Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-05-21


feet of some cause back of it. g.
His advice, T'be good, get good" is
very common. The preachers and
priests have haped it for nineteen
hndred years, not realizing that it
cannot be followed while we are un-
der the rule Of gold. where honest
menefall if the temptation is strong
enough. At any rate the good man"
idea has long since been thoroughly
exploded.
His advice o morals can at best be
oily relative, as morality differs in all
countries ad changes almost as often
as the seasons. =
In bible times it was moral to have
two or more wives, not now. The
fam1ly-one man and one woman. is
in its fifth form. The changes were
brought about for economic reasons
which are at the bottom of all our
morality and laws, and rules all in
stitutions and even the church with
an iron hand.
The undisputed rule laid down by
Marx and Snles In 1848 is as follows:
In every historical epoch, the pre-
vailing mode of economic production
and exchange, and the social organi-
cations necessarily following from it,
form the basis upon which is built up,
and from which alone can be explain.
ed the political and intellectual his
tory OF that epoch; that consequently
the whole history Of mankind (since
the dissolution of primitive society,
hold1n land in common ownership
has been history of class struggles,
contests between exploding and ex-
plotted, ruling and oppressed classes;
that the history of a stae has been
reached where the exploited and OPP
pressed classes-the proletariat work
ers by brain or brawn) cannot attain
Its emancipation from the sway of
the exploiting and ruling =classwthe
capitalists, without at the same time.
and once for all, emancipatin society
at large from all exploitation, op-
preston, class distinctions and class
struggles
This is well illustrated by the slave
owners before the civil war. They
were the economic masters, as the
capitalists are now, and they hnanced
all institutions of learning and were
OF course supported by them, and the
church excused slavery as peculiar
no riht to interfere"
divine institution with which IT had
Today the capitalists are In the
saddle and woe to the professor and
the preacher, who SO far foret their
masters as to teach or preach what
they have tabooed.
All masters live by exploitation
robbeFy-immorality condemned by
both old ad new testament. and yet
the pulpits are silent as the grave,
and the professors dare not open their
mouths for fear of losing the Carne-
gle old age pension poisoned at their
source.
Well ma ask, is there any hope?
any ray Of light pointing the way ont?
The city Of GLASGOW, Scotland, ownes
all Its public utilities, the street cars,
telephones, lighting systems, etc.
the income producers as well as the
schools, streets, sewers, fire protect
lon, etc.-those from which no zreven.
ne is derived, and as result they bal
ance each other, and they do not levy
taxes for municipal purposes, despite
the fact that the wages are better and
hours OF work are shorter for the EN-.
ployes, and service Is better and cheap
er than on privately owned utilities.
p. Our collectively owned utilitiesA
school, post Office, street water works,
fire protection, etc, have NO or little
graft when dealing with each other.
1t is only when these deal with priva-
tely owned public utilities that 'politi-
cal corruption and graft flourish.
This teaches US that all public util.
ities-alI the things society needs for
its very existence, water, gas, electric
lights, telephones, telegraph, street
cars, railroads, mills, mines, forests,
ETC., must be owned collectively be-
fore the people will have the environ
ment to live the golden rule.
In this way only will their income
or products go to all the people in
better and cheaper service and the
workers get an increased income for
labor performed.
In this way only will it be possibly
to shorten the hours of work that all
who wish may have work.
In this way only will the people get
their service at actual cost of product
ion. Q
In this way only will the people ever
reap the advantages of the wonderful
ly increased production Of machinery.
In this way only will our law max
ers stay honest because they will have
no private lobbies to tempt them.
The church and Institutions of learn.
ing. can then tell the whole truth be-
cause they will be rid Of the exploit
ers.
! To say this cannot be done is father
to the wish that It will not, but NOR
atty is ever taking advanced ground,
and rent, interest profit, surplus value
and unearned increment are fast los
eing their moral standing, and soon,
the man, the institution, OF the poll
tical party that will defend them will
be hearlded forth as immoral, as the
defenders Of slavery are now immoral.
The demand will soon be made,
Choose ye this daT<whom ye will serve.
God or Mammon.., H..
The Socialists have seen a vision
where all hove work who wish 1t and
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