Show CRANE CRAN OUTLINES w w r I F M M VITAL PROBLEMS Socialist Nominee for Congress at Consid Considerable Considerable Considerable erable Length CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION URGES TOILERS TOILER TO REALIZATION REALIZATION REALIZATION TION OF CONDITIONS Charles Crane Crane has accepted the So Socialist Socialist Socialist nomination for congress s In a pre pro prepared prepared pared statement as follows Comrades of the Committee of the Socialist So SQ Socialist laUst Party of Utah I have listened with great interest t tto to the statement you ou have just made and also to your notification that I have rec ed the honor of being unanimous unanimously ly nominated for the congress con of the States by the Socialist party of tah In the convention held May 20 29 9 In this city elt Comrades the great honor which has lias been bern conferred upon me mO comes to me absolutely unsolicited and it is for this reason more highly appreciated I recognize the fact that there are arel many who can better express s them themselves themselves selves and plead the cause of or labor and the cooperative commonwealth than I as there are many who can better bettor arouse the toilers to a sense of to t e dig dignity dignity of labor and the use and sacred sacredness sacredness ness of or the ballot in the hands of or free freemen freemen freemen men but there arc are none who reek peek more earnestly to uplift the struggling masses to a higher plane of or comfort or whose hose heart beats in rhythmic unison to the aspirations of or the sons of or toil toll than my own I therefore accept the nomination so generously and unanimously tendered me by the thousands of Socialists of this state and trust I may not be found wanting in my efforts to bring to the sons of or toll toil in Utah the glad tidings of the Socialistic commonwealth Comrades the campaign now before us la td most momentous and is without doubt more pregnant of results than any preceding battle of the ballots ever presented to the sons of or toil and if we wean can an succeed ed in arousing amusing them to a realization of this fact tact then will vic victory victory tory perch upon our banner in Novem November November ber Problem to Be Solved The problem that must be solved by b those who toil and earn their bread in inthe Inthe inthe the sweat of or their brow is Shall those tholie who nho labor and produce all ull the wealth of at the nation receive the results of or their toil toll or shall they continue to retain a pittance sufficient only to sustain life and procreate their species for the labor la labor labor bor market in the years to come This problem as I have said must and will be solved at the ballot box when the Socialist party shall have ed educated educated the working classes cluses to the th sa sac sacredness redness c of the ballot in the hands of or free tree men For this ballot registers the intelli intelligence gence genee of or the individual It indicates s hs his Independence By B it he speaks his mind on economic questions By It ve e expresses his satisfaction with existing t or his desire for tor a social and economic change If It he is satisfied satis satisfied satisfIed fied with existing conditions he will wUl deposit his ballot for one or the other of ot the old parties but on the contrary If It he is not so satisfied and desires a I change hange he will mark his ballot for that party that more nearly represents his demands 8 and his desires and that will WUl willbe willbe be b the Socialist party part Comrades s of the committee this must bf be a campaign of education for the principles of or equity and of economic Justice It will be our duty to teach tae masses that hat the present conditions cf of idleness idl of over four million Ameri American American can citizens is the result of the Republican lican Ilan and Democratic policies of or the past flast We TO must show them how In all the years that are past labor has been betrayed and their representatives debauched and corrupted by the free pass and other numerous corporation influences It will be our duty to point out to them how every eV ry avenue of law lawand lawand lawand and Justice has been shut in their faces How injunctions by corrupt judges have tied them hand and foot and made them helpless economic slaves to arrogant capitalistic masters Washington Moving Pictures It will be our duty to place before them tho picture of their representatives tives thes prostrating themselves before the speaker of the house In Washington asking a few miserable crumbs of or justice jus justice tice instead f standing upon their feet and demanding it The picture of President Gompers and Duncan following petty congressmen and senators begging yes es abjectly begging for that which they had a aright aright aright right to demand as men and citizens should cause the blush of shame to mantle the cheek of every evor honest man and woman who loves liberty and inde independence Independence Independence It will also be our lur Our duty to advocate the tho initiative referendum and right of ot recall The absolute te freedom of or press speech and assemblage as ks J guaranteed by the th constitution and the improve improvement Improvement improvement ment of the industrial conditions of or the workers and the free administration of or justice Today In this republic the richest and most productive in all air the world destitution misery miser poverty and want are on every hand Our prisons and insane asylums are arc overflowing Crime and suicides increasing and notwithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding standing 2000 years of Chris Chrls the whole world stands armed waiting to shed sh 1 the blood of innocent men that trade and commerce I e plunder may revel in the wealth pro produced produced produced and stolen from the thc sons and daughters of toil toll Comrades Comra es he who cares to listen can hear tho the rumble and an roar of the social unrest of or ten millions of or men and wom women women women en In this republic who are looking Into the future with foreboding and dis dismay dismay may ma Generations yet orT are stretching forth to us from out the future A sacred duty is before re us A bur burden burden burden den of responsibility has been placed upon us The hand of God is reaching out of ot the present social and economic chaos And it is our duty to place within that hand the sword of comrade com comrade comrade rade love that we may make every child indeed the heir hell of or all the good goodof of or all the ages Comrades our duty is plain it lies before us In the words of 01 the immortal im immortal Immortal mortal Lincoln If It we stand firm we must not shall not fail fall Wise coun counsels counsels sels selB may accelerate or mistakes delay but sooner or later the victory Is sure to come |