Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-08

las did the pharisees he scourged with.
out mercy twenty centuries ago.
| The children Of the working people
| have always been poor because the
| world has never been just. For ages
and ages those who have builded the
houses, cultivated the fields, raised
the crops, spun the wool, woven the
cloth. supplied the food we eat anc
the clothes we wear, and furnished
the houses we hive in. have been tht
poor despised, while those who pro
fitted by their labor and consumed the
good things they produced. have beer
rich and respectable.
Jesus himself was carpenters SO!
and sffered the poverty of his elias.
and when he gre: up it was not tn
rich and respectable, but the poor an
despised who loved him, and openee
their arms to receive him, and heaIt
gladly his tender and comforting mir
EiStrations. He was one Of them il
poverty and suffering and in all his
loving and self-denying life he never
forgot them. Had he deserted the
| poor from whom he sprang, had he
gone over to the rich as their preachel
or their judge. or their lawyer OF
.eacher or soribe-as so many OF his
| pretended followers have done ano
are still doing-he never would have
been crucified, nor would the world
today know that he. had ever lived.
+ 1t was because, and only because,
Jesus loved the Poor and served the
poor and rebuked the rich who rob
bed them, and threatened to array the
poor against their rich despoilers
that he was condemned to die and
that the cruel nails were driven into
his hands and feet ON the cross al
Calvary.
Jesus taught that the earth and the
and the sea and sky and all the beau
ty and fulness thereof were for all
the children of men; that they should
all equally enjoy the riches of nature
and dwell together in peace, bear one
another's burdens and love one ano-
Ether, and that is what Socialism
teaches and why the rich thieves who
have laid hold of the earth and its
Ebounties would cruelty the Socialists
as: those other robbers of the poor
@crucified Jesus two thousand years
ago.
The Socialist party throughout the
world wants to put an end once and
forever to all kinds of child labor. and
to have it so that all children, white
and black without a single exception,
shall be allowed to grow up in the
free air, with plenty of time for
mirth and play; that they shall all
have decent homes to live in, com
Portable beds to sleep in, plenty OF
good food to eat, plenty Of good clothes
to wear and that when they reach the
proper age they shall go to school and,
ollege and continue their course I'M
they have obtained sound and
.raclical education. Then they will
aave strong, healthy bodies, trained
minds, and skilled hands, and not only
enter cheerfully upon their duties Of
life. but be certain Of making it
success.
The Socialists say there must be
ing them, or at least getting ready
is big enough for all the people that
are in it, with plenty of room to spare
for groves and parks and Fairgrounds;
that there is land enough to go around
without crowding; that there are farms
enough to raise all we can eat, so
that no child in all the world need to
go hungry; that there is plenty Of
coal and iron, oil and gas, gold and sill
yer and other minerals and metals
stored in the earth; that there are for
ests and mountains and water courses
galore; that there are mills and mines
and factories and ships and railways
and telegraphs. and the poerw sup
piled free by nature to run them all;
that there are millions of men and
won en- ready to do all the work that
may be required to build homes, raise
crops bake bread-and cake too
weave cloth, make clothes and every
thing else that is necessary for every
body, and have time enough besides
to build schools and provide play
grounds for every last one of the child
rem with plenty of toys thrown in to
make this earth childrens paradise
Now why should not just these
things come to pass and why should
not you children help US speed the
day when they shall come to pass?
Everything you can possibly think