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Show Socialist Column, Conducted by members of the Manti Local. The editor of the Free Press assumes no responsiliility for any e.rircssion of tlunujht appearinrj in thin column. The astrologers predict great troubles and many turbulent strikes in the labor world before the year is ended. As for ourselves, we have not been blessed with much faith in the science of astrology; nevertheless, neverthe-less, we are led to look to the future with a great deal of apprehension. Something serious is eomino-, we can feel it in our bones. "We are lovers of peace, and hate the very thought of violence and bloodshed, but we cannot see how the final conflict, or series of conflicts, between be-tween right and wrong between the makers and the takers can be avoided. Wise beyond his time was the man who declared that the time would come when the slaves would rise up against their masters; this uprising can be looked for at any nieinent, and that for several reasons: rea-sons: Labor is fast becoming conscious con-scious of its power ami mission, wli ile capitalism grows men; wicked and aggressive year by year, all tending to hasten on the day of reckoning. lint suppose our government, gov-ernment, through wise statesmanship, statesman-ship, should succeed in averting the conllict and in turnino- back the tide of revolution for a season, the final outcome would be no less disastrous; for be it remembered 1 1 iiit tlif capitalistic system cannot go on by any power which it possesses pos-sesses within itself. Kven if it could continue for a long time yet, capitalism would finally suck dry the body of humanity and perish in the catastrophe of the world which it had ruined. And thus we see that, a change is inevitable; it will come, peacefully or otherwise. In the midst of all these potent forces Socialism is marchino- on to victory. It comes to us as the harbinger of a brighter day; and its teachers, while never inciting to violence, are laboring hard to plant a few thought-seeds in the minds of the workers, and we must confess con-fess that the masses are learning fast; they are learning the fact that the wage system is doomed to die, and that competition must and will give way to co-operation. They begin to realize this important truth, that as long as gold rules the o r world and ignorance lie the people's heritage, so long will the world be cursed, and man's inhumanity to! man make countless millions suf-! fer. lint as regards strikes and; demonstrations, we do not believe that such avail much, (except, per-1 haps, on the wrong side). Let the laborer strike with the ballot and |