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HAS SEEN’THE LIGHT.Once, when the late Judge Wm, Ballentine and myself were engaged In a'newspaper controversy, he wrote oY me:“So long las'the light holds out to burn—The vilest sinner may return.” 1 The Sikeston IHomet, published In the 'hot-bed of capitalism by I Guy Oooksey, has declared for 1 Socialism! 1Surely that requires courage. ' The average newspaper scr.b- ( bier has about as much liberty I of opinion as a chained monkey, j He must hand OUt the dope nc- ! cording to orders—or move. All 1 of them would like to be'free, but ’ haven’t got the grit. Some of them however, are so dull and i stupid that they don’t even re- , 1 alize their own servility. They i lick-spittle along (and nre sati-- i fed with the few crumbs that.* dribble from the master s table. lt;Not so with Cooksey. At what I s sure to prove a tremendous j I financial sacrifice to him he has : declared for the cause of human- j ity. Below are some of the ex- ■ cerps from If is declaration of in-1 dependence: ,True we iTOa'v not Inst longer than ten ‘cents worth of iee cream in bell. Sikoston is the ^healthiest town of its size in Missouri—If not in the United States —and money Is power: and while but one other person on earth outside of our wife and j office force knows ,this declara-j, tion for Socialism is conta.iml in the Hornet today, when it hit' tlie streets they w'tll sit up and take notice, and their cunning brains will at once set to work. They will do their worst to down (, us. and possibly may succeed, I but we ipropose to give them n battle.••We know that it wrong for j the strong to live off the weak; we believe the God who created i mankind intended that he should work and earn his living from his brow. Wo don’t believe that Col Almighty intended that men with cunning brains should fare Bumptiously” every day in gilded palaces and gain a livelihood by exploiting those who work and reside in hovels. We honestly believe that God Intended that weishould all be equal; had lie intended otherwise why did He create us after His own 1 image.In taking (up the work we have gone'into it blind-folded as to the'outcome or consequences, financially speaking. Sikeston capitalists may succeed in starv-; i ing us‘ode in less than no time.’ but should 'they succeed we will certainly have the satisfaction of knowing that they did not u«e us or‘the columns of the Hornet as a tool 'to foster their own selfish lust and greo 1 f r gold.We are taking up *■ riallsm because we honestly believe in its teachings. It may be the mistake of our life, financially, as it is but human t eer. however, when we look around we I plainly see that the capitalists ; in both fold‘political parties are fighting socialism with money. Influence and strength. It seems I to us that since they are so op- | posed to it. it must be a cause that 'will lighten the poor man's burden and take away some of the rich (loan’s power to rule, j scheme and design.
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Benton Scott County kicker
Benton, Missouri, US
Sat, May 06, 1911
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