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Show HELEI KELLER HAS SOCIALISTIC VIEWS "By International News fjorvice. MONTCLA TR., X, J Feb. 6. Uolcn Kollor. famous blind and deaf girl, made her dobut as a public speaker in Montclair tonight wheu from the platform plat-form of the auditorium in tho Hillside school she delivered a lecture to an au-dioncu au-dioncu that numbered nearly 1000. Mis Keller spoke under t'ho auspices of the Montclair branch of the Socialist party. Sho is a Socialist herself and in her talk she voiced scutimcuts thut re-A'calcd re-A'calcd radical political inclinations. The largo audience, particularly those in the rear of the hall, understood Miss Keller with dilficiilty at times, owing lo the lack of emphasis in her tones, but she gave a remarkable performance perform-ance considering tho handicap under which she labored. Previous to Mis's Keller's address Mrs. Macy, her toucher and coinpauiou. gave the 'life history of the wonderful girl aud described the nu'thods whereby she had acqui.V?d an education and the power of speech. " L am going to try to mako you feel lhat no one ol, us eaii do anything alone that we aro bound together.' said Miss Kcllor. "T do not like this world as it in. T am trying to make it a little lit-tle moro as would like to have it. Perhaps you are thinking how blind I have Win. You havo your oyes and you boliold the sun and yet you arc moro blind than T am. It was tho hands of others I hat made this miracle iu me. Without mv teacher I would bo nothing. Without you I should be nothing. noth-ing. Wo livo bv and for each olhor. Wo aro all blind and deaf until our eyes aro opened to our fellow men. "Tf wc had a penetrating visiou wc would not oudure what we see in the world todtiv. The lands, the life, the 'machinery oolong to the few. All the work they do gains for the workers a mere livelihood. Strange that, wc do not see it and when we do, wo accept I the condition in blind content. Wc fail I to understand that if the workers were adequately paid there would be no rich persons. "The rich lire willing to do everything ev-erything for the poor but give them I thoir rights. Thev tay the workers arc not thrifty enough. If the worker is not thrifty enough and does not savo it is bocnuso the greatest part of what ho produces yoes to so mo. one else who does the having. It is thu labor ot the poor ami intelligent, that makes us refined, re-fined, and comfortable. "T am not a pessimist. A pessimist says thai; a man was born in darkness and for death. I believe that tun it wus intended for the light' and shall not die It is a good world and it will be much butter wheu you help mo to mako it more as I want it. |