The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-16

an appeal to the lazy, to the incompe-
tent and TO the unsuccessful. 1t is an
invitation to each of them TO take from
every one who has more than he. 1t
is an invitation which none would
more heartily resent than Brother
Schneider IL two or three Senegambiam
day laborers were to insist on putting
into effect on the work and pay of the
Golden Acre Grove.
Where is this $4,000 a year that Com
rade Schneider speaks of TO come
from? From the capitalists? Well,
hardly There Is no $4,000 year
apiece to come from anywhere. An
other bald assertion, but IT will keep
Comrade Schneider busy from now till
election day to find figures to dis
prove il.
The only way 10 pay US $4,000 year
would be to pay US in fat money, and
there never will be enough fools in
this world to make fat money worth
its face value.
| The promises OF the socialistic
platform are nothing more nor less
than thinly yelled threats for gen.
eral and equal division of property.
There are only three classes in this
country who want any such thing.
They are the foolishly philanthropic,
the enviously incompetent and the
lhopelessly unfortunate
Law is not equally and wisely adj
ministered. But law means equally
and exactly the thing to every man
that it means to every other man. No
law can be passed to confscate and dis
tribute the property Of the trusts a:
the will Of the state that will not al
IL l. h. Vt IN
power to confiscate and distribute the
property of every little firm of two
men or more.
| Trusts have their failings, some
grievous ones But there is one thing
of which they are wrongtully accused
and that is the design to impoverisf
and degrade the people. Trusts ar:
. formed and exist to make money. They
r cannot make money out OF the desti
tute. They are oppressive, they take
; more than their share, they should be
) and can be, regulated and curbed, Blu
= they should not be DESTROYED, especial
lly not by socialists, for in their wOrl
= of organization and concentration o
e power and reduction of waste they ar
= laying the true foundation of social
ism.
! 1t will be well for the people to owl
and conduct these great organization
when the people are able to conduc
y them. But the people will not be able y
conduct them without doing more harm
. to each other than the trusts do nov
a until they are educated mentally an
A morally up to the point of carryinj
: them on for the benefit of all and tn
q detriment Of none.
II socialists would present thei
T doctrine as a religion, If they woul
strive to educate the people up to II
and patiently wait for them to lear
q the great lesson that in helping on
9 another men most truly help them
selves, they would make solid pro
q gress. Instead, they have adopted tn
q time defiled program of the unscrupul
@ Gus politician, who never fails to sac
4 rifice principle to expediency-a pro
= gram which their own more thought
q full and educated members comics
q would. if successful, bring widespread
disaster and reaction. This program
: iaptly summed up by THE Comma
a Cause" in the following terse para
Il graphs:
: Some Definitions OF Socialism
1. A sentimental, beneficient theor!
g which has but one objection, and tina
g Is, it will not work.
n 2. A plan by which the inefficien
irresponsible, ineffective, unemploya
, BILE and unworthy will thrive withou
industry, persistence or economy.
y 3. An earnest effort to get Natur
= to change the rules for the benent c
t those who are tired of the Game
o. 4. social and economic scheme c
government by which men shall loite
q rather than labor.
d 5. A survival of the unfit.
q 6. A device for swimming withou
r going near the H-2 o.
s Z. Participation in profits withor
: responsibility as to deficits.
v 8. An arrangement for destroyin
: initiative, invention, creation and orie
inality.
Is 9. Resolutions passed by a commit
! tee as a substitute for work.