Show l 11 M Iii ia i 1 bs j J l J t I j j t tf f I f j 1 r Any question queston concerning Social SocialIsm Editorial Committee j 1 Ism mm I m answered an Address nil all al com corn KATE S HILLIARD Y to K S E A BATTELL 1 Herrick Avenue RPY E SOUTHWICK I I h r w I I ENTER TAFT Out goes Roosevelt In goes s Taft and tile then out will wJ go Taft and In somo other ditto dito How long Since Sinco the Inauguration of ot McKInley In 1897 1397 the lie and Roose veils vels and Tafts Tars have havo been but tho the alternate left leCt and right foot fot of a ana lilt u ution tion marking time ton Capitalist society has fulfilled Its I mission Before It production was not could not nol bo be ample enough to furnish leisure to all al This Tills Is another way wa of ot saying that before thou then real freedom was wa impossible The he mission of oC capi capitalist taunt society was wag to furnish the he ma material tonal groundwork for human freedom This mission capitalist society has ful fill fulfilled filled It I organized production in such wise that today tolay abundance for all al without arduous toll tol is a potential fact fat The fulfillment of tho tile mission implies a social the he Socialist revolution It I Implies the overthrow of the political state and anti its substitute with wih ith the lie in industrial Industrial under which alone alono tho tile con conquests conquests quests of the human race made In the I shell shel of capitalist society can Cin pass pas from the lie potential to the tho actual stage sta o of benefit Socialism Here in Embryo Embry The shell of capitalist society lin ha lingers In Ingers hagers gers on tho the social stage It I will wil not It Itself Itself Itself self cast Itself off off No shell shel whether biologic or sociologic ever eer does des It has to be pecked through broken brolien up tp and rind cast off of by the chick that lInt it has hn hatched The chick of the Industrial or soci socialist sod soc alist alst republic while full grown econ economