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Show 1 I Marxian Club Socialists rc X EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Kate S. Hllllard, Eugene A. Batteil, J Howard Hall. Questions concerning Socialism nr.w-red. Address all coniniuuiea- y Hons lo Howard Hall, 2783 Pacific T avenue. ! "ho Is It vpcal of delcaf ( I tf-ll jom a Causf llko oitk Is proattr than d'-fout cat) know; It is the nouer of powers. r'laucls Adarns. HOW THE PEOPLE LIVC. Harold BcRll1 has e wry vivi.l art t-cl t-cl on th? "valour of thc Feasant" In the. Daily Chronicle. He Roei to the special r'ottHKC ,n which all the work of tlu house, all the work for a family fam-ily c? f ight human belnf. all the clean InK, cooking moniilnK, washlnc. fetch-Inc fetch-Inc and carrylug Is clone hy a woman j suifer'ng from n limit so d-seasc! thai , an op- ralion cannot bo lon; dclaynl. may even now bo tou tat?. "Two thln'iH occur to the mind In thiuklns; about this poor woman, who tramps across the moor for her 3hop-jinc;p 3hop-jinc;p and who onjetlntes walks out the ni'ht crying in her pain and long-Ins long-Ins fr tnc dawn. First, one th.nkrf of her courage, and tho courane of all very poor women who spend their IIma; in the duty of motherhco 1 How they havo lo toll! How very much alone one day must Berii to another' How heavily and drigKlngly must paaa the years! How bitter must be tho evorlustlnK effort to make two end-i meet! And many of them are HI, diseased, dis-eased, wounded, and suflonm:. i heir do vol Ion Is wonderful. They an the pre.it women of the nation. All th splendor and glory of civilization will create no eucli mothers as thee. "And then one thinks Can It b possible that within a mile or two of a largo town, where there ar. churcheu and cJrapol, rich men and leisured women, doctors and ohem'sts. and all the apparatus of a christened civilization, that a poor woman with a d.oased limb, sufferlns frightful pain and performing all the household labors la-bors of her miserable state, .should ho left entirely alone, and should stand In need of a few liaon .-ass? This thought slicks to the mind." COLUMN OF THINGS. Road Them, and Feel Your Brain Work. We declare war with the wages system, whic h di'iuorniii. s ... and tho hired, and enslaves the working work-ing man. We affirm ex a lundaiiie.if I principle, that labor, the creator of wealth. Is entitled to all It creates. Wendell Phillips. Slavery. A slave has no property in his labor; la-bor; and any man who Is compelled lo p!ve up tho fruit of his labor to another, at the arbitrary will of that that otner, has no property In his labor, la-bor, and Is therefore a 6)avo, whether wheth-er tlie fruit of his labor be taken from him directly or indirectly If It be said that he fives up this fruU by his own will, ana that it la not forced from him. I answer: To be sure he muy avoid entltiR and drinking, and may go naked, but then he must die; and on this condit'.ou only can he refuse re-fuse to give up the fruit of his labor. la-bor. William Corbott. The Useless Capitalist. All the social functions of the capitalist cap-italist arc now performed by salaried employes. The capitalist him no further fur-ther iHal functions than that of pocketing dividends, tearin? off coupons, cou-pons, and gambling on thc Stock Exchange, Ex-change, where the different capitalists despoil one another of their capital. At Aral the capitalistic mode of production pro-duction forces out the workers Now, It forces out the capitalists, and reduces re-duces them, juHt as It reduced the workers, to tho ranks of the surplus population, although not Immediately into those of the Industrial reserve army. Frederick Engels. THE "BOY SCOUTS.". Organized by Ruling Class Because They See Trouole Ahead. "Peaceful men and women, savs a letter In one of tho current magazines, "should view with alarm the growing tendency on the part of certain per-fious per-fious lo instill Into tbe minds of our school children the military spirit H-J-W-M-H--H-M- nrt xi-t-tr. s-j-.-i - j Scut Idea can he hotter obtained j I without tbe military idea. The physl-I physl-I ml training, the love and knowkdue ' of nature, of w hich no much is made, are In no way connected with the ,101. rder in war." Daily People. j THE RISKS OF SAN PIETRO. , "W. K. Vanderbilt s San Pictro, rid- den by O'Neill, ran third In the race lor the Prix clos Chanteples. ef t.OOU fraucs. at St. Clou.l t.id.iy." so m the dispatches from Paris In the morn-im; morn-im; papers of September CO. ; "A Nev early today ran through a gang of laborers ie. .it of them." so ran the dispatches ii.un Huffalo, ou the evening of tho same day. Behold tho equality that obtains lu our boasted land of no clajses; on one hand the owner ol the railroad, engaged lu the pleasant sport of racing, rac-ing, surrounded by gaiety, music, I'right clothes und dashing dames; on the oilier, bis workmen, snatched from a terrible life of 111 requited toll an.l misery only by a still more terrible death. However, the stinging social contract con-tract presented by tbe two Items Is not the mot valuable point In the light tbey Jointly throw upon the capitalist cap-italist class that the towering profits enjoyed by the emploer aro the due reward of business risk. "The employer runs all the risk. It Is but fair he should reap tho returns," re-turns," Is tho plea I Hut does ho? Taking the case before us, we find that: The capitalist does Indeed risk his money, his credit, and his factory or pjont; but Tho worklngman risks his health, his life and limb. The capitalist may lose overythlng he risks find yet his existence as a ! physical entity Is not destroyed thereby. there-by. What