Show tH i f t Marxian Club t Any question queston concerning Social SocialIsm Ism answered Address all al com corn communications comy corni y i to K S Herrick Avenue T 1 WHO ARE THE The late Inte Walter aler A Wyckoff W the so 50 called calc tramp professor of Princeton used Uel to tell tel the following story stor storI I 5 It IL a shame George Georgo Gere to shovel shove dirt this wa way was asked one ono of two to work workmen workmen men watching a t steam shovel shoel in ac action action t tion lon 5 How Ilow so said George 5 Why Vh that IH l I taking tho the bread out of or the mouths moths of GOO men men that would be bo required to do the same work with will hand shovels shon ls George Georgo laughed Go 00 on ho bo said sald you OU dont reason right right Look Lol hero here hero If this steam digging would give gle work worl to 5 0 men with shovels why wh not get gel men me with teaspoons for the Wc job jeb George was right Yet Yet today who are the tho 1 Editorial Ed I Committee Comm t KATE S HILLIARD x xE E A BATTELL t ROY E SOUTHWICK X t tI I it It is not tho the revolutionary caught enlightened ened enel encl workmen they least of or nil all al They Ti e know that and copi copl copious ous production Is la the tho keynote of or the arch aroh of o plenty which they hope to rear over oer the future society They The know kIlOW that good will wi and are but hut wisps of beautiful 1 tures without that abundant productivity tivit which Implies the tho most improved ed 01 manner mannor of ot machinery Hence a asocial asocial asocial social revolutionist can never neer be a There remains but two t o other sots sets ot 01 persons who can fill fl Into that class clasa and in both cases their outlook is based upon hopelessness One Is tho the workingman the tho theother other oIlier Is the tho capitalist Both of these may and occasionally do become ad nd advocates advocates of teaspoon methods In In Industry Industry First tho the work r I Ingan His horizon Is bounded by hy capitalism m LIke tho snake of o Asgari capitalism over was wasand wasand wasand and over osOr will wH be bo An As John Mitchell presuming to talk for Cor tho the coal mine mineworkers mineworker mineworkers workers worker said he ho has given on up UI all al hope of ever eer being anything but hUt buta hUta a w arr No thought of a better beter system sheds its It guiding ray rj upon him he h seeks but to cast his hi chains chans under the present preset one To such an n one ono tho the mission of advance ma machinery machiner chinery chiner namely to L release the race raco rao from the sordid grubbing for an ex ox existence Is a sealed book bol His mine mind closed to t that fact he lie can see BOO In the Improved tool only a competitor a menace monace to his Job Hence Honce ho swears by i tho the teaspoon tepon and passes resolutions tons in his hl craft union against agaInst the tho I I Von Won Revolutionist and Capitalist I But far more vicious and harm harmful har ful mi to society than the occasionally t workingman is the con constantly constantly capitalist To 0 him also capitalism is in as a It was In Inthe Inthe Inthe the beginning and shall shah be he Whereas with the tho tl ti t was wn Ignorance alone hero It la is both Ignorance anti self In Interest interest terest combined which shut shut out the tho conception of oC a n superior social system and render tile the outlook for Cor bettor better things hopeless Make Mako hay bay while tho the sun shines becomes the capitalist motto molo Prices must be bo kept up there therefore therefore fore foro vast agricultural areas are left untied and factory factor production cur curtailed curtailed tailed tied Trust Tru t plants must run rn at a l profit prof therefore competitors aro bought and closed down Now ma machinery chinery means a dead loss on tho old equipment therefore patents are aro ar locked Joked In the tc safe and never utilized Hosts of or men mm me and women must be bo employed to boost bost and run rn ones own business and to outwit competitors therefore they the are withdrawn irom rm productive activity With Wih all al duo due credit for the tho mechanical advances It has made mado capitalism still stands as a athe the worlds monumental squanderer of or ormen men mon and forces Corces The capitalist is tho the main History has It that somo some hundred year ago when the te steam loom began to displace tho hand loom the Ule stan starving ing lag weavers weavers of oC Britain and Scotland vented their despair on the tho new now looms smashing them to t bits bis But that that did not destroy steam weaving No more than the spirit of mechanical progress did then suffer itself itsel to be bo retarded for the tue temporary advantage of oC labor will wl It now allow alow itself to t be throttled for the tho temporary advantage of capi capital i I tal tat Mechanical development of pro production production ducton will wi brook no halt hal Teaspoons and lie llo 10 directly In the tho I 1 path of civilizations broom and the capitalist Is the chief clief I Exchange I |