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Show f Marxian Glut Socialists:'! a - Any question concerning Soclal- Ism answered. Address all com- j. munlcationa to K. S. HllllarJ, V 436 HsrHck- Avenue. -. - -Editorial Committee: f KATE S. HILLIARD. t E. A. BATTELL. i ROY E. SOUTHWICK. I t 1 l "H' ill lli ym-.-r-i-(-r-i--m-Tr extraneous considerations wages, stress of circumstances, or the like. That supreme pleasure of tbe early handi craftsman, of seeing his product prow Into shape bODcath his hand, and -of. ownership in It when completed, is denied the factory worker of today. His toll Is not for himself, but for a master; ho nlnisel M but a galley-slave tugging at the oars. ACTIVITY THE LAW OF LIVE. Release man from this soul-numb-I Ing drudgery ,and will he lie and slothful? Not a Lit of It. .Mau Is a creature of action. Activity Is the law of his being. Knock off his gal-ley-slave shackles, and his labors will straightway Poar to higher things. The "Spleltriob," as tbe Germans call It, the play-Impulse, Is th heritage of man, as It Is of all other animals. Kvery healthy child possesseB it. Every Ev-ery artist carries It with him through life. Every plero of work worth doing do-ing Is done in response to Its dictates. Only when work li so done for pure love of itself that it seems as play to the doer, does It really become Rrent. Il is only when the individual Js harnessed down to uncongenial sun-Jess sun-Jess toll in the struggle for existence that the spring of the Spiel trleb brenks, and man longs for rest and Idleness. Kven then, remove the adverse ad-verse circumstances, let blni recover his nnrmal spirit, and the old instinct revived itself and spur him on. The boy who could not be driven to build lighthouses later wielded one of the most lovable pens in literature, and the youth who crept like a snail unwillingly un-willingly to law school, berime, the world's greatest political economist It 1s all in finding the work one love6 and is adapted to. That our modern system of Industry cuts the workers off from. That the performance of all menial labor by means of machinery machin-ery would leaTO the worker free to accomplish. No; th performance of dull labor's daily round by the iron horso will not result in sloth and degeneracy. On the contrary, the energy, the life now consumed in ceaseless grubbing for exJatence, will then be devoted to the higher part of man, that higher part I which cannot develop till Ita material foundation first be laid. Exchange. THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKERS. WORK-ERS. Socialism is In the first place a struggle of the workers to emancipate emanci-pate themselves from wage slavery, and thereby to emancipate humanity. Work Is the blessing of civilisation. Labor has built the cities and towns. Jibor has made knowledge possible and still now we have three rm-n for every Job. Through the "oversupply" offering, wages have fallen; and through want of work we have be-comv be-comv beggars, vagabonds and criminals. crimin-als. Socialism' Is the only means of saving sav-ing us from the hog of present day wage slavery. And Socialism will come. No one can hinder It. It is a natural necessity; the next forward .step' In civlliiatlon. A" the capitalist capital-ist system succeeded Feudalism, so ' w III Socialism tbe unity of mankind displace Capitalism. . THE HEART IS GOLDEN. Atlanta, Oa . dispatches of May T.rd tl! that, upon invitation of the con-fcts con-fcts in the United States penitentiary of that city, the gifted singer Gerald-lino Gerald-lino Farrar, playing her own accom-Ipanltnent accom-Ipanltnent on the piano, sang on that jday for nearly forty minutes to ono jtbonsand convicts, gathered in the i large auditorium of the penitentiary. Tbo dispatches tell how Miss Karrar'6 touching songs, concluding with 'lame, Sweot Home," converted the ' ! Wodltorlum Into "one great sob," tear streaming down tho cheeka both of singer and her ronrict audience. jSo ekttliur paragTa-ph of tbe dl-'taieh't. dl-'taieh't. "Miss Farrar's slngtog has fben Torth more than a hnodred bt-Boons, bt-Boons, said Warden Moyer." Be tt as It way with regard to ser-jnvms, ser-jnvms, certain it la that Mies Farrar Msowled down with a pathetic object pvwon the monumental slander re- i funding man's "perrerseness," a slaa-jder slaa-jder of the human raco which, rooted In supcrtitions, and kept alive by pnl-.ptteers. pnl-.ptteers. Is used by capitalist politicians, politi-cians, press and professors as an 'ar-Urnvoent' 'ar-Urnvoent' against tho "practlcable-'ncss "practlcable-'ncss of Socialism," . Words of the Chinese Sage. 7a the words of the Chinese sage: "Tlfl water naturally runs downward. OPEN SWOP AND SCAB. "What iB all thin talk that's iu tho raprrn about the open flhop?" atlcM Mr. Hennessey. "Wtaj-, dcin't ye know?" suld Mr Dooley.- "Really I'm surprised at y Ixoersnce, Hirml8ey. "hut Is th' open shop? Sure, 'Us a shop, where they lcape th" dure opon t' accommo-obUx accommo-obUx th.' consthftnt sthream of mln coming In t' take jobs cheeper thin th' mln whut has W Jobs. ,'Tls llk this. Hrnnleecy sappow wn of these free-barn Amerycan cltlzena Is wurkln In an open shop for th princely way-es way-es o fwan larRe. Iron dollar a day of tin hours. Along comes another free-barn free-barn ?on-of-a-gnn, an'' He so to th' bo8a: 'I think I could handle th' job for ninety dnts.' 