The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-05-30
State Reapportlonment
AND
shs War Of the Glasses
ny EpwIN J. nnow

This win be my last article on This
subject. es ! must use my adNerttss
Ing space for my optical and dental
practice. for a time. at least.
would like To tell the people In
Seattle who the good men are who
are working for the r.apportienmeut
OF our state. but space only permits
me to say that every body who ia
fair and square lie for II. but many
honest and good men are compelled
as not 10 arouse the animals. Under
standing II what we all need. and
experience il the only true basis Tor
understanding. and u IL the expert
ence Of all states and nations that In
order for nation to Re strong and
great NIL class must be represented
In its legislative bodies. In fact. the
material or economic Interest and
standard OF it's people as whole
II the onIy standard by which a
etate or nation may be accurately
Gauged. and In order for a people TO
advise and inform itself as 20 the
economic interests OF all classes II
- necessary TO have them repre-
sentef In the councils OF the people
Sign initiative measure Is and sup
/ port this measure.
THE WAR OF THE CLASSES.
This subject IL endless and COM
#pris~s the history OF mankind since
history records the organization Of
X0HEtetF INTO what We KNOW As u STATE
/ or government For the purpose OF
[thfs article will consider the class
&War only as we find II today.
! have many times said that this
class war 10 not a personal question.
but . social question. ana IL irnpeil@i
|by the profit Institutions OF wealth
|productton and distribution.
NELIEy AND R0OsEvELT.
Mr.. Msiisn recently testified be-
|4ors the Interstate commerce com
r1tssson that he called on President
Roosevelt and was assured by the
head organizer Of Ananias Clubs
that he would not be fnoiest~f IL he
could keep from getting holder In
violating laws. Yet this same Th~o-
dore raised no objection TO the de-
kportAtion OF miners and workers on
|0trsks In Colorado while he was
president. and when Colorado nu-
kthorittes and gun men were destroy
Snr working mems property and
asked for U. = guns. Theodore
sent them three times as many as
asked for.
sW oRGAN AND THE PUBLIC.
Mrbrgxn tells Us that his father,
the late j. r. Morgan. considered
that IL was In the Interest and for
the benefit Of the public that the
Boston and Maine road be acquired
by the New Haven. which road he,
Morgan. already controlled. And
am CONVINCED that Mr.. Morgan pres
ent and Mr.. Morgan past were Of the
opif IN that IL was in the interest
OF ~ public that they own and
rights were as they would Ike 70
appeE bat they know better. they
knows the power Of exploitation
fscononaic power over the lives Of
The peopfal 'sths power TO rob" "the
power TO starve others. the power
10 make beggars. thieves. criminals.
prostitutes, murderers. pestiicnces
and wars"
THE RAILROADS. POWER.
DID you read the Congregational
Record of May u. 1914. when IN a
speech the Hon Robert VI la Fol-
iette shows that the railroads oper-
ating In what In known as official
classification territory" were asking
the Interstate commerce commission
for the privilege o. eTolo,itins the
year more than they are now get
1in97 OF course. this argument OF
the railroads will talk good.
~sound good and be reasonable
Kind underworkcd and over
fed railroad kings. but it'il be hell
on the people. and Morgan would
say, TITS in the public's interest we
ask fl" Sure. the railroad kings are
not 10 blame. their business Is sell
ing bonds and stocks and exploiting
the dear people for the money TO pay
the dividends and interest on the
bonds and stocks they sell.
THE WORKERS AND THE CLASS
WAR.
A worker works for wages that
IL. the worker sells labor power for
4 price, because the worker has
nothing but labor to sell-of all
things else re has been robbed by
philanthpopists who love the poor.
a.
The expioiter buys labor power be-
cause the productive institutions
which the exploiter owns cannot OPP
crate without labor power.
The unorganized idle workers
caused by machine power production
are compelled to compete with eaeh
other for the sale OF labor power
because they must WORK or starve.
The machine owner must have cheap
labor power or fail and 40 bankrupt.
because the owning class are In
constant war Of competition among
themselves for the sale OF labor
surplus value, and as labor creates
ali wealth, the greatest exploiter OF
labor will outsfrfp other competit-
ors The laborers who can i've the
cheapest can work the cheapest and
Will get the job. and we see that the
cost Of living determines wages.
And as labor power utilized on ma
chine production creates ten times
more wealth than II could BY hand
tools. we see that labor receives less
Of its product labor power than
ever before and the surplus wealth
created over and above wages IL the
surplus value which goes TO the
owning class as tribute or reward
FOR their economic power resulting
from their ownership Of the institu-
lions Of wealth production. ff the
worker refuses to work and be ex
plotted he is yaRged II he works
&c IL robbed Of the product OF his
labor
n the machine owner ceased ex-
plotting labor the owner would be-
come o pauper. or II exploiting OF
labor ceases the exploiting class IL
abolished The abolition Of wage
labor and the instituiing Of social
cooperative labor brings production
for profit and exploitation to an end
and with Il the class war Surplus
value then becomes the socially
owned wealth and distribution II
brought into harmony with produc-
tion, robbery and exploitation cease
and people become human beings
with use value and human life the
ntandard OF society.
EDWIN J. BROWN.
1uaxsrtisement.