___- ONTANA NEWS IOWNED AND DPUB3LIIED AY TII SOCIALIST PARTY or MONTANA

VOL, VIL HUELENA, MONTANA, THURBDAY, FEB. 11, 1909. NO. 14.

What Socialism Is and What ItWill Accomplish

(By C(. F. Dight M. . D., University ofMinnesota.)

A majority of the American peoplehave not yet Ihvestigated Socialism. Ishall, therefore, state briefly what it isand what it will accomplish that thereaders may know the right or wrongof the Bocialist movement, which hasbecome third in the country in thenumber of votes cast, and muchstronger in other cquntries.

Socialism is a world-wide movementof the working class and Its sympa-thisers to have the products of laborgo to those who produce htem; Inother words, to secure for the pro-ducers of wealth the wealth whichthey produce, that they may be betterhoused, better fed, better educatedand live a longer and better life.

The world's headquarters of the So-clalist movement Is In Brussels. TheAmerican headquarters is in Chicago.The Internatiopal party is about 8,-000,000 strons in actual votes cast andis growing amazingly.

Broadly it urges: First-That themeans of production and distributionof wealth that are social and publicin their nature shall be owned col-lectively. This includes the greatwealth of raw material in the earth-oil, coal, iron-which the Almightycreated for all men alike, and machin-ery for Its elaboration and distributionwhich machinery the workers havemade but do not own.

Second-That all social utilities, be-ing collectively owned, shall be demo-cratically managed for the ben fit ofall who work, and that profit-making.whereby one person exploits another,shall be abolished.

Third-That all who can labor shallbe given opportunity to labor In thecolectlvely owned Industries, andwhen Socialism is full-fledged, shallreceive, directly and indirectly, thefull product or equivalent of theirtoll, and until then a wage Just asnear the selling value of their productas is possible.

Fourth-That those who can, butwill not labor, though they may.should there be such under Socialism,shall receive according to what theyproduce-nothing It they producenothing.

Fifth-That each person may ownprivately as much non-productiveproperty as he or she can earn by anhonest labor of hand or brain. Thiswould include your home, your libraryor automobile, yatch and all otherprivate personal effects not used forexploiting purposes

Uixth-That child labor in galinfuloccupations and productive industryshall be abolished, Juvenile educationmade universal, and that the old andworthy dependents shall have theirInterests protected and needs supplied.

Seventh-That the sovernment shallbe brought near to the people throughthe Inltiative, the referendum and theright of recalL By the initiative ismeant the right of the people to them-selves directly propose laws and by amajority vote to make laws that shallgovern them. The referendum re-quires that laws made by our legisla-tors shall, before they become effeo-tive, be approved by a majority voteof the people. The right of recall isthe power which the people shouldhave immediately to recall from offceoan offending ofmcial when the ma-jority of the people by vote desire it.

Socialist believe that bocialsma, byabolishing the proflt-making system inbusiness, and by establishing the co-operative commonwealth, will removemore than anything eles proposed, themotive as well as the opportunity forpolitical corruption and economicwrongs, and without destroying Indi-vidual liberty or the Incentive to anyworthy effort.

bocialam is not uarchy. It Is asdi-lerent from anarchy asu light fromdarknees or good from eviL

1. The Encyclopedia Brittaica says:'The ethics of selalism are closelyakin to the ethics of Christianity. itnot Identical with them."

S. Prof. R. P. Ely says: "It is ap-plied Christianity-the golden rult ap-plied to everyday life."

8. 1. 0. Peabody, profeesor ofChristian morals In Harvard univer-sity, eays: "Jesus was a Sociallst, It

Judged by His teachings."4. Emile de Laveleye says: "Every

Christian who understands and whoearnestly aooepts the teachings of hisMaster. is at heart a soolalist."

S. Dr. Lyman Abbott, while not a

socialist, says: 'The tendenoy of thetimes is towards socialism; nothingcan prevent t, sand nothing shouldprevent It."

6. Iather William Drry says: "Letoe man tear the sume of ocialisma;

the movemmet @1 the working olam for

justlee by oay other name would be

as terrible."7 Our scleal st. Grant Allen, was a

Socialist: asd Alfred Russell Wallace,who Is perhaps the leading solentistits the world today, accepts fully thet(achlngm of Socialism.

U. Rev. Father McGrady, who diedlast year, said: "Under Soolallm re-ligion will conquer the globe, educa-tlon wil expand and scoence will dasalethe world with Its glittering sheen."Socialism, however, is not a religion,but strietly an economic and moralquestion.

S. "8ocialism requires that theprocess of production and distributionshall be regulated, not by competitionwith self-interest for its moving prin-ciple, but by society as a whole, forthe good of society."-Dictionary ofPolitical Economy.

10. "A theory of society that advo-cates a more precise, orderly and har-monious arangement of the social re-lations that that which has hithertoprevailed."-Webster's Dictionary.

11. "A science of reconstructing so-ciety on an entirely new basis by sub-stituting the principle of associationfor that of competition in everybranch of industry."-Worcerter's Dis-tionary.

12. "Government and co-operationare In all things and eternally the lawof life; anarchy and competition, eter-nally and in all things the lawof death."-John Ruskin.

13. "Socialism being the product ofsocial evolution, the only danger liesin obstructing It."-Rev. F. Sprague.

What Bocalism will accomplish byabolishing our competitive and profit-making methods in business, and byestablishing co-operative methods arein part as follows:

Socialism will abolish wage slaverywith its oppression.

It will advance the worker's wagesfrom a bare subsistence wage to thefull value of the product of his labor.increasing his Income several fold.

It will eliminate clam distinctonsbased on wealth, and will establish so-cial and economic justice.

It will establish the dignity of laborand rank It above capitaL

The production of an overabund-ance of commodities of life and com-fort will not, under Socialism, causedistres. and need as now, by cloesingdown mills, workshops and other in-dustries.

The more wealth you produce themore you will posses. instead of add-Ing It, as now, to the capital and ex-ploiting power of the master class.

You will emsape the Ironical fact ofcapitalism that as wages advance liv-ing expenses Increase. for all com-modities will be supplied at cost-thevalue of a "social labor hour" beingthe baels on which the price of com-modtles may be determined.

Under sociallsm you will own anequal share with Rockefeller in theoil Industry, with Morgan In the steeltrust and with all others In the toolsof Industry; you will escape from the

grip which the private owners of themachlnes now have on your life andliberty.

There will be a vast avling of laborand expense through the economy ofco-operation in doing work, and theworkday for all workers will yield lar-ger results In wealth productlon thannow, and might be shortened it wedesired I.

By giving the wealth producer five-nffth of the output value of his toll.nlastead of one-filth, as capitalism does,It will promote marriage and re-estab-lish the home which capitallam haslamrely detroyed among the laboringlmasses

sooialism will immediately, on Itsadoption, begin to remove the need, Itthere be such, for the brothel and thesaloon, and will soon eliminate themboth. Under It you ca be clean Inbuslnem and ChrlItanltke seven daysIn the week, instead of on Sundayonly, as now, which makes you ahypocrite all the time, event agalnstyour will, becanse of our competitivemethod. It will reform politiciansand make them upright men.

It will restrain human selfishnes,stop graft and promote brotherhoodand honesty. Bvery person may "liveon Masy street," for the producer ofwealth will be Its possessor. Girl clerksgetting the value of 6$3 or $50 perweek in department storea, Instead of

$ uas now, will not be asked by the

Christian(?) manager, "Can you notget a gentleman friend to help you?"

Soolalllm will make the good of the

public a dominating thought and truedemocracy a realined condition. Meritwill be the beas of reward.

It will enuse the labor-saving ma-ohine to fulfill Its greatest peibhlegood. It will give employment to allworkers dirlng their produotive years

It will remove the fear of want andpoverty. It will atop child labor inproductive Industries and give all chil-dren equal opportunity for an educa-tion. It will pension and protect theold. It will make it easy to follow thegood precepts of the Man of Galilee.

bocialsrl will end strikes, lockouts,

bost jobs and the ever present warthat is waged between capital and la-bor. It will end the deceptions of ahundred kinds that are practiced forprofit-making. It will eliminate dis-ease fo a large degree by bringingwithin easy reach of all those chiefconditions upon which health depends-plenty of pure air and sunlight;enough good food and healthfuldrinks; cleanliness, proper clothingand shelter; regular periods for andautficlent rest, sleep, and exercise.

Socialism will start the human raceon the highway to quick attainmentof such perfection in ourselves, phys-ically, metnally and morally, and Inour environments as the world hasnever seen.

