Show I l I rl U IL ir r I fi LI 11 E TO O IIO HOLLENBECK n nI I OJ flU I tutu 1 sincerely I a ad o 1 L hope so My r aest dread d is a au d al ways as bee been he fear or 1 could S el g g fi to g grow groV row I i 1 wish I 1 say as much for or Hollenbeck Ho seems not to I have grown for the past twenty five five enty-five or thirty years Formerly Foras Formerly For- For merly I was as cheap a Democrat politician as anyone But I have haye Passed through that school I l was luot not bon born n a Socialist I grew ew into a So Socialist i H And with Upton Sinclair I I am proud Ud to sa Say that that I l Socialism I as my most most precious in intellectual in- in possession Hollenbeck seems not to realize that 1 logrolling is in disrepute these days Hollenbeck Is aggrieved because heI be he- cause Socialists will not fuse with I capitalistic parties and help hell elect Democrats and Progressives to office But I am proud for my my part that it stands for principle and will not compromise or bargain or trade votes I Democrats and Progressives will fuse and bargain together not to support the same political principle but to get office and political patronage But so long as Socialism stands for anything the Socialist party will wm not do that In other words Socialists Socialists Social Social- will not trade principle for votes The Socialist party is the only political ical party before the country today with a constructive platform rm of positive positive tive principle Statistics show that 95 per cent of business men except bankers fail But as I said before they fail because because because be be- cause of the difficulty of getting necessary necessary necessary essary capital He argues i in some devious way that I want more men mento mento mento to fail because I demand that access to capital be easy Capital Capit l as Hollenbeck Hollenbeck Hollenbeck Hol Hol- says is or ought to be a amere amere amere mere tool with which to work I have I no where here said that money sh should id be e as free as bathing water Money Moneys is s but a small fraction of capital Let a man have the use of a tool or ora ora ora a machine and let him produce I am amnot amnot amnot not talking about spending money but about productive capItal capital And men should not be lock locked d away away from it ft t. t They should be given a chance to produce produce- t V Nor have I said anything about an easy life Ufe I have spoken of ease only as to getting the the- use of productive productive productive pro pro- capital capital capital-a a chance to to work But H Hollenbeck is strong for ad ad- Make it as hard as possible possible possible ble for a man to get hold of a hoe and when he lie does get hold of it he lie will work all the harder with it it- it especially if he breaks a couple of legs and a few ribs in trying to get the use of the hoe It is the opportunity opportunity unity to get the use of productive capital tools and machinery that I am pleading for for for-an an opportunity to o produce in mill and shop and nd store and on the farm farm farm-an an opportunity to live ive Holenbeck says that when men I want work worle and cant can't find it that is I incidental to capitalism But I want wanto to o say that under Socialism it would not only be incidental but hut fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental that every man who is willing willing wiling will will- ing ng to he be productive in mill or shop or store or on the tho farm or otherwise shall have opportunity in abundance and shall not be locked out of the chance of making a living by monopolistic monopolistic I capitalists To monopolize the goods we must eat and wear is bad enough but to monopolize productive capital our jobs and our tools with which we work is Infinitely worse No Hollenbeck does not want perfection perfection tion nor do does s he lie want that we should strive after perfection Hollenbeck says he is discussing some things incidentally Yes a great many things incidentally but bu not one fundamentally He has not even Incidentally offered us any further further further fur fur- ther suggestion as to how to get a aI control of ot capital but he lie has incidentally incidentally incidentally I tally insinuated new misrepresentations of Socialism He SUgg suggests wage wage freedom but hut he is not willing villing willingto Precious I slavery to discuss wage freedom has a k r o or a I farmer without capital Ho He has tree nee needom dom to starve Even the Chic negro slave was pr protected against starvation FREEDOM tion CAPITAL IS Now I invite Hollenbeck to put putdown putdown putdown he lie once told me mein mein mein down in print what in private conversation was the true motive to industry It is not that to consume for one n e may Y have goods man has more merit a says he lie the pretentious are the simpler and less and his need to consume his habits goods ds Will lie he tell you this this frankly go I doubt it he told it to me as remains that white while fact However the have infinitely more than they some hundreds and their folks can consume of thousands of others are arc in desti desti- desti Continued on last page M D