Industrial Democrat (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1910 Page: 1 of 4
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SOCIALIST VOTE OF THE WORLD
1867 ......................30,000
1877 ...... 494,000
1887 ...... 931,000
1893 ...... 2,585,000
1898 ....................4,515,000
1902 ....................6,825.000
1906 ............ over 7,000 000
KO. It. MTNMt, MARCH S, lilt
Publiahrd every Saturday by
the Industrial Democrat Co.,
incorporated.
Flntered as second-class matter January 5. 1910,
at the postotfice at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, un-
der the act Of March 1. 1679.
Business and editorial department, suite 210,
Post office Building.
Address all communications to
THE INDUSTRIAL. DEMOCRAT CO..
P. O. Boa 313, Oklahoma Cky, Oklahoma.
MARVIN BROWN. Ma^aain. Editor
THE VICTIMS OT CAPITALISM
appease tho pangs of hunger now-
gnawing at the vitals of yourself,
your wife and your children. It is
with you ami the hundreds of thous-
ands of others similarly situated in
this great land of plenty that I wish
to have a word.
WORD to you milions now i Prosperity,” you worked in a far-
wandering about the! toiy; that factory w as owned Pri-
streets and roads of this' vately by a capitalist; for example,
•I great *• country, with iu one d&y’s toil you produced, say,
. . , , . ’ ,| ten dollars’ worth of wealth, you only
fh- hands in ^keU. gaaing ed about ,wo doUar8. Your
ot% h i; L°U ; robbed you of the rest! You
of th and pleasure, of which you ! cou,d on]y pllPC.hago back about two
Z / . to dollars’ worth of what You had pro-
purchase a tut of food with which to d||ced tlie shelves (owned by
the boss) were groaning under the i
weight of wealth that You and Your
class had produced. Your master’s
factory shuts down! There you are!
What are you going to do about it?
j The Socialist says: You Workers who
I Produce all the necessary things of
Havo you not worked hard all your shall socially own the moans
life, since you were old enough for whereby you produce those things,
your labor to be of use in the produc- You, who produce all wealth shall re-,
tion of wealth? Have you not toiled Ctive the full social value of your to- scholarly, the most subtle minds that
long, hard and laboriously in produc- boP There’s the rub! How are we I capitalism has produced. A moasure-
iug wealth? And in all those years BO’n* to do It’ Unl!e under the red !“*H rt‘ward and undying fame awaits
of drudgery, do you not know you banner of Socialism! Send a man of U'"' """ A"
have produced thousand upon thous-
ands of dollars' worth of wealth,
which you did not then, do not now,
and. unless you act, never will, own
any part in? Do you not know that
when you were harnessed to a ma-
chine, and that machine harnessed to
steam or electricity, and thus you
toiled your ten, twelve and sixteen
hours in the twenty-four, that during
this time iu all these years you re-
ceived only enough of your labor pro-
duct to furnish j ourself the bare,
coarso necessaries of life, and that
when you wished to purchase any.
thing for yourself and family it al-
ways had to he of the cheapest qual-
ity? You received so little for your
unremitting toll that you did not dare
stop for a moment. And do you not
know that with all your squeezing,
pinching and economizing you never
were enabled to keep but a few days
ahead of the wolves of want? And at
last, when the caprice of your em-
ployer saw fit to create an artificial
famine by limiting production, that
the fires in the furnace were extin-
guished, the iron horse to which you
had been harnessed was still, the fac-
tory door locked up, you turned upon
the highway a beggar, with hunger in
your stomach and rags on your back?
Yet your employer told you that it
was overproduction which made him
close up. Who cared for the bitter
tears and heart pangs of your loving
wife and helpless children when you
bid them a loving "God bless you,"
and turned upon the road to seek em-
ployment elsewhere? 1 say who car-
ed for those heartaches and pains?
Now, you are only to be execrated
and denounced as a “worthless tramp
and a vagrant" by the very class that
has been engaged all these years in
robbing you and yours. Then, can
you not see that the “good boss” or
the “bad boss” cuts no figure what-
ever—that you are tho common prey
of both, and that their mission is sim-
ply robbery? Can you not see that it
is the industrial system and not the
’boss" which must be changed?