'Sure,' sez th' boas, 'an the wan-dollar man gets tho merry. mer-ry. Jloglicg can, an' goes out Into th' crool wufld t exercise his InaMonable rolgbts as a freebarrt Amer'can cltl-zen cltl-zen and scab on eomo other poor devil. dev-il. An so It goes on. Hlnnissey. An' who gets th benefit? Thruo, It savs th boss' money, but he don't care no more for money than ho does for bis rolRht oye. It's all principle wld blm. , He hates t' see mln robbed of I their lndlplndonce. They must have their Indlplndence rcgardls of lny-thlng lny-thlng ilee." I wit can b arnncleliy mad to shoot jwpvwd, o does human natnr nat-ryraJlj' nat-ryraJlj' tend to Ioftraeas, but is by ar-TlflcJal ar-TlflcJal muvods prft yJ downward." Miatmrer mar, on time, have been th necessity or apologj-, for Foclal sytorxM thai compelled the animal lu man to nroert Itse-lf over bis better part, and th-us artificially to press h's lofty aitplratlons downward, that necessity nec-essity or excuse exlats do longer. The wealth producible today, under, rational - poelal organisation. Is so emple for all that penitentiaries places In which nfnety-nlne and nlne-tfnths nlne-tfnths pr cent of the inmates are font tblther for crimes against "Trop-eity" "Trop-eity" arp monumental Indictments of tho misnamed Social Order that product's pro-duct's the criminals. The criminal Social Order of capitalism capit-alism seeks to Justify Its felony agalnn the nation by imputing to man Innate perverstnoas. Tbo Imputation Im-putation Is calumny, added to the felony. fel-ony. And vain Is tho attempt. How vain was again proved by tho effect upon the allegedly "hardened sinners" sin-ners" of the charming voice and touching touch-ing words of MTss Parrar's songs. The human heart la golden. Whatever What-ever Is stony therein is, today, the artificial ar-tificial product of the capitaH6t social aystcm. Weekly People. : WORK, AND WORK. Quito a flurry baa been created in ministerial ari physical culture circles cir-cles by Thomas Kdlson's recent prophecy proph-ecy that in a few generations all unpleasant un-pleasant manoal labor will be done by fcooohinory. Whita In one case hypocritical hypo-critical and in the other sincere, both ministerial and physfcaj onlture objections objec-tions epring from the same root, and I can be bandied aod answered togeth- Tho root they spring from is the i notion that without compulsion to la-'ftor la-'ftor man will grow Indolent and degenerate. de-generate. The notion falls to graap the pole-wide distinction between work, in the sense of healthful physl-orrUy. physl-orrUy. and worlt-ln tho sense of 1mm d nun drudgery. In tbo latter sense, no doubt man kxk down upon work, despises it. and ondeavors to escape It In all possible pos-sible ways. It would, indoed, be an lnult to his Intelligence if he did not. It is jojyloss. monotonous toil, pearly atoays uninteresting, often unwholo-fomn unwholo-fomn or dangerous, and in tho vat. ; majority of casor gclocted not for its congenlalUy, but because o a dozen "But," said Mr. Hennessey, "thane open shop mln ye mlnshun say they are fer th.' unions, if properly conducted." con-ducted." "Shure." said Mr. Dooley, "if properly prop-erly conducted? No sthrikes, no rules, conthracts, no scales, hardly any wages, an' dam few numbers." F. Peter Dunne. A SOCIALIST SLOGAN. Among tb SodaJist slogans "claps struggle 'Hs the one which most gets on the nerves of the bourgeoisie, evon upon politicians possessed of hor Eense. Socialism of the means of production Is a theme which is debatable, de-batable, . declare some of them, but class struggle, that is civil war, "blood and war," and to their inrtig-Jnatlon, inrtig-Jnatlon, it Is like barricades and other like defenses of 1848. By this time, though, they should have learned enough from our literature, litera-ture, press and history to know that wo, In saying "class struggle," have as little in mind the shotgun and paving stones as when using the word "revolution." Classes arc economic groups with antagonistic Interests 1st Manifesto." How absurd it Is then to say as "Ethical Culture" some time aco stated: "Class struggle i a cur that one Diut lie outside b--cause otherwise It would oll , th.j room." Dally P-op!e. and pospenslng social rower. The sttuK-gle for th'He interests can be carried car-ried on in many ways, and In fact lias often been carried oa without u drop of blood having lf-n sh"d sloce prUato property and inolvldusl mode of earning a living has brought about th division Into clauses. If two competitors fight with each other to 4t each other's costomers. this Is aot a claes etrule, but a struggle between privatrv Individuals; for the rest this is also a struggle for economic power and Interest, but It i rot of tho same Importance aa the struggle between cl-- Since Ollm'j tlnii- conflicting Interest and powers between classes have been aettled And the whole development of clvlHia-tion clvlHia-tion moves, since the dissolution of primitive communism, tbrouch olast struggles ae ttatHl in the "Commun- |
