The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-09
Skygac's Column


scription compulsory in our town. in {
recent editorial, says "the world il
full! of disheartened failures who don {
half try. They go thru life from failure
TO failure, always blaming somebody
else for their i'll success. i
! later life he will blame "the boss
OF "the system or chad luck" q
% society" or "capitalism or "thC
administration ''-anybOdy or any thing
bit himself-for what in his heart he
knows to be his own fault.
How is that for dope for school
children2 From the terms "system !"
the bOss", "capitalism" etc, used
it is easy to see the intent of the
editorial. The inference of course be-
ing that the socialists who teach that
the vicious environment of "capital-
ism keeps the wage.earner from ever
being anything else but wage-earner
is all wrong, that any poor student can
lift himself by the belt of his ambition
up into the "upper classes any time
he chooses. The irony of it all is that
anywhere you meet him the socialist
is conspiciously above the average
in intelligence and information and
while opposed to the "system on
principle, yet is far more capable of
surviving under the "system" than
most any of the poor deluded dupes of
capitalism. Capitalist control of the
schools is a positive blight upon the
educational opportunities of the young,
and "Current Events is conspicuous
example of bourgeois psychology as
applied in the schools.
Senator Newberry, the political dew
berry of Michigan has been found
guilty of conspiring to buy his seat in
the Z. S. Senate. He was tried by n
jury of his peers. He will not lose his
seat in the Senate, says the press
reports. Now-Berger-Oh well, he did
not BUY his seattle was elected.
Make your own comment.
Six months ago, if any one had told
ne that it was possible for the dead
to come to life. he would have had an
argument with me right there; Now,
since the news of the rise of the
German proletariat, / am convinced
that there is still hope for those who
are asleep in Gompers
"The red flag never flies over a
farm house. says eLonard Wood,
aspirant for the presidential nomi-
nation, of "shoot-or-ship- p-the-radicals" "
fame. Then as an afterthought he ad-
ded, "some method of assisting men
who have no money to buy land, would
be most helpful in sol ing this ques.
tom Yes, yes, General, that IS the
question. Now if "sOme method of
assisting men who have no money to
buy" land or anything else, could
only he found-but genearl, we know
the question. Aye, we know it well.
What we want to know is, what solC-
tion YOU have for this question, and
we would rather have it now than
to have your confession after election
that you have no solution, but merely
used the qTestion for advertising pur.
poses. Now there is a land whore they
HAVE found a solution for this
veNing question, but as you want to
"ship or shoot" all those who are here
and also have the solution, well you
can see the dilemma you are in!
What wonderful things are phrases.
One man SAYS what the country needs
above all else is strongly developed
nationalist movement, and a preache.
skilled in the use of words, retorted.
that the speaker wished to become
the leader of herd of infidels
Now that slavery has been legalized
in Kansas, and John Browns burial
place has been sold for commercia;
purposes, let us all rise and sing,
"0ur Fathers God to Thee,
Author of Libertee
Tralala.la etc.
"POlcs Ask Peace As Reds Hammer
On" headlines our own A. P. Mercy,
how times do change! Only six short
weeks ago we were informed by the
same paper that the Poles were going
TO stem the red tide and save the world
from the menace Of Bolshevism.
Oh Who will be our Saviour now7
Besides it seems to be sort of an
off season for Saviours.
Kapp tried for the Crown,-and lost
his head
Let the politicians of America take
note of what happens when anyone
tries to pull off monarchist uprising!
All power TO the Workers.
IIoorayll