The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-10-30

creating hatred class antogoniss though they
declare in the next breath that in this great and glorious republic
classes
Asamoter fact history Of civilization consisted mostly
struggles between ruling class that is invariably
destined fulfill its mission and out of power aud rising class
development is destined to become ruling
class" could class hatred and class
gonisms than the capitalist could create class love- abolish the
conflict between capitalists and abocs When sreecor men go out
strike is not because they hate the owners oil th railways p
because they need with which to support themselves and
wealth winch their Jomt aoors create 5u WINE II Is TO e interest,"
of the workers the greatest possible reward for their services
their investment And just when the wives and daughters of
creatures but because these rfns i'm turning traitors to their
own class become what President Eliot of arocrac Harvard calls
heroes of capitalism The aforementioned beeweed ladies'
grateful to kind of brute who helps to preserve their
uneaned They would cheer the number of hyena
hate does hate worlmue dis
enes him he unru he must be subdued or beaten into sub
No Socialist agtator does not class anagonsm
he merely recognizes them being wildly operation before his
very Going back dawn of history he the class
struggle well under As began to domescoe wild
animals and them large scale the need of subject class
them be felt Having captured wild animals and
subuged them for domestic service why not capture few human
animals and domescae hem Why not spare some of the pye
battlefield? No thought of than done The class sru
gle began here and has continued to this day under form an
other sometimes openly as under hatte slavery sometimes slightly
disguised under rdom and still further masked under the
contract is held in the meshe of bourgeois
berty The forms of slavery mentioned have this in com
M Ibn 81 tb orpn cnsS NV o1nin% ta means Whereby the
horses later they attached to the and in
modern times under capitalism they ensaved both the owners
land the tools of production and of distribution
slavery under which the class
wage slavery the latter being respects de
vasatng than either of the two preceding
Naturally the owning ruling class have always made laws and
founded social institutions calculated to strengthen their mastery
the whole always followed in the wake of profit and
Gloss savage state of nature would scorn to live wholly
capitalist mora find ready for those who rich
the labor Religions codes of morals legal
'FRONT.'
exactly might but 'prot' 'righ" "good man., under
bourgeois ethics is one whose moral coincide not
with the preservation happiness but with the
preservation of property in the hands Of the ruling GLASS; and the con-
tinued exploitation of the workers by the STRIKERS
Our industrial masters, and their reaners attempt to justify
brutality selfish the ground that confscaton of the
wealth produced by the laong class their proper Tor
cepona ability separating the workers from the fruits Of their
worker does produce eighteen times more wealth now per day
gradual Improvement Of machinery by penniess inventors
comforts than had his grandfather who was just
las he Why should not the capitalist appropriate
would be left the workers for further exeron the be
nevoen capitalist refused appropriate from the workers the
product the machinery and the pof derived from
owning the of distribution! To be sure it's little hard on
the workers produce much and enjoy so little but think OF the
demOrazng effects Of happiness and economic security NO. Is
the rewde and strongest the prizes OF
the earth belong It case OF survival OF the ttes IL certain
proved bray and energetic enough gain possession
they reped the reward of their and enterprise This
lis the ehe of capitalism as applied to the strenuous captain OF m
dus But do these little golden rules apply with equal force "
the working class? Let us see,
Certain members of the working having educated them
history economic science and the philosophy of Social
discovered that what keeps them propees and poor
foolish support of industrial system and political regime which
lis adequate the needs of the common peopth
earning poetariat having discovered that capitalism has al
purposes that the collapse of the prevailing
inevitable certain of the intelligent workers propose to
political party whose ultimate aim the overthrow
puocracy and wageavery with view establishment of
Industrial Republic wherein the ownership of the land and the IN
distribution shall be vested the people
system worker would what he earned and
every abeboded citizen would have to what he
would be dividing up with the owners
of the land and machinery since the thereof and the users
be Production would be
PROFIT for the enrichment of few at the
expense of the many.
what know origin and purposes Of
m ethics and this negenty directed effort OF the
th mob they called by Mr. Roosevelt 10 better
branded assault the American
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