The truth about socialismBenson, Allan L. (Allan Louis)
General
The truth about socialism
Benson, Allan L. (Allan Louis)
Socialism
These naked millionaires are not attractive persons. Who would be an
attractive person if he had their power? Are you so sure you would be an
attractive person if you had their power? Do not be too sure. Give any
man such an opportunity to squeeze millions out of a people and it is
very likely that he will squeeze them. There is little or nothing in
this “good man,” “bad man” theory. The blackest Coal Trust magnate is
just what you and the Coal Trust have made him. If anything, you are
more to blame than he. He gets all of his power from the laws. And the
men whom you elect make the laws. They make the laws which say that a
few men—or, so far as that is concerned, one man—may own all of the
anthracite coal mines in the country.
These laws are certainly very comfortable for the Coal Trust gentlemen.
If you are satisfied, they are. If you don’t move to change them, they
will never move to change them. But, if you are fit to cast a ballot,
you know that the present conditions can never be changed until the laws
that made the conditions are changed.
Let us now take a close view of the Coal Trust victims. You are one of
them. You are tired of the Coal Trust. You have no sort of notion that
it is anything except the robber concern that everybody believes it to
be. You would be much better pleased if the government owned the mines.
You would be still better pleased if the government owned not only the
mines but the railroads that carry coal from the mines. You know that in
the Panama Canal Zone, where the government sells all of the supplies,
the cost of living is much less than it is here. You believe all of this
and more. But what are you doing to translate your belief into
accomplished fact?
You are doing nothing. The only way in which you can translate this
belief into accomplished fact is to express your belief in political
action. You must vote for that which you believe. You must support a
political party that advocates the ownership by the government of the
coal mines and the railroads. If you vote for a party that believes in
permitting the ownership of the coal mines and the railroads to remain
where it is you are voting for the Coal Trust. How long do you believe
it will take you to beat the Coal Trust by voting for the Coal Trust? Do
you know of any way in which the Coal Trust can be beaten except by
voting against it?
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