The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-31

.no GOOD no THOSE WHO pE-
-rfTfsFriIS Use Not.- ~Ioxte
THr >EtcfsBoH As rHrsEi.f."
r MO. ~, .Ns", ,a = fs snr Nr ,o,,,
rsAENy's FHfE>D.- Asa now allow
me 20 aeot~ Pope Leo. -he. In hi.
earyeiissi letter ON the eondifiep OF
labor. and the thrtsftsn Denserrnet.
gfyen on May ~. f~pi. ana on Jsnn-
arr ~. 1901. in ~hseh he said NOW,
WHEN NAN THts SPENDS ritz
INDUSTRY OF MS MIND AND TffE
STRENGTH of Hf~ BODY ~ FRO
CURING rHE FRUITS or NATURE.
OWN THAI PORTION or >A-
TtRE'> FIELD WHICH nv CURT
YATES THAT PORTION on
WHICH HE LEAVES, A- ~ MEfst..
THE IMPRINT OF MS own rFR-
BE JUST THAT HE SHOULD POS
sEss THAT Portion As MS ows i.
AND SHOULD HAVE a RIGHT TO
KEEP 1T WITHOUT NoLEsrs-
sralas as m JUST THAT rnr
FnIrr Of a MANS SWEAT AND
LABOR SHOULD nv ENJOYED nv
A>oTHEas A. EFFEcr~ FOLLOW
THEIR CAUSE. 30 1T - Jt>f And
RIGHT THAT THE RESULTS of
LABOR SHOULD BELONG TO MN
WHO HAS LABOaED.~ H. what Pope
Leo tells ms. and this IL all Tint
Socialism deal. with ~ traehest bot
ief ae quote Pope Leo aGnint 1--WE
SAY. AT LEAST. EattL hfeHrs.
ron SINCE THE DOMESTIC
HOUSEHOLD ~ ANTERIOR. Boru
IN IDEA AND ~ FACT. no THE
GATHERING. or MEN INTO A con-
wo>wEALTH COR STATED. THE
m mssn n,o mrsf AZ. sns's nsT,ss
WHICH AN: pnfoR TO THOSE or
THE LATTER AND wHIsu REST
MORE fnMEDfATEIt on NATURE.
M THE CITIZENS OF STATE
THAT - TO SAY, THE FAMu.iEs,
ON ENTERING INTO ASSOCIATION
AND FELIOwsHfr. ExPEttfENeED
ar THE HANDS or THE STATE
HT>DHkNfE INSTEAD OF HELP,
AND FOUND THEIR RIGHTS At
Tackled INSTEAD on BEING
WE'RE RATHER TO BE HBPIDfA-
TED THAN SOUGHT AFTER
That Is the Identical purpose Of
the Socialist party. 4 q. the con-
struetion Of the peoples social demo
list state, which now binders, bur-
dcns aud Expresses the people and
attacks their rights IN the Interest
OF special privilege.
Now let Us read the following
paragraph from Pope Leo and re-
member that today less than per
cent Of the wage workers. number
Ing thirty odd million. in this coun-
try own their own home free OF In
cumbrance. while In 1893 y per cent
OF tho same wage working class
owned their own homeg Listen TO
Pope Leo. Father Vaughan
aMea always work harder and
more readily when they work on that
which h. their "vni may. they learn
90 love the very soil which Yields In
response to the labor Of their hands.
not only food 10 eat. but nm abund-
nnee Of good things for themselves
and those that are dear 60 them. ~
~ evident how such n spirit OF Will
lag labor would add 60 the produee
Of the earth and 20 the wealth of the
community, end third advantage
would arise from fhfHf men wouih
eiiag to the country In witch they
wer. born. for ne one would sx-
land II his own afforded him the
mean. Of living foierabie ana
happy life. These three Important
benefits. however, can only be ex-
pecfed ON the condition TINT a mans
means be not drained and exhausted
by excessive taxation Che should
have said by exploitation. The right
90 possess private property II from
nature, not from nian."
WHAT ~ SOCIALISM,
one paragraph will tell us what
Socialism is and what ~ Ueeks TO
accomplish. IL c0ntcmplateB thnt
ssEyery person shall have the right
TO labor and enjoy the full product
Of their labor" And as the owner
ship ~ the means OF life IN the tools
OF production are necessary before
this right can be exercised BY the
workers fproducers Of wealth., the
Socialists contend that those tools
which are collectively IN use should
be collectively owned and democrat
lcaiIy managed. and production for
use should be substituted for pro-
duction for profit Capitalism con-
templates exploitation OF labor OF
ia surplus value through wage slnv-
cry. Socialism contempiates bring
ing distribution into accord with
production. so that, as Pope Leo has
ably phrased u. s.fhe results of labor
shall go Ia him who has inbored."
Father Vaughan, / ask you. "Is
a lust that the fruits of n mans
labor should he enjoyed by sncfherf'
EDWIN J BROWN.
ia Flrat Ave- Union Block.