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V V .iDO.ll Oil UiM. ttv ASHE, VllLOL, N. C. V il OCTOBER ii Biggest in the History of Western North Carolina. MARVELOUS MODERN MID WAY SENSATIONAL FREE OUT-DOOR ATTRACTIONS BIGGEST WILD WEST SHOW in the country will give daily Free Exhibitions of Fancy Trick Riding and Roping Contests. REAL COWBOYS, COWGIRLS, INDIANS AND WESTERN BRONCOS. HE GREAT C AL EE The World's Greatest Novelty High Wire Artist. Performs Afternoon and Evening, Free to Everybody. ,r;V;::.:, j Riding Devices and Loads of Other Attractions to Amuse Both Young and Old Socialist Columns. Controlled by the Socialist Local of Asheville, Which Alone 13 Responsible for the Opinions Herein Ex pressed. Communications and Inquiries Should Be Addressed to the Socialist Press Committee, . 23 N. . Main St. Workmen. When privilege guards its intrench ments or see-ka new fluids to exploit. It does liot send Its advocates before the people to say, "This is good for us, the few, and bad for yon, the many." Preaching the truth would result in Its downfall. It becomes hypocritically solicitous for the welfare of "Un common people." The "common people," from a cer tain point of View, might ! e describe 1 8 the unsuccessful in ihe rp.-e fii profit. Most of them would gladly sit In the throne of privilege If they could. Their resentment toward privilege lacks moral worth. How much more clearly and hon estly does the socialist philosophy align the contending forces In tn struggle of today! Workmen and capitalists! Th;1 former, those who create all w!vU!i we have, not given gratuitously by tlK hand of Nature; the latter, those who take rent, interest and profit from tli tr community and return nothing. The Income of a great industrial corporation, after deducting the cost of raw material, 1 divided between wages and dividends. The president of the corporation Is a wage earner as well as the men who tend the ma chines and the Janitor who sweeps the office floor. The directors are work men to a limited extent, whether paid by salaries or In security of dividends. These workers these wage earners carry on the entire work of the corporation, yet a large part of Its In come Is paid out to stockholders who contribute nothing whatever toward Its management. John D. Rockefeller has frequently testified. In recent years, thut he knows little of the actual operation of the Standard Oil company. This may possibly bo true but when a tlireiUen inff cloud appears upon the horizon lie Is promptly called to 16 I'roadway. Yet, if he were not a stockholder In the 'corporation, does anyone believe that his associates would pay him the millions he receives ns dividends solely irPOSTAITT TO UOTZEta A rewrt oi :n; -n ynu- nr,tlr, oaa use of "Km. WtnaloWa ".nothhij rrtJD" by mcth.r. In all pana of tilt world, la the highest praise that snj rm4r tor "children tenthlng" hat ever received. Titer rear the yonna mother follow tn the fontstepe i air mother and Unit Mra Wlnalov't I 'Ml I rrtjf to be 'Jie favorite, wi n it ka cone oa for a yerto4 of tti f ?e Tlt lUi'llone of !!' 1 It I-r teelr eklldrea wfcl. t " fsrfei't euociM i f' ". .U aoftene tke gnmi i ! ' ci!?e wlni coP i " r f r 'rrhoee tnl 1 r 'ne issUre tr il'-it i-.'.i. t"ra- t r f ..' for his advice? The vast majority of people today are easily classed as workmen, lhey make a bare living and receive neither rent, Interest or profit. The true union workers have given up all hope or nc comlntr capitalists, and are bending all iht-ir energies to obtain steadily !ncrearlnx 'in The doctor, the lawyer, the teacher I- one!. ,!',. u worker ii brain worker. The prein-h.-r may only poetically class himself as such, but if he happens to be dependent on privilege for a living and h'.s preaching becomes Inimical to privilege, he will be quickly disillus ion -d. The writer, the painter, the sculptor mi'.y he-sit:; te tn align himself with the work in? class'. He lives in an Ideal world, lie is seldom adequately paid for his v.ijrk, but th? laborer who digs c iiteh vvit:i perpendicular sides and of even depth ai.io h:is an ideal con stantly before him. The viral! business man finds It very hard to class himself as a. workman. Ui'i pitiful hundreds or thousands In vti'.ed in stock seem to make him a capitalist. Tut let him deduct the wage value of the long hours he pi nds In his store from his net In come and see what he has left. Let him remember thnt out of one hun dred who begin business, ninety-six f:iil that the trusts are taking steadily Increasing share of his prollts. and thnt the mall