If we can, with any certainty at all,forecast the results of the operation ofany new economic system or plan ofconcerted action before it is actuallyput into operation, we feel confidentthat Socialism will do all that we haveclaimed for it.

Individualism (capitalism) demandsprofits in the production and exchangeof commodities. Socialism demands

that production and exchange ofcommoditles be for use purposes and

not for profits.Socialism stands for co-operation

and is constructive. It builds for thebenefit of all. ."To teach as him workshall be" is its motto.

Individualism stands for compe-tition and is destructive. Throughcompetition it tears down. It destroys

more and more the interests of theless successful and enlarges the inter-ests of the more successful, until al-

ready one per cent of the people ofthe United States own more wealththan all the remaining 9S per cent of

the people put together, and ten mil-

lions of our people are constantly

underfed, badly clothed and poorly

housed.

Gompers Takes Determined Stand

"They Can Take Their Pound of lesh. But Thier Is No

Yellow Streak n It."

"The right to boycott Is inherent in

every man and we are going to stand

by It." declared Samuel Gompers,

president of the American Federation

of Labor, in a lecture on "Trades

Unions and Social Proress" under

the auspices of the Ethical Social

League at the East Side Parish House,

* Second avenue, Thursday night.

"I don't like to boycott," he con-

tinued, "and whatever you may think

as to my provocations I will my there

Is no person in the world againstwhom I bear Ill will. Bvt there are

some persons I will not trade with.And when I get one or more men to

take the same position it is called a

boycott. Our revolutionary fathers

boycotted. They would not buy theEnglishmen's tea and would not buyfrom any person who did. That was

a real secondary boycott. From the

time of Adam and Eve the boycott byanother name has been a universal

weapon of mankind, and for a court

to throw itself into a spasm because

the word is not euphonious is Incom-

prehensible to a rational person.

right to Patronage.

"Men say they don't like the sign

on the United Cigar Stores and won't

buy there. That is all right, but theprinciple applies as well to the cigar

store as it does to a Buck stove or a

range. (Cheers.) You have a right

to give patronage or to withhold it;

to restore, or to transfer it.

"I hold as a legal right, as a fundsa-mental right, the right to bestow orwithold patronage; in other words,

to boycott. The question of the boy-

eott of one company or another com-pany shrinks into insignificance, how-

ever, when compared to the import-ance of the injunction which has been

used against myself and others.

'"That injunction prohibits the rightof you and of me to speak or write ona certain subject, thereby deprivingus of that freedom of speech guaran-teed to us by the constitution, and Imsay now, as I have said before, thatwhen it comes to making a choice be-tween obeying or violating an Injunc-tion of a court which would depriveme of my constitutional guarantee Iwill have no hesitation n standing forthe constitutional guarantee.

Ds.isd Righs o@ hi•."It you publish or write anything

that is Ubelous or seditious you can

VWNDER CAPITAIUSM AND UNDER

HOCIAIS1M.

Under the capitalist system of to-day:

The men who make fine clotheswear shoddy garments

The men who build houses live inhovels.

The men who make motor carswalk.

The men who build ocean linerscannot afford to travel abroad.

The men who do the hardest anddirtiest work get the lowest reward.

The men who have transformed theworld have no legal right to live in it.

Under a Socialist system, however-The right to work, which means the

right to live, would be an establishedfact.

Thie men who work will get the fullproduct of their labor.

No man will be able to IIve uponthe labor of his fellows unless he beincapacitated through age or illness.

Every man will be well fed, wellclothed, and well housed.

Every man will have opportunitiesfor culture, for travel, and for leisure.

The world will become a thing ofbeauty and will belong to the workersof the world.

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP SUC-

CEEDS IN MANITOBA.

Winnipeg, Man., l.'eb. 6.-Undergovernment ownership Manitoba's tel-ephone system shows a surplus of$250,000 for the first year. In Janu-ary, 1908, the provincial governmentbought the Bell Telephone company'splant, lines and equipment for $4,-000,000.

In certain classes of business rateswere reduced, but it was not deemedpracticable to make many reductionson account of heavy expenditures inrunning 600 miles of new longdlstancelines and in opening a large numberof new exchanges, besides building

many rural systems. In a few daysreductions are promised of from 25 to40 per cent.

be brought into court and have your

guilt or innocence passed upon by a

Jury of your peers, and you are pre-

sumed to be innocent until you areSfound guilty. In contempt proceed-

Ings for an alleged violation of an

injunction you are presumed to beguilty and must show cause why youshould not be sent to jail.

"If, with John Mitchell and FrankMorrison, I can contribute a littlesomething toward maintaining thestandard of American manhood-well,I can only say that better men thanwe have gone to Jail, and I will alsosay that there are others who willfollow us there. I have said that ifthey take their pound of flesh theywill find there is no yellow streakin It."

Speakla about the Sherman anti-trust law and its application to laborunions, Mr. Gompers said:

"That law, which was passed at thebehest of the people to protect themagainst the machinations of those whocontrolled great wealth, has in thepast few months been declared by theSupreme Court to applyto organisa-tions of labor. Unions of workers arenow held to be combinations in re-straint of trade and Illegal, and anyman belonging to one may be fined$5,000 and imprisoned a year.

"You did not know, you membersof unions, that you belonged to trusts,that you were trust magnates; thatI'm the boss trust magnate. Theythereby take from unions the veryfunctions of organised effort. It istoo absurd to require argument-thisapplication of a rule against the truststo a body of men and women withnothing but the power to labor backof them.

"If the multi-millionaire acts on thetheory 'after me the flood,' how willthat day be ushered in-by a cats-clysna, a revolution, or will it be by the

trades unions that will fight the bat-ties of Justice? The American labor-looks you In the face and demandsor is not the man with the hoe; heequality of opportunity. I assert thbtriht to Insist on an orderly develop-ment of unionism in the United States.

'Comblnations so on in capital;they are only prevented in labor; youcan't break Into a trust with an axe;the union is open to all. We shallretraee no step, abandon no right.whatLrmr the power that tries to tomeus dows."

Socialist Play is Crowned a SuccessSinclair's First of Trio

"The Second Story Man.""Jobh D.""T'Ih Indignant SBa•rlber."Three sketches by Upton Sin-

clair, whkbh will be producedthroughout Cailfornia to fur-ther the Sodlltlc movement.The Arat is the story of a burglarmested by social injustice. The

second pictures Rockefeller sub-mlting to an interview. The thirddeals with. a. newspaper readerwho resents predatory journal.hIm.

San Francisco. Fe.b. 6.

By invitation, several score of Up-ton Sinclair's friends and those Inter-ested in his work gathered at the PaulGearson school of acting to view a pri-vate rehearsal of his one-act play'The Second Story Man." which is oneof three socialistic sketches he expectsto produce throughout the countryunder Socialist auspices for the fur-therance of the doctrine that equalityof operation is the salvation of theworld. The audience followed withinetense Interest the development ofthe playwright's theme and discov-ered as soon as the curtains weredrawn that he had hit upon a thrill-ing situation, which unfolded itselfwith breathless action.

The story of "The Second StoryMan" is that of a burglar who is'forced to undertake his first job prac-tically by starvation. He has lost hisposition in the steel works, where oneof his eyes is blown out by an explo-silon of the slag furnace, and he hassigned away his claims against thecompany while lying blind in the hos-pital. As soon as the panic came theworks closed down and he was oneof the first to go. His wife died; hisbaby died of poisoned milk; his littlechild was killed by a street car. Leftalone, he became a "booser" and a"bum." actuated solely by the desireor food and for revenge against the

interests which cheated him out of hisrights as a member of society.

By a strange chance he finds him-self in the flat of the very lawyer who,acting for the steel company, per-suaded him to sign the release fordamages-the man he has sworn tokill on sight. He meets the wife who,instead of tainting, proves sympathet-ic and urges him to tell his story. Ashe gradually gives her the chronicleof misery she discovers that it is herown husband who has been the directcause of the hopeless wreck who isspeaking to her.

The husband enters. He covers theburglar with a revolver, and for anInstant has him at his mercy. His wifetakes the weapon from his hand andforces him to recognize his own vic-tim. The husband is remorseful andoffers to aid the "second story man,"who, however, scorns his help-de-clares. Indeed that he Is past help andcannot figure the loss of his wife andbabies in money. "What about thethe other fellows?" he cries. "You'vedone the same thing to! Who's goingto help them?"

