Show UNDER THE CANVAS Rich Men Have Finally Discovered a Way to Get Into the Socialist Social-ist JIenncreI Evcn the handicap of worldly wealth cannot keop a man out of the Socialist party In Salt Lake It he is determined enough to break In For a time the antiproperty facM ° n has been In control under the leadership leader-ship of National Organizer George E Boomer who holds the theory that propertyowners cannot be good Socialists So-cialists because It Is part of the Socialist So-cialist plan to tax property In Order to gIve work to the Idle on rter Improvements Im-provements but at the meeting held In the Third ward Friday night the situation situa-tion was reversed Henry Lawrence who had been frowned upon as a plutocrat In former meetings was received as a guest of honor and delivered an oration by special spe-cial request while Mr Boomer was treated very much like a stepchild and was permitted to talk only after a majority ma-jority had voted to remove the bar that had l been placed upon his eloquence Friday nights meeting was called for the purpose of organizing a Socialist So-cialist branch In the Third precinct The opponents of the organizer secured control by electing temporary olNcers and passed a resolution that no one from outside the precinct should be permitted to speak without special permission per-mission Mr Lawrence was asked to thc platform Introduced and delivered an address lasting for one hour Mr Boomer then expressed a desire to say something and the request was submitted sub-mitted to the house and granted The feature of the meeting however was the reading by Ben Johnson of some leaders of the national Socialist movement to Hon Charles Crane anent Mr Boomer and his construction of the partys policy toward propertyowners The epistles were in reply to Mr Cranes statement of the differences that had arisen at the meeting of the old branch before Mr Boomer had abolished It on his own motion as the attorneys say Perhaps the most sensational communication com-munication In the bunch was from J A Wayland editor of the Appeal to Reason the most widely read and circulated cir-culated Socialist publication in the United States Among other things Mr Wayland says To me It seems absurd that you people peo-ple In Utah have not enough sense after af-ter you have studied Socialism enough to know what you want to organize and push the party In your own way That all the brains must be brought from some other placcl Boomer Is not level In his head Ho was here Mith me awhile and disgusted everybody every-body He is all mouth and no brains S S S Boomer Is an ass He worked on the Appeal for a while but had to leave suddenly because he had no sense The next read was from Eugene V Dobs late Socialist candidate for President Presi-dent who said I know of no reason why a man such as you who has labored honestly and unselfishly to advance Socialist ideas and principles should be Insulted and placed under the ban According to this logic the party should exclude all but paupers and tramps to Insure Its reaching its destination without the taint of wealth upon It It is i very proper that the Integrity of the party should be strictly maintained main-tained but to draw the line at men simply because they have property is not merely In violation of party principles prin-ciples but stupid to the verge of Imbecility Im-becility and I am free to say should be promptly and vigorously resented by those In a position to speak for the party with authority Another letter which was received but not read from Charles H Kerr a member of the National committee defines de-fines the Socialist position toward the owners of wealth as follows Of course It is simply silly to say that Ho one can be a Socialist if he has property This Is an Idiotic perversion per-version of the fact that the main reliance re-liance of the Socialist movement must bs on tr wageworkers since most people peo-ple are moved mainly by their material Interests and the class without property proper-ty Is the one which Is bound by its material Interests If understood to make Socialism a fact The Third ward branch was organized organ-ized with fifteen members many oC them railroad men Among the applicants appli-cants were Charles Stewart and Ben johncon who walked out of the Boomer meeting last Monday night |