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Show ijrnryTiw r ,! i c THE OGDEN, CTAlL EXAMINEE: MORXIXG hand-to-mout- h animal existence. ueana THE SOCIALIST DEPARTMENT Of Conducted by the Socialist Party of Ogden 547 Twenty-sixt- Street. h THE CLAIM OF SOCIALISM. I have looted at this claim by the light of history and uiy own and it seems to me no looked at to bo a moot Just claim, aud that cun-nenc- it means nothing abort resistance ut a denial of the hope of civilisation. This, then, is the claim: "'ll is right and necessary that all men should have work to do abich shall bo worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which shuulj be done under such oondtUona as would make it neither over wearisome uoi over anxious. Turn that claim about as I may think of it a long as I can, 1 cannot fnd that it le an exorbitant claim; yet If society would or could admit it, tbe face of the world would be changed; discontent and strife and dishonesty would be ended. To feel that we were doing wurk useful to others and pleasant to ourselves, and that such wuik and Its due lewurd COULD not fall us! What serious harm could happen to us then? Aud the price to be paid for so making tbe world happy is revolution.' Wiiluun Morris. THE GOLDFIELD LABOR TROUBLE "Popultr interest and memory extend over n period of twenty four hours, said an eularnt scientist. If this statement is true, then the popu-In- r mind must depend on a minority of thinkers for conclusions or Jump at their own conclusions from the rvents of the moment Unfortunately, the conclusions of thinkers nre iiseless or worse when taken an authority without data or rraaon. Turn back a year or so and obiervrf the 1. W. w. barber taken u:t at nigbt and beuten to within' an inch of bis life by the thug element of the A. F. of Lk Feel again the mild shivers up and down your back at thought of such an outrage. But no outcry was raised In the press or from the palplt against the A. F. of L. Asssulis on men by members of the A. F. of L. hare often resulted fatally, but no one ever threatened the life of the A. F. of L. in consequence of an act committed by one of lie mem- nun-unio- n bers. Press notices of the latest trouble in Goldfield asserted that a fight was on between me A. F. of 1 and the I. W. W. with which the employer had nothing to do. Then it was reported that the mines were cloned for thirty-sihours to give the poor, weak L W. W. ridden miners an opportunity to protest against the I. W. V. and organize an A. F. of U union. At the time the ciiisens and mine owner have declared a lockout against the x L W. W. Capitalist neutrality Is a delusion and a snare. If the mine owners of Goldfield have bo quarrel wltu the miners and their organisation, why do they embrace tbs A. F. of L. style of "unionism" and club the I. W. W. with the big stick? The reason Is not far to seek. Wherever the miners have been .organised In "unions of the respective orarts to which they belong" they have had to sulimlt to murderous condition underground; to "pluck me" stores, starvation wagea and mors) e (furious from tha min ops raters. For the miner to repudiate Mitchell and his the workers in tha Clvlo federation, la to pronouno their own Independence. The L W. W. ia lusty InfauL for two yoars, Judging from effort made to crush iL Tha L W. W, maintains that every maa or boy or woman employed In or about a mine should be represented la a compact organ matIon of tha whole, regsrdleaa of race or color or occupation. Bach an organisation would be powerful to enforce safe and sanitary conditions both abort and beiow ground. It could put a atop to child labor and release tha civil and military power from the corrupt domination ofdh mins owners. Last, but not least. It could give that old phrase a rt si Job: Lots thy neighbor as thyself. Murderers and Thug The right of man have long been supposed to be anchored to the dictum that a maa la innocent until proven But in the case of labor in guilty. particular a r.ian 1 guilty until he Is proven Innocent. What If aa 1. W. W. man did comn.it murder? Murder is murder, no matter who commits It The law demands the life of the murderer. The law does not demand tbe lives of the murderer's blood rcle lions, the life of the church to which he belongs, the fraternal, secret order, snd It should not demand the life of a labor organisation or allow any 'Individual or corporation to seek that life. The real murderers and thtigs are those who seek to thwart the organlx-tlnof the woiklng class In the onward, Irresistible march to economic freeJnm. The capitalist owners of the Industrial factors of this country have tha shed many crocodile tear "independent" workingman, for whose especial benefit they proclaimed the "open shop." The bottom drops out of capitalist rincerlty when the I. W. W. knocks at the door with a hand unpalsled with Internal craft Uiesea-sinu- s and demands the fellow-worker- u.r by which this life ia The maintain-i- n the greater number of cases brutalise and degrades the individual; eork hi one .dull muaotonous round of constant application to one special fractional ponton of a commodity with one object only in view that of seeming a crust. That ia the only