Show NOTES ON C I 1 A I 1 ISM contributed ily a member of the so socialist party concluded front from last issue nor has tills this plutocracy boen beer seriously restrained or even threatened by and republican or Demo democratic critic ox it has continued to grow in fit power and insolence mike alike under do tho the administrations ot of cleveland me ble kinley roosevelt anti and tatt taft in awit addition ion to this legislation juggling gling and tills this executive connivance the courts ot of america have sanctioned slid and strengthened tho the hold ot of this plutocracy as the dread scott and other docas decisions toils strengthened the ibave before 1 1 civil war power iZ they have constantly been used as instruments tor for tho the oppression of tho the working class and nd tor for tho the suppression ot of the speech and tree free assembly wo we d dc claro therefore that tile the longer sufferance tico of these conditions la Is impossible and we purpose to end them all cW declare them to be the product of the present system in which industry la Is carried on oil tor for private greed instead dot tor for tho the welfare of society jety wo we declare furthermore that for or these evils there will bo be and can call lie be no remedy and no substantial relief except through Social socialism sm under which industry will be carried on oil tor for the common good and every worker receive the full social value of the wealth lie ho creates society Is divided into warring groups and classes based upon material interests fundamentally this struggle Is a conflict between the two main classes ono one of which the capitalist class owns tho the means of production and the other tile the working class must use these means of production on terms dictated by the owners the capitalist class though few in fit numbers absolutely controls con trolls the govern government ment legislative exe cuttio and judicial this class owns tile the machinery of gathering and disseminating g news o vis through its organ organized izOd lag la 0 press it subsidizes seats of learning ing the colleges and schools and oven even religious and moral agencies it lias has also tho the added pre prestige stige which established customs give to any order of society right or wrong the working class which includes all those who are forced to work tor for a living whether by hand or brain lit in shop mine or on the so sol vastly outnumbers out numbers the capitalist class lacking effective organization and class solidarity this class is unable to enforce its will olvo give such class so solidarity and effective organization tile the workers will havo have the powers to make all laws and contrell con troll all industry lit in their own interest all political parties are the expression of economic class interests all other parties than the socialist party represent one or another group of tho the ruling Capit capitalist aliat class their political conflicts reflect merely superficial c lal rivalries between competing capitalist groups however they alio result these conflicts have no issue of real value va lie to tho workers whether tile the democrats or republicans win will politically it tho the capitalist class that is victorious economically tho socialist party is tho the political expression of the economic interests of tho the workers its defeats have been their defeats and its victories their victories it Is a party founded on the science and laws of social development it proposes that since all social necessities today are socially produced the mearn of their production and distribution shall be socially owned and democratically controlled troll in tile the face of the economic and pol aggressions ot of the capitalists class claas the only reliance left the work ors Is that of their economic and their political power uy by the intelligent use of these they may resist successfully tile the capitalist clas break tho the fetters of wage slavery and it fit themselves for the juuro society which is to displace the capit bullat system tho socialist party appreciates pre preci clates ates tho the nil full significance of class organization and urges the wage earners the working farmers and nil all other useful workers everywhere to organize tor for economic and political action and wo we elege ourselves to support tho the of tile the fields as well as aa those in tile the shops chops factories anti and mines of tile tho nation in ill their struggles for economic justice in ill tho the defeat or victory of tile tho class party in fit this now glo for freedom lies the d pleat defeat or triumph of tile the common people of all aco economic nornie groups as well ri a the failure or the triumph of popular go col goj j concluded on pago page 8 |