THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL
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. CAMPAIGN COMMENTS
“Many hearts rejoiced when after a great struggle Con-
gress finally passed a Child Labor Law in 1916, which was
signed promptly by the President, and which, though far from
perfect, bid far to relieve many untoward conditions in pei
dustrial life and to release from slavery many boys and gir S
whose childhood has been murdered through human cupidity
: It is, we believe, another five to four
Like good Americans, we must yield to the will of
and ignorance.
decision. é
the majority and be amenable to the ° court of last resort.
However, it is justifiable to remember that it is really by the
decision of one man that this legislation, which promised so
gnany blessings, has been ruled out.”—Reformed Church Mes-
Senger.
What has become of the government of the people, when
jt is in the power of one man to annul the will of the people,
enacted into law by their representatives?
{s it not time for the people to awaken to the idea that
thev collectively should be “the court of last resort” rather than
hat one man should have that power, and by the improper ex-
@rrise thereof use it to keep in slavery our children and impose!
his will upon the rest of the people?
Are we not, in our sleepy condition, in danger of losing all
ghe liberties for ‘which our forefathers contended in 1776 and
: aid down their lives to gain? Let us again turn to that im-
snortal document, the Declaration of Independence, as our one
Lundred and forty fourth anniversary of Independence is cele-
brated and again declare that “We hold these truths to be self
evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed |
yor their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to
szcure these rights, governments are instituted among men, de-
_riving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Let all men and women who have the right to vote recog-
nize their great responsibility in the coming election and so
wise their ballot that men who will serve them will be placed in
«fice, men who will enact the will of the people into laws and
wot the will of special interests whose main purpose it is to
wxploit the people and make game out of them. :
Let us make our will so profoundly felt at the next election
*hat no judge of the supreme court will have the audacity to
annu l'a law that has for its object the protection of our chil-
siren. To protect their bodies from being fed into the indus-
trial machines of millionaire owners to have their lives ground
anto profits for the owner of those machines. Are you not guil-
ty of'a great neglect of duty if you maintain in office those who
are feeding on your own lives and the lives of your little ones by
snaintaining a system of industry which has that result?
You would resent with all the manhood that is within vou
‘the tearing away from you by some cruel beast the child for
whose life you are responsible. You would do all in your
power to prevent it from being devoured by that beast. Cap-
italism as it ‘exists is such a beast and is devouring you and your
«hild in order to maintain itself. HT
You farmers, you laboring men, you small merchants and
business men, you are not the beneficiaries of such a system, |
you are its victims—your trials, your worries, your anxieties
in the effort to maintain yourselves and make the future secure
for yourselves and children amounts in many instances to the
same thing as a man fighting the air. The individual is help-
Yess. He represents the unit of power that in combination with
other units of power will become all-powerful in overcoming
fhe beast of Capitalism and freeing himself from its cruel sway.
The cruel beast of capitalism has many heads and as many
mouths. It also has piercing eyes, and great brain capacity.
©ut of its mouths go the sayings which have deceived the com-
wnon people of the world and made many of them willing even
to be devoured by the great mouths of this beast. There have
"been times when this beast has suffered with indigestion, but its
intelligence overcame the disease for the time being.
Its eyes have been used and are being used to spy out every
source of knowledge which might awaken the common people
and arouse them to see their plight and have it removed. It
fries to have them believe all the time that its interest is their
dnterest.
2 For REPRESENTATIVES IN 2
TRE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
EberKCockley Herman G. [5ieys
REPRESENTING
PLAIN PEOP)
THe ViewpoINT OF Pot PLE
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that they need collectively or in common, such as roads, rivers,
schools, factories, ships, railroads, in fact all the tools of pro-
duction and distribution that are collectively used, and exercise
democratic control over them.”
No laboring man, no farmer, no small business man, no
small manufacturer, in fact no man who desires to live by his
own honest efforts has anything to lose by this program except
his worries, his anxieties, in other words, “nothing to lose but
his chains.” He has a world to gain.
