Show r I SOCIALISM AND TIlE THE LAWS LAWS LAWS' I I Th Therb Thero is a gr great grat at class o of absolutely honest p peo o. o 1 t pie in t tho Uni United d Stai States s who wh ho believe belice that o our r laws lus luson 7 founded on a wrong basis and that naturally l tl r ig out of them classes are created ed and th that t h the op operation of sU such suli h laws one ono class grows gro r. r J IY another class remains stationary o or 11 Por poor i have noer never nyer seen on one of t this is class las who did didi i w was that t was coming to him n under u de the law 9 have ave seen seena seen a good man many who when poor were to d declare clale that their p poverty verty was due to I I. I ith I r wrong laws or the administration of the tho thoI laws But we ha have nev never r seen one of of these theM if an accident or 01 good fortune fortuno or r an m cn- cn h 1 i Q or through ugh any means h which wInch men sud- sud acquire fortunes has not changed his changed his views when n the fortune fortun has lIaS itts come Conic to him r W Sr Those people make an honest but misguided of people but every lawless scoundrel in the I f. f try every lazy lo loafer who wants to live on onni Something ni thing that som some other men have earned in ast asa as- as s t suming a patriotic solicitude for his fellow beings J Jis anxious only to sc indorser any move move by byll which ll ch he i Ie t S something for nothing T That tho danger o of socialism Ij In honest hands f j f soci would not be very ba bad but the great i is s that the majority of Socialists are arc either cither p perverted in LII br brain in or 01 misguided in iii judgment and tI e get after brooding over the matter a little Awhile v J i e to to believe that if the government could be be- clia i and the law changed there would be equal equal- ty tia among men and all aU men would b be bc equal part part- Berlin all in-all all n of tl the ve of the world They ar are not Dot Socialists 1 J ny true sense sese b brit icy ta take t that la as us s use J oDle of the foremost Socialists in this city have havethe the le writer that if jf a man found a mine it was ff h but that if h. h he had 1 to employ labor to to take the I p ure f from om the the mine t then cn it was his Ius duty to j V Divide e even with all aU of lii Ins his laborers And when 4 c tasked asked i if i it should be necessary to open th the mine mineO O Si fo disc discover vcr whether there was any treasure there not worth orth while who ought to pay to-pay pay for the thO labor f ne' ne ans' ans answer cr was immediate that the m man n who found i it t. t ought to pa pay r those he employed But if the ore j w s found and it got got to to be a paying mine mine then hen th the ther f r laboring t man helped d open it having been ki maid i id Jor for his services had an equal interest in it itman K e man who found it and paid for opening it r t uch that is only another name for forab ab h they g-they they are shocked re have been cen politicians from the first in our country Q try w who lO to get la labor or votes have been tellin telling Jing men that the they did no not have a n fair fail deal t has been beena a demagogue cry from the first j it alis al- al 1 is b be and the proof is that should th the fran Kise be taken away from laborers their interest in m t cease at once rt J v fru Two wo boys each with 1000 start out in a little r ss j but a relative or friend friell of one one-of the boys him extra With tI that at he is isto able to purchase machinery and out of a little IittI busi- busi hes 10 create a great business and se see them niem ten P years year hence henc he assuming that both are prudent prud and industrious o lS and one has ten n t times mes as much prop prop- d rt the as-the other That is IS simply through the f na ear earnings i gs of capital The one boy bor got his tf a ital honestly it was a gift from a r relative l tive or a n i theother had no such relative relate e or 01 friend and andie ie ney r ha have hav grown apart That shows simply not the theof 1 vel o of brain rain or muscle but the increasing power Ji t e ets ts in capital r ad d that ein true then theil the most important tl J JA i inthe business of the country is the money A r pd any laws which enable 01 one 0 man unjustly man unjustly to inise inease in- in in 1 r. r ease reaSe ise his fortune ou ought ht to be amended any laI law la lawt t I limits i its the natural sum of f money in tl the co coun coun- m c ry which the country needs in its IS crim erinc V q 1 I. The rhe he of silver for instance t Jf S. S fh he crime of the last century and caused caused more S any other legislation passed in the last years ears It 1 causo more suffering indeed 4 Khan did great pur-great gr at civil civi war ivar because it devastated 1 p J from m se sea to SC sea it it broko the h hearts art o of tens f Of thousands it demoralized all an the industries of the and it has lias ruined our trade with half I. I tl the e world And yet our lawmakers ers controlled b by f those who own money in the east cast dare not venture t. t v to to that wrong 9 That Thit t is only a sample The one tl ing c congress to s see sec e to soon sooner r l' than any and ohr oth run to 0 dea with with more vigor i is th the money system of f our bur country That is a grievous wro wrong vj g as it i is a administered admin admin- min i today it t is something that ninety four or t pf ever every hundred i ip inthe the l Land nd have havea a right J to o complain of of It is if the cause caus of df f m more re distress i In n s s' s t than an an arty any cJe other one tl thing g within c i ou country S l c B Bi l t th thet t rl does not alt alter r the fact that the man means can go go i b r. r t i ij led d except by hi his hi's II I I arms ant Isis and llis brain improved a as ait it is byl om free Schools Schools' and forgo forge out fo for himself a fOl fortune and an all honored n name And while whilo this is so RO so then thon it is with impatience t that lat honest men read that the laboring la boring man is singled out ont and wronged and those thoc that raise that cry erv as A r rule nile lo never did an honest da days day's s work in th their ir lives and have no solicitude for laboring men except under the idea and by b that cr cry of the demagogue a 11 man mait CHIt can get something for nothing S |