The Socialist Antidote (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1916 Page: 4 of 4
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THE SOCIALIST ANTIDOTE
THE PERSECUTION PLEA IS A HOAX
The Appeal to Reason knows that there
in not a newspaper nor publishing concern
in the U. S. that have not complained at
the "war prices*' on all kinds of paper.
There is to be a convention of newspaper
men in Texas, within the next few days, to
discuss the paper situation, and I suppose
to try to get relief. The relief will comc
when the war is over and not before- The
same is true in regard to other things, un-
less a surplus of things can be produced.
Cotton has doubled the normal price. The
same is true of corn, wheat, oats, and all
farm products. The farmers are not curs-
ing about the raise in their production, but
the factory workers, the coal miners, the
clerks in the stores, the preachers in the
city, and all the rest who depend upon day
labor for their support are raising a howl
to heaven, about the "high cost of living.
It depends altogether upon "whose ox is
gored," The Appeal has to buy blank -paper.
It didn't howl when paper was cheap, and
they could make their regular profit on the
Appeal, through whose columns it is fight-
ing the present system of "profit" The
Appeal don't believe its doctrine of selling
at the cost of production, and therefore
it has double the price of the Appeal, for
the sole purpose of keeping the profits jing-
ltog into their bank account
In fact this cry of "persecution;" this
howl at the paper trust; this supposed ef-
fort to put the Appeal out of business,
through a new scheme of the paper trust,
is a hoax, a ghost of the goblins of the Ap-
peal exploiters, for the sole purpose of rais-
ing funds to fulfill the lust of mammon, of a
lot of big bellied Socialists, who are living
off the sweat and blood of a lot of pool
devils," who can scarcely cast a shadow in
the financial world—who eat corn bread,
onions and bacon, when they can get credit
to buy a little bacon—while these bloated
bulls and brunettes, live off the toil of oth-
ers, and eat the dainties of life.
The Appeal is not ignorant. They know
that they buy their blank paper as cheap
as any other publishing concern that does
not use more blank paper than they use.
They know the paper companies make the
same price to all under the same conditions.
Therefore they have laid hold of this plan
as a life-line for the Appeal, and thousands
of dollars are floating into their cash draw-
ers as a result. This ghost of the goblins
of the Appeal is a hum dinger, and promis-
es to be the best plan they have yet inaugu-
rated. The editor is now sitting back in
his sanctum sanctorium smoking cigars,
and laughing at the "fool people.
W F. L.
A LABOR LEADER ON NEW ZEALAND
SOCIALISM
In 1910, the year in which the Socialist-
Labor Party assumed control of the Aus-
tralian Federal Parliament (winning 44 out
of 75 seats in the House of Representatives.
and 16 out of the 18 seata then vacated by
retiring senators) the net of Socialism was
spread more closely than ever about New
Zealand-
Socialists in England hailed with enthus-
iasm this opportunity to test their .propa-
ganda by practice; and the most extrava-
gant promises were made of the great bene-
jits wnicn the Msher Government would
confer upon the Australian Dominion.
Mr. E. G. Jellicoe, formerly a prominent
Labor and Radical politician, who returned
from New Zealand and Australia in Janu-
ary, 1912, made a careful examination of
the results of Socialistic experiments in
those countries, and declared himself a de-
termined convert to Constitutionalism and
a bitter opponent of Socialistic legislation.
In an interview with a prominent London
newspaper he declared that "Socialism is
■marching the Commonwealth and the Do-
minion straight to ruin.
onnonewP—Fe-lipdiai shrdlu m m mmm
Mr. Jellicoe's name will be familiar to
many as having been the Radical and Labor
candidate for the Watson Division of Liver
pool in 1906 and 1910.
In the course of the interview above
referred to Mr- Jellicoe said: "When I left
New Zealand in 1904, and returned to prac-
tice my profession in England the Colony
was prosperous in every way. Her best cit-
izens had by enactments of social reform
secured, as thev thought, for the working
classes and the poorest in the community
the material means of bettering themselves-
I confess I was one of those who thought
that the bettering of the people was more
important than their production, and that
the latter would increase with their im-
provement and as their national character
developed.
"During the last eight months I have re-
visited the Dominion. AH my politicrfViews
have been falsified. The development ard
working out in New Vealand of S >cUilistic
reforms under manhood suffv-tLfte and ft
universal female suffrage, led by profes-
sional politicians and demagogues, and the
spread of silly theories abmt the relations
of capital and labor have resulted in bring-
ing a country possessing all the potentiali-
ties of prosperity almost to the brink of
financial and industrial ruin.
"Individual enterprise and individual
thrift have been substantially annihilated;
capital has been withdrawn or is withheld
from enterprise, and employment, as a con-
sequence, has slackened, and in some places .
ceased; the cost of living has risen enor-
mously;. the community as a whole lives
on shoddy and labor is really having a very
bad time of it- The Industrial Arbitration
Acts have proved to be spurious. They
have resulted only in putting upon an al-
ready fully taxed community a host of well-
paid Government officials who live by har-
assing the trades and industries of the
country."
"A similar wave of mad Socialistic and
Labor legislation has overtaken Australia,
and the Labor Party in both the Common-
PtwaWr 14, lfli
wealth and New Zealand today are working
out not only their own destruction, but the
destruction of all their fellow citizens. A
man who is a non-unionist is not allowed to-
day to earn a livelihood. After all I have
witnessed during the past eight or nine
months in New Zealand and Australia of the
tyranny and ignorance and laziness, colos-
sal insolence, and absolute fraud of labor
collectivism, I have determined hercefor-
ward to resist to the utmost the detestable
and abnominable crusade whicji is ^being
waged in this country to achieve a similar
social upheaval by fostering and making
political capital out of class prejudice and
class rancour, and destroying the institu-
tions of which the country is so justly
proud."
NEW AUSTRALIA
IN 1893, FOLLOWING upon the failure of the
strikes in Australia and New Zealand, William
Lane, a socialist and Australian journalist, for-
mulated a plan of wholesale migration to a land
where he declared every worker should
full fruit of his labour. The Republic of Paraguay
was decided upon, and as the result of negotiations j
the Paraguayan Government promised a gran^, f
absolutely free of charge, of 450,000 acresi cj
magnificent agricultural and grazing land* wttB
local autonomy for the settlers.In a short time
nearly £30,000 was paid into the coffers of tne
Association which Lane had formed to carry out
his sceme for a colony of "free men
citizens of a free land," to be called New
Australia."
Were we directed from Washington when to
sow and when to reap we should soon want brea«
—Jefferson.
The surest way to make a scoundrel out of a
saint is to give him the power of spending other
people's money—and socialism would multiply in-
finitely such opportunities.
Where the people fear the government you have
tyranny. Where the government fears the people
you have liberty.
The voice of the public may be the voice of God
when it is strictly attending to public business, but
when the public intermeddles in personal affairs it
becomes an agent of the devil himself.
In his Political Economy (People's Ed., p. 220).
J. S. Mill truly said: "It would be possible for the
state to guarantee employment at ample wages to
all who are born. But if it does this, it is bound
in self protection and for the sake of every pur
pose for which government exists, to provide that
no person shall be born without its consent." De
luded socialists will chew on this statement till
they digest ut.
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this disastrous doctrine of socialism? Help us in
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Stone, Logan. The Socialist Antidote (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1916, newspaper, December 15, 1916; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280430/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.