The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-03-05
A REPLY.

the ticket to perpetuate this system
tina creates the mail order business?
Is not this system the exploitation OF
labor, and the concentration of the
ownership of wealth into the hands
of few cunning, reeking rascals?
You voted for democraticism and
republicanism, and what have their
two '.isms" done for poor old Amer
lea?
Gentlemen, you are manufacturing
the explosives that are to destroy your
own structure. You are lighting the
torches which shall burn your own
magnificent homes. You are provok-
ing wrath that shall destroy your
first born, hurl you into the vortex
of your own ruin, ond bury your false
hoods and false systems so deep that
the hand of resurrection cannot faith
ON their grave Your greed has per-
verified justice, outraged humanity and
Knocked God In the blood of the dy-
| ing victims of your hellish profit sy-
stem you have written your own doom.
You think lightly of the warnings of
the soap-boX orator in the streets OF
towns and cities. They seem like the
rawlings of fanaticism to you. But take
heed. They are the ominous protests
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warning growls of the people of the
slums, sweat-shops and the factories,
a class that can comprehend nothing
but their own wretchedness. Sirs,
think moment and comprehend, If
you can, the horrible nature of such a
revolution as would follow the reign
of iniquity which you have inaugur-
ated and supported by your votes.
Gentlemen, l see the storm cloud
rising, l hear the ominous mutterings
of it's thunder, l see the vivid flashes
of its lightning. We're it not for the
greed of Mammon we might escape its
fury. But from the graveyard Of fall
en- nations comes the fearful warning.
Lust of wealth and lust of power was
the death of the states of iniQuity.
What is the storm cloud? Compe-
tition. You voted for competition. now
you have what you voted for and you
are kicking like o bay steer. Take
your medicine, gentlemen, like a good
little boy.
: Competition is evil in every way
It is wrong because it Is wasteful
because it develops servility, hatred
untruthfulness; because it produces
reckless luxury on the one hand ant
untold misery on the other; because
it creates ignorance, and crime; be
cause it creates countless antagonism!
instead of social cohesions. Compe
tition puts a million in the pockets o
an ignorant, idle dude, and loads hi
splendid, industrious neighbors Will
misfortune and debt. 1t builds tn
slums of the cities, and the hate-engen
i dering palaces of the rich. 1t ha
given us standard of value and
division of labor that sacrifices man
hood to merchandise.
The motto of competition is ever
" man for himself and the devil TAX
the hindmost" The principle of com
petition is the principle of duplication
y 1t confesses that no business can b
+ properly done unless two or thre
as many are engaged in it as are nee
{. essary. Says Edward Bellamy,
: IF one of you should apply the sam
method of utter planlessness, ute
lack of insight utter lack of co-opers
: ton. to your own factory or farl
your friends would have you in an asl
um in twenty-four hours, and be cal
ed long suffering at that
why, then, this regret over the al
preaching doom of a system unde
which nothing can be properly don
: without doing it twice, which can d
no business, without overriding
which can produce nothing withot
over-production, which in a land fu
of want cannot find employment &c
II strong and eager hands, only at til
cost of a total collapse once in seve
years, followed by lingering conva
: esence?"
When competition is analyized it
always found to be g. cold-bloOde
business proposition.
And over both armies of producer
and distributors stand their employer
doing absolutely nothing, but absorl
ing the wealth as fast as their slave
d pile it up.
n. Could a crazier scheme of thins
H. ever have been invented? Could en-
H. thing be done more wretchedly farcic
H. than the capitalist system under Wh1t
we live?
%. Some day the workers in the Scar
- Roebuck, Montgomery Ward 4 Co., al
similar plants will quit being slave
Y All together they will organize al
''' unite with the producers and th
goodbye to Montgomery Ward & c
n and their class. They will have
go to work
3 It is the capitalist system that
ILL., wrong. NOt private property puL y
m. vate capital must be abolished,
m. it has become a prolific source of
m justice and misery. Mammon won
/, fall with the abolition of private cal
tai, and with him that pride and va
10. ity that sets man against man. Wi
10. the abolition of private capital, indt
trial tyranny would cease and also
tyranny of private wealth. Man ca
not serve God and Mammon, and
only safety for American institutio
is to destroy Mammon In place
an aritocracy of wealth establish
aristocracy of character and brotht
q. hood Socialism is the only thing tt
n. can dethrone MammOn.
The evils thus perpetrated can OF
be remidied by establishing the {
operative commonwealth, in viii
capital will become subservient
labor and minister TO labOr'S hf