Think over this program, examine it in all its details, think
for yourself—talk it over with your neighbor. Then ask your-
self whether you like the way things are just now, and whether
you think you, would like to have every thing continue as it is
now. Then ask yourself whether the Republican party politi-
cians told you the truth as to what the Republican party would
do if they were in power. Then ask yourself whether the high
cost of living came down when the Democrats took control of
the government as they said it would. Then ask yourself the
question why the Democratic party and Republican party poli-
ticians are so much opposed to the Socialist program, and by
the time you come to think this over your eyes may open so
that you can see. :
By this time you should be ready to examine carefully the
Socjalist party program. You should be ready to read its plat-
form and find out for yourself just what it contains that gives
the old party politician the cold shivers, that causes the cold
sweat to come out all over his body for fear the common people
might make use of the dynamite contained in it and blow up
the old party machines.
Equal rights for all, special privileges to none, is the domi-
nant note of the Socialist program. The old parties have been
nearly beside themselves to find some popular sentiment on
which to ride into office, and it seems they have discovered an
animal named “Dry” which they may choose as an unsuspect-
ing brute, willing to bear their burdens. Some odoriferous po-
litical tricksters will likely succeed in riding him into office.
They will then proceed to get rid of the intoxicating liquors that
befuddle men’s minds. They will make all the people sober—
because the people do not have sense enough to do the job
themselves. After they have this accomplished the people will
be able to think clearly and act for themselves. The political
bosses have controlled the affairs of this country for many years
in a way to deprive the people from voting on an issue like the
liquor problem direct. You know they desire to have the hon-
or of solving it for the people. It would be an awful thing for
the people to find out how to do things for themselves. It
will indeed be a very excellent thing for this problem to be
solved. It will enable many to reason and think who would
otherwise be deprived of this privilege by the demon strong
Just now there is danger that the beast may die from over
exertion in its effort to maintain itself and the common people
of the world will then everywhere be free to use their own
“brains to maintain themselves, rather than that they should be
allowed to come to certain stages of life only to be food to nour-
ish a great beast.
You can overcome this beast in this country by your votes.
“ While fighting for political democracy to obtain the world over,
« use your political democracy here to secure industrial demoe-
‘racy. As long as you allow the industries in which the people
labor to be owned and controlled by a few industrial lords you
-are feeding the beast and being starved yourself. When once
“as a united people you determine to own and control the indus-
“tries to feed yourselves—and use them to supply your needs
rather than pile up profits for others—you can do so, and starve
the beast in this country.
There is only. one political party entirely devoted to the
task of getting the earth and its resources back from the profit-
eers and restoring it to the whole people who live on it saying
to them, “Here is the earth and its resources; it is as free to
you as the air you breathe. Take it; till its soil, dig its miner-
als, fell its trees, manufacture its raw materials into anything
vou please. You will have any privilege any one else has.
“You will not be allowed to appropriate the work of others to
vn use without rendering an equivalent.” You shall have
its of your own labor, and equal rights and opportunities
th all others. Your rights stop where-another man’s begin. |
Your government will rest on the consent of all the people— |
1 and women of mature age. This party’s purpose is to;
t possible for you to own every thing you need, and se-|
in such ownershipas long as you 1
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drink, and it may be that they will rise to the occasion and do
away with all the primary evils which tend to enslave them by
voting the Socialist principles into power, taking control of the
government politically and industrially, and forever doing
away with minority rule, making it impossible for any one man
to annul a law passed by a majority vote either of the people or
their representatives. :
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IF YOU EAT THESE YOU EAT WHEAT
WHITE WHEAT BREAD
Made from flour refined from the starchy white center of the wheat
kernel.
: WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
Made from flour made from the starchy center and some of the outer
brown layers (bran) of the wheat kernel.
GRAHAM BREAD AND GRAHAM CRACKERS
Made from flour containing all the wheat kernel, including the bran.
