Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-09-17
Communicated.

Bolivar w. Va. September. 10. 1914
The ShepherdStown Register Dear Edtor-i
notice YOU print the movements OF the three old
captalisiic parties who are the owners OF the beau
titul warning system we now live under-a system
which spends millions preparing Tor war ana cents
for the teachings oil Jesus. Now we are going 10
ask YOU 10 lend us little OF your valuable space
TO tell your readers where the Socialist party stands
and for what il stands Now the Socialist party
is the only political party that stands strictly against
war We believe that no one should nave me
power 10 declare war except the people by ma
ority vote. and that i record be Kept oil the Vote
and those who vote for war be the ones sent 10 the
front and the ones VINO vote against IT remain al
home We think this would put a finishing touch
on war War and civilization do not 20 together
in harmony, therefore we oppose war and favor
civilization. We think il is disgrace TO clvillza-
ton for nations to build murderous machines TO
murder brothers. for all men are brothers and look
alike TO our Maker The highwayman who murders
his victim for gain is no worse murderer in the sight
OF God than the man who goes TO war and murders
his brother for gain. and you know all wars are
fought for gain and nothing else. .
Do away with your navieS and armies, and all
connected Herewith, and you can pension every
orphan Chilo and every widowed mother and every
man and woman at the age OF % years. ana PA. pay
them enough TO live respectfully on the rest oil ther
DAYS. ! wonder where poverty would be, should
we do this little trick Think that over little as
you go along also please remember mat poverty
and war are brothers and sisters.
Now again. the Socialist believes no law should
be put into effect until the people, vote on II and
beside whether they want II or not ms taxes the
law-making power out OF the hands OF the poll
tcian and puts il in the hands OF The people. so II
YOU are not one OF those wfo fear the people you
need not fear the Socialist party. FOR the SOCIALIST
party will never make law until majority vote
the Socialist ticket, and then majority votes lor
the laws they draw up. But this is Just what the
money power does not want. They think we have
not got brains enough TO know what we really do
want But we have got brains enough 10 know we
don't want what we are getting at the present
time The money power has been taking the
whole dog and leaving us the tail bone IuSt ABOUT
az long as we are going 10 put up with it. We Just
want the whole dog and we are going TO get II.
The people have been fooled by the three old cor
rupt parties Just about as long as they are going 10
put up with il. They are financed by the money
class and owned by the money class and run by
the money class, and no man with any brains can
deny IT, But the Socialist party is financed by the
working class, owned by the working class and
run for the working class.
Now again. We all know the people do not know
the laws they are compelled TO live under. FOR
they are so many and so twisted up that our best
LAWYERS do not know them. So you see Il IS a very
easy matter for a man TO violate the law u he does
not know il. But on the other hand, II we mad
read the law and voted on II we would know Whal
they stood for Also we could be our own lawyers,
as we would not need some one TO tell us what
the laws were we made ourselves. We have got
too much law such as il is, but not enough oil the
right kind of laws. We want laws by the people,
for the people, and OF the people And all we have
got TO do 10 bring about Just and honest conditions
in this and every other country in the world, is Tor
the working people to get together and vote the
workingman's ticket. which is the Socialist ticket.
Yours for Socialism,