The wife sees that all the prosper-Ity of herself and her husband, all herpretty clothes, all her Jewels, havebeen wrung from the anguish and suf-fering of others. The burglar, in fact,attributes it to "the mill," "the sys-tem," which grinds out men's livesfor its own perpetuity and can neverbe checked until a complete changetakes place. Even if the husbandgives up his work there will be some-one else willing to undertake it. Anunexpected clash comes when, afteral the futile offers of aid from thehusband and the wife, the burglarmakes his offer-nothing less than thelife of the man whose life he hadsworn to take. He turns him over tothe judgment of his own wife andgoes back to the underworld fromwhich he came, leaving the sense ofburning injustice and perverted so-ciety which his story has excited.

It is Impossible in reciting the plotof the play to give any idea of itsdramatic values, which are excellent.There is not one dragsy moment andeach climax, leading up to the cul-mination, is extremely effective. Theaction of the piece occupies only about25 minutes, but It contains enoughmaterial for a four-act play.

Mr. Sinclair has been fortunate insecuring capable actors. Mr. ChrisLynton, who essays the part of JimParraday, the burglar, plays the rolewith power and pathos, always incharacter and yet with the rough per-ception to trace the real source of hiswrongs. Mrs. Keith Currier, as thewife, Helen Austin, gives a vivid por-trayal of a good hearted woman, ig-norant of much of the evil in theworld and inexpressibly ihocked tofind her own husband a party to it.

William Currier, as the husband, play

hls part with discretion and gives the

feeling that he is a helpless Intr.*

ment In th.e purposes of "the system."

If Mr. Sinclair's other two sketches

are of the quality of the present play-let. and it is understood that they af-

ford considerablt relief in comedy, hewill have\ an evening's entertainment

of extraordinary merit and variety, to

say nothing of the potent Intention

back of the effort.

AGA.IN.rT UNION 'PRINTER8

Coagisem Permits Contracting of theWork on Government C'n....

Washington, Feh. 4.--After a longand heated debate the. house yehter-day arred by a vote of 127 to 116to the senate amendm, nt to the er.n-sus bill permitting the director of thecenseu to have the printing dono at

private shops if he finds that will hecheaper than at the governmentprinting establishmm nt. As it is as-serted that open shops are certat' tounderbid union shops for this work,the house's vote is construed au .aserious blow at trades unions. Thework involved is estimated at nearly$1,000,000.

The unions received a b'tter excor-lation from Mr. Hepburn, who dt-

clared himself strongly opposed to thehouse allowing itself being dictated toby 2,000.000 men who use their ow-ganization to override the 20.000.,00)

who are not organized.

DANE: WIN GIA)RIOI'S VICTORY

Their Agitation gets six RumlanRevolutionists at UIberty-Case

Simlar to Ourr.

I'npi, InhuKgn, F. tI. ,- Th.- nworkin-people of all Denmark are rejoicingover the fact that the six Russian rev-olutionists demanded by the bloodyCzar have been set at liberty.

Their freedom was demanded bythe Socialists when they we're first ar-rested, under the regime of the no-torious Albertl, and the agitation hasbeen kept up until at .ast victoryhas been won.

The names of the men released areAdolph Orloff, Charles Apaschekrom.Israel Kajat, Alexander Skirgais. CarlSch,.iner and R. J. Flachermann.

All of the men were connected withthe revolution In the Baltic provincesThey were active on the various pr.,-vinclal committees, and all of therctsleuths of the Czar, who hadlife of the short-lived Republic of theBaltic. They escaped to Denmarkfrom Courland, but had hardlytouched Danish shores when thesleuths of the czar, some of whom hadobtained employment in the Danishpolice, seized and Imprisoned them.

There was an immediate outcry onthe part of the Danish Socialists.which at first had no effect, but lateron, after the Alberti exposures, thepublic took up the matter and the at-tempted railroading of the men toRussia war stopped.

This left the revolutionists in prisonin this c'y). where they have been d..-talned until the final decision of thminister of justice, M. Hegstrom. whohas declared that the men are polit-Ical offenders, and on no account tobe disturbed In their life in Denmark.The cause of the prisoners was takenup in England before the final de-cision was reached, and an appeal wassent to the Danish minister of justiceby th English sympathisers.

LABoR PARTY FOR sOCIALISM

Contference at Poertsmath ReurmsLast Year's Resolution but Rejcts

Constitutional Amendumet.

London. Feb. 1.-The annual con-ference of the Labor party, which hasbeen sitting for the last few days atPortsmouth, has declared Itself in fa-vor of socialization by means of pro-duction. distribution and exchange,and of the complete emancipation oflabor from the domination of capital-lam and landlordism, with the estab-lishment of social and economicequality for the sexes.

At the annual conference of theLabor party at Hull last year a slml-tar resolution was adopted. At thatsame conference a resolution makingthe Boelalist declaration a part of theLabor party constitution was re-rejected.

A similar resolution at the presentconference was again rejected by avote of 363,000 against 313,000, a de-creased vote against the proposedamendment to the constitution.

The action of the present confer-ence is a reamfrmation of the reso-lution for locialism adopted last year.but oelalhem im not yet included in

4the Labor party constitution.

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MORE WORKERS.

Th:, crying need of the Socialist

party at this stag is more workers.

Ibetter posted workers, local workers

who kinow how to go at the Socialist

party work. There are p-rsons by the.

score aTnxious and cnpable of doing

this work if they were o,nly trained

Into what is wanthd. Thi, wwriter of-

ten finds women at out of the way

points, filled with enthusiasm for the

cause of the Ipepll.. 'This. w•omen

ari. fra. ntly l or and s. lf-suli.,rt-lug. If they w ,ri trained to th , So-clalist •irk th. y would not only hb

ablle. to make a living hut to take up

and handlh the local ~iork at points

all over the country, for H hich there

il sutch cry ing nieed. The greatest,

most crying need of the Socialist par-

ty at the present time is workers

who will stay and tak,. control of

local points. see that the local otficers

do their duty, collect du, s. conduct

meetings, gather all voting Socialists

Into an organization, distrlbute and

sell literature, push the work on

county and city tickets, and do all

these numerous things for the lack of

which our movement is so deplorably

weak at local points. Where a local

point has competent people who will

do this work, such professional work-

ers are not needed. But hundreds of

points have actually no one who iscapable of doing this work to a suc-

cessful result. In consequence thereis simply a disconnected mass of aim-less voters, who do nothing else, whoare incapable of forming a political

machine, and can render no effectiveservice to the cause of the working

class. It is time the Socialist party

had a training school for workers. Itshould be at the national headquar

ters, and should be maintained by the

national organisation. Then thesehundreds of eager young men and wo-

men who long to do something to ad-vance the army of revolution will be-come trained for the conflict that Is

ahead of us, and will not be making

over the old mistakes that as oftendisrupt and ruin a party as advance it.

Some persons are afraid there willbe no "incentive" under a system thatgives them all they produce instead ofone-fifth of it.

THE PARTY OF THE WORKINGCLASI

It looks as though we had passedthe danger that the working class ofAmerics were going to throw thAirenerry into a labor party distinctfrom '1-e Socialist party. The actionof Gompers last fall and the greatmas-as of orga.ir- d labor that f.'-lowed him into the shambles of sup-porting the democratic party, pro-claimed one step, clear and compre-hensible, that the idea had penetrateJthe mentality of American labor thatit must take up the political question,to safeguard itself and its organisa-tlons.. Fortunately for the future ofthe laboring classes, the Bryan pro-gram proved a laughable fiasco. Bry-an is dead, Bryanism is dead, thedemocratic party is dead as a potentpossibility, and the American Federa-tion of Labor and imitating organisa-tions are still partyless.

But the arm of awakened Britishlabor stretches across the seas. KlerHardie, the grand old man of Englishlabor, has his finger on the pulse ofthe international labor movement. Hecame from beholding the woes of thesuffering and oppressed workers ofIndia, under the merciless lash of theBritish masters, hailed as the belovedand honored of the British toilers.Hardie has arisen as the type of theworker who perceives the destiny ofhimself sand of his class. Tolling inthe coal mines from early youth the

horrors of the exploltation of do-tensless poor like hlmnlf was grav-en on his soul. Into the labor moe -

ment he came,. and Into the Ioclaist

ranks.

The Social Democratic Federationwas making little headway among the

working class. Liebkneoht eame from

Oermany to England In 1Iss. on the

Marx anniversary. He addressed theSocal Demoratic Federation. He

reproved it for its attitude towards

organised labor. He said that In Dug-

land the Socialists antagonised the

unions while the splendid and pro-gressing German movement worked

patiently and fraternally with everyposible need of labor.

Kier Hardle heard his speech and

took heed. He left on a trip to studythe Socialist movements of Belgium.

