Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-28
poLITIcAL PARTlEs MACHINES
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Editor Free Speech Department:
There is no use proving fact when
we all admit It. It is this: That both
old parties are owned and controlled
by Wan street. And as ownership
and control carries with it the right to
use, we find both old parties working
for Wall street, and Of course, against
the workers.
The use to which Wall street has
put the old parties machines has been
to take the wealth from the producers.
To such an extent has this been done
that the trust owners now control
more than three-fourths of all the
wealth of the country. This has pro-
duced vast unemployment, low wages,
child labor, prostitution, etc. These
machines in the hands of inscriptions
private owner have been worked in
many devious and dark ways. The
lobby of the National and State CAPT
tolls that are maintained by the trusts,
is one Of the ways. The dictation Of
all important nominations of both old
parties is another. Bribery of public
officers is another, but as this is rather
clumsy, the bride is no less effectional
with promise at the public crib.
The vast number of Investigations
which now fill nearly all papers is a
direct result of the inginous system
known as capitalism. In fact, capital
ism could not live without theft. La
Dor produces all wealth; Capital pro-
duces nothing; million dollars alone
could not produce cent in thou,
sand years, but as the old party ma
chimes make the laws, they are made
for their owners. The law says such
and such a percent for borrowed
money legal. 1t says the Inheritance
of property may be from parents to
children, therefore it is only necessary
to change the law to make the govern
ment or private individual loan
money at one per cent, and to make
the state, nation or municipality the
inheritor of just as much private pro-
perty as the people will say when the
people control political party ma
chine and put it in power.
1t is the law at present in many
states that at death of a man, the
state shall receive certain amount
Of his property. Instead of one or 5
per cent, the people can make it SO
per cent or 100 per cent. This alone
would turn private property back to
the people to be owned collectively
very rapidly
In more than as core of American
cities the workers own a political
machine Of their own, because they
have financed 1t and control it through
the initiative, and referendum and the
recall This machine will work just
as well in other cities, in the state
and nation when the majority OF the
workers vote for candidates of the
party they now CONTROL 1t is hardly
necessary to add that this party ma
chine is the Socialists.
The laws today are the laws OF the
wealthy, but as they say through their
subsidized press, this is a country OF,
for and by the people, the majority
still believe them. Would it not be
truer to say that this is country OF,
for and by the trust owners? II you
admit that both old parties are owned
BY Wall street, how can you deny this
fact, seeing that both old parties grind
out laws for their owners?
How long will the workers allow
themselves to be used as cats paws
to help the trust owners to all the
good things, while they meekly accept
the hulls.
Respectfully,
GEO. B. KLINE.