ho has lost Is no part of himself He Is maimed of none of his ergons, none of his faculties, none of his capacity as a human unit; while Tbe worklngman, hen his risk overtakes him. Is assailed In his very being. What ho loses Is an Integrnl part of his own body. If not killed outright, like Vanderbllt'a three trark-ra-n. he In rendered an Invalid or a cripple for life The capitalist thus runs the lighter. ; the more inconsiderable risk, and receives re-ceives Ihc-refor the massive share of the returns-, wherca-s The workingman runs the most in tlmale. the most haunting risk, and gets therefor onh one-fifth of the proceeds pro-ceeds of his own Industry. Finally, The workingman runs his risk not. voluntarily, but because h must do so to gain oven the most meager subsistence sub-sistence The dangers that encoin-pt.ss encoin-pt.ss him re not of his own ch. Musing, Mus-ing, but have been cast upon him. His Is the plight of thc wayfarer forced to follow a route Infested with road agents; but conversely The capitalist runs his risk out of his own sweet will, not for a lUIng but In the pursuit of luxury and Idie-; Idie-; "ess The dangers that he muu brave flow not from the working class but from his own class, bis rivals and competitors, who are even striving to pull him down (hat thlr own position may bo more secure His I roubles are those of the highwavman brawling with his matei; over a dlvisl ,n of the spoils; or. to put the thing in the racing language to which the polite er.rs of Mr. Vanderbllo are perhaps better attuned, his risks are merely i the risks of San Pletro Are the risks of San Piefro entitled to gtcnted return than the risks of inau or to any return at all? Dull People. THE CAPITALIST MONEY. j The chief uce to which the capitalist capital-ist puts money is to buy the use of I ,np worker's body. Of course he has : to prolde the means lor the workers ! ie operate ufon, as making hoots with-cut with-cut material Is. as Marx would say "nn art not yet discovered." But he does not make a single farthing out of that whether It s leather or machinery machin-ery or buildings, the whole tJf his prof it is extracted out of tho worker's body-and that includes all the powers an.l facilities the worker possesses. Put there are other uses lo which the capitalist puts monev, one of these is robbing his fellow capitalists. You nust remember that the cnpiiallst-I cnpiiallst-I cannibal differs from other cannibals ! In that he not only gorges himself "ii his naturnl prey, the worker, but he will every time he has an oni.or- tunity devout his brother capitalist v bo may hae fallen bv the way or ! wh0ln he himself has knockej down. I He sets traps and lavs snares lor I them; In short, be has at hottom no , community of Interest with any other 1 person whatever except whn he Is compelled to join forces with them against their common prcv. he is entirely en-tirely for his own hand a pure In-dlviduallst. In-dlviduallst. I robbing his brothers, the capi talist makes much the same Us of j r oney u th, great ant-eater makes of I his tongue he launches It out waits I till It is well loaded with other people's peo-ple's property, and then withdraws It , devouring thousands at a gulp- as he j did at the beginning of the gr.'at crisis cris-is now on. People. through such organizations as the "Boy Scouts." "Though the promoters of this scheme disclaim any Intention on tbc-lr part to advance thin Idea, it Is nevertheless true. Thev see the grow-lug grow-lug disfavor with which war Is viewed by the masses, as thc tollers know It benefits no one but a few corporations. corpora-tions. As this country has no conscription, con-scription, unless we may regard tho 'Dick Military law' as such, which makes every able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 45 subject to military mili-tary duty, at the call of the president, tho powers that control our government govern-ment must create a public sentiment for the army and navy, under Iho fulsf guise iif patriotism. "The present ruling class recopnizo that In the next ten years this country, coun-try, the same as all others, must faco one of those great problems of which tho world has witnessed several, the change In our Industrial government, The changes In tho pant have been brought about by Moody wars against the opprensive conditions. Today we witness the spectacle of millions of people, during our periodical business depressions, on the verge of starvation, starva-tion, while the land and warehouses are filled with abundance. The people, peo-ple, seeing ttiwe conditions, are grasping about for remedial measures to peacefully change these conditions, nil the whlh growing more restless. They are beginning to say thnt the only remedy Is the co-operative ownership own-ership of the tools of production and the abolishment of the present an-Hrchlslct an-Hrchlslct profit system Tho ruling class will stop at no. ends to retain their present position, which will rruso tho pMDple to reach almost a etui of revest. "Now this Is the moment, for whleh thrc are two forces preparing. Tho one working along educatlnual lines, so as to bring this about without bloodshed, teaching the doctrine of brotherly love, pointing out In a scientific scien-tific manner how to oercorno tho present Injustices. The other be!l.v-Ing be!l.v-Ing they can perpetuato the present conditions, but knowing they win have to use Iron measures to accomplish accom-plish such, are trying to create a military sc-ntlment. so they will have no trouble in raising enitflclent armed men. under the giilse of their patrl.it-irm.'to patrl.it-irm.'to shoot down their own broth- T. "F.ven thing good about the 'Uoy |