Holland and Germany. with theirsplendid achievements in working

class solidarity and progress, thehomes and clubs of the people, the

co-operative industry, and the large

parllamentary representation; came

back, and organized the IndependentLabor Party. The large oclllist andlabor group in the British parliamentand the awakening of British labor

to a sense of political power is theresult.

But across the deep American laborstill flounders, and votes the ticketsof Its masters, while it qulvers under

the lash of injunctions, bullpen., anti-labor legislation and governmentalonslaughts on Its treasuries. The

grievance of labor is international,and in the h eat of the campaign lastfall Hardic sailed for America and

Canada. The Socialists thought they

could count on the tremendous mighthis assistance would give. But he

made no speeches under the directionof the Socialist party. lie spoke in-

stead under the Federated Trades

Council of New York. And the news

went forth that he had said that the

Ametrican Socialist party did not r.,p-r. sent the working class and did nithave its support. It was said thathis intention was to form the 11nd-

pend, nt Labor Party in Canada.K. ir IHlardit Is again in Am-'rica.

Tiles time rumor carries the nlssalgethat he, is to form an Independent I.a-bor. Party with the assistance of the

American Fediration of Labor. Againhe spoke in New York and tells of the.progress for labor's relief th,. parlia-meintary Socialist contingent has beenabhl to effect this last year-the oldage pension act, the eight-hour lawfor the coal miners. The power andweight of the convention of the Unit-ed Mine Workers of America was ex-pected to be a favorable opportunityto launch an American IndependentLabor Party. But Hardle was study-Ing the political situation of theworking class carefully and cautious-ly. The Indianapolis conventionproved to be a tower of strength InSoclalism. The Socialist group amongthe delegates held the balance ofpower. The ablest men among theofficials of the organisation proved tobe Socialists. When the debate cameup on the formation of an Inedepen-dent Labor Party the Socialists sovaliantly defended their position thatthe American labor movement hadthe least possible labor party In thelarge and developing Soclalist party,that the motion for the new party wasoverwhelmingly defeated. The reac-tionaries (the republicans and demo-crats), as usual, assisted the pro-gressives (the Socialists) in defeatingthe half-way people. And Hardie hasasserted, confidently at last. that theAmerican Soclalist party fills the neeeof an Amdrlcan labor party.

lo we are past the danger of thedemocracy as a pitfall for labor; weare past the inspired Hearst radical.lam in the Independence League; weare past that snare in American poll-tics of a deceptive labor party. Forafter all, the laboring class of eachnation must meet its dangers in itsown way, and American labor is too

familiar with capitalist political tricksin the formation of such abortions asthe Heinse labor party to seriouslycontemplate any genuine assistancefrom such quarters.

There is no relief for labor any-where but in a progressive, construc-tive Socialist party-a party thatpicks its way towards the only relieffrom exploitation, in the abolition ofthe weapons of exploitation-the pri-vately owned job. May American la-bor soon awaken to vitality and pur-post along this line.

Did you vote for the system thatthrows you out of a job ?

How much a man believes in Ik-clalism is measured by how much hewill do for it.

"The labor of the mechanical fac-tory puts the wageworker in touchwith terrible natural forces unknownto the peasant, but instead of beingmastered by them he controls them.

" * " The practice of the mod-ern workshop teaches the wage-worker scientific determinism, with-out his needing to pass through thetheoretical study of the scleanes."-Lafarque.

TIE LAW OF WAGSk.

Und, the present system of pe-dio '~t he average wages ore limited

to the necemary means of mbsieue.This has been disputed by ewtatnpolitical eoonomslats In oppelitiothey assert that the price of labor isregulated by the dmeand fe It aseompared with the supply of It Thepeople who amert this look upon ai-bor as they do upon any other kind ofmer•handise, and they do this quiterightly. for It is with labor as withmerchandise or wares, Its price Is de-termined by demand and supply. Butwhat is It that reglates, that deter-mines the market price betwees de-mand and supply? As we have al-ready seen. this is determined by thecost of production. There is only osem*4-ure for everything that comes enthe market, whether it be Chineseporcelain, American cotton, a sioe*tida, Circasian slave girls or euro-pean workers; that measure is to betohnd In the demand for and the sup-ply of the article, and the average re-lation of demand and supply is ulti-mately determined by the cost ofproduction.

How much, then, does it cost toproduce a worker? Evidently just somuch as Is required to enable anotherworker to obtain the absolutely neces-sary means of subsistence for himselfand his family. live him this andhe will provide the youngster fastenough, though not solely, perhaps,for the capitalist's sake, and will noteven require to be tempted by a profitas do the producers of other wares.In short, wages under free compe-tition, or the cost of production oflabor, consist solely of the cost of pro-duclng workers.

Where it is customary to employchildren in the factories there afresh calculation Is made. It is verysoon found that the father does notrequirte the means of subslstence, say,for a family of avr rnge number, butcan do with less, as the childrenthemselves contribute toward theiro~ a support.

It r.qluires no explanatioli to show

that of all producers the seller of la-bor is most unfavorably situated un-d~er the system of competition. Wherewould the sellers of other wares beif they could not keep their produceback when the demand was slack?The sa IIer of labor cannot do this. Hemust sell. Hunger compels him.Further, when the price of labor risesit only makes the lot of the workersultimately worse, for it brings aboutan increase in the number of work-ers. Neither need we explain how itst that no charitable employer can

alter this. Whoever attempts to doso is struck down by the dagger ofcompetition.-Ferdinand Lasalle, in"What Is Capital."

SOCIALIST SCHOOLL. .

The following statement by thesecretary of the Socialist SundaySchool Union has been issued:

"The Socialist Sunday School Uniontakes this opportunity to announce tothe radical public the existence of fiveflourish Socialist schools In variousparts of Brooklyn and New York.

"The aim and purpose of theseschools is double, via: The destruc-tive work of tearing down old super-stitious Ideas of territorial patriotism,fixed Ideas and Ideals on matters ingeneral and working class in particu-lar, and the contaructive work of pro-paring the future citlenon for the co-operative commonwealth by givingthem unlimited, scientific facts con-cerning the development of societyfrom its primitive oonditlon to Itspresent Industrial status of civillsa-Uon, leading them through the differ-ent stages and changes to the pres-ent need of emancipating the wageslave and establishing the Industrialrepublic.

"The public school system, supple-mented by the Sunday schools, formthe bulwark of capitalism, by keepinglthe minds of our future men andwomen befogged u regards the eco-nomic Interpretation of history andpresent conditions of society. It isour duty to counteract such influences.The teachers of the various SociallstSunday schools, together with othersdeeply interested in the work, or-ganised the Socialist Sunday SchoolUnion In order to more effectively or-ganise and systematize both theschools and course of study that isalready in the making.

"We appeal to every Socilalist capa-ble of sisting this Important move.ment, either by teaching or other-wise, to Join us. Advertise ourschools among your friends.

"The meetings of the S. S. . U., areheld in the afternoon of every frstSaturday of the month at the RANDSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 111IAST 19TH STREET. The eoatmeetings will be held at the above ad-dress at 3 p. m., January 1.

"u u can make an excellent begin-n' *e of the new year by coming tothis meeting, determined to Join Inthe work.

"All communications should be ad-dressed to

"BECRETARY SOC. S. S. U.,"Rand School, 11l East llth

Street, New York City."

The National Commlttee motlioproposed by John Hagel., .V.O'Hare and C. C. Roem o Oklahoma~lrst publshed Jan. IS, has been sup-ported by National Committee Mem-ber J. W. Perrla of Arkansas.

"lor our party and for our partytootle there Is but one valtd beas.the beals of the clam struggle, outof whioh the Soehalist party hassprang up. and out of whiho alone itcan draw the necessary strenlth tobid deflanae to every storm and to allits enaemis."-Llebkneht.

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Now the kings grow lean as they sit.The people grow strong to stand lThe men they trod on and spat.The dumb, dread people that satAs corpses cast in a pitRIme up with God on their hand.And thrones are hurled in a heap,And strong men sons of the landPut In the siokles and reap!

The dumb dread people that satAll night without screen for the nalght.All day without food for the day,They shall not give their harvest

away,They shall eat of the fruit and wax

tat,They shall see the desire of their

sight,Though the ways of the seasons.hbe

steep,They shall climb with face to the light.Put in the sickles and reap.

-Swinburne.

THE DEAD LEVEL OF EQUALITY.

(By Clell O. Fowler.)

One of the hoary untruths that bob

up with incredulous persistency is

that "Socialism will reduce mankind

to the dead level of equality."

The obvious siliness of the conten-

tion has been exposed so repeatedly

that writers and speakers making it at

this late hour reflect both upon their

sincerity and Intellectual capacity.

