Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-31

You would like to see your children
enjoying splendid educational advan
tages; like to have them know some
thing of music, or art and of travel.
You had intended that they should
have had these opportunities, but as
the prices of the necessities crept up
ward, as your husbands salary re-
manned unchanged, or if he possibly
los a position or two and was out of
work for some time, gradually all
these pet fancies fled and you now
count the days until your boys and
girls may be old enough to take their
places in some wealth producing con-
Germ where they will get in return for
their labor and the sacrifice of hope
full future, enough money to buy a few
of the necessities of life for them
selves.
You, working class mother, have at
heart the welfare of your children. If
you but stop a moment and think OF
the future of yourself and family,
supposing conditions continue as they
are today, what kind of picture
comes up before you? You cannot
bear to think what might happen
should your husband lose his job or
die.
IA great many women contend tia!
they should not take any interest IN
political or economic questions. leav-
ing such matters as these with their
husbands and fathersA When you stop
to consider that you are also held
captive in the net of unfairness and
disadvantage and that you cannot
escape nuless the entire working clas
about time you begin to see that you
in disentangled, don't you think it is
have something to say about all social
questions.
Don't you feel that upon your shout
ders rests just as much responsibility
regarding the solution OF vital ques.
lions as upon any other one human
being? Cont you feel that you owe
as much to- your children and the gen
erations that follow you as your hus-
band does?
Whether you feel all this or not the
fact remains that as responsible ND
man being you cannot shirk any OF
the duties of the age.
Right now Socialism is Offering,
fhrough the Socialist party, the only
none the workers >of this country or
the world have. Their emancipation
cannot materialize until a majority OF
fhe working class desier such. When
thew thoroughly understand what So
ciaiism means to them and their class
the workers rapidly fall in linee> BY
remaining in ignorance OF The prom
ises and possibilities of this great
movement you are not only standing
in your own light, but you are keep
ing your own family and fellow work
ers. who, throughout the ages have
been chained to their industrial mas
ters from complete freedom.
Perhaps you live where women do
not vote and give that as your excuse
for refusing to- understand Socialists.
IF the law denies you a right which
Is indisputably yours-that of helping
- make the laws under which you
must liye-then that is all the more
reason for your becoming interested
IN Socialism, which stands for Wo-
mans equality, politically and econo-
1nieaIly. BY working with every
ounce Of your energy you are not only
benefting yourself but you are best
serving humanity.
There are many, many reasons why
won should give your support to Social
isIn. You should do so for every rea.
snn that 3 working class man should
ond many others besides.