interest which the twentieth century laborer haa in his work. THE MORNING EXAMINER Any question concerning Social-iar- n answered. Address all communication to K. S. Hilliard, 107. SUNDAY, MARCH 24, Editorial Committee: Just as it is madness to attempt to fashion a silk purse out of e tow's ear so ia It the height of extreme folly to and M. MORAN expect to mouid a kindly and refined nature in a vicious environment. Man has to corform to hi material environearnwage draw the line between ments, and It is that material environers and capitalists. ment which la largely responsible for V. 8. Correct the nature of the man. B. J. 1 don't think that's right cr sound. The line should be drawn beOUR SYSTEM. tween the toilers and the U. 8. For instance? U. J. Tha clerk of a grocerymaa la When our economic system wore the cowl, a toiler, but tha grocerymaa himself foils also. Under tbe strict principle With the golden keys of heaven la its hand. of the class struggle, the line le drawn between the two, placing the clerk on When it governed all tha people from the overarching sky. one side with other workers, and the And made us all believe what we could toiling grocerymaa on the other, and nut understand together with the Depew Vanderbilts, we reverenced the cowl and the Goulds. Count Castellano, etc. Now, Why kejr. that'! all wrong. And naturally the system kept the U. 8. How would you filx It? churchmen at their ease B. J. I would place the toiling on the same side of the line While the people could but labor, pray sad die. with all other toiler, whether wage earners or not, and on the other side When our ecouomlo system wore the the Idlers and- sponger. crown. U. 8. If you di so you would pret- And held the golden scepter in Its ty soon get all mixed up; Just ns mixhand. ed as if you placed the strawberry When It governed all tha people from and the dalay la the same botanical th guarded throne so high. clone to two the And made The grow family. aa all obey what we could two to groand, etc., yet they belong not understand Again, the Why we reverenced tbe crown and tha wholly diatlnct families. atrawberry grows on a lowly bush, scepter oa our knees, the apple oa a stately tree; upon your And naturally the system kept the noprinciple of classifying the toiling grobles at thslr ease cery man separately from the VanderWhile the people could hat labor, fight the von would strawberry put bilts, and die. aud tie apple la different famines; one uf end the Now our soonomlo system veers a hat fact is that they era same family. And has nothing bat Us money in Its B. J. Yon don't Bay so! hand. V. 8. Yes. Tha mouse la a little Nov it governs all the people from the fields that round aa lie. animal, the elephant a big one; yea would claailfy them separately, yet Well Justified by learned books w cannot understand the fact la that the elephant and the mouse are one family. Still ws reversnes the power and tha B. J. (with Increased astonishment) money on our knees. Yes? And ns to rally the system keeps th IT. 8. Yea. What determine! tbe rich men at their east While tha people can hut labor, vote kinship between plant and animal and die. Is, not appearance, but earns fundamental fact that typlflea them. Now, tbe fundamental fact that typlllea the Bat nor economic ayetam Is oar own! tailing small groceryman la not hla Ws have mads it with tha toil of head and handl toiling; otbar people toll with whom ou would not rank the tolling grocery-man- ; We have made it and ws can change US Ws do not need to gtvs pickopckete toil, aa toll bard; stock broken toll, and toil bard. The All our substance to this brother hers who will not understand! fundamental fact that typlflea tbe toil-lugrocerymaa la that he ta In pos- Ws must all work together, on our feet and sot ear knees! session of property, whereby be can, And our remodeled system will keep and does. Just as tbe big capitalist, U the wen Id with ease eqneese labor out of another human While the people aU can labor, vat of feature tbe the sad being; typifying live! and Is mans clerk that, being grocery Charlotte Perkins Stetson. stripped of all property whereby to earn hla own living, ha la bound to THE MINER BREAKS. ell himself to tba man who has such property. It Is upon those lines that the economic classes are separated. Let me but do my work from day to To blur that line Is to open the doora day for all sorta of false steps; hence so A thousand feet from daylight la tha murk. many "reform" parties that Jump up Bent double in a narrow vein of coal; and collapse. d B. J. Yes, yes; and yet It aeeme to While at his desk some shirk me that the grocerymaa has. a hard Writes poems of th sunshine of tbs tima of It. soul, U. 8. No doubt; and yet no harder what my tired heart than many a pints who, being caught, should say. was hanged to the yardarms of his own ship. If the grocerymaa has sens and what ia said of him in said of tha What hoots It If awl ft death larka close beside whole middle class he would simply throw in his lot with the proletariat, To snuff my nfe out at a candle's flams. but to do that be must accept proletarian economldf. Instead of doing The low walla reek with seeping wet creeps my shortened what