“* * * The price of his labor is therefore determined by the price of the bare necessaries of his existence.”
This is the capitalist system in its effect upon the working class. They have no tools, but must work to live. They throng the labor market, especially when times are hard and work is scarce, and eagerly, anxiously look for some one willing to use their labor power and bid them in at the market price.
To speak of liberty in such a system is a mockery; to surrender is a crime.
The workers of the nation and the world must be aroused.
In the capitalist system “night has drawn her sable curtain down and pinned it with a star,” and the great majority grope in darkness. The pin must be removed from the curtain, even though it be a star.
But the darkness, after all, is but imaginary. The sun is marching to meridian glory and the world is flooded with light.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the inspired evangel of the coming civilization, says:
“We close our eyes and call it night,
And grope and fall in seas of light,
Would we but understand!”