The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-05-14
Blind Leader of the Blind

sona2ities in your first funny para-
graph, stated that if you did not
want me to tell some more better not
his 'em again, it appears from the very
splendid head lines that you gave me
spresogative that every newspaper
man exercises by divine right that
You do want me to sell some more. l
5eel sure that few OF ytue read
sss would appreciate ''some more" IN
preference to. such vast quantity OF
advertising matter.
La reply TO your headlines, "Fhe
Bugls B ast Sounds a Discordant Note
"a These Piping Times of Peace" it
sssms like discord to you. but on close
analysis the pseriotic Socialist will ind
nothing but harmony. Doubtless to q
WORKING man, wage slave, that has
steady job and receives his wages at
sae end of the week, it may look TO
him like "Piping Times OF Peace
Nat to the digger in the earth who has
bought and given his note for hai1
aar load or more of guano with the
3uinous cost Of supplies and labor
staring him in the face, the soil too
hard aud dry to sprout seed and the
price of cotton, his only money pro-
duct, slumping in price cent pound
In The last week which reminds one
pid enough to remember 1873. it does
nos look SO much like 'spiping times OF
peace"-or plenty either-mos5 es-
pecIaily to the rent and mortgage
slave,
Had you been reading some cf the
Soesalistic p ,pers, as a Democratic
newspaper man should, you would be
looking for the twenty year periodic
return Of the panic ('73- 'sa- -l943) and
sou,d not consistently and coDscien-
susly write, piping times of peace.
Now, my friend, you show ignor-
auce of the facts by writing Hand of
Ksau-the Voice of Jacob Every
slass conscious Socialist knows that
article you published under those ex-
seilens headlines was altogether the
yoice as well as the hand Of Esau. A
million Socialists IN our country GO
million in the wofld) are getting class
eonscions and III: pudent enough to
teach our fellow workers that as old
Jake, aided by his mother, stole Esau's
snfhright. ever since that tine labor
has been robbed Of what it produced
except enough TO keep it in working
order and raise more workers. As
.he centuries roilei 10y the burden on
aha toilers became heavier and more
1r;evoua to be lrrae. Socialists il.
anlge the hon' elss; if the 1918 panic
.saus..s Liius u y sWo riSc~SulA. uAcs
It will mxks mo farmers study, thilk
md read. ard after awhile there viii
ne Sos1ai,.- r; .oees enough to at least
soal back tas tide of oppression that
thresten. hne very life Of half the
working people If it does not usheri in
the millennium.
ssTns Beauty Of Socialism supplants
he Ugliness Of Populism.' If Pop
alism was ugly why did Billy Bryan
And the patriotic Democrats purloin
20 many of the planks in the Populist
platfor.n and write them in the DEM
scratic PLATFORM IF socialism is such
= heinous monstrosity why did Teddy
srise about.twerty plsnks Of the So.
s:a,ist platform? It Socialism is
myth Why are SO many of the meas
Rres advocated and demanded by So
Halists being enacted into law? Why
d the initiative, referendum and re-
sail being inacted into lsw in several
States and many municipalities and
i. .baund to come in all? The answer
u, Sociaiism. Why is it chat in fen
Mates the women are enfranchised
ind oue and ono half million voters Ga
tery uncertain quality 80 far as the
poiiticians. and the master class are
seaesrsned) will have to be reckoned
Yith in future elections? Answer. 60
siasism. Why is it that some Judges
sf sae United States Supreme Court |
have resigned their fat Offices, and
Why are they not all reyered as they
snee we're? Answer, Socialism. AT.
ssr while the people Will elect judges
and also have the power to recall them
then judges will be servants Of the
people and not masters as they now
are and socialism will be responsible
sor it--whether Socialists capture the
3nb;in Offices or not.
In conclusion tell she readers of your
paper why you are Democrat. Twill
write my reasons why am Socialist
!: you will give me few columns
Snace in the Dispatch to Go it.