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Show CANNOT FOOL THE SOCIALISTS Prefer Repubiicanism lo Democracy. Warren Foster Criticises Speech of Judge Powers at Mammoth. Believes in Big- Trust Owned and Operated by the Government for the People. Judge Powers, Democratic candidate for Congress, in a speech at Mammoth a fow days ago, and I presume he IS making tho same speech elsewhere In the State, mado the statement In substance, that Socialism Social-ism contains many good things, which ho approves of but naid that tho quickest way to get Socialism Is to volo tho U. mo-cratlc mo-cratlc ticket. Now, the Judge must have laughed whon ho let go that remark. Whether or not the Judge succeeded In making any one elso beliovo that statement state-ment 1 do not know Certain it 13 that there was at least one peinon in the house that he did not succeed suc-ceed in making bellevo It, and that was Judge. I'oweii hioc-lf The Judge knows better, and knew t.eu-r then Judge powers pow-ers knows, or at least I give him credit for knowing enough about Socialism to know-that know-that tho underlying principles of tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party are the very antithesis of Socialism, and the better Democrat the man Is, the farther he is away from Socialism So-cialism and vice versa. Differences Between Parties. Tho Ideas of the two parties present all the difference there Is between extreme Individual In-dividual lam on the one hand anil extreme collectivism on the other. Jefferson's Idea of a well governed countrv was the one that was governed least. Democracy has always believed In Stale's rights as against .1 strong centralized government. It was the teachings of Democracy that led up to secession and the Rebellion of tho "00s. Socialists do not believe In the so-called Slate's rights. Socialism Is a party of collectivism and all necessarily must believe in a strong centralized government. gov-ernment. The Democratic parly Is also very much opposed to what It styles sumptuary law, and would regard, and In fact does regard nearly everything demanded by the Socialists So-cialists as sumptuary As I said above, Democracy Is the champion of Individualism, Individual-ism, while Socialism believes In and demands de-mands colli 1 live ow nerxllp ami ion: rol of all the means of production and distribution. distribu-tion. Every tendency of Democracy Is toward to-ward anarchy , and of course against Socialism So-cialism Pretends to Fight Trusts. Again Democrat y la or rather preb nd 1 to be ilgbUng the Lruals, You do not bear of any Socialist fighting tho trusts Why, I because they see in the trust the solution of the problem. The trusts ar- great I BChOOl masters. They are showing us Just what can be done through combination combina-tion and co-operation. To kill the trust would Im- nice killing oft our school teach- j ers anil destroying our schoolhouses. The Socialists want to see all tho trusts merged Into one great trust a trust comprehensive com-prehensive enough to embrace within its clutches the entire population of the United Unit-ed States, a trust that is owned by the Government, operated bv the Government, and that Is run In the Interest of all the people Instead of B few. Just how we will Bet that by voting the Democratic ticket I do not see. No, Judge, you know better. At least tho Socialists lhat you aro addressing know better They only laugh at vou, ! that Is all. You are not fooling any of them Prefer Republicanism. Most of the Socialists will vote the Socialist So-cialist ticket, but when they have to take a choice or do take a ohplce between the two old parties, every mother's son and daughter of them will vote the Republican Republi-can ticket, for the simple reason that the tendencies of tho Republican party teachings teach-ings are much more In tho line of Socialism Social-ism than Is the Democratic party. From a Socialist standpoint the most unreasonable not to say Idiotic solution of the trust problem ever given out was that suggested by W . J. Bryan wherein he proposed to tax them out of existence What would the trusts core for being taxed? All they would have to do would be to raise the price on consumers. Tho poor would pay It Just the same. No. If the Republican policy favors trusts as It Is charged. It Is the party that will catch all the Socialist votes that do not vote their own tlckot. WARREN FOSTER. |