The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-08
POLITICS
Your Vote Ii at the Bottom Of the
Bread and Butter Question

You work hard and continuously for
small wages. you live cheaply, wear
cheap clothes, dwell in rented house,
stint your wife and children out Of all
the joy in living and are producing IS
to $40 worth of wealth every day you
work, and all this because you vote
for il to be so. In remaining with and
voting for the candidates of any of the
old parties you vote for the continu-
ance OF the private ownership of
land, machinery, mines. railroads and
all other means Of production and dis
tribution of wealth Naturally those
who own and control all these means
and tools OF production and exchange
also own your job and are charging
you more than four-ffths of your pro-
duct for the privilege of working for
them and earning for yourself and
family the one fifth, which keeps you
and them alive and able to continue
producing wealth for the mere idle
owners. while producing poverty for
yourself and those dependent upon you.
This is what your vote does. brother!
1t does more: il votes me into the
same poverty, although I have been
voting against this sort of thing for
| thirty years.
Your vote cancels mine. My vote
would make you rich and independent:
your vote makes me poor and depend
ent on another for job, just as your
self. Do yeu think that is a fair
| square deal between us? What have
| l done to you, that you treat me so.
even if you love your poverty, ignor-
ance and dependence. which / can't be-
lieve, by what right, common honesty
and fairness do you vote me down to
your level of poverty. Don't you think
| it about time for you to inquire into
and think about, what you do to your
self and others with your vote?
| This is no joke, brother! l am In
bitter earnest. l deny you the right to
vote me into the poorhouse even though
you love to be and remain there. 1
charge you with the crime of ignorant
ly voting against your own best in
terests, as well as mine. You are do
ing me the greatest possible harm with
your vote. while I with mine would do
you all the good l am seeking for my
self
There is only one political party in
the world which is pledged to and de-
termined to abolish this private owner
ship of all the sources of wealth, in
Guiding also the ownership of the
wealth producers-that is the socialist
lparty.
All the others, by whatever name
they may come to you for your vote to
place them into political power with,
stand for the continuance of this pri-
vate ownership that keeps IS per cent
of the people and really the very pro-
ducers of all wealth in the world in
to the other Is per cent of the idle
owners of mere paper titles to wealth
of which they have not produced the
value of a soda cracker.
Now, brother. unless you are with a
FIVE or six-hour work day, enjoying an
annual income of $500 you belong in
the ranks of the IS per cent of the
wealth producers and cannot possibly
lhave any interest in perpetuating this
Ignorance. servitude and poverty for
the benefit of the Is per cent of idlers
and mere slick grafters, who are and
have been pulling the wool over your
eyes with a thousand mean little
frauds, swindles and receptions.
|; Public, ownership OF all the means
of wealth production, at least of al
those trustified things, which are
!, nothing il not grating, and grasping
imonopolies for the benefit Of a few hu-
man hogs. who have their shouts and
both fore feet in the manger and mean
to stay there too, IL with your vote you
ipermit them to do so. This public own
ership is the remedy: it is the solution
of all the perplexing questions in the
world-it is socialism,; 1T will abolish
! poverty, ignorance, dependence, disease
and crime; in short. all the things we
are suffering from.
Vote for it brother; vote for your
true interest, your wife and babes
Vote with me, instead of against me
vote for $4,000 a year, and quit your
voting for the old parties, who have
; nothing but poverty for you. Vote the
socialist ticket, brother, until We gel
there Marion County Sosialist
Executive Committee.