Phoenix tribune., 1918-12-28

~ THE PHOENTZ
names appear there. But Henry Dubb.
the village blacksmith. isl grabbed if
he goes 81 miles an hour in his Tin
Lizzie. The first time up he pays a.
$40 fine The second time up he pays
$50. The third time he goes to Jail
and is warned that another appear
ance means shooting at sunrise.
Once more:
The rich man acquires jag at the
club. He wanders out on the street
ard begins to hug lamp posts, and
starts fights. and make nuisance Of
himself in general. The, policeman on
the corner. working under orders,
calls hack and send him home, or
takes him to a hotel and puts him to
bed But when Jim Plunket, the ditch
digger, gets a snout full CT booze, they
call the hurry-up wagon and cart him
to Jail, throw him in the drunk tank,
and fine him or send him to the rock
pile. f Z
Further proof:
Rich men, and rich women. insist
that their sons and daughters marry
in their own class. They encourage
matches which unite fortunes. They
frown on matches which unite hearts.
They are tickled to death if son
James weds society queen, but
they're Mortified if he picks out a rib
bon counter girl who earns six bones
week. And if he should marry
servant girl. Coco night! Tho Ia-o-
.1r disiaaec's lin a-1 1a
don az NewDort
Men who labor are erc7 ',,
looked down upon, ignored, cuffed
about as though they were slaves
which they are--and from society to
the courts they get the worse of it.
The rich man carries his case to the
cupreme court, if necc@T"ry, to obtain
his rights. The poor man is lucky if
he can raise enough dough to carry
his troubles to the justice courts.
We have million dollar trains for
the rich and tourist trains for the
poor. We have million dollar churches
for the rich and snubs await the work
ers who go there to worship. We have
exclusive clubs that no poor man can,
even enter, unless he be a porter.
We encourage exclusive societies, and
even some of the scret societies are
exclusive, for Bill Smith, the truck
driver, has fat chance to take the
sixty-third degree.
Who stirs up the poor against the
rich? Why, the rich themselves.
They fluant their dirty dollars, accu-
mulated at the expense Of the work
ers, in the face of the masses They
build mansions of such grandeur and
guard them with such care, that
poor man dare not enter them, unless
he gets in the back door to deliver
vegetables to the servant girl or the
Chinese cook.
These are a few of the reasons why
Socialism is growing. These are a
few of the reasons why the l. w. w.
are increasing. These are a few of
the reasons why Bolshevickism is
flaming up al lover the world. Rich
men take the land, and hold it out OF
use. They boost the price. They inn
port cheap labor. They initiate land
values until 1t costs a thousand dol
lars, or more, to get halfway decent
lot on which to build modest little
home. And all the time they cry out
against the labor unions. and every ef.
fort of the worker to better himself.
But the day is at hand-aye, it is
already upon us, when the men who
toll are to be the men who enjoy the
products of the soil-the products Of.
their labor. The day is here when
those who produce wealth are going
to have wealth, and it will be the
worker who rides in limousine, and
not the idle shirker who hogs the
land, or sits in his bank with gold
laden vaults, and wonders whether he
will take trip to Europe in his pri-
vate yacht, as means Of diversion.
or go bear hunting in Africa.
In short the day of the kings and
kaisers, the multi-millionaires and the
Land Hogs. is about over. The day
o fthe real men and women of the
world-the workers-is at hand.