MACARONI, SPAGHETTI, NOODLES
Made from wheat flour,
WHEAT BREAKFAST FOODS
Sold under various names, not advertised as wheat products, made
from the whole or part of the wheat kernel.
VICTORY BREADS
Contain 75 per cent wheat.
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IF YOU EAT THESE YOU EAT NO WHEAT
Oatmeal, Pctatoes, Rice, Hominy, Barley and 100% Substitute Bread.
PEI = i Y
100 PER CENT. BREADS
Corn "pone, muffins, biscuits, all kinds of bread made only from corn,
oats, barley ‘and all the other wheat substitutes.
These are usually made with King powder or soda and sour milk
instead of yeast, and are sometimes known as “Quick Breads.”
FAT 0 WHFEA
EAT NO WHEAT
EVERYWAERE ;|
FOR GOVERNOR
Charles Sehl, of Philadelphia.
A) LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, Hog
PR Dalton T. Clarke, of Washington. ®
9 SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFF AIRS;
f \ William Adams, of Pittsburgh.
4 . REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AT
MN ; LARGE,
<9: Cora M. Bixler, of Lancaster.
John C. Euler, of Erie.
Henry W. Schlegel, of Allentown.
AN Harry T. Vaughn, of Wheatland. a"
/ REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 23RD N
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AN Louis S. Mellinger, of Dawson. \/
SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Andrew Lindstrom, of Holsopple.
REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL AS-
| > SEMBLY,
Eber K. Cockley, of Garrett,
Herman G. Lepley, of Meyersdale, R. D.
“REPRESENTING THE VIEWPOINT OF . \W/
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CO-OPERATION
“For the Common Good.”
Co-operation is defined in political economy as, “The asso-
iation of a number of persons for their common benefit.” Co-
operation among the common people is essential to preserve
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
together in associations for their common benefit, or suffer the
consequences resulting from a lack of such organizations. That
person who opposes co-operation by the common people, claim-
ing to be their representative and spokesman, whether his
title be kaiser, king or just plain mister, is not the representa-
tive of the common people, but ‘a traitor to the plain people
everywhere.
Any person, anywhere, who is not at heart a traitor to
the plain people everywhere, is eligible to become a member
of the Commercial Co-operative Council and a conditional
part owner of The Meyersdale Commercial.
Join the Commercial Co-operative Council today and ar-
gue the question tomorrow—or the next day you meet a Com-
mercial reader who is not a member.
THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
ARE YOU A MEMBER?
President Woodrow Wilson has written in one of his schol-
arly works, Division and Reunion, page 13: :
“There can be a moneyed aristocracy, but there can not
be a moneyed democracy.”
In the evolution of the American Republic we have reached
the stage of “moneyed aristocracy.” The revolution from this
moneyed aristocracy, from this industrial despotism, to an in-
dustrial democracy MUST COME. And the Socialist Move-
ment is the organized effort peacefully and legally to overthrow
this industrial-moneyed despotism and secure industrial de-
mocracy. : >
If the Socialst Movement does not move forward fast
enough to suit you, then get in and help make it move faster in
your community.
The Monster Capitalism.
Rememper that Capitalism grows more and more mon-
strous every day. To illustrate, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
owns more wealth than he could have earned if he had gone to
work the morning Jesus Christ was born and had worked every
year since, three hundred days in the year, and had received
over $1,700.00 PER DAY. His two children will receive, by
inheritance, the equivalent of’ more than 550 TONS OF GOLD
—a heavy load for 300 horses.
Remember that one-half of one per cent of the total popu-
lation of the United States own 65 per cent of all the wealth
of the entire nation.
At present we of the Socialist Party are doing the very
best we can without your encouragement, without your small
monthly dues, without your constant co-operation. We need
the stimulus, the power and the courage of a large membership,
the inspiring, conquering membership of which we should like
to have you become a part. \
It would make us glad indeed TO SEE YOU HELPING in
the great struggle for the freedom of yourself, and your chil-
dren, and your class.
In America, as in Germany, the plain people must come
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