Show H H I I Marxian Chub s Socialists i o de deAny t tf H J Any question concerning Social Socialism Editorial Committee 4 I f ism tern answered Address all al com corn communications KATE S 3 HILLARD c 1 to K 1 S HUIr E A BATTELL if I Herrick Avenue ROY E SOUTHWICK 9 t 9 9 f 1 9 tl i H rH J u u u The multitude which does not re ro reduce duce duco Itself to unity is confusion contusion the tha unity unit which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny t Pascal cal I IThe INJUSTICE TO FRANCES FRANCES WILLARD The Tho Injustice that thal can be bo done lone to o onny any one Is to misquote ir misrepresent sent sillier either spoken or written words it Is unjust enough to do 10 this when the one who Is la misrepresented is 15 alone or can cn resent tho the Injustice It ItIs I Itis Is a thousand times worse when hen It I is done to one who has passed ou ott This injustice has line been done doue by br tho the editor of the Temperance department to t a woman whom they the profess to hold hoI in honored remembrance to a woman whom the whole world Is indebted and whose life le was ono one of active acUe help helpfulness helpfulness and of surpassing courage and truthfulness In the tho last issue lastie of the tho department department they tIle the say m and we quote from the article If I Frances Frnces Willard Wiard hind had ever become a socialist also We Weare arc forced to believe belee then that lint no such ch conviction ever came to her herto herto herto to refute these statements nun and to anc prove them thor absolutely untruthful We Vo quote Frances Frnces Willards own words spoken at the annual conven convention convention tion lon of tho the W T C U V October 1897 In Buffalo BuCalo Now No the thc reason r ason I am a Christian Christan Socialist comes in justice hero I would take talt not by force but hut by the I slow process of lawful acquisition better the out omit outcome through legislation as Olt come of a wiser ballot balot in 11 the hands hanl of men and women tho the entire plant that we call cal civilization all al that has been achieved on tills this continent in the te four hundred years cals since Columbus wended ended his lila way war hither and make malce malc It II tho the com coin common common mon property of all al the people pollo re me requiring quiring all al to work enough with their hands to give them tho tIle finest Onest physical development hut but not no to become bur burdensome burdensome In any case ease aol and an I permitting p nil all nI to share alike alk tho time advantages of education and refinement I believe this to be lie perfectly practicable In lii Indeed Indeed deed that thai any other method is simply a It l relic of barbarism I believe with Frederick Maurice of England that It Is for any an one to say sr that hat the law of supply anti and an demand Is as ns changeless as the lie law aw of gravitation which means that lint competition must forever prevail I behave bellove that tat com corn comI I petition petton Is doomed the tho Trusts single object It Is in I to abolish competition tion lon having proved tha that we are aro hotter better eler without than with It tho time moment that tat fl flone ono one corporation controls the tho entire to entre supply of any produce and nd what the te socialist leslie desire is that lie tho corporation of humanity should control all al prod products products products Beloved comrades comrades this thin is 16 the tho way wa It Is the te higher law Jaw lawIt It eliminates the time motives for a n selfish life lo It enacts Into our every eer day da liv living 11 ing lag the ethics of or Gospel noth nothing not ing lag else olse will wi do It I nothing elno cine can bring the glad gad day of Universal broth brotherhood Again Miss Willard Wiard said years ears of study stud and ob oh observation has haa convinced me that pov poverty poverty erty crt Is tho prime primo cause of intemperance ance nce And yet vet et again I 1 believe In the things Christian Christan Socialism stands for Jor and were I not occupied would go Into tho the movement heart and amid soul as Indeed I r have havo done In public utterances for forman many man years 0 O that I were young again and It should have hao my life lio le I It Itis I Itis is Gods way out of tho ho wilderness and Into the Promised Promise Land It I Is the tle very vcr marrow and fatness of Christe Gospel It I Is h i Christianity applied Frances Fances E K Willard Wiard The fhe ri worst bigot that lint ever lived 10 could not miot twist these words to