Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-01
OF course the saddest part Of it
all Is that you are many times forced
into that IUtruxxle ct an age so young

OF course the saddest part of it
all Is that you are many times forced
into that lUtrutZie ct an age 80 young
hat it Is impossible for YET 81
i clear grasp of the sltualI t-g
It any rate lne sooner you uie
.4ae situation tie better i. 49,
you and your class.
You, the cnlIdren " VIC.
alking, belong TO the WorAns .l.t.-
In society. Society is Whal NC os-
Ill the people and their social rei.4
ions that men and women and chilu
ZEN have with each other in the pl>
4uction and distribution OF the plod
/ the workers ana lue sNnH
,ument OF all the aAal1s L q, -
stted to those operd.IOAa.
.omes closely under That neau
You see. the constantly c>,,n=
iorms of ownership have brousnt L.
% what we call the capitalist, q.
profit system. We also call it u
wage system. We have cone to !.
lose names because of The taet
ae machinery with Which l..iia.
at and wear and to Dullo l.u4s, =.
skyScrappers Of are now owns0 Wy .
very small class. We call that class
the capitalist claas-the class that has
the capital, or the money, or the cred
it, or the actual machinery and tt
build the buildings and to run the
engines and haul the products. Fol
doing this work the capitalist class
pays US wages. The capitalist class
always allows wide margin between
TO build with and the price it compels
US to pay when we go to buy bacl
| Jn4e uI the Til IS "e *. -
That is why we sometimes call it IL
profit system. And now you will /
able to see that through the piling Ii
of this constant stream of profit Il
-wning class is able to, and does, pill
10 great amounts of surplus produce,
,r the money that represents tnei
clue in the places of commerce. l.
hat way the rich keep on gettin;
cher and the poor keep on gettin,
oorer. Down in New York there il
| young man named Vincent Asto
Tho has $65,0OO,OOO That younG
ian never worked minute. Blu
he profits on the work of wage ear
,rs like you have gone on piling u
or him since the days before he Wa.
BORN. He is getting richer.
Now all of this wages and prof.
nd ownership is controlled by law,
lat are made by men supposed
'epresent the people in legislature
md congresses. OF course those mel
20 not represent the people at all
That is just fairy tale that the own
ers have been making us believe.
What we Socialists want to do il
to revolutinize CHATS long word
but a good one) this system of laws
md with it the system of ownership
We want to stop the rich from gettins
richer while the poor get poorer VIZ
want all of the machines and railroads
and factories that we must use togeth
Ter to make the things that all of US
must have to sustain life to be owned
by all of us. And now am going tt
use another word, but it's the key tt
the whole big idea and if you have
to look it up in the dictionary, or ash
som ebody what 1T means, who do that
for it will be well worth the time il
takes. We want those things. wher
all of US shall have become their own
ers, to be-and now that big word
democratically managed.
That is all there is to OUT lesson
young friends. When we can bring
about that great change there will be
lno more starving strikers children
no more little tired feet trudging home