The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-12-13
THE DEMOCRATS AND
THE BREAD QUESTION.



. can the democrats answer the
bread question:
/ If not, what better are they than the
republicans or bull moosers?
Governments are established to set
/ tie the bread problem. II they fail
In this they fail in everything.
The United states government has
so far failed to settle the bread prob
lem and has therefore failed to be al
/ government i'm the true sense.
All governments are owned by the
class that owns the industries. The
/ United States government is owned
by the owners of the industries
The servants in every government
must obey the owners of the govern
ment
The democrats are now largely the
political servants in this government.
They must therefore obey the big own
ers of the nations bread
And what do the big owners de
mand?
They demand that all legislation
and all court decisions and official acts
shall be in their favor
The big owners demand that when
there are labor disputes the servants
of the government shall stand with
the interests and against the workers.
win the democrats be true to their
masters?
They have to.
viii the democrats fight the work
ers and knock them down if the big
owners so demand?
They have to.
Who told the workers to elect dem
ocrats? The big interests.
Why did the workers do what the
big interests told them to do? Be
cause the workers didn't know any
better.
If the workers had elected the So
cialists to office from the president
down what would happen?
The socialist officials would then
take steps to make the whole people
the owners of the industries.
After the people become the owners
they will become rulers. When they
own the industries they will own the
government.
When the workers own the indus
tries and the government they will
have access to the things necessary
for them to live on.
They will have access to the bread
basket.
If they create bread they will be
able to get bread. Today the workers
create bread but cannot get it. The
bread created is given over to the big
owners and they cannot get it. The
bread created is given over to the big
owners and they cannot use it nor
will they let the people use it.
You will understand that by Dread"
mean all the necessaries of a real,
genuine, wholesome, broad life
. The democrats believe that the big
owners should be in possession of the
bread basket.
! They believe that the workers
should work and take the crumbs that
the big owners dole out to them.
There is now a famine in the land
. This famine is not because there is no
: bread, but because those who have
. made the bread cannot get it from the
big owners.
; When they try to get it the demo
. Gratis who belong to the big owners
shoot the workers.
Thus there arises big problem the
problem of bread. The problem is not
solved by the shooting the hungry
breadmakers. But the democrats
think it is.
You will get just as hungry during
the democrat administration as during
the republican.
Ignorance means hunger and death.
Use your intelligence so that you may
have abundance and live.
Unless you think you are lost. If
you think so, you will realize that the
only hope of the world is in the peo-
pies ownership of the earth.
When the people own the earth the
bread problem will be solved.
The democrats cannot solve the
bread problem. They are not hired
for that purpose. They are hired to
protect the few big interests who own
the bread industry and who own the
jobs of the workers and who steal
most of their earnings.
The socialists understand the situa-
ton and know how to solve the prob
| lem
The democrats don't.