The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-15
SOf1E THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

The only thing that can save the
capitalist socially is surplus labor.
So long as men have to compete for
jobs we will have this well defined labor
product.
Needs and ability usually give us our
place. Sometimes pull assists some
to position but only ability will hold the
place.
If you ever expect the lightning of
success to strike you, fit yourself for a
place ''in the sum- and you will arrive
in good time.
We say to the tramp, Ego to work"
but never offer to supply the work only
on our terms. We say, meet our
terms. and you shall not starve;" we
say, fthen he who does not work, shall
not eat" and in most of our dealings
with this social "by-product'' we for
get the Golden Rule. Remember that
behind the bricks thrown, machinery
destroyed, and annoyances we meet be
cause of the tramp, is the ''selfish mo-
tive to live.
In these days we hear much of the
"scab. Now the laborer calls a man
''scab" who refuses to do team work
He is the man who gives more value
for the same price than the other fell
low. He becomes the whip in the hand
of the man who buys labor. If we
want to buy labor, we say the ''scab''
is "bully man." If we want to sell
then we knock" Wall Street and
ROo1-6c of Trades Ic baV 70 ho
big enough to really see.
We are sure that it is not good social
taste to be known as ''scab." We
say it is on the level with being tax
shark, or running a collecting agency.
But these people are in existence. If
we do not want them in our social or
ganiZation, we must remove the cause.
Growing up and around this social
condition we have tramps, hobos, l. W.
VS., scabs, Ownerships, injunctions,
gatling guns, strikers and break
ers-all over the division of the Joint
product. The point is who shall con-
trol-the guns, injunctions or l. W.
VS.? Often the same spirit actuates
all classes getting something for no
thing" this rule of "me first is plain
ly indicated.
1t is impossible to build marble pal
aces out of unbaked bricks, neither can
we have a democracy "of the people,
for the people and by the people" when
we are represented by men with Doodle
instincts in the legislative halls.
l have seen men attending musical
recitals, listening to sweet strains Of
harmonious sounds, that would look so
enraptured that their faces would
shine, but when you meet them next
day In business transaction, you know
full well that you were dealing with
business pickpockets.
You meet some young fellows on the
street that so reek with tobacco smoke
that you are forced to think of a pack
age of Bull Durham or tin can of
Prince Albert.
Our glorious American democracy is
doomed, and it should be if we continue
to elect to the office of representative
men who nave doodle noses"
We all realize that the millennium has
not dawned, but q new sense of right
and wrong is here. The wrong-doer is
ON0EIdSIlIiSly KICKING Cn6 growing So
cial conscience.
It has not been long since heard a
man complaining about the good times.
He said if these times keep up l will
not have anything to do. He was one
of these fellows that make living on
the misfertunes of others.
The most pitiful old age is the one
that has lost faith and courage.
When the United States has q high
protective tariff to protect herself from
other nations Of the earth, these ''othsr
nations" protest against our union
and make fun of US. We, as a natioa.
Eetort and call them ''scabs" for being