the middle class now try to do, The fire-debreath to claim, to Join the proletariat by fordng upon It middle class economica "coal While far above mo, cursed by naked need, planks a la Democratic party," public hubs, and hearts of ownership of public utilities," etc. Wife suckle daughters bleed Only then Is than help for the slakAt giving all they have to shameless ing middle class. B. J. H'm! I now see It In another greed? light This middle class want to lie to- What matters It! When tho long shadows fan gether with the proletariat provided and the proletariat is willing to lie inside At even tide, 1U play and lo rest! the stomach of tba middle class. Eh? Because I know for mo my work Is , U. 8. You got it now. KATE S. HILLIARD E. A. SATTELL non-toile- - -- g lady-handa- w -- -- best "Peace on tbe Pennsylvania" Is as THE SWEATER BREAKS. uncertain a quantity as Pears on the Interborough." It cannot be otherwise. Tiler Is no pesos between ex- Let mo bat do my work from day to day, ploiter and exploited, aa long aa the d attic room or reeking latter possess a particle of stamina or la shack, a faint conception of Justice. Antagonistic material Interest make peace My needle clicking to consumptive back. Impossible. Weekly People. My throbbing bead, my stiff and achTHE JOY OF CONTENT" (?). ing bahk Are fitted beat for this, the poets any. sun-bake- WORK. By Franklin H. Wentworth. Let me but do my work from day to la day, field or forest, loom, at the desk or Ia roaring market place, or tranquil room; Let me but find It In my heart to ay, When vagrant wishes beckon me as- tray Thin id my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all wbo live, I am tbe one by whom Tbla work ran host be done in the right way." Let me but .find It la my heart to pray When vagrant wishes beckon mo astray. (Wishes for food, or hope of rest, a day) Ah, let thla ba my blessing, not my doom! a Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done. In the right way. Oh, let me alt and stitch and stitch always! ' THE WEAVER BREAKS. Oh, let mo cheerful greet hours, the laboring Then shall I see it not too great, nor From reddening dawn to g mall dark. To suit niy spirit and to prove my Stalking with empty mind and nerves la shreds. powers; Then shall I cheerful greet the labor- The endless travel of tbe running ing hours. thread. And cheerful turn, when the long shadWhat care I for the woods and bloomow fall ing flowers? At eventide, to piny and love and rest. This suits my spirit and this proves Open Shop Because I know for me my work Is niy powers! For ell humanity. The craft unionist Kost What matter song of lark, add radiant who Join the employer In enforcing Van m the Outlook. Dyke I he denial to the Henry sky? working cla of the Another reason for my spirit blgb: open shop aa exemplified b.v the prinBut or discontent No one can tramp thla floor ao well ciples of Industrial nnlunlsqi a ns lay- will be the prcri-nllotbe prior study, to which the as I, ing the foundation for a physical conflict between the capitalist anl the Intellect and the energies of the no- Oh, let me watch the looms until I die! working classes the world over. Tho bles and their legates will be ever L'ENVOI, crime, the only crime whose pejalty bent. .To that ud the teaching of f violence and bloodshed. Is a re- the schools and colleges, the sermons, Ob, Monument of Greed, who taka and peauaslvelr form toll fusal to hear all sides to a controversy etc. will le sklit-illin which principles are Involved. Tbe molded. W. J. Client: Our Benevolent The Joy and hope that should In toil abide. people of this country have too much Feudalism. :it stake to allow prejudice to shut out How fortunate srt thou, that at thy The HAMMER BLOWS. any fact offered In erldence. side twde unionist should analyse FrankA singer sweet, with specious song la saert-flees From the Sydney People. lin's declaration that "He who set Discontent haa fathered ail human To counsel patience la the face of esgmtlal liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty progress. wrong. nor safety. Temporary safety someWhile Justice sleep, aad Tyranny la times sits in the craft union, but esthe of world Ibe Throughout spirit strong sential liberty abides In democratic discontent Is manifesting Itself. To keep her throne on Labors back, organization of the working class. so strong! Man being a reasoning animal Is beUNCLE SAM AND BROTHER JONAginning to question the saneness of enSixty-Nin- e Shrieking Reasons. THAN. gaging In a life and death struggle for existence in a world wherein by IntelThere were slxty-nln- e negroes and Brother Jonathan 1 bare been read-I- . ligent application of hnman ingenuity negreascs lynched la America last and force there would be enough for year. In an .ng up on tbe class straggle. atmosphere of kerosene Uncle Bam That's good. all and some to spare. and firewood Mxty-oinreasons B. J. But I find It too narrow. shrieking to Australia to sternly shut V. 8. How would you broaden it? The average worker'e life is no life out tbe colored alien, whether black, B. J. The strict class struagie In e human souse, but a dirty, mean. brown, nr yellow. Sydney Bulletin. lilent-gsthsr-ln- e oMh? ARCHITECTS j |