The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-05

DOR ms WORK 1or fhelr Deautles sake,
said the boy.
'sI cannot appreciate anything a
skunk does, Collins said. 1sI cannot
read line he penned without thinking
Of his internal degeneracy. =
sob, you christian" sneered Ru-
aolph.
~ am no christian, the other
retorted.
"No, you mean you re no Church
Member but you are as fanatic rs
any Jesus lover ever knew. You
are free will Christian, and nothing
else can be made out of you.
| "You re crazy" roared Collins, ~
hate christianity as much as you 10
and you know II.
Rudolph agreed that this was tech
nicaliy true, but asserted that that
when it come to showing the spirit
lofs intolerance he was a regular Calvin.
.nTake your stand on the drink quest
ion, YOU are as extreme as a howIlug
methodist, Rudolph said. Then con-
tinued "You know that the drink ap-
petite is physiological condition
That its victim cannot resist the
temptation even tho he see the faces
of his starving children in the glass.
Cursing his weakness he gets drunk.
He ruins his health, impoverishes his
kids, while crying to his God for
help. But he is a dipsomaniac; his
body has an affinity for drink as
ether has for air He cannot help
being what the forces of heredity
made him. Yet, you who call yourself
radical and liberal, curse your fell
low worker whose appetite differs
from your own. You call them every
/ name on the calendar as if they were
victims from choice instead OF from
circumstance. Initiating the christians
YOU make everybody but yourself a
hereto. No Collins dear, you may not
be a christian, but if you are net,
then YOU are Jew or Mohammedan,
or Brahmin or perhaps Voodist, but
YOU re no radical, you, are no scientist,
you are no idealist, you are too damned
|intolerant; you are good at condemning.
but you never make an effort to TN
derstand for if ever you learn to mn
derstand then you would learn to for
give"
"ges and you are Christian, also,
for you talk about forgiveness. Your
consistency is something wonderful,
snapped Collins and he leaped out OF
his bed as tiger leaps at his prey.
.'To forgive means to surrender, and
surrender means death. You d burden
yourself with so much human waste
that you d be smothered in the filth
of your own choosing. I've told you on
: several occasions that I don't hate
these vermin, only seek to eliminate
them from my environment. / hate
vermin, high brow and low brow
That's the reason I'm against them
They hinder me in the struggle for
existence, that is all. That's enuf. "
, Rudolph's sally had made Collins too
: angry to answer with his customary
. coherence. He trailed off into NUT
| terings about the inability of the
workers to center their minds on a
common purpose because they toler-
ated within their ranks these ele-
ments who placed their own personal
appetitcs and ideas above the com-
/ mon good. "Try to hold meeting
} Cor the purpose of fighting the boss
with one third Of the membership
/ souscd and the other third filled with
} poetic dream stuff and capitalist lies,
, you have inst one third who are ready
land willing to fight the master, loaded
. down with two thirds of their own
numbers in the shape of physical anil
, mental nincompoops
Jack, who had been listening to hoth
! Of them now asked Rudolph what e
had to answer the big man.
"You understand that drunkenness is
result Of peculiar body chemistry
which people inherit from their an
cestors, therefore the owners of such
bodies are constantly in danger of
having their brain befuddled thru
yielding to their Unborn craving. 1
know that drunken man is DANCE
; rous. But the bread and hutter quest
ion is not an individual proposition;
IL is wholly collective in its nature.
Drunk and sober must solve il 20.
gether. have told Collins many a
time hat If you DONE take drunkards
into the organization they will scab
enough to build an organization who
: on us and help break your power.
Then whore are you going TO get men
don't drink. We must deal with people
as they are and not as we want them
to be.
Jack still wrapped in his blanket