Part V.

Chapter I.

Selected Editorials

ARTICLES FROM THE PEN OF ALBERT R. PARSONS -"CHATTEL AND WAGE-SLAVERY- AN INQUIRY TO DETERMINE WHEREIN THEY DIFFER –"THE OBJECT IF THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION" –CAPITAL THE PRODUCT OF PAST AND PRESENT GENERATIONS- "A FABLE" –THE FARMER AND HIS SHEEP- ITS MORAL- "THE CUTDOWN" –THE MARKETS SUSTAINED IN PROPORTION TO THE ABILITY OF THE CONSUMER TO PURCHASE- THE BOARD OF TRADE DEDICATION- WHAT ANARCHY MEANS.

CHATTEL AND WAGE SLAVERY.

Editorial taken from "The Alarm."

The owner of a chattel slave compelled obedience by the use of the lash, deprivation of food, etc. The system of chattel slavery was justified on the ground that the slave has been bought and paid for, and was therefore the private property of the master. This institution of property in the persons of men, women and children, who were bought and sold separately or in lots to suit the buyers and sellers, was perpetuated by the constitution, legal enactments, Governmental authority of the Untied States of America for nearly a hundred years as a perfectly legitimate, moral, and money making system of labor. The chattel-slave system has been abolished, and the services of labor heretofore rendered under it are now performed under the wage system. The old system is spoken of by many as the slave labor of the past, and the present system is referred to as the free labor of the present. Under the old system