Show LAUREXCE GIIOXIUXDS LECTURE Delivered Before the University Club linttt Evening Laurence Gronlund spoke last evening before the University club asking the question Is there anyone here ambitious enough to become a socialist Socialism or Collectivism said the gentleman gen-tleman is Inevitable is Gods evident will It would be a great misfortune and constitutes a serious danger if it should in our country become a class movement as it already is in Europe This time the intelligence of our country has escaped es-caped the danger for if Populism has succeeded suc-ceeded that would actually have been a class movement and the responsibility would have been on your shoulders For evidently trained intelligence is here in the service of capital and for that reason is here more cowardly than anywhere in Europe Now do think of this that merely mere-ly 100 men of the right kind may assume leadership of the movement here may effect the rrost blessed revolution in our country with the birth of the new century for the reform armies are here and ready only leaders are needed and wanted They must be men of course of intelligence and energy and enthusiasm and unfortunately unfor-tunately also possess another qualification qualifica-tion that of being financially independent Are there 100 such men in our country and a couple of similar women in audition audi-tion 1 At Boulder a professor replied tome to-me There is no one here so poor as to be a socialist What I ask is Is anyone here ambitious enough to become a socialist so-cialist 1 |