Now. when you have no employ-
ment and consequently can save up
nothing, and when the winter’s blast
sweeps down from the north and all
the earth is wrapped In a shroud of
ice, hearken not to the voice of the
hypocrite, who will tell you that it
was ordained of God that "the poor ye
have always;" or to the arrogant rob-
ber who will tell you that you "drank
up all your wages last summer when
you had work, and that is the reason
why you have nothing now, aud the
workhouse or the woodyard is too
good for you; that you ought to be
shot." And Bhoot you they will if you
present your petitions in too emphatic
a manner. Hearken not to them, but
list!
Periodically, one in every ten
years, commerce is at a standstill,
the markets are glutted, products ac-
cumulate, as numerous as they are un-
salable. hard cash disappears, credit
vanishes, factories are closed, the
mass of the workers are in want of
the necessities of life because they
have produced too much of the means
of subsistence."
You. and millions of other workers
similarly situated now feel the cold
blasts creeping through the rents in
your seedy garments; you lack
clothes because yr, and others of
your class have woven too much
cloth. The frost is biting your feet
through the holes in your worn out
shoes; you lack shoes because you
workers havo made too many shoes.
Ton, your wan-faced children, bear
the pinch marks of hunger because
you have made too much food. Your
family is shivering ia a cold and
cheerless home because yon workers
have dug too much coal.
Do you know the cause of all this
misery? The Socialist is the only one
who knows the cause: the only one
.’Lo dares tell you the remedy Dur
leg that last period of “Unparalleled
him who can show its falseness. All
- the favors the most powerful class
your class to the white House! Send ...... . ...
of history can bestow will be show-
ered upon him who can meet and
overthrow its inexorable logic.
These things have been true for
more than half a century. Yot no
argument lias ever been brought
aginst Socialism that could touch it.
Today it is the universal concensus
of opinion on the pert of its oppon-
ents that it can be fought only by
silence and falsification
wirkingmeti to the state house! Vote
the straight Socialist ticket!
"Socialists hear no blood-dyed Bword,
Nor death-charged murderous gun.
But in each good right hand i* stored,
And soon to fall as one,
The Ballots of (he nations freed
■^rom awe of wealth and grasp of
greed.”
TERROR IN CRADLE OE LIBERTY
KNEATII tlie old cracked tools of tho capitalist class, have
liberty belt in I’hlladel-' been called Into action and the way Is
phla. in the very shadow | opened to them to commit all manner
Of the cradle of American "f crime and place It at the door of
freedom and Independence ' ‘“‘f’ b,u ,ln *“• h^vor. the
| a reign of terror and a deluge of law- ! citizens of Philadelphia know the
! lesaness is rampant. fa*» and U!Hr Hty ia with he
Men and boys are shot down like 8tir‘ker8 «"» *»>'«• the
dogs, good women are raped and flog- »*“*• an‘> ,he r<?al criminals,
god and the brains of Innocent chil-, This never ending fight between the
dren are spattered upon the walls that robber nnd the robbed Is no sooner
arc silent witnesses of their recent suppressed in one spot than it breaks
lyirtti. out 8ll,,w In another, and the capitai-
The Irrepressible conflict, the never Jst’a method of suppression will not
ceasing civil war between capital and suffice. The adage that "Resistance
i labor between the exploiter and the j to tyranny is obedience to God," hns
1 exploited, lias broken looBe in all Its been learned by tho under dog. and
[fun- and Is being fanned and aug-! be bus growled, and will continue to
( merited by the very flames of hell it-, growl until his estate In life is Bet-
sejf ; tied on an equitable basis. If he is
That part of our civilization, Chris-1 denied a settlement on this basis such
tlan civilization, too, and In the 20th outbreaks as now witnessed iu staid
century, is being becrlmsoned wttli obi Philadelphia may become unlver-
the slaughter of human beings us a ; »al. and that would mean civil war of
ln,nK lnc ma"> ,r,'"OB ano Bup- *» "V,™, ** lm' •*uu: I culmination of a class struggle which the worst sort. We are incubating
porters of the paper who have at ! 'ate f«> f‘'utality, they must not smouldering for years and at this time a tyrannical government.