all Answer err f il b 1 3 f 4 if t 1 11 Hf 4 f r m rs s page 1 t foj i 1 VIi v t Ii iq pap I s d Nor w shall r fi j r dl or s lie 11 a lY iy more m re without I Correction stion oci IS 1 proposes to HY t turn tn the the Ov dv r rt ibra ta a stroke iu j r aI t ook tu turns ng over a aTlak r d meant T meant just wh what tI 1 sid s iu- iu e e Frio be he co corrected but It w J. J i t I others nOg hat idea are open w 1 Ty y who understand Soci II ro nine c it a as a a. a nat natural ral tf gj l. l a an p Y not W want ut Socialism ata her wants wants- regulation Uon Petty man man- manade man ade bar bar- i gain-born gain legislative reforms s ate are are not of the nature of evolution ion Dack D ck of what we call Socials Socialism mareal ar al almighty mighty natural forces at work So Socialism So- So is here not in t f fu 11 fruition but budding growing and some have not the eyes to see sec The very forces that built Capitalism up are arenow arenow arenow now making malting Capitalism old and ready to vanish away to make place for an im improved roved product of or evolution tion C Capitalism will no more remain remain remain re re- re- re main forever than did feudalism There is a philosophy of history which Ii h wise men ponder Capitalists Capitalists Capital Capital- themselves are unconsciously doing doing do do- ing lag ing more more for the advance of or Socialism Socialism Socialism Social Social- ism than all the Socialists of the world combined We Ve merely wat watch h hand I and seek rightly to interpret tile the signs of the times Vh t have haveY we wein wein Y Yin in common with political jobb jobbers r Capital knows no politics Politics s sis is but the ring of of- coin the more the tle coin the louder the ring Political Political Po Po- hot air all red fire and pre pre-elec tion promises are naught but the ca- ca noise noise of capitalistic hirelings Who Vho puts JUts up the money for the brass b bands and the campaign slush fund In their maudlin melee over spoils of office they deliriously shout Hie Let Let the rule People Confessedly Confessedly Confessedly Con Con- the people do not rule and the peo people le never will rule until the people have something worth ruling about Money rules Government is for the protection of property for forthe forthe forthe the safe-guarding safe of vested interests Attempted regulation of private monopoly is a mere bid for political corruption Big Dig business is in politics politics politics pol pol- and the very attempt to regulate regulate regulate regu regu- late Big Business demands of Big Business that it be in politics for its own self Bust the and regulate Big Business Business That is the slogan of all the capitalistic political parties To attempt to do that is to fly in the face of fate and if possible to obstruct obstruct ob oh- the invincible forces of natural natilla a al 1 evolution At the time oCr at- the ot-the the Industrial Revolution with which students of history are familiar men men gnashed at the newly invented J machines ma ma machines chines and said Lets break the machines But Dut machines have proved to be in th the line of economic advancement Now thoughtless men say Lets bust the Trusts It can cant can't t be done TIle The Trusts thrive remarkably under Trust And theres there's a reason The Trusts rusts are in the line of economic advance advance- ment They are a blessing in dis dis- dis- dis guise They minimize the cost of production reduction Everybody says Private Private Private vate monopoly is intolerable Not because monopoly is bad of itself but because of the private use to which the he benefit of monopoly is put atthe at athe t the he expense of the mass of the peo- peo le Private monopoly is is' intolerable intolerable intolerable able but public monopoly is not Let Lef not t the Trusts own the people but let the people own the Trusts Then will they be be a blessing guised Regulation of or Big Business cannot succeed not only because it merely results in the corruption of government government government govern govern- ment but also for the following rea- rea son on Regulation and management is of f the essence of ownership Regulate Regulate Regu- Regu late ate my shop meat-shop so that the Inspector Inspector In- In succeeds in fixing the price I must pay for each piece of meat and nd the price I may receive when I Isell Isell sell ell It fixes t the tho wages of my em- em loyes the price of my rent and all my over-head over expense to the end that hat my net income is just a fair return interest on my investment then hen Ill I'll tell him as soon as he lie succeeds suc sue eeds in doing that Whose Those business business busi busi- ness ness is this anyhow If It yo you are going to run it your way and take takeaway takeaway takeaway away all my profit Ill I'll Just sell out is the forerunner of owner- owner to o you at an appraised valuation and Ill I'll invest in a business that I can call my own That Tha is in substance what President Ripley of the Santa SantaFe Fe railroad said would happen just the minute railroad regulation becomes becomes becomes be be- comes successful Government reg reg- ship |