Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-02-19
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1914.
SOciaIistic.

will neither bring or refute Socialism.
1t is the paramount issue.n It is
being more discussed than any other
subject. 1t is being discussed by men
in every walk of life. It is being
studied by the best thinkers of the
time. The editor starts his argument
with a mathematical problem. This
must have been in Republican
school. am fully convinced that 1
saw in 1909 graduate of this school.
/ had conversation with laboring
man. He said prior to the panic of
1907 (that was Teddy's panic) he was
receiving 1925 per day. The follow
ing conversation, as remember, took
place.
elbow is everything now?"
80! pretty lively"
"Were you out of work in 1902"
eyes. For awhile"
"Did you get the same wages when
you went back to work."
"No. was ''put on" at $3.50 per
day; but our wages have been raised
since then"
"How much raise did you get?"
''Twenty- cents on the day."
"Then you are now getting $3.50
per day?"
ooh no! That makes me a $1.75
Fday." A mathematical genius like
that ought to be able to extract the
square foot of cube that has neither
sides, top or bottom.
This man was Republican. He
evidently believed as, it seems the
Enterprise believes, that nothing
could be ''run,' without big boss,
who sits in All easy chair, smokes
"good cigars" and draws big salary.
Is it big salary and "good CIGARS"
that make brains? If so let's feed the
babies on nicotine. Some of the En-
terprise questions are, to say the
least, absurd. "Confscation would
of course, be robbery" Then Mr.. Lin
coin was robber, and should have
been put in the penitentiary. He confis-
Gated the property of the south, when
he emancipated the negro slave. The
slaves were property; same as horse
or COW, or any other farm animal.
The courts had SO decided. So you
clearly see there is precedent.
The Socialist party pleads guilty to
the charge of destroying such homes
as are in evidence in mining towns
and saw mills. Yes, Socialism will 90
more than you charge it with. 1t will
destroy the slums and the tenements;
and will take children from the mill
and factories and put them in school.
That of course will be bad, for the
employers of child labor. No, it is
the capitalists who are destroying the
homes. They take such a large toll
from the producers of wealth there is
nothing left with which to build a
home. "How do they expect to arrive
at values?" Can the Enterprise tell
the real value of any of these great
sources of production? The real value
might be compared to handful of
meal thrown into tub of water. I
would drown duck trying to find the
meal. Socialism will not make, or at
tempt to make everyone equal. 1t
can't do what God did not do. No
Socialist ever said it would. 1t will
| give every one an opportunity. Can
you get that? have tried to figure
out why zero weather would sting
any harder, snow and sleet be any
colder, or water be any wetter under
Socialism, than it is under Republican
ism. The Enterprise will have to
answer. Men had to do all these
things when Teddy and "My Policies
we're president. They are doing it
to-day, under Democratic administra
tion. The Enterprise does not seen
to have thought of more equitable
adjustment of pay. When these ner
will get all they produce they can bu!
their own wives and children fooC
: and clothing. They will not be force'
to be contributors to the support o
such prohigates as Annie Gould mar
ried. Neither will they have to supper
the divorced wife of Howard Gould
who, when suing for a alimony said OF
the witness stand, "No lady coul'
dress on less than $4,000 year.
If that be true, there are not many
ladies in Iron county.
No two Judges seem to be able Il
] interpret alike the constitution. "Al
men are equal in their rights befor
the law' Well am glad to hea
that. From the idea one gets fron
court decisions, he wonders what LAY
i is 1t seems to be something that cal
be worked "goin' and comin.'" Th'
latter part of the Enterprises article
has nothing to do with Socialism
They are old party tactics and prac
tices, and Socialism has nothing to d
with it. A SOCIALIST.
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