| Show SOCIALISM AND DEBS Editor o of Telecom Sir Telegram Sir For the last Jast three I years I Iba ba have o been bUy buying llO THE TUE TELEGRAM and havo have been a I. I constant constant constant con con- stant reader of tho to same I had como come to regard it as the best edited paper in tho the city and its editorials as the best in in- in form ormed d of any When the present panic pank struck this country you vou alono alone hal had the tho foresight to prescribe a remedy remedy govern govern govern- o ern meat employment of the unemployed cd in reclaiming swamp swamplands lands and reforest cuto cr lands lands just just what tho Socialists demand in their platform You alone alono had tho the courage to sa say when tho the Republican and the Democratic parties threw out ut their sop to labor laborin in the called to-called d injunction anti plank that they were merely merey mere mere- ly y a cowardly concession meant as a blind to labor and not worth tho the paper they were written on a delusion au and a snare c. When I first read tho the Socialist platform having been reading your editorials all ill winter I could readily imagine I that the tho Socialist draughtsman had a file filo of your our editorials at hand when ho he drafted it so lIO o closely docs does that party's I immediate immediato demands coincide with tho the immediato demands nf e un v. v J Imagine 1 vib then I my mv surprise and sorrow orrow when I read the attack on Debs in jour your editorial of Au August 22 It is is hard bard to ima imagine ino that the tho same samo editor wrote it It betrays tho the most colossal i ignorance or else it is is a wilful prevarication of tho the facts Even mara magazine magarino no writer bitter hater of Socialists says sas in tho the July Pearsons Pearson's Tho The time timo has bas gone gODO by to try t to fight Socialism bv by misrepresentation we wo may mElY as well admit tho the truth Socialists arc are not anarchists The Tho average Socialist is is as much opposed to anarchy as heis ho he hois hois is to the capitalist Anarchy stands for no government Socialism So So- is a all I government Surely Mr Ir Editor you ou did not write of Debs as an anarchist without r reading adin some orne of his his' anarchistic writings s1 If you ou havo have read anything written I by him that taught anarchy you would confer a boon on the tho public by quoting quotin it t. t in your your paper for it will save savo to I tho the old line lino parties at least 00 voters whom I intended to get ct to veto voto for Debs Dobs For if you can show mo roe that Debs lias has ever openly taught anarchy I shall not support him and instead shall work as hard to lower his hie vote as I have havo in inthe inthe in inthe the past to increase it If Debs is an anarchist I will help defeat him and so will all the Socialists whom you ou convince con convince You state that tho the man that favors Debs for for president nt advertises by the fact that ho is an anarchist that he is not fit lit to live in a D freo free country countr etc Allow me mc to tell you Mr r. r Editor that that is ia absolutely false I favor or Debs and I Iam Iam Iam am not an anarchist but absolutely opposed ed to anarchy It Itcan Itcan can not bo ho ignorance on ou my part for I hold two college colleg do- do g ces bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws taws that represent six years at and andl l lc led most of my classes oreo or I f follow that difficult profession of law m in a city filled with lawyers and I have mad a a living at it and some somo I know am not in debt so I must bo ho credited with some brains Moreover ven such a a. shining light ht of the tho American merican party as Judge Weber is s a believer in in Socialism ITo IIo is not an anarchist and I ant ain not so take taka back that statement that the man who favors ors Debs for president is an nn anarchist Is rs Bishop an anarchist 1 Y Yet ct ho bo favors Debs for president and m w will yoto voto for him Is the Roy Rev Thurston Dr Brown Brawn wn one of tho thio most gifted rl ministers of this city an anarchist Yet ho will wm support De Delis Debs for president inc Believe mc Mr Ir Editor you OU are aro a Socialist in theory theon as astour editorials show Then in heavens heaven's your tour name nama read a standard stanard book on Socialism by hy a recognized Socialist before you write rite another c editorial against our presidential candidate or against socialism I Son Non Mr Editor you state that the tho only onis' reason tho the I do not exterminate us Socialists is because wo we aro are areo o o few Do you ou not know that the tho Socialist vote vole has increased in iu iu- iu creased at tho rate rite of at vcr per cent at each cach of the tho last two presidential elections electious and that four years a ago o it was nearly and aDd that c even eD such a rabid Socialist hater a as James Creelman tho the noted magazine magazino writer states that probably toda today one voter out of every ten or twelve is ia a Socialist if f wo we o are arc to bo be exterminated better botter be begin in soon or it will not Hot bo be an easy task C Can n you tell m me why the carl early Christians w were ro not exterminated when thero were oven fewer than tho