The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1913-02-28

of all, II is the same everywhere.
The Postal Department has recently
extended its social business, II will
now carry almost anything from IL
pounds down. This places the govern
ment and the express companies in
direct competition with each other
If the government is successful then
the arrival of complete socialism Is
not far away, but If the express COM
panies are victorious, then the so
ciaist march is arrested for awhile.
The farmers are waking up at last.
They are sOcializing the telephone
without the aid oil Uncle Sam. This
means that they are to get good
service almost at actual cost Such
is the work 10 socialism.
Capitalism proposes TO do for the
people what it has done for the last
30 years. 1t proposes to let every
man get just as rich rs he can in
order that he may have a chance
TO crawl through the needles eye.
1t proposes greater armies, and nav
les, and a more scientific way Of
killing cur brother working man of
some other country but the Great
Man said Thou shall not KILL.
Through its political organizations
it proposes TO bust the big Trust by
going back to competition. But this
is not good for the working class.
We have had some experience on
this line here of late. The G. Il.
T. G.. A., has been in direct compe-
tition with the A. S. of f., and we
all know the disasterous result. II
is just as possible for the child to
step out of the school room, and
crawl back into the cradle as it is
for us to return our steps of prog
ress. Capitalism proposes to pension
men to fight but not to work. The
capitalist creed is everyone for
Such is the purpose of capitalism.
Socialism proposes to give the
working man his full social product
by socializing all of the public util-
tiles. Which means that they would
be run by different departments of
the government Just in the same
way that the Postal Department is
run.
Socialism would pension a man
in his old age for having been a
working man, but not a fighting
man. 1t would limit each individuals
right. Put the bride OF recall on
him when he goes into public office.
and the result would he left in the
hands of the people. The socialist
would do away with all armies, ma
vies, cannons, gattling guns. and all
other means of legal murder, and
substitute international peace and
good will toward all men. The So
cialist is misrepresented more than
any other man on earth, he is ac-
cused of wanting to divide up when
the reverse is true. We are divid
| ing with the human drones today.
| The result is that we working peo-
pie live hard and savingly so that
the idlers may live in eXtravagant
luxury. We are accused of wanting
to take away your farm when we
| only want to make it possible for
all men to own small farms. 1t is
true that we would have millions
of acres OF fertile land on the West
ern planes cultivated by the agricul-
tural department. so as to give en-
ployment to all CT those who might
be out OF work. This would break
landlordism everywhere. The socialist
battle cry is working men of the
world unite, you have nothing to
loosen hut your chains, you have a
world to gain.
Rouse! brother working man,
think; do something, be somebody.
let us win in our day, is the slogan
of ROBERT A. DAVIS.