The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-08-09


REV. DIR. NEWELL .,.,
During the last
two years our people have sold billions
Of dollars of goods i'm fOOdStufIs, am
munitiOn, to the war suffering states in
Europe. The war trade has been
powerful Stmulant to the Industrial
heart and induced fevcrcd conditions
of trade. Now the country is begin
ming to liquidatc its wage, just as In
times of panic the country liquidatcs
its inflated stocks and boom values.
IT is not wonderful that timid men are
becoming alarmed and panic stricken.
For long time strikes i'm one industry
have been followed by strikes and
riots in other industries until In their
alarm many men anticipate the indus
trial war and the fultilImcnt Of Her
bert Srcnccr's prophecy as to immense
bioodShcd In the collision between the
two warning classes. with the over.
throw of our government and the cs-
tahliSlImcnt of II military dcSpotiSm
and form of industrial slavery OF
the S"vcrcSt type. But there IS no
need for calling out the militia because
the street cars do not run or because
we have no cream for the mornings
coffee and no gasoline for the auto.
Must the Worker Hate the Capitalist
lDurin" these three years of war trade
two black passions have dcvcloped
Many rich men feel that money Is the
only thing worth having, and many
poor men think that every worker must
hate every rich man. A collision. there
fore was inevitable. The republic is
founded upon the liberty OF each citi-
zen I" sell his labor for whatever he
| thinks it is worth or to give his labor
away for nothing. Not long ago Il
| Thousand union men, having decided
| not To work themselves for less than
So day, decided 10 kill any nonunion
! man who under stress of illness i'm hiy
family was willing to work for s. ~
| Il day. But if nOnuniOn man is TO
be cocrccd by guns and clubs and
stones what becomes OF liberty? When
one OK becomes greedy and horns the
weaker OK away from the manger we
call 1t brute force. When one savage
in the South Seas drives the weaker
savage from his little tent we call IL
bhrbariSm. When one working man
seeks to control another working man
hy the club il is anarchy. The gravity
Of the situation Is not based on the
number Of men In this republic who
seek 10 get their way by force OF pis-
toI, hnmbshell ana riot.
The Power of Small but Deadly Forces.
DurmG the French revolution only .
per cent of the people believed In brute
81, ,,lt
per cent of the people opposed the Red
Tcrr"r movement. Two per cent seems
Il negligible quantity, and vet they
burned ia" GramaricS. barns and cha
t"huS ii the country. blew up rich
men : HOUSES in the city, piled corpScS
NJ like COriWond and made the river
Seine run red 10 the sea. Grant that
III" apples in the orchard are of un.
usual size and sweetness. but if there
he IL Sp""k "f h'i::ht upon the fruit that
iccny Will soon 20 To the heart and rot
the fruit of the orchard Granted that
We have II hundred millions Of people,
a hundrch and fifty billions of prop
"rty expressed In terms of cities, vii
lagos. factories, farms. mines and
ships. II there hc sin it will eat like
cancer, consume like rust and briny
our boaStcd civilization 10 wrcckagc
ana ruin. Small. indeed. the germs Of
cholera and the black death but they
devastated England and ruined F.uropc
The History of Labor.
The history Of labor in at once sad
and heroic, pathcNc and cXhilarating,
tragic and glorious. In the dawn of
history, where the miStS part, the work
'r llrSt appears rs slave I'm Egypt,
irc"cc ana Rome. Gentlemen did not
work. Workers were bought and sold
| ike sheep and oxen and, growing old
'r sick, were killed. Each palace had "a
| slave doorkccpcr chained to the Intel
The sailor was chained to his oar and
| 'hc porter TO his cart. Disobcdicnt, the
| avc was noggcd, tortured and stretch.
| 'd upon the rack, flung as food to the
| iiSh or crucilicd. During those bloody
| rcaSts In the Coliseum 10000 slaves
| were slain during the gladiatorial
games celebrating the cnthroncment OF
IN emperor. Little by little men began
to question The masters right of life or
death over his bOndsmcn. In secret re.
volts were planned. The news OF an
inSurrcction OF slaves ,n Sicily sent q
wave OF terror over the empire. One
young gladiator OF great intellect plan
ned secret society and led the revO
luton. This revolt OF Spartacus was
unto death. He shook the whole Ro
man empire. The revolt, at last, was
put down; Lyt, like Samson, Spartacus
pulled down the temple and brought
about IL" decline Of the Roman empire.
When the dust from the ruins cleared
away II was found that the slave had
been succeeded by the serf The serf
belonged to the estate and enjoyed GER
tained privileges. The first fourteen
days Of plowing belonged to his mas
ter; after that Hodge could plow his
own little field. The first seven days
OF harvest belonged to my lord; after
that Hodge could reap his allotted field.
Every other lamb, calf and colt belong
Cd to mS lord as did sixty days OF null