The cld maxim. "l)iscretion is the

better part of valor." seems to have

been forgotten by some contributors

to the current literature who endeavor

to unnihilate the Socialist philosophy

at one frll aswlp.

A pjIlitictl nmovement of the work-

Ing rclas numlll ring its adhtlerents Iby

the millions., international in scope and

character and having a common ultl-

mate aim in every civilized country of

the earth, the socialli.atlon of the ma-

chine.ry of production upon which the

plOpleI collectively depend, with its

Irate and devoted mien and women,

comrade s all, working incessantly

among the exploited of the nations,

spre ading o er the four quarters of

the globe the Socialist idea of econ-

omnlc eolution. revolution and social

regeneration, affrighting the poten-

tates of semi-feudal monarchies, filling

with fear and consternation the oil-

garchs of "Ideal" capitalist republic--

a movement of this character and

quality is not to be repulsed or shamedby slanderous insinuations that the

thing and its promoters "would re-

ducet to a dead level."

But there is a virulent and terrible

something that does reduce to a dead

level, and its name is Capitallam.

The levelling DOWN process ofcapitalism manifests Itself in a num-ber of ways.

In les than three months after the

Initial crash In the panic from which

the country has not yet recovered its

equilibrium, three million workers

were thrown out of employment. No

longer able to market their labor-

power and havIng no other means of

support, thousands took their places

In the "bread lines" of the cities.

There was "equality" In the bread

lines, even to the division of the food,

and there was a suggestion of the dead

level.

But It was not SocialIsm.

It was Capitalism.More than one million children un-

der fifteen years of age are wearing

out their young lives in the fields, fac-tories, mines and workshops. "Chil-

dren should betaught to draw," saysMrs. Carter of Wichita, "to model In

clay, palnt, sing. and they ought to

get acquainted with bees, birds, but-

terflies and know all the fowers and

trees by name."Well, these children have been re-

duced to the dead level of equality.Socialism will construct for them a

new environment.Capitalism will continue to make

their present environment worse.

Mr. Jacob A. Rils, In "How the

Other Halt Lives," has said that In

.elght years 136,6l9 families In New

York were registered as asking for

or receiving charity; also that for five

years past one person in every ten

who died in the metropolis was buried

In the Potter's Field.

These effects of a cause cannot be

be traced to Socialism.Something Is fast reducing humanity

to the dead level of equal poverty.

Capitalism is that monstrous force.

The Soclalist idea of equality Is con-

alatent. It means equality of oportun-Ity.

The coltilllst idea of equality Is a

travesty. It means "Every man for

himself and the devil for us all."Under Sociallsmn the lifting-up pro-

cesm will be well under way.New incentives will spur men to

nobler achievements, "the glory thatwas Greece and the grandeur that wasRome" will fade into comparative In-significance in the bright light of theBetter Day.

InternationalA SWATE COAL MINE.

Encouraged by the success of the

State Cold Storage Works and similar

enterprises, the labor government of

South Auteralla has deolded to acquire

a coal mine for use in connection with

the State railways, etc. As there are

no coal supplles in the state itself, the

government is negotiating for the pur-chase of a mine In New South Wales.It is noteworthy that although NewSouth Wales is rich in coal. It Is con-tent to leave its mines to the exploittation of private capitalists, although thestate railways are by far the largestcoal consumers. Needless to say, themajority of the citizens of New SouthWales are consistently anti-Labor andanti-Socialist.

Enrico Ferrl, the well known Bocl-aliat deputy aid criminologist ofItaly has been on a speaking )urthrough the Argentine Repu site,South America, and says Bocialism ismaking rapid progress in that country

SOCIALIST GAINSS IN GERMAN MI'-

NICII'AL ELECTIONS.

Rixdorf, Germany, Jan. 25.-The

Socialists have gained a great victory

here, electing six Social-Democrats nut

of ten seats from this place. The Frl

seats are a clear gain, as in every in-

stance the liberals were replaced in

the reichstag. The successful Social.Democrats are: Franke, Hoppe, Fimsher, Schuch, lohr and Zeppwelsel. It,!-turns from the municipal electlo.~throughout the Black Fortest antiSouth Bavarian districts indicate greatgains for the Social-Democrats every-where. In Ebersgrund and Ith. in'-dorf, Socialist mayors were elect,,.I.In Schneelerg the Social-Democrat',elected the entire municipal count I ofsix. In I.ichtenhain, near ena, the en-tire council is now composed of Soca.-Democrats for the first time in thehistory of the commune, this electionshowing a clear Social-Democraticgain of five seats in the council. InUnterwitzbach. the elections were heldfor two seats In the council and theSocial-Democrats gained both. Herein Munich at the judicial elections theSocial-Democrats for the first time inthe history of the city have succeededin electing party members to the mag-Istracy. Two Socialists were amongthose chosen. The party is celebratingthe victory in iapproved style by pa-rades and processions.

The Catholic Socialist Society Is anorganization that is sweeping throughScotland in a manner that is start-ling capitalism. Two years ago thefirst local organization was formed inOlascow. Now there is a branch ofthe society in every city and townof importance in Scotland and themovement has spread into England.The Catholic Socalist Society is en-deavoring to break down the preju-dice that has existed among the mem-bers of that denomination against So-clalism. The Catholic Socialist, aweekly paper, is about to be launched.Many priests haveexpressed sympathywith the movement.

WIPB OUT ULORDS

London, Jan. 30.-Political develop-

ments of the last days have shown

conclusively that England Is ap-

proaching the most startling crisis it

has known in three-quarters of a con-

tury.

The existence of the house of lordsIs at stake. No such important con-stitutional Iesue has been raised InGreat Britain snlace 132, when theright of franchise, previously basedstriCtly on property qualifications,was made practically universal.

The lords have been attacked be-fore, but never very seriously. Itlooks now as if their years-if nottheir days--es a legislative body arenumbered. Ending the old Englishsystem of hereditary law-making willinvolve practical reconstruction of theoountry's constitution.

Will Wipe Out the Peers.

Nine out of ten Englishmen havelong regarded the peers as a foolishanachronism. Bound as the nation Is,to precedent, however, it has beenhard to inaugurate a vigorous move-ment toward reform. At last the lib-erals--the dominant British politicalparty-have declared they will neverrest until some form of elective upperhouse of parliament is substituted forthe present hereditary one. For throeeyears the liberals have been In oloewith an overwhelming majority in thehouse of commons. Allowing for allpossible combinations against them,they have approximately 200 on anyparty 'mue. But despite their numer-isal superiority they have been prae.tically Impotent. The peers havethwarted them at every turn.

NationalWISCONSIN.

The fight of the Social-Democratsfor the public schools was renewed inthe Milwaukee city council last Mon-day. Alderman Melma (Boclal-Demo-crat) made another warm plea for theschools. He pointed out that with theexoeption of St. Louis and Buffalothere was no other city of Its sism inthe United States with as small anannual appropriation for the publicschools amsMilwaukee. His argumentsseemed to have some weight, for uponthe rollecall the council lacked only onevote of passing the full appropriationof $360,000 for the school fund. Thenine Social-Democratle aldermen, ofcourse, all voted In the affirmative.As a compromise, $246.000 was voted.This was at least a gain from the con-temptible sum of $120,000 with whichMayor Rose wanted to put off the pub-llc schools. Thus our Social-Demo-cratic aldermen have made a fine rec-ord in their war against illiteracy.

During the long fight over the Unit-ed States senatorship in the Wisconsinlegislature, one result comes out thesame on each ballot: "IHummel (SocialDemocrat), 4."

Persecution seems to be helping theSocialist cause in Two Rivers. Com-rade Althen, editor of the Two RiversIteporter, it will be remembered, wasfound guilty of criminal libel for ex-posing a graft case. He was fined 5168.But that simply woke up our people.

Mass meetings were held last Saturdayand Sunday in Manitowoc and TwoRivers. In vain did the wotst bllzzardof the year conspire to aid the capital-istic forces. Comrade Thompsonwalked to Two Rivers, when the carscould not run, and good audiencesturned out at both meetings in spite of

the storm. A coll.cetion was taken upwhich covered the entire amount of

the tine. lest of all, the affair has

stirred up the community and excited

new interest in our movement. Letthe capitalists keelp up their prosecu-tions! It is only grist for our mill.

The National Executive Commit-tee, which convened at 1 p. m. Friday,Jan. 22, adjourned at 1:20 p. m. Sun-day, Jan. 21. The minutes of the ses-

sion have been printed in circularform and sent out to the weekly mail-inL list.