“For the first time in our history the two mos*
important parties that are supposed to divide the
people are without a vital or debatable opinion. To
say that a man is a democrat or a republican is no
longer entirely descry he. THE ONLY PARTY
THAT HAS A DISTINCT ISSUE, PREACHED AND
MAINTAINED WITH E nJTHUSIASM AND HAR-
MONY, IS THE SOCIALIST PARTY, and that is
the reason it is making so much headway among
the voters of the country.”===Ex=Governor, Joseph
W. Folk, of Missouri.
A Word Fro a the Editor
The editor of the Democrat desires
to think the many friends and sup-
ple, however, aro more to blame
than such men as Shippy. The peo-
ple have the power in their hands
to overthrow the system that makes
brutes of public officials. If the peo-
ter.ted their intereit in the success
of the enterprise by friendly letters
of encouragement and by compli-
ments on the editorial effort, the
make-up and the general appearance
of the paper.
expect pence.
circulation of this paper?
What are you doing to increase the
circulation of this paper?
Another Guess Coming
The “votorstraight" “dimmeryato"
Naturally, we are not able to reply of this state, those of the soft pate
,.,9U.v«wv-... | individually to the many letters re- : an(i the “yaller dog" hue, those who
Because of these facts we know ;ceivedt but our readerg 60 kindly "hooped ’or up for Haskell and the
Socialism the Remedy
that the cause of Socialism cannot
fail. If at times some who seem to
have grasped its truth leave ear
ranks, we know they have gone away
for further education in the hard
Progress in nature comes by trying j school of experience, and that when
all possible roads and only taking ithoy have learned their lesson they
the right one when every other is : will come back far better grounded,
closed. Every conceivable form, far more firmly established in tho
shape and size of plant and animal ; principles for which they stand than j prompt attention to all contributions.
has been developed, aud is being de-| before. ______i Letters conveying criticisms are
dealt with just as seriously, if not
mere so, than any other kind, and
, ... i constitution and pronounced the f*r-
take the trouble to write us may rest - mer iafa]ub,e an(1 the ,ator the best
assured that every communication is
carefully read and considered. No
manuscript of any kind comes to the
Democrat that does net receive a
careful editorial reading. We make
it a point to read carefully and give
has been smouldering for years
w hose parallel cannot he found nearer
What are you doing to increase the 'than despotic Russia.
The traction company In Philadel-
phia Is composed of a band of tyrants.
They imposed conditions upon the
street car workers for years and years
which they should not have stood tor
30 days. Finally the worm turneth
and a strlko is called, and the com-
pany Ik gathering the bitter fruits of
its brutal policy and its self-enforced
condition.
veloped every minute. Some are too ! YOU CAN NO MORE DEFEAT
large. Some are too small. Some I SOCIALISM THAN YOU CAN DE-
die at birth. Others drag on to ma- ; FEAT TOMORROW.
turity. A few live- and perpetuate j YOU CAN ONLY OVERTHROW ] not a few of our readers will have
their kind. One in a million hits the SOCIALISM BY STOPPING FRO-
right road that leads to a new spe- GUESS. YOU CAN ONLY STOP
eios and permanent existence. PROGRESS BY STIFLING THE
PRINCIPI.E8 OF GROWTH WHICH
LIES AT THE BASIS OF THE UNI-
VERSE AND PERMEATES EVERY
FORM OF LIFE—PLANT, ANIMAL,
OR SOCIAL.
It is still much the same way in
society. Every imaginable scheme
must he tried and ail before society
consents to travel along the inevit-
able road.
Thc-so reflections are not pleasing
to our intelligence.
One would think that man, with
his vastly greater brain power, might
reason out the road to progress and | f()r the 8tatement that more than 99
travel along it without straying into cent of oil bugine88 0f Colo-
every by-path that comes Into view, i ( . Wyoming, Utah. Montana and
Every possible scheme that has ^ M„xjco ,B controlled by the
been suggested for the cure aud j Sfandard oil
maintenance of capitalism has been
Owned and Oiled
Christian Dredger, who totals up
figures for Standard Oil, is authority
noted changes hare and there due to
their suggestions. In preparing an
edition of the pajJer we first ask
ourselves the question, what do our
readers want? Then we proceed to
try to give them that very thing.
However, the best way to ascertain
what they want is to ask them direct-
ly, hence we ask you for honest crit-
icism and suggestions. It amounts
simply to this, that a few hundred
heads are better than two or three
in the matter of criticism and sug-
gestion. So write on, as fully as you
over, havo another guess coming,
They wore pasted on the noodle i
with one brick about two weeks ago.