order houses and chain stores are threatening his very existence, Hupose there still remains what is for him a tidy sum at the end of a few years, must he, nnd the mechanic who owns a house or a few shares of stock, nnd the farmer who hna a little tenanted land align themselves with the capitalists. How long could one of them exist without working? It Is possible today to est invite the total value of the products of our country In a year, and thi total amount of wage paid. Th latter Is but a fifth of the former. Kour-flftho go to the capitalists In rent. Interest and profit. Vet capital is necessary. The ma chines ra.ust had before the fac tory begins operation. The socialists propose that the workers buy or tike these machine and own them co operatively that all that they pro duce may belong to the workora. A grcit task an Impossible one It may seem, but it is well known that many of the big trusis pay as dividends an amount equal to the entire cost of their plants, in one, two or three years. The struggle today is between the comparatively few and the millions and when the millions come to under stand, oh, how easy that tasit will be. N, D. U whom Abraham Lincoln referred to in such affectionate terms almost unanimous on the recall "of JuJges? Answer: (Jrosscup, Pollock, Phil lips, Mi'Pherson, and lapt, but by no means least of the unsavory aggre gation, "onion Cocktail Hant'ord. What makes a Judge superior to other mortals? Nothing whatever. Ho Is a human same as the rest ol us; as liable to make mistakes, sub ject to tho same temptations, and in most cases Influenced by previous af filiations und present '-environment!.-. therefore why should such a man In. above the riticlsm of his fellows? Judge these men anil weigh them in the same scales as we do other men. From t'..o Cuy i'.:c acucral ju diciary was established under the constitution of the United States, but two have proven true to the people, namely Judges Ureshani and 'ud Walleder. Protests may be made to this statement, llefute It if you can. The federal judiciury, from Mar shall to Tuft has been the bulwark of the "interests. Kvery decision made outside of tltiise of tJreshum and Cad walleder, have been agiiinst the peo ple and in favor of Ihe fellows who are allowed to accumulate coIokmo! fi'ortuncs by being permitted to mo nopolize the resources of nature, placed ip ami on earth for tuo use. of all mankind. Tho "Holy" Judges mado this condition possible. The people should insist that Judges ore what they arc, humun, nnd let the people Judge them accordingly. A. F. of M. Journal. goinm i-s temporarily triumphant al most evor.vwhu"r,80 pacltlsts ned to d-iiw up their ra:iks. steady their lines, and show th.it in spite of "nil they are firm in' their determination to have unlvcrral peace." "Soldiering has become a synonym for tiiv. dishonors !e shirking of la bor," si; id one of tho speakers "ABtde from materlall.jtf conditions, I am (':: i inced we are attaining higher .ihi.-cl Htsin-.lards," Prestdvnt iliiiil T.-i Fountaine of the l.itermninnal fVace bureau of i:ruiwis, is. pn hiding. Milwaukee Leaner. ' the ballot box. Under the name of interest and proilt the masses pay to a few five sixths of all they create. This is startling, but it Is certainly true that labor receives on the average but 16 per cent of what the final consumer puya for Its products. Or, to put it another way, men labor five days to support Idle rich and unnecessary middlemen for the privilege of get ting what they create on the sixth dn". The working people are lulus. "iionx axd nm:i) ix tiik iioxe" Judicial KiM-alL There Is no effect without n cause. Why are the common people to l'roni the Itlp-Saw Mother Goowe The New llook or Jingles. He lived In a rented tenement where the wind blew through the criv-ka, and his overalls wer tattered and patched and his wife wore gunny sacks. He'd been a wanderer all his life and hither and thither he'd roam, but he cussed and ruvcil at Socialism, "Ocgosh It would bust his leme." He never went to church at all he looked too darn forlorn he hjul nev er been to a bnrber shop since the pesky twins were horn. l!ut he "vot ed a mossback ticket," he eald, "for It's plain enough to see thnt a So cialist vote would paralyze the relig ion that's In me. Besides," he went on, as he shook his (1st and hla eye grew bigger and bigger, "If the So cialists win on election day I'll have to marry a nigger. They believe In free lover of every sort, free love with nil the trimmin' they'll force fne, when lhey get In power, to live with a doxen wlmmln. No