The abuse and not the use of it is responsible for its evils.
The divided vote of labor is the abuse of the ballot and the penalty is slavery and death.
The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problem of democracy.
THE HISTORIC STRUGGLE OF CLASSES.
Since the race was young there have been class struggles. In every state of society, ancient and modern, labor has been exploited, degraded and in subjection.
Civilization has done little for labor except to modify the forms of its exploitation.
Labor has always been the mudsill of the social fabric—is so now and will be until the class struggle ends in class extinction and free society.
Society has always been and is now built upon exploitation—the exploitation of a class—the working class, whether slaves, serfs or wage-laborers, and the exploited working class in subjection have always been, instinctively or consciously, in revolt against their oppressors.
Through all the centuries the enslaved toilers have moved slowly but surely toward their final freedom.
The call of the Socialist party is to the exploited class, the workers in all useful trades and professions, all honest occupations, from the most menial service to the highest skill, to rally beneath their own standard and put an end to the last of the barbarous class struggles by conquering the capitalist government, taking possession of the means of production and making them the common property of all, abolishing wage-slavery and establishing the co-operative commonwealth.