Two more aro in tlie air, but it’s j
no use to dodge.
The following press dispatch from !
the seat of government tolls the j
story:
“Fulls were filed by tlie Frisco and
Rock island railroads hero Thursday j
to annul the Oklohotna two-cont fare i
law insofar as it applies to those I
roads.
The suits also ask to relieve the j
companies from the orders of the j
state corporation commission at ro- >
gnrds freight rates on cortn'u com- |
modifies. The snits aro along the
same lines and involve the same \
questions as those recently decided j
in favor of the Katy and Santa Fe j
railroads by Federal Judge Hook at i
St. Louis.”
The police and the militia, the ready
Private Property
and a strong labor movement, and no
other elements are needed to mix up
the biggest concoction of hell and
damnation ever heard of. When this
thing conies, If it must,.when the
fceven phials of His wrath are poured
out and when the hell-born devasta-
tion of civil strife shall stalk abroad
hand in hand with gaunt hunger, the
wildest wall of despair ever heard will
ring from one end to the other of
the land of the free ami the home
of tlie brave.”
which they own free of encumbrance.
In New York, eighty-eight out of
every hundred families live in rented
houses. Seven live In houses to
which they hold the title, but which
are mortgaged. While a meagre five
live in houses which they own free of
encumbrance.
it Is needless to say that these over-
whelming majorities of homeless fam-
OM WATSON, the apostle
of populism, defies the So-
cialists to state their posi-
tion on tho question of pri- J |]jeg ttre tbe femiHes of tho working
vato property. On most of class.
What are you doing to increase the
circulation of this paper?
Why This Discontent?
his propositions he makes charges,
pro and con, but not so on the ques-
tion of private property; he simply
defies them to state their position.
The reason he does this Is because
he wants to know their position, not
that ho objects to it, but because he
wants information and knows no
other way to get it.
Tho fact is Socialism will t ot pre-
vent the people from owning all the
private property they can nay for.
Capitalism prevents the people
from owning private property.
Capitalism prevents those who pro-
duce property from owning property.
Socialism will give everybody a
chance to own private property.
-Vot tho kind of private property
that can be used to gouge other peo-
ple, however.
But Socialism will forbid any man
owning and running any industry he
Pleases. Socialism will own and run
industries itself, n W|i, *lve thf
workers the full value of their pro-
duct. It will eeii tho product at cost
e.laG •nga*,nK ,n ™ ta.
I in , What is the underlying cause oftho ; Capitalism confiscates the bulk ofj ‘,U8 r:'vouM. therefore, have to give
, An apology is herewith tendered to Wl • as often and as critically as you discontent of the laboring classes? the product of the wage worker. This workers the full value of their
tried and round wnnttng. I Standard Oil for having undereeti- choose. We like the honest, open. Is it not the poverty and want they makes it impossible for tho average' ^r°.' “ct ond 8<?n thp Products at cost,
un rt governmen s r^,, 'mated the extent of Its business, frank way of doing things. suffer by reason of the inadequacy wage worker to own his own home. It couldn't make anything that
| of the pay they receive for tho labor makes it impossible for hlin to own (',nsp<iuently he wouldn’t do it.
ic, despotic, democratic have ail , Ybere have been some very wild
tried to maintain competition^ They j raade HB to how m„ch of the
oil Industry of the country the Rock-
have legislated and fulminated
against the trusts, ar.d sung tho
praises of the small industry.
BUT THE TRUST KEPT RIGHT
©teller people control. But no one
ever imagined that Standard Oil had
a complete monopoly in no less than
ON GROWING, AND CONTINUES j gve 0j tb„ jpoi ky mountain states.
TO GROW
Legislation of every possible form
to alleviate the evils of capitalism
has been tried and failed and tried
md failed again and again in almost
every state in the union, and every
nation In the world, and will be tried
and will fail again and again.
Government ownership and muni-
cipal ownership has been tried in
England, Germany. New Zealand,
and a host of other countries, and
This ownership throws some light
—Standard Oi! light, to be sure—on
what influence has been at work to
lubricate the machinery of justice
and legislation In these western
states.
Still, that is only part of the story.
Standard Oil is the most powerful
tru^t in the land. Only God and John
D. know the full extent of Its rela-
tions. When a little more light—
not Standard Oil light—is thrown
Chief Shippy Emigrates
| est curtains on his windows, tie has
; the cheapest clothing for his family.