National Committee Motion No. 1,upon which the vote closed an. 26and providing Esperanto as the off-clal language of the International So-cialist congres, was defeated by thefollowing vote: Yes. 2; No, 51; notvoting., 12. Six members of the Na-tional Committee in excess of thenumber allowed by the apportion-ment, are carried on the list owing tothe failure on the part of the stateorganisations to report the memberswho should be dropped.

STATE CONVENTION IN MICHIGAN

A delegate state convention will beheld in Grand Rapids, Mich., at 11o'clock Friday morning, Feb. 12, forthe purpose of nominating candidatesfor Justices of the supreme court, twocandidates for the omce of regents ofthe university, one candidate for theolce of superintendent of public in-struction, one candidate for memberof the state board of education, andsix candidates for the state board ofagriculture. Also for the transactionof such business as may come beforethe convention. The basis of repre-sentation by countles wil be one dele-gate for each of the 13 counties andone additional delegate for each 100,or a major fraction of votes cast forsecretary of state in the 1908 elec-tion. Saturday, Feb. , is named forholding county conventions for elect-ing delegates

SOCIAIJWT ACIVE IN PFITIBURG

John Spargo will speak in Wilmer-ding. Pa., Friday evening, Feb. 12, InHomestead Saturday evening, Feb.13, and in Liberty hall, 401 Libertyavenue, Pittsburg, Sunday evening,Feb. 14. His meetings will undoubt-edly equal those spoken at by MayWood-Simons. Application has beenmade for securing John Brown forthree dates in Pittsburg also. Anylocal that desires to have him speakunder its auspices should make ap-plication Immediately. Sunday after-noon, Feb. 14. a general membershipmeeting will be held in Liberty hall.A financial secretary will have to beelected and many other matters ofImportance wll have to be passedupon. Seymour Steadman will be Inthe state the last of the month andany branch desiring his servicesshould communicate with the head-quarters without delay. J. W. Slay-ton, organiser, will debate with H.Clay Rockwell of New York in EastLiverpool Thursday, Feb. 11.

"Socialism does not require achange in human nature, but hu-man nature does require a changeIn society. And that change isSocaltism."

Women's ClubsWHY WOMEN SHOULD V&IrE.

(By Alice Stone Blackwell.)

1. Because it is fair and right thatthose who must obey the laws shouldhave a voice In making them, and thatthose who must pay taxes should havea vote as to the siae of the tax and theway it shall be spent.

S. Because the moral, educational,and humane legislation desired by wo-men would be got more easily if wo-men had votes. New York womenhave worked in vain for years to am-cure a legislative appropriation tofound a state Industrial school forgirls. Colorado women worked in vainfor one till they got the ballot; thenthe legislature promptly granted it.

3. Because laws unjust to womenwould be amended more quickly. Itcost Massachusetts 55 years of effortto secure the law making mothersequal guardians of their children withthe fathers. In Colorado, after wo-men were enfranchised, the very nextlegislature granted it. After morethan half a century of agitation bywomen for this reform, only 13 outof our 45 stat'es now give equal guard-lanship to mothers.

4. Because disfranchis. ment helps

to keep wages down. lion. Carroll D.

Wright, national commissioner of la-

bor, said in an addre.ss dilivered at

Smith colleg.e o.n Ibh. 22, 1902: "Th.,

lack of direct piolitical inlluence co i-

stitutes a powerful reason why wo-

men's wag.s have b.en kept at a mi'i-

Imum."

5. Because equnll sufrage would in-

crease the iproportion o*f dlilceated v\o-

ers. The high schools of every statb in

thl. union are graduating nmore girls

than boys-oft.n twice or three timesi

as many. (1~4e'port oif ('ommis<ion, r of

Education. )6. Iecanus. it would in r, as.. the

proportion of native\-lIorn V\,ters. In

the three years from Jun.e ::o, 1900, 1'.

June :0. 190(2, there landed in thI

United States 1,74,622 for. ign m.n.

and only 561.746 foreign women. (:,,.-

port cf C'ommissirner (Gneral of lm-

migration.)

7. tBecause it would increase the

moral and law-abiding vote very much

while increasing the vicious and crim-

Inal vote very little. The U. S. Census

of 1890' gives the statistics of men

and women in the states prisons of the

different states. Omitting fractions,

they are as follows:

In the District of Columbia, wo-

men constitute 17 per cent of the pris-

oners; in Massachusetts and Rhode

Island, 14 per cent; in New York, 1:3;

in Louisiana, 12; in Virginia, 11; in

New Jersey. 10; in Pennsylvania and

Maryland, 9; In Connecticut, 8; in Ala-bama, New Hampshire, Ohio andSouth Carolina, 7; in Floridla. Maine.

Misslssippi, New Mexico and Tennes-see, 6; in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,Kentucky. Michigan, Missouri, North

Carolina and West Virginia, 5; in Ar-kansas and Delaware, 4; in California,Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas andVermont. 3; in Colorado, Iowa, Mon-tans. Nebraska and Utah, 2; In Art-sons, Kansas, Nevada, and South Da-kota, 1; In Washington, four-fifths of

1 per cent; In Oregon and Wisconsin,two-fifths of one per cent; in Wyq-ming and Idaho, none.

$. Because it leads to fair treat-ment of women in the public service.

In Massachusetts the average pay ofa female teacher is about one-thirdthat of a male teacher, and in almostal the states it is 6nequal. In Wyo-ming and Utah the law provides thatthey shall receive equal pay for equalwork. (Revised Statutes of Wyoming,Section 614; Revised Statutes of Utah,Section 1853.)

0. Because legislation for the pro-teetlon of children would be securedmore easily. Judge Lindsey. of theDenver Juvenile court, writes in Pro-

gnres for July. 1904: "We have in Col-orado the most advanced laws of anystate in the union for the care andprotection of the home and the chil-dren. These laws, in my opinion,would not exist at this time it it werenot for the powerful influence of wo-man suffrage."

10. Because It is the quietest, easi-est. most dignified and least conspicu-ous way of Influencing public affairs.It takes much less expenditure oftime, labor and personal presence togo up to a ballot box, drop In a slipof paper, and come away, than topersuade a multitude of miscellaneousvoters to vote right.

11. Because It would make womenmore broad-minded. Prof. EdwardH. Origgs says: "The ballot is an edu-cator, and women will become morepractical and more wise in using it."

13. Because woman's ballot wouldmake it harder for notoriously badcandidates to be nominated or elected.In the equal suffrage states, both par-ties have to put up men of respectablecharacter or lose the women's vote.

13. It would increase women's in-fluence. Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford,president of the Colorado State Feder-ation of Women's Clubs, said at theNational Convention la shrdlu aolnnnNational Suffrage Convention, inWashnlaton in February, 1904:

"Instead of woman's influence beinglessened by the ballot It I, greatly In-oreased. Last year there were somany members of the legislature withbills which they wanted the club wo-men to Indorse that the social sciencedepartment of the state federation hadto sit one day each week to conferwith these legislators who were seek-ing our indorsement. Club womenoutside the suffrage states do not havethis experience."

14. Because it would help those wo-men who need help the most. Theo-dore Roosevelt recommended womansuffrage in his mesage to the NewYork legislature. On being askedwhy, he is reported to have answeredthat many women have a very hardtime, working women especially, andIf the ballot would help them, even alittle, he wal/ willing to see it tried.Mrs. Maud Nathan, president of theNational Consumers' League, said inan address at the National SuffrageConvention in Washington in Febru-ary, 1904: "My experience in investi-gating the condition or women wage-earners warrants the assertion thatsome of the evils from which they suf-fer would not exist if women had theballot. * * * In the states wherewomen vote, there is far better en-forc(ement of the laws which protectworking girls."

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PRIEST WORKS AGAISTNW TEESOCIALISTS.

Through the efforts of a Polish

Catholic priest, who looks upon So-clalism as a dangerous thing, a mas-

querade ball which was to have beenheld under the auspices of the PolishSocialist local of East Chicago, Ind.,had to be called off. The priest usedhis religious Influence on the hall

owners and forbade them to renttheir property to Socialists. The re-

suit of this action was that the Social-ists had to either rent a hall in an out

of the way place or postpone the mas-

querade indefinitely.

Manhattan shows the constuctiv\'

I~ibr that make a Socialist mov,\-

m,.nt in artlon and not mir.rly in a lot

of hot air that acc,mlishi s nothing.

A local has hI,o.n organiz, d at Lima

with twe.l\I m,.ml, rs. A fin,- publicmi ting was hld and a danc, aftr-w\:.rds. Local I.ima iromiss to bh,

, ,e o, the liv-, ~ ir. s of th,, stat,.