Socialism fir me and mine I'm a dlminy nit of the dlmycrats born and bred in the bone." And he plowed away on hla liinill-irl's crop in order to pay the rent, and the chlggera wandered up tils legs and fed to their heart's content. Natlonul Ilip-Saw. ,it.!iiiny fact Your Swatter. i:y Henry M. Tlchenort the Rip-Saw - Toet. the flies are loaded with disease, the doctors al! ileelnre. They carry germs and microlies and they drop thpm anywhore They drop them in your mush and milk, lhey drop them in your pie, And-jhe doctors say the thing to do is Just to "swat the fly." So Johnny 1 (let Tour i Swatter And swat them low and high. Swat every lousy "varmint" from mos quitoes to the fly. And while you're ut this swattln' stunt there's other things I spy That also should be swatted Just lik. you swat the ily They are bigger bugsi than peaky flic- they have you by the throat And the way to swat the "varmints is to swat 'em with your vote. So ,'-.. Johnny ' v Oct Tour Swatter -Th next election day. Ar..l j'.ist keep up your swattln till you ."Wat the plagues away. . Pence Congress to Aniiiic Again. Geneva, Kept. 23. Five hundred advocates, representing peaee-n iln tlei In every country, net here today for the nineteenth universal peace congress. Speeches denouncing Italy's war gainst Turkey marked the op ening session. "The most lamentable thing about this wsa Is that it waa not only ap proved by the Italian people, but by many we had -counted on aa our friends," said Se.irfliiry. Oolay, of the Peace bureau of Uerne. "Worse, Jin- One Warn TlMttiglit Food. i:y J. A. WAY LAND. Capital usea political power to make protjts off workingmvn and women and seep them subdued. The votes of workers can liange the conditions when they learn to u?e them for their l.fruht. f ot-tmastera should be elected by th ple. are ciiliin;inrt your Jails, poor houses and lr,;r.f iiiylumn, but not tne heme nnd comft.rta of your people. A t. use thnt cort &( days' la'oor to luild will cost the pcrchaser 2000 .l-'.is' Nbor n pay fnr. Oreat system for n lew to flee;u tVnvniany. "ol crmpanles ami railroad cor pnrii'li r.s hol.l timlr charters by vlr Uio at laboring men'a votes. Junt wait until the mi n f!:ii) thla out nnd see how quickly they can get an Increase of v.'agea. Theciirest T.'av to tl.-Mroy liberty urd enthrr:ie despot Ism Is In define what Is fro rpeech snl free press. Those who lo.e power will soon put their definition upon It nnd suppress all who do not agree with them. It costs. In wages paid to labor, about $1 26 a bushel to raise ro(T in t:razll, yet It takes 30 bushel good w heal to buy one bushel of good coffee her; yet the ptietniKhlp cbari: from l:nll to New York, on a bic in-1 I fiO pound1) In enlv la ccnti, 'i'iiii Is a nut for our farnn-ri to crack at Splitting IHmocracy. The most infamous thlmr thnt or. curred at the Monnevelt Convention was the turning down of tho negro delegates from the south. Itoosevclt is making great preten tion of standing for. actual (lumoi iacy, and the epubllcan party, of which he was twice president, claims to have freed the negro from chattel slavery; yet here Is a great convention that denies av negro representation. It is In violation of the spirit of the amend ments to the constitution of tho Unit ed State Thew hole thing- Is cheap politics. It is an effort to split the democracy of the south by declaring for a white man's party. And It wil 'do lU It doe not consider the Justice of the matter, butw hether votes can be gained through doing It If there hud been any spirit w hat- lever In t!aa Moscvclt convention It I would have rebelled against this high I handed Injustice. ! HONES! , Is your raior dull? - - - We have tho finest honca made. 23 North Main St. Asheville Barbers Supply Co. CHALMERS c.vns Kon in RE 5 or 7 Passenger, Elegant cars, careful drivers. Get our prices by the day. Special atten tion given to out of town trips. IIKMF.KSOX MARTIN Pay Miono 228. Mgtli -i'liono 583. From , City -to Connfey TT is a long way from the city to the farm house. Yet our telephone service elim inates the distance. ".. It keeps all members of the family united and puts the city dweller in immediate communication with rela tives in the country. The universal system unites thousands of cities, towns and villages so that your telephone is the center of the sys tem. We connect with the long distance lines of the Bell Company. , Are you a subscriber? ASHEVILLE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CC. UNIVERSAL SIRVIC ' 'nrASONAT I r. r 4 I
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