He has the cheapest food for his ta
What are you doing to increase the j given? They see around them, In ; anything but the cheapest household
circulation of this paper? | the possession of favored corpora- i furniture. He has the cheapest car-
---J tlons and the pampered few, all tho pets on his floors. He has the cheap
magnificence and luxury which accu-
mulated wealth can bestow, while
they toil and even suffer for the
means to live. Is it any wonder that
discontent prevails among the masses and pictures and
and that they act in concert in the
effort to improve their condition,
when such a state of things exist?
The happiness of a people is the
happiness of the individuals who
Through the metropolitan daily
press of Oklahoma City the people
have been recently congratulating
themselves on the fact that this city
has been host to ex-chief of police
George Shippy, of Chicago, and on
the fact that he has purchased a
own labor alone, he could do so. jlm
eLWS. 2101 ^ PX,,1°ltin* anyonf‘
M we lK‘ar Mr Watson’s whin-
ble. He is not able to afford books! * v°fce complaining, "will there be
.... ........... statuary. If he i wav wb*ck 1 C8» invest my mon-
manages to buy a piano on monthly ' ' t,iat 1 CI*n draw an income from
payments. It is a "heap, tinny, bangy 1 (heat working myself?”
-No, you will positively have to quit
stealing. w
Socialism will enable everyone to
together j own a comfortable
affair, that degenerates rather
cultivates the musical faculty.
than
All of his property put
fa-m 0ut near Norman cud will be- ",,npo8e mass Laws which open UQt ,nvo|cn more tban a hun. home “ubg°t3lf L»a?1<l , boa,‘hful
come a citizen of Oklahoma. , Jucr to lar«« fortunes by devise. ^ Qr (W() ()f ,lo|Iar, | tracti’ve furXtag. tor h^Lme and
while capitalism remained, but few | ,spon t),„ v,ay the Ro(.kt.fPiier group
of its evils ware altered by these
measures.
THROUGH ALL THESE THINGS,
IN SPITE OP THESE THINGS. ON
ACCOUNT OF THESE THINGS.
CAPITAL HAS CONTINUED TO
CONCENTRATE, THE WORKING
CLASS TO BE EXPLOITED AND TO
REBEL AND TO GROPE ITS WAY
TOWARD SOCIALISM
Steadily capitalism itself has push-
ed Its way on toward the Socialism
that is Its own conclusion.
Slowly sometimes, swiftly some-
times, the working class has been
welded into a political party to fight j "ba„Ked to" “in Standard
the battles of Its class
The working class, too, advances
to a recognition of its mission by the
same devious path. Now it is led
off to fight this battle of its masters,
now another; now it follows one will-
•o-tbe-wi*p after another that leads
It away from the road to freedom.
8c.metlraes it turns like a dog to its
vomit and pretends for a moment
that it loves the chains that bind it.
But strikes and boycotts, black
'ists and hunger, misery ami despair,
iroal! advantages gained in battle
there, defeats and betrayal yonder.
11 contribute to drive, lead and force
‘hem onward toward the only way
out.
No one pretends to answer the log-
'c of Socialism. No one can. For !
sixty years It has withstood the at*
tacks of the most brilliant, the most
doing business there is no telling i
hut what every last hundred thous-
and dollars in the country will he j
found to be invested in Industrie?
obedient to the voice from 26 Broad-
way, New York city.
Nor can Standard Oil be charged j
v.Ith being unfaithful to the great j
trust reposed in R. Standard Oil
has worn it self bald In caring after ,
the legislation of the various states,
as well as defining policies for the j
national government. If the republic ;
were Dot proverbially ungrateful the
motto on gold dollars would be
Oil We !
Trust.”
The monopoly of the Standard Oil
and its tremendous power can not j
be compared with any monopoly in !
history. In this country alone 80,- j
009,000 of people pay tribute to one j
man, John I), Rockefeller. The tyr- j
anny of George III was only that of
a flea bite when we consider the
scorpion stings of King John's hun- j
ger lash.
How long will the American peo-
ple he content to remain at the mercy j
of th* greatest despotism of all time
the absolute monopoly of the source j
ef bread and life? How long before
they realize that the only question
is: Shall the trust own the people
or the people own the trusts?
