Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-13
SOCIALISM DOES NOT
MEAN DIVIDING UP
Street Speaker EIoquently Ex-
plains the MOvementto Eman-
cipate the Working Class.
FIGURES TELL THE TRUTH.
Horace Greeley's Definition Of In
dustriaI Slavery.

Piling a small grocery box upen a
large one, a Baltimore Socialist
mounted this improvised rostrum upon
the c)rner Of Main and Conduit
strsets on Saturday night and soon
had a circle of attentive listeners.
His remarks held the close atten-
tion of his audience, as he expoUnded
the principles of International So
cialism and spieed them with spark
ling gems of wit. First he ATTACKED
the popular iallacy which defines So
cialism as 'dividing-up" system.
This definition is falsehood which
every honest man should combat.
Socialism is opposed to dividing up.
1t is our present system which di-
vides up, declaring dividends to the
idle rich, and paying miserable wages
- the laborer who produces the
wealth.
There are, indeed, some skilled la
borers who receive fairly good wages,
but when an average is struck, il is
found that the average wage of the
laborer is about $500 per year. On
the other hand, while some employers
make poor income, the enormous
gain of the rich employers brings
their average income up to $S, 600 per
year. Many of these employers have
little to do with their business, leav-
ing it to be operated by salaried
managers.
Contrasting the $500 paid annually
to the producer with the $4,000 paid
during the same period to the nom
producer, we readily see that the coun-
try is suffering with a pernicious sys-
TEN Of dividing up" What the
Socialist is contending for is full pay
to the worEer for his product. 1t is
no answer to say that wages are in
creasing. AS matter of fact, wages
have increased about 19 per cent. in
the last decade or so, while the cost
of living has scared so per cent.
1t is thus readily seen that capt.
talistic dividing up" is uniformly
directed against the worker. He
gets an average of $500 per year and
produces an average of about 81, 600;
the great surplus going into the
pockets of the capitalists. What is
the remedy for this evil? Horace
Greeley, that far-seeing statesman,
looked the question fairly in the face
and said Every man who owns
the tools with which another man
works, owns that other man.
Modern machinery has taken the
tools out of the possession of the
workers and put them in the posses
sion of the capitalist. Thus the cap
italist actually owns the workingman.
This is worse than black slavery.
IL sounds incredible that in this free
country the whole working class are
slaves. We used to think that to be
an American was greater than
king. Some years ago a party of
American tourists were attending an
opera in Berlin. They encored a
particularly good piece, but were in
formed that nothing could be repeat
ed unless encored by the King.
"Then, said the Americans. let
\them repeat this piece for US, for
livery American is king.
L Are we? Look at the shoes and
stbckings and clothing of the work.
incNnen's childreni Do they look like
pri1 ices and Lrincesses? But we have
at neast one royal power. We have
the ballot. And when the workers
use 1.-THE ballot intelligen entIy, they will
yot4 the Socialist party into power
aod l. Intimate the capitalist with his
horda of hired politicians. Then So
cial Justice will be miuistered to all,
and dhe Bible principle will be inaug-
uratedI, which says "He that will not
work shall not eat. " After the
speech{ copies of Public Ownership, !"
a Baltimore weekly, were distribu-