Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

Il
ing the situation of the Lawrence
strikers, Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis, q
| former member of the national ex-
ecutive committee of the Socialist
! party, says that the advice of Joseph
j. Ettor to put emery dust into the
machines, precipitates an issue be-
tween those who believe in destruct-
i've tactics as against constructive
methods.
I'm the biological WORLD" she con-
tinued, "every organism will use
/ whatever instinct or intelligence it
may possess in order to protect it,
self against danger or destruction.
"The lower in the scale of intelli-
i gence and organism, the more british
(! and violent will be the effort in de-
tense.
"a people who have been reduced
to the lowest possible standard of
living, whose lack of comforts of
| life and education and opportunity
are plainly seen will naturally be
more violent in their protest than
others more favorably situated.
1.-THE scientific constructive So
cialist recognizes that force express
| ed by ignorant, opposed workers
would manifest itself in terms of VIC
lence which would be destructive to
life and property.
"Thgough the education and intelli-
gent action Of the working elias.
anticipate the time when the work
ers will have the power to control
industries and direct the social and
; political forces of the country.
''The working class will attain to
economic and political supremacy as
a class only when the great masses
of workers are intelligently formed
as to their class interests and their
class relationship.
} ''This knowledge can only be &C
quired by patient, plodding propa-
, ganda work.
4 "Blind revenge may find satisfac
= ton in destroying the machine that
!. is today the property Of the capital
: list class, but this tactic does moi
. make for progress and power in the
$ hands of the workers.
It Two Kinds of Victory.
Il Brute force is destructive. Intel
3 Iligent action is constructive. The
f former wins victory Immediately.
t 1.-THE latter takes time and. pa
4 tience. The victory of brute force
t means the destruction of that which
S is necessary to preserve human ex
a istence. The victory Of intellectual
4 power means the ownership of the
s means of life used in the service and
b benefit of all humanity.
S "The change from the capitals
Il system to Socialism cannot b.
+ brought about in day.
: .1The Lawrence strike is only
e pebble. Il has its duplicates in many
d other parts of the United States. The
n Irwin coal district in Pennsylvania
t has witnessed far more importan
r and longer strike than the one nov
0 in Lawrence.
"The statement of some Of oul
S. utopian friends that this is the be
j. ginning of the social revolution is
It to say the least, evidence of thei
/ lack Of knowledge as to what consti
a tutes the social revolution.
s. "a social revolution takes place II
e society, when class having no po
l. litical or economic power as a class
# organizes itself and becomes the dom
; inant class politically and economic
; ally.
e "The social revolution may be &C
Il complished without the shedding C
d a drop of blood, or the destruction o
d any property.
g "Bloodshed and the destruction o
s property are not necessary essentials
j. in social revolution. Indeed, they
occur in every strike and the work
ers do not gain class supremacy al
) result of these tactics.
"Only as the working class increas
! les in intelligence and recognizes the
necessity of society harmonizing it
self with the changing social condi
{ lions will social revolution take
place by peaceful methods.
1--WE cannot jump from the capital
Y list system into Socialism any more
$ than a child can jump from the
cradle to the full grown man.
8 "The one thing, more than any
t thing else that we must learn, is thai
i power which makes for progress
3 must be based upon intelligence, and
. not blind revenge or passion.
3 "The workers had to learn tc
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