The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-24
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

N and OTHER THINGS III
We commence to retrograde on reach
ing the maximum in anything.
Types and ideals change. Helens and
Launcelots are anachronisms today.
Battles are waged, not for honor and
glory but for dollars and markets, in
this age.
We pay but little attention to a mis-
sionary killed in China or India, but
study closely the wheat crops of Argen-
tine and the gold output of the Klon-
dixie. They effect the trade of dollars
and our dollar-god is of so much more
value to the world than poor mission
aries.
All real competition leads to scab-
dom. John D. Rockefeller is the regal
scab producer of America.
European nations commenced to call
each other scab-nations and now we
have been listening to the roar of guns
for almost two years. This is the
worlds biggest scab war.
In primeval days the struggle was
with ''tooth and nail" Today it is the
same, with the teeth and nails elongat-
ed into az centimeters, curtain fire and
shrapnel. 1t is an hour where every
body is preying upon everybody else.
The striker takes the ''scab" into the
alley and breaks his arms or cheats
him up" but when he is arrested for
his brutality by the policeman, he cries
out for justice when his own pate is
cracked by the polIce-club.
A capitalist will purchase legisla-
ture, then condemn the low down
whelps for practicing sabotage. Capital
will ruin 10000 children in their shops
and we call that business, but let a
hungry man take meal from an ice
box and we call him thief. The cap
italist shouts about his 'inalienable
rights" and we say yes, but the 10, 600
underfed children we call economical
necessities.
Filth and disease will not stiffen the
neck, nor an empty stomach the back.
Poverty is the penalty of being fail
ure Poverty is an inferno where ig-
norance testers and vice corrodes.
1.-The tenant house rat" is a product
of physical degeneration. He expects
to fill a pauper's grave. Because of
our unwillingness to study the needs OF
people rather than the dollar, we have
| made mantle tramp-human waste,
a social necessity.
If we have forced some to be tramps.
as an economic necessity, we have nc
business to kick him because of his po-
| sition in life.
Usually the unfit and inefficient com
pose the surplus labor army. So otter
the skilled man is unsteady, and the
old, once skilled, is unable to meet the
needs of the hour and they form into q
line shouting sabotage. Sabotage /:
another definition for human failure
If all were university graduates, as
strong as Jess Willard, and as clear
morally as Billy Sunday, still we would
have this by-product of society-the IN
employed-and we viii continue to havf
it unless we change the rule of distribu
ton
A criminal is oft times nothing but {
discouraged worker. A tramp is a mar
who has lost his social pride He /:
most often proud of his flag but he
likes to live the life of Diogenes.
Most of US believe in the three
ssW's" Want, Work, Wealth. . Al
of the s'I. W: VS." understand tn,
meaning of the first "W, T" ignore tn,
second wv, and only dream about th'
third W. An empty stomach has
taught the meaning of Want. wrong
instruction has made a ghost o
"Worl, and "Wealth makes them
mad.
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