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Show MAI SOCiALlST TALKS OJHRDSIS Mrs. May Wood Simons, of Chicago, Chi-cago, wife of the editor of tho Coming Com-ing Nation and one of the most scholarly schol-arly speakers in tho American Socialist So-cialist movement, dollvcrod an address ad-dress yestoiday afternoon In tho Methodist church on tho much discussed dis-cussed topic of "Trust Busting." While Mrs, Simons dealt with her theme In an orthodox Marxian manner, man-ner, claiming that tho trusts arc the natural outgrowth of economic laws and that It Is therefore a natural impossibility im-possibility for human governments to dissolve them, her talk was out of tho ordinary mt common to Socialist speakers. Her quotations woro not from the text books of Soolallsm but from the writings of tho leading political poli-tical oconomlots of todaj. From tho statements of such men and from statistics gatherod outaldo tho pale of Socialism she endeavored to prove tho inevitability of Socialism. Concerning the "truBt-bustlng" campaign now being waged, Mrs. Simons had most to say She declared that tho Socialist party was not In favor of this campaign. Tho trusts, she said, woro labor-saving machines, and attempts to break them up as foolishly futile as the threats made by Englishmen to destroy the first printing machinery Introduced into England The trusts havo pcrfoct organizations; thoy aro an excellent means to an end, said Mrs. Simons, but they are not conducted in tho interests of tho people Govornmont ownership of all Industries wns advocated ad-vocated and by govornment ownership, owner-ship, Mrs Simons said she meant, ownership by tho people, who control fhrt cnvrtrnmfl nf Education is rapidly clearing the waj for the onward march of socialism, social-ism, the spoakor said. She proved this by stating that all advanced universities uni-versities havo courses on socialism, and all libraries have shelves full of books on tho subject of this political sclonco "Neither tho Republican nor Domocratlc parties, she said, can claim this distinction. Conditions among tho working pooplo wore also portrayed vividly by Mrs. Simons, and the remedies which the Socialist party par-ty offers wero strongly presented. Mrs Simons said that the party which sho represented was the party of the masses, the party of tho worklngman, and that Its chiof concern was for the interests of those vrho toll. Few women speakers havo addressed ad-dressed an Ogden audlonco who havo made as marked an Impression upon their hearers as did Mrs Simons Sho Is a remarkable speaker, excelling excell-ing most men in the clarity of hor argument. In tho distinctness of' her enunciation and tho talent for presenting pre-senting vivid word pictures to her audience It was intended to hold the meeting meet-ing in tho basement of tho church but because of the large number of persons attending It wns found necessary nec-essary to use tho main auditorium of tho building The lecturo was the third to bo given in a series of fivo ledturos, constituting a Socialist Social-ist Lyceum course. While It was expected that George H. Goebol, a Socialist speaker of Now York City, would be In this city to deliver tho fourth lecture next Sunday afternoon, after-noon, It has been learned that ho will not be able to fulfill tho engagement. In his place the committee In charge of the lecturo course has engaged tho Row Ward Wlntor Reese, rector of St. Liiiko's Episcopal church of Salt Lako City, aud an ardent advocato of Socialism Dr Reese will speak on the moral and constructive sldo of Socialism, from tho Methodist pulpit, pul-pit, Sunday afternoon at o-30 o'clock. |