Sulbs are comnc ill Iah day fromthi, coal camps ,f ' a•icat county.,;alltin Va\,I y, I ill n. Lima: , I' 11 andiF'•,rgus county ar,. rlling up a large.,irclllatlon for thi. N. \us.

, State Department tA

AlOVyT T'IE ODOK CITY ON -mm

assmarPPI RIV'R.

Do you know what is the matter

with the great mill city on the upper

Xissislsppi? Or, perchance, you do

not know that there is something the

matter. I deem It wise and oppor-tune to write something on that sub-

ject. The workers of America don't

know that this queenly city has a

skeleton in its closet. It is the skele-

ton from committed Infanticide. Min-

neapolis Is the modern Herodiasu of

America. Bethlehem tragedies are al-ways the work of the presence of aHerod. and his capitalist spirited wife.Volumes upon volumes might be writ-ten upon the cruel Infanticide at-tached to the fame of Minneapolis.and then the truth remains not halftold.

In the eventful passing of theyear 1886, a young man appeared inMinneapolis with an extraordinarymessage to rich and poor. Expressedin so many words, the essential feat-ures of this message were these:

"Workers of Minnesota. iunite. Youhave nothing whatever in this worldto lose but your chains! It is turn-ing time that you unite. Listen tome, workers. Unite! I say it to youfast and furiously."

The message of this young man, astudent of the state university, wasgiven unusual heed. But it was theheed that criminals entertain. Min-neapolis did not follow the exampleof Nineveh. No, it preferred to imi-tate Herod. And so a well designed.carefully planned political Infanticidewas instead committed by this clusterof a city. And not a word has yet

been said in regard to this most Inhu-man of all crimes. What a cruelmotherhood, whose record of infan-

ticide is her only womanly record!But what is the matter with theTwin City on Mississippi. I wish allthe United Socialist press all overAmerica would institute a searchlightinquiry Into this crime. It would laybare the inner workings of capitalistpolitics, sanctioned by the church.Every church organization in Minne-apolis sanctioned the Infanticide pro-gram. One of them has the recordof wife-stealing King David's oldtrick. But King David is known as apromoter of political infanticide, theway he treated his son Absalom. So,of course, the church in question willno doubt justify its sensational crimeby quoting precedents. Years beforethe Socialist doctrines were heard ofthrough any press of its own, the Min-neapolls papers were full of themesand addresses and platform oratoryof. from and by this young studentUke a sudden flashlight, seen andolserved by all. Socialism, the gospelof the modern poor, came and wentnobody knew where. Ask the work-ers? They are silent on this sub-eoct when they ought for once to im-

itate Balam's ass. Ask the preach-eral They are silent, because they

tolowed Annaniu' old, shrewd advice:"Better that one man dies than thatall should perish,"-that is, get com-mon sense. Ask the newspapers ofMinnesota ? Silence! Because thewhole outfit conspired to undo thesplendid, courageous beginning. Askthe rich? Are you aware that Minne-eota harbors the only millionairepriest on the American soil-JohnIreland !

Furthermore, is it likely that anhonest, self-sacrificinlg movement inthe lnterest of pilfered, Lamerus-likelaborers would receive enoourygementfrom a Jim Hill, a Tom Lowry. a Plls-

bury, a Washburn. a T. B. WalkerT-

these real estate gluttons of Minas-apolls! Hence the splendid begin-

ring, the right kind of all creative be-ginninge, was deliberately smotheredto death! Why? The question can

only be answered by quoting God'eswords to Job: "Clothe thee in majestyand honor." It is in our days as itwas of old, an unpardonable sin tospeak, unless clothed with the pea-cock feathers of wealth.

But speak we will. The time hascome when the history of the hor-rible Minneapolis Infanticide will be

the theme of conversatson by everyman, woman and child of this crime-staggered continent. Before Gron-lund, Bgllamy, Debe, Uimon, JackLondon, Emma Goldman and otherfamous agitators and representativesof worklngmen's sacred rights on thisearth, this movement In the geograph-ical center of republican America hada surprisingly vigorous existence. Butowing to the foul, capable teaching ofthe human heart, it was doomed,damnably doomed. This movement of

oclalism in Minneapolis already inthe eighties, is never spoken of today.

We seldom, it ever, hear anything ofof the seven Chicago martys! MoreIn detail as to the Minneapolis awfultragedy in my next article. Mean-

while, I wish the Montana News greatprosperity and Socialist beasing dur-Ing the ensuling year of grace to speak

a Ia egs. It You please.JAMES NOODLE.

Missoula orders two domes coastito-tions.

Local Havre sends in $6.56 for duestamps and supplies.

A. Schaeder sends in 11 for subsfrom Manhattan.

Comrade Holt gets in on the dollarplan for subs.

Comrade Issaceon of Missoula sendsIn $5 as a donation.

Roy Pennicott sends In for $3.00 ofstamps for the Livingston local.

T'r 4dley takes $5.00 more of due

stamps and two dozen constitutions.

Orders for job work are commenc-

ing to rool into the News offce again.

Colprade Buzzell has been doinggood and active work in Flatheadcounty.

Local Dillon acted on six applica-tions for membership at the meetinglast Sunday light.

We expect to see a local organizedat the new town of Three Forks en the

Milwaukee railroad.

Oreely Baker was in from Lombard

and paid his dues as member at largeand paid up for ten sub cards.

Sell five subs for the MontanaNews if you think we need a work-ing class press in this section of the

country.

A dance was given by the Soclalistsof Dell recently. There is no organiz-ation at Dell, but there will soon be alocal organised.

Subs are rolling In from Belt.

Stockett and Band Coulee these days.It takes the coal diggers to boost theclrculation of a Socialist paper.

If you are opposed to a meeting ofthe State committee that can only beattended by those whose pocket bookswill allow them. Then vote YES on"Referendum B."

The News would like the names andaddresses of all school teachers whoare Socialists. If you know of anyhave them communicate with us.

M. Maxwell wanr a vistor at the Nnwsolfico during tl e past week. MaxwellIs a boomer m.lchlnest and. Ilk i allthe rest of t:,at fraternlty, a live wlre

The Socialists of Mondak are talk-nlg organisaton. Applications for

membership at large have been re-ceived from two Socialists at thatplace.

Shall only locals whose treasury isstrong enough to send a delegate tothe State Committee MeetiUng be re-presented or shall all the locals be re-presented ? That Is the question thatis to be solved by Refrendum B. If

aoA olni AL.aoulm o0 pasoddo aaw no•yes.

The clrculaUton of the News is onthe upward grade once more. Lastweek we put out one hundred morepapers than the week before, besideshaving a large number of expiratlonsto take of the mailing list.

Local Lewistown sent nla 60 to payfor sixty subs. Looks as if lawis.town don't want a Soclalist paper nlathe state. Things are coming our waynow. Grab onto the rope, boys, sadwalk right away with the circulation.

Local Manhattan sends in $5.00 fordue stamps and $1.00 for constitu-tions. Comrade Monroe writes thatthe local desires Mrs. Haslett for aseries of three lectures. The local ln-tends giving a dance nla the near fu-turea.

Comrade Eastlick writes as follows:"I am sending you five subscrip-

tions to the News. They are all So-clalists. I believe It is the duty ofevery loclalist in Montana to takethe News and I will not let up till theyall take it here. Who is next to makethis resolve?"

Every party member should voteon "Referendum B." If you believethat the State Committee should meetwhen convenient for the majority ofthe members to attend and not whenIt suits the whim of one man who maysucceed in securing a second to hismotions. Then vote YES.

Comrade Friday of Manhattan, statecommitteeman from that point, sendsin two subs. He writes: "I am goingto work for the News and get all thesubs I can, I it it is not a 'clean sheet'for advertising banks and saloons. Ido not look at things In that light.Take all the ads you can let. It allhelps to build up the paper."

(By Peeder Desatler .)(Peodor Detolevskl ashle*d fums

as the author of two of the meet pow-erful psychical studies ever penne-namely, "Poor Polk" and "The Crimeand the Pu•ithmeat"- both of whichhave been translated nlato most areopean languages. During his Ilae•roeration, for political reasons, In theterrible fortress of US. Peter and Paul-an Imprisonment which rulnoed hisconstitution and caused his earlydeath-he wrote the followingl sktehupon the wall of !.Is cell. Until re-cently no one but the prison officalshad seen it; but P. Narodny, who wasImmured in the fortrees for maryyears, found means of copying it, andon regalning his liberty gave to theworld a work which for more thanhalf a century remained hidden in thedarkness of the prison.)