mean anything olse than that Frances Francos Fances rl rul lard was a n socialist SO TIle The socialists take her hOl words ao as one of the proofs profs that lint prohibition Is not the remedy for tor Intemperance they know that It Is IB tho the effect of the lie system and to rid tho the world of oC an effect the cause must bo ho removed Frances Frnnces Willard Wiard knew evor eor phase of tho temperance move moo meni as only emil an active worker could coul know It I Tho To words we Ve have havo quoted were written by b her when she fhe he fully ful matured and her hem h brain equipped for close coso and amid careful study Stud and ad after observation years of experience and It I surely follows that tat her words should carry carr weight with wih all al people who aro are seeking the solution of the tho economic problem A SOP TO If I It were vore lure turc tue that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the tho world then thou we women should he be mortally mortal Continued on Page Fourteen I MARXIAN CLUB SOCIALISTS Continued From Page Twelve of our OU ruling This old worn voun wor out saying Gy ng has been heen handed to tous tous tous us on every eo 1 occasion where men speak to women and most of or us take it as a compliment which it Is not women never had a chance chanco to rule rulo even evea their small smal world and men have lavo arrogated to themselves tho the right to tell tl them what what they ther should do and where their place Is When a woman is a wife and mother and must per perforce perforce er force make a dollar lolar go so just as far In purchasing as rug she can she Is ts going going to buy tho the article artcle she needs at as low lowa lowa lowa a a price o as she can got get It I IL and amI unIonS made articles are aro Iro not always low lov priced price When the labor unions had hada a cooperative tore store hero and handled han led union goods and competed with other stores they ther went vent under unGer and many ot 01 the union men lost money by hy It I Why Vh Because a n salary had to buy bu the necessary things of life Ic in inthe inthe the tlc cheapest market Mr lr Union man maui says to the thc women buy goods under sanitary conditions The law compels white goods to bo ho made under sanitary conditions In hi many places and if one otic asks for the consumers consumer league label they tlc get clean goods but they cost moie not ot only in money mone but in the lives of women and girls who make mako them for to offset tho thic cheap sweat sweatshops shops the have by running the machines ma with electric power so Increased the speed spee of operating them I that It makes mMes a woman a nervous wreck in lii a few years year as aH well wel as at nun rum the time work so 50 ing hor her eyesight watching closely for help from of crying within I the outside they the would look their own organization they tho would ac accomplish c the A AF AF more For Instance Instance F P of L IG it tho the organization of man mall and In separate unions un fans some factories there are arc as a ninny many man as a a dozen different unions nil all al working independent ent of the tIme other othe One union win Cn strike It ItIs ItIs itis anti and and ruid the rest real can cn stay ta at work woric ant Is considered proper They rime rhe make mako con contracts COi tracts with wih lo to l work n a specified fled fied ed time lime regardless of ol the Lime of or tho time other unions If I f they the spent and now pent sPen t on their thel r time aim money thel union minion labor agitation on all tIme the woi ti tiers that timal taught unity among al worl is deserving ot 01 ers cri that hunt one man another plenty to eat ett and wear weal as regardless of occupation that an un In ill Injury is injury to lo all and that jury jur to one on an nn al I only by their own 01 can they lucY tie could couRt I hotter belter their conditIons they tile helm finally demand their riGhts lights and not huo to o hog beg for fol them To lo 10 patronize time the tle union label means no good goot to the It docs lees them more harm than good for fOl it makes mal de do iC pendent on un I time lie charity charily of o UK Uw public to their label keep keeping celt ing lug their union up tip instead ol ot depend depending ing In on themselves s The he union minion label stands for the time system of o gov sov government eminent under which It IB is as Impossible sible for time the t great mass of workers to bettor their conditions as for them both to take alto a trip to lo tIme tho uncoil moon |