Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-10-02
There Is Danger
(By George B. Kline.)

Comrades, are we in danger? Do
we realize the gravity of the situation?
1t is all very nice to say that social.
ism is inevitable and as Professor
Wentley, OF the University OF Mich.
gan: "All opposition will amount 10
no more than gust OF wind to a To-
comotive." All of which is very nice
and perhaps true, in the main, but the
coming of socialism is the birth Of a
new order. and in all births there is
danger, often grave danger, in the
hands of athe most skilled. Thus il
socialism is prevented from coming
land the capitalists are doing all in
their power to prevent it, fithere may
be as much trouble as there was when
chattel slavery was hindered in eyo-
luton. The capitalists are as blind as
were the slave owners.
There will be pains Of travail, we
zee them now in, the industrial cen
lers, in the strikes, and in the min
ing regions of West Virginia. TIL y
may bring Socialism as the slaves
were freed in practically all other
countries other>than the United States
with scarcely any trouble; and had
the doctors of economics known their
business and taught the people rightly
even the war of 1865 might have
been prevented.
Practically everybody is satisfied
that a change is coming and now due
or nearly So The reformers land
this includes even the so-called pro
gressives). are trying to force the
birth of a hybred, mongrel and there
is some danger in the situation
The socialists now claim to be the
doctors of the situation, to guide and
help nature as the true doctor does
in the presence Of any birth. Are
they doing their whole duty? l can
see only one thing they can do to
help and to hasten the new order.
1t is to educate and organize the peo-
pie to get the majority ON the side
of the new birth, and the painful strug-
gle will be short and harmless, but II
we do not have the majority in the
final struggle, the capitalists WHY
throttle the infant and utterly destroy
the present civilization, and that
means our freedom OF speech, Of
press, Of organization and the ability
OF making a. decent living which
means all Do you see the danger
now? =
| dare say there are a few Of us
doing all we can. Do We give our old
Socialist papers to our nefghbors? Do
we distribute all the literature posi-.
lIble? Remember, a poll of the So
Iicialists showed that the majority be-
came Socialists through reading It
! is not necessary to be good talker.
It is often harmful to talk at all But
a paper, a pamphlet OF book handed
quietly to another is the most -effec-
tive wonk possible. Count that day
lost whose sun sets without some
work done for Socialism.
1t Is said we are million strong in
| the United States, and yet only about
one in ten are organized in the party.
The nine hundred thousand are yet
mob and are either not working at all
or are without order and void.
We have pictured in our minds the
beauties Of this new order. the imam
cial, intellectual, monaland spiritual
freedom, and yet most of US are shirk-
ing on the job. All other Issues are
nothing compared with 1t. Let US not
be deceived by religious and other IS
sues that depend on the settling Of
the main one. They can wait and
from their nature will settle them.
selves, then why be diverted by use
less nonsense? The main thing IS to
get the new order born with as little
danger to the infant and parent (our
present civilization) as possible, so
We will have something in the way Of
trained minds to 90 ahead.