Before the altar in a splendidchurch, glistening with gold and dl-ver and lit up by a multitude of can-dles, stood a priest araryed in beau-

tiful robe and gorgeous mantle. Hewas a portly, dignified man, withruddy cheeks and well-kept beard.His voice was sonorous and his mienhaughty. His appearance was inkeeping with the church, whichglowed and shone with luxury.

The congregation, however, pre-sented a different picture. It con-sisted mostly of poor working-menand peasants, old women and beg-gar. Their clothing was shabby andexhaled the peculiar odor of poverty.Their thin faces bore the marks ofhunger and their hands the marks oftoll. It was a picture of want andmastry.

The priest burned Incense before

the holy pictures, and then plouslyanid solemnly raised his voice andpr ached.

' My dear brethren in Christ," hesaid, "'our dear Lord gave you life,smh. It is your duty to be satisfied withit. But are you satisfied? No.

"First of all, you do not haveenough faith In our dear Lord andhis saints and miracles. You do not

a ve as freely as you should from)our earnings to the holy church.

"In the second place, you do notobey the authorities. You oppose thepowers of the world, the Czar and hisoffcers. You despise the laws.

"It is written in the Bible, 'Giveunto Caesar that which is Caesar's,and give unto God that which isGod's' But you do not do it! Anddo you know what this means? Thisis a deadly sin. Indeed, I tell you. itis the devil who il tempting you togo his way. It is he who tempts yoursouls, and you imagine it is yourown tree wi.l that prompts you tcact In this way. His will it is, notyours. He is waiting for your death.He is burning with eagerness topossess your souls. He will dancebefore the flames of hell, In whichyour souls will suffer agonaes.

"Therefore, I warn you, my breth-ren. I admonish you to leave the pathof damnation. There is still time. 0pod, have mercy!"

The people Ilstened, trembling.They believed the priest's solmen%r'rds. They sighed and cro el1themselves, and fervently kissed thl,floor. The priest also ereosed him-self,. turned his back to the peopl.-.-anti smiled

It so happened that the devil warJust passing by t.he church while thepriest was speaking thus to the peo-ple. He heard his name mentioned,so he stood by the open window andlistened. He saw the people kiss thepriest's hand. He saw how the priest.bheding before a gilded picture ofrome s ine hastily pocketed themoney which the poor people had put.cwn there for the holy church. Thisprovoked the devil, and no sooner .ladthe prkhst Itlave the church than noran after him and caught hold of hishmoly mantle.

"I{illo. )otu fat little father!" hesaid. "V hat made you lie so to thosepoor miled people? What torturesof hell did you depict? Don't y uknow they are already suffering thetortures of hIll in their earthly Ilus?Don't you know that you and the au-thoritlees c, the state are my repro-seeatative.e os earth? It is you whomake then suffer the pains of hellwith which you threaten them. Don'tyou know this? Well, then, eom.

with me."

The devil grabbed the priest by thecollar, lifted him high In the air, andcarried him to a factory, to an ironfoundry. ITe maw the workmen ther'e

rucmnihg and hurrying to and fro anr.tolling In the scorching heat. Verysootl the thick, heavy air and the heatare too much for the priest. Withtears In his eyes, he pleads with thedevil: "Let me go! Let me leave

this heel'

"Oh, my dear friend. I must showy.u nany more places." The tdevil

gets hold of him again and drags himoff to a farm. There he sees theworkmen threshing the granl. Thedust and heat are Insufferable. Theoverseer carries a knout, and unmer-olfully beats anyone who falls to the

ground overcome by hard work orhunger

rext the ries Is tam to the lUatwheir thaue. ame workers les withthant bhmlie.-d4r, oel. urinew. i-

omellag holes the devil gr Ils. .hepoint eout the poverty and hardshipwnlch are at home here.

'"Well, Ia't this eneugh?' he dass.And it seems as i even he, the devilpiteo the people. The pleas servantof God can hardly bear it. With p-lifted head he begs: "Let me soaway from her.. Yes, yes This Ishell on earth!"

"Well, then, you see. And *wstill prom'me them another hell. Yostorment them, torture them to dentsmentally when they are already sllbut dead Ihyscally! Come on: Iwill show you one more hell--onemore, the very worst!"

He took him to a prison andshowed him a dungeon, with its tooalair and the many human form,.robbed of all health and energy, ly-Ing on the floor, covered with verminthat were devouring their poor naked.emaciated bodies.

Take off your silken clothes," C1.4the devil to the priest; "put on )ourankles heavy chains such as these unsfortunates wear; lie down on the c',ldand filthy floor-and then talk tothem about a hell that still awal'sthem!"

"No, no!" answered the priest. 'Icannot think of anything more dread-ful than this. I entreat you, let mego away from here!"

"Yes, this Is hell. There can beno worse hell than this. Did you notknow it? Did you not know thatthese men and women whom youwere frightening with the picture ofa hell hereafter-did you not knowthat they are in hell right here, be-fore they die?"

The prlest hung his head. He didnot know where to look in his con-fusion.

The devil smiled maliciously. "Yes.little father, you are going to say thatthe world likes to be cheated. Well.now!" and he released his hold.

The priest tucked up his long man-tie and ran as fast as his legs worldcarry him.

The devil watched and laughed.

This story came into my mind whilelistening to the sermon of the prisonchaplain, and I wrote It down on thewall today. Dec. 13. 1849.

A PRISONER.-Common Sense.

BA•SI OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE.

All the unions called into existenceby the activities of man, are the chil-dren of his calculation. It is the Join-Ing of something together for somepurpose that the singles could notserve. The singles so united co-oper-ate where the singles were found, orthought to be, inadequate. A thoughtby Itself is of very little value exceptas Its framer may unite it with otherthoughts in the establishing of a factor a scientifllic truth.

The men sand women who could tosome degree master the unity ofthought are the ones who have addedto and helped to build for the worldIts present stock of knowledge, whihkis our navigation on the sea of life,and gives no a method of distinguish-lag between right and wrong, goodand bad; gives us some purpose oflife, and gives us what guidance thereis to our struggle for existence.

Everything In life must struggle forIts existence. Human beings guidedby what knowledge they have, make

the struggle most effective In the se-curing of their greatest wants. Any-

thing In life that does not follow thisiron law, In the struggle for existence,dies In the struggle; and as the strug-gle for physical existence is the malnstruggle, it naturally follows that manshould first develop and At himself forthat struggle. This does not deny thetruth that there is another struggle forintellectual attanlaments and mentalexcellence, but so far in the life ofman that struggle has been of a sec-ondary order because of its secondaryposition. In the supplying of theirphylcal wants, or In the making oftheir livelihood, men enter certainnecessary, involuntary Industrial rela-tions, which correspond to whateverstage society has reached In the de-velopment of its material productivepowers. The totality of these Indus-trial relations constitute the economicstructure of society, and is the realbeasnies upon which the legal and polit-ical superstructure is built, and towhich definite forms of social con-sciousness correspond.

The methods of producing the ma-terlal livelihood determines the seot,

political and Intelloectual life proessatein general. It is not man's conscious-ness which determines his life; onthe contrary, It is his social life that

determines his consclousness, and as itis In the order of all progress to buildfrom the single toward the concrete

whole, and as the whole cannot bereached by all of the singles at thesame time, they, however, clearly Indl.

eate their motion towards a whole by

their constant grouping on the waywherever the material productiveforesa have reaohed a stage that dlivides society into two distinct olases

fen of PImel v. lotelt mg .me'will beusmemsmiaolems ot tekr daelsad wih tUl 4 au tlye wnl slr. a

against all other sleUs Whenvera strata or olass In osey :eris tostruggle for the prewrvatloa of inolese ad Its absorption by anotherelsss; and observing how this ttuggleIs slowly submerging the old cornmerelal, or merehant else, the lere.antagonlsm now exating between cap-Ital and labor impels both camses to-ward a center or baus of mbtloe notfound In their present relations.The base of contention underlying

all struggles between capital and, laborIs round In the diviloa of the productof labor, both wanatin a larger sharethan the other is willilng to grant. Un-thlnkingly, the question might beasked: "Why do they not cease an in-dustrial relation that must lead to aconflict harmful to both sides?" Theanswer is found In observation of thefact that capital now owns the toolsof production, while labor owns themuscle and energy need In produc-tion. Added also to the Imposibltltyof separation Is the knowledge of thefact that with their united efforts theyhave increased their effectiveness tosuch a degree that conflict appearsmore endurable than a return to theold methods, It such a course wereopen. It is not the worker's share Inthe division of his labor that Is whollythe cause of his discontent It is theever dawning conviction of the con-tradlction In the laws that govern

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