the present day Socialists 1 Debs will willbo be hero beo o on Labor day September 7 in hf his hig red with drums flyer beating and horns borns toot toot- in inn ing Como omo out Mr r. r and hear him and learn what So So- is p p. B. B SCOTT State Chairman Socialist Party We arc not sorry sony to receive and gladly publish the foregoing for it gives us the opportunity to explain explain ex ex- plain that Debs was an anarchist before he lie was a So So- If any anyone one doubts it let such a one ne read what ho published before and during the trial of in Idaho Wo We have no copy copy of what he lIe he wrote but never neer was anything more incendiary in more contempt con con- tempt of all law moro in defiance of all law publish pub pub- lish than he hG published shed He Ic probably never liever wrote or spoke anything moro more vile nor nOLO a u more insidious appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal to violence and anarchy How any honest man can read his words and still support him for president president dent is inconceivable to us Wo We 1 e have hn tried to understand understand under under- stand Socialism We Vo have haye never doubted that ver very many Socialists mean to be honest men inca but the basic principle on which they found their belief is a false ono one The rho foundation of their faith that everything thing has been prod produced ced b by labor is not true not half true not a no quarter true truc It applies to nothing that we wo know of in tho the world except a n colony of beavers ers who all work on their dams guided by bJ a common instinct Labor counts for nothing except that there is a a. di directing di- di directing mind behind it and with Socialism fairly established it would not be two generations until men mell would be again wearing skins for clothing the the homes of the laud land would degenerate chaos would come comae It could not be 10 otherwise for when the rights of property are arc denied then it is but a question of a short time when ever every C other right is denied The I same rule applied to our army would make it an ir h irresponsible irresponsible ir- ir responsible mob in a month The Thc claim of Socialism is that as ns all that there lucre is was created by bj labor then all fill the thc acquired wealth of the world is the common property properly property prop prop- erty erly of all tho the people Pin a Socialist down and he will vill tell you OU that thiaL every man mail is entitled to all that he lie I can earn but that what of value has come down to this generation belongs to this generation Then Edison Edison Edi Edi- son soil is entitled to all the royalties on his phonograph graph while he lie lives but his children may not collect collect collect col col- lect any more they more they belong to the public A Rembrandt Rem Rein brandt is subject to condemnation and purchase in irredeemable money moncy because the genius that painted it has been dead years and the man mun who paid a little fortune for it paid in gold that his grandfather dug from the placers of Australia in 1853 In the same wa way the monuments to Grant and Sherman and Jackson Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son and Washington and should be blown up because really the soldiers did the fighting lighting So Standard Oil OilI should be bc obliterated because it is a n trust and draws I outrageous dividends But while not discussing the I shall sharp practices of the Standard Oil company we weI I may Imay keep hoep in mind that its wealth is not stolen wealth but a n new creation brought into use b by brains and that because of it tho the millions of the earth can buy better oil and at a lower price Ulan than all the preceding millions ever oer had or could It is brain that gives la labor labor labor la- la lah bor direction and because of the thc brains the worlds world's triumphs have come and genius and intelligence and aud c courage urage not only should be rewarded but should have havethe havethe the right to transmit their rewards re-ards to those they ther love And Amid when this shall be denied then chaos will come I. I When we said the men made idle by last years year's I panic should be given n work that was not Socialism I It was as though news had come conic that a crew of a stranded ship was on au nn island in dying ding of hunger exposure and sickness and amI the first II prompting of a humane mind would be lie to send to them at once a hospital ship hip with food nurses clothing clothing cloth eloth- ing and physicians Of course the injunction anti planks in both platforms was a sop thrown to catch foolish labor votes and it required no courage to tell the truth But when lIen Socialism is run down doii to its source two facts cannot be covered up One is that it is founded on a n false basis the other is that its ultimate aim is confiscation the getting of something never lle earned by the men who want it and that the I world will not have As to Debs when he comes on 1 I his lis flying trains with drums beating and flags waving I ask him who pays the thc expense and further if there ever eyer was Avas a a astrike strike with murder and all sorts of violence violence vio yb- lence hence attached that he lie ever disapproved ed |
