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Source: Socialist Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: “Capital Brought Him Here” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Seattle, Washington Date of publication: 22 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 59 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Capital Brought Him Here.” Socialist 22 Sept. 1901 n59: p. 1. |
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| McKinley assassination (personal response: socialists); McKinley assassination (news coverage: criticism); capitalism. |
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Capital Brought Him Here
“The class-conscious European from
the slums should be excluded from the country,” declaims the “class conscious”
Post-Intelligencer, Republican daily, in Seattle.
Why, you simpleton, don’t you know your own class
brought them over here? Did you never hear, when the subway tunnel was to be
built in New York, that placards were posted all over Southern Italy advertising
for workingmen to go to the land of the free, across the ocean, and get work
and big wages?
Your system wanted cheap men to make bigger profits
by displacing those thrifty American workingmen you love so much, and now you
are whining about the natural result.
Again we say, Capitalism alone is guilty of the
crime of the age.