Shall it b>* capitalist monopoly for
the few or Socialist democracy tor
In passing it might bo well to in-
form the present residents of this
section that this is the same Shippy
1 wno issued orders tor tho arrest of
Eli persons who distributed bills on
th<- Ktrei'* "urging the mothers of
Chicago ,o meet to devise some
means for feeding the 15,000 starv-
ing children in the public schools, on
the ground that such a meeting might
Incite the people to violence,” Just
think of tr. 15,000 school children
starving and yet the mothers and
charity workers prohibited from
meeting and considering the situa-
tion. And this is the country where
iho right of assembly to discuss
grievances is guaranteed by the na-
tional eonstitution! We suppose
Shippy's idea is that these children
should be left to starve in quiet, so
that the tour hundred who are giv-
ing monkey, cat. and dog dinners
shall not be disturbed with the
knowledge that there are children
who would delight In being places! on
an equality with the animal king-
dom.
Men of the type of Shippy care
but little for the constitutional right
of free assembly. Under the present
sys'em, the starving children of Uhl-
siderati-jB from official authority. It ,
is but a short time
ago when Hhippy.
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with the cruelty <
T a cold-blooded
♦
monster, shot down
an unarmed boy
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who visited his ho
me, and justified
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his red-handed crit
ne by declaring
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that the defenseless
boy was an “an-
*
areMst.” The great
mass of the peo-
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| by inheritance or by speculation have
I no tendency to promote the happl-
| ness of the people at large, and often
j not even the happiness of those for
whose benefit they are made.
Why is it that the wealth of the
! country, ample for the comfort and
happiness of all, is rapidly accumu-
lating in the hands of a few? It
is due to modern inventions, which
have taken the place of manual lab-
or, and enabled one man, by means
ot capital and machinery, to do the
work of many, thus leaving the coun-
try filled with laborers, but unable ;
to find employment, and giving to j
capitalists who are able to purchase
machinery the opportunity from the i
surplus of laborers to employ them
at their own prices.
Socialism means to destroy this ;
condition by making the workers the
owners of the machines with which j
tb<_y work.
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In fact, R Is not fit tor Junk. I the things which are n,-rosary"for
Capitalism prevents him from pos-1 expanding culture and a wholesome
sensing private property. ' healthful life.
In the cities and towns of the j ,u other words Socialism will en-
Unite.l States there pro 10,488,000 a,)l© everyone to own all the private
property he needs tor bis own use.
are
homes—or alleged homes.
Of these, 6,351,000 are occupied
renters.
Of the remainder, 1,101,000
mortgaged.
Of the entire 10,488,000 homes, less
than one-third are owned by their
occupants free from encumbrance.
The number of renter
increasing.
The percentage of
constantly increasing
In the cities of 100.01
tho United States, hi
Luxury and poverty are both evil.
Socialism furnishes the desirable
middle ground between these two ex-
tremes, the golden mean, the happy
medium, the condition wherein there
wiH bo luxury and poverty tor none,
but plenty for rll, and the amplest op-
is constantly portunlty for physical, mental, moral
and spiritual development.
cent of the population lives in rented
hCfUMCS.
Iu S&a Francisco, seventy-six out
of every hundred families Jive in
rented houses. Eight out of every
hundred live in houses to whic . they
hold the title, but which are mort-
gaged. Sixteen live in hou.cg which
they own free of encumbrance
In New Orleans, seventy-eight out
of every hundred families live in
rented houses. Three live in houses tin
to which they hold the title, but tty
mortgages is Torn Watson knows this, but he is
hired to bolster up the present system
K> and over, in of extortion and robbery, and he must
veny-two per make good.
“The ox knoweth his master’s crib
and the ass his master's voice.” See?
EVERY SOCIALIST KNOWS:
Thai a capitalist can't help if
That multi-millionaires are intpoi
slhle without paupers.
That a trust is bettei
tli-* inside than for th
That he comes about
ia* he votes for
•ho people.
these on
outside,
near get
he major-
whieb are
mortgaged.
vhich they
Nineteen live
That the
In CbicMO, »ev9nty-flve out of
ry hundrf^! families lire In rented
onset. Thirteen live in houses to
hich they hold the title but which
re mortgaged. Twelve live in houses
th
make pi
in relieve
on of tf
/
VA
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Brown, Marvin. Industrial Democrat (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1910, newspaper, March 5, 1910; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941819/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.