Show SOCIALIST LEADER DECLARES AGAINST PREPAREDNESS That Eugene V. V Debs who will speak peak on The Social Revolution at the Salt t Lake theatre tonight is a a. strong op opponent opponent opponent op- op of ot military preparedness was learned today upon his arrival from Goldfield He was met by a delegation of local Socialists There are two tivo kinds of preparedness prepared prepared- ness growing out of ot the necessities of the two economic classes to be served said Debs Dobs Plutocratic preparedness Is military proletarian preparedness industrial the one calls for guns and makes for despotism the other for ed education education education ed- ed and makes for freedom The Theone Theone Theone one sheds blood and the other light The owning class that does not produce produce produce pro pro- duce depends upon force torce to protect what what what-it it it has has' stolen The producing class that does not own depends upon education n. n unity solidarity to recover what it has been robbed of and to 1 shape society for the promotion of I common happiness ss The owning class want war but do not fight The producing producing pro pro- class fight tight but but do not want ant I war Vh When n asked to what extent the So SocIalists Socialists Socialists So- So I are maki making g an issue of ot preparedness preparedness edness Mr Ir Debs Delis replied They are making it the paramount Issue in the present campaign We feel that democracy is facing a crisis in inthe inthe the tho present attempt to militarize this nation under the guise of military pre pre- The example at this time of the one powerful nation not engaged in war arming itself to the teeth would be disastrous to all the best best- interests of humanity and civilization and It would mean that the peaceful emancipation emancipation pation of labor would be made Impossible impossible impossible sible in the future We have selected for tor our standard bearers In the present campaign Allan L. L Benson and George It Ii Kirkpatrick the two men whose writIngs writings writings writ- writ Ings are the most prolific the most powerful and the most widely known I Although for the first time in tn sixteen years Mr Debs is not running as the Socialist candidate for president he is still th the tho spectacular cular center of ot Socialist interest as the one congressional candidate candidate candidate can can- on whom the entire party part is I concentrating Its efforts |