Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21


For the workers to reason and protest
falsely leads to nothing and prevents
progress.
Hard work MUST BE DONE. And
the iron law of hunger and fear of death
will find men to do it.
Those that are cunning and unscrupu-
lOus or intelligent and able will avoid the
painful work, and the many, less Gun,
ming or less intelligent, will do it.
Men protest and fight and have their
revolutions, from the days of the
Gracchi to the days of DantOn. When re.
belliOn and revolution end we still find
that SOMEBODY is doing the hard work
and somebody else-a new lot of people.
perhaps-enjoying the easy life
For thousands and thousands of years
the lucky few have enjoyed the ease ana
plenty and looked down with contempt
upon the workers. And through all
those years the workers have bent their
backs and suffered, and looked I'D with
bitterness, hatred and envy at the few.
The old childish picture of Heaven and
Hell was really picture of an Oriental
country. Heaven was the court. with the
king on his throne, the courtiers bowine
down before him and singing his praises
And He'll was the field of labor. VIII IRE
peasants tOiled in the scOrching sun to
keep the court going
At the top of the heap, prosperity rid.
ing over LabOr's back had its eager. we'll
paid dvOcates-cIergymen paid to fell
the poor to be patient to revere -ir
masters, take their hard kicks mpekly.
and hope for something after death.
The prosperous had their police. their
Judges, their jailers and their execution
ers, all planned to keep that big back in.
the picture from Strengthening up and
disturbing prosperity in its joy-ride.
Labor had its spokesman, often DIFF.
chasable, easily converted to the other
side by prosperity.
So the world went on for ages and
still it goes on.
Is it to be thus ALWAYS? Is there no
remedy?
To those questions the answer is that
rapid change, which eventually will be
NShhbtCbCs NdI DS seen dIredOV.
THERE DOES EXIST A REMEDY
FOR THAT CONDITION WHICH
KEEPS THE MAJORITY BENT OVEP
THAT A FEW MAY ENJOY. '
While men have been hating, envv;ro
and despising each other, class miSnn
derstanding class, the brain of man ond
the destiny OF man have been sIou,i,
solving the problem that seemed upSoIr
able. "i'SoiV-
The hard work MUST BE DONE hut
mans brain is learning to do the 49," "It
with muscles Of steel, power of stem, IN
gas and electricity, that know no;tl vi
pain nor sorrow.
More and more we do our work with
power that does not suffer VIZ"
An electric fan will give a hundred fip,oa .
much breeze as an Asiatic slave toiIino At %
punkah. And the fan of steel and of electricity
will run continually day and night and cost less
than the cheapest slave
When dandies, idle men, seIf-induIgent,
used to travel through narrow CITY streets,
other men carried them in sedan chairs, held
by straps on their shoulders
The dandy to-day travels much more rapid
ly IN machine moved by gas explOson-one
kind of slavery has been ended
The sewing machine and the loom have
freed millions of miserably paid needIewomen.
and made cloth cost One-tenth of what il used
to cost.
Public waterwOrks have saved from slavery
millions of women that used to drag their
water supply four and FIVE stories and higher
into the air.
We still make slaves of men, but we have