interest in abolishlng
the CAPITALIST system. But in abolish
ing tie present system, the working
men will free not only their own
class, but also all other classes of
modern society. The small farmer,
who is today exploited by large CAPT
tai more indirectly but not less effect
lively than is the wage laborer; the
small manufacturer, and trader, VINO
is engaged in desperate and losing
struggle for economic independence IN
the face of the all conquering power
of concentrated capital; and even the
capitalist himself, who is the slave of
his wealth rather than its master. The
struggle of the working class against
the capitalist class, while it is class
is thus at the same time
struggle for the abolition of all classes
and class privileges.
The private ownership of the land
and means of production used for ex-
plOitation, is the rock upon which
IL 10 h,,i1
ment is its INDISPENSABLE instrument.
The wage worker cannot be freed from
explOitatiOn without conquering the
political power and substituting col
lective for private ownership OF the
land and means of production used for
exploitation.
The basis for such transformation is
rapidly developing within present cap
italistlc society. The factory system,
with its complex machinery and min
ute division Of labor, is rapidly de-
all vestiges of individual pro-
duction in manufacture. Modern pro
duction is already very largely col
lective ana social process. The great
trusts and mOnOpOlies which have
sprung up in recent years have organ
lied the work and management OF the
industries on national scale
and have fitted them for collective use
and OPERATION
There can be no absolute private til
tie to land. All private titles, wheth-
Pr called fee simple or otherwise, are
luj must be subordinate to the public
title. The Socialist Party strives to
rev, Mt land from briug used for the
purpose OF exploitation and spocula-
tiou 1t demands the collective pos
session, control or management Of land
to whatever extent may be necessary
to attain that end. 1t is not opposed
to the Occupation and possession of
and by those using it in a useful and
bona tide manner without exploita-
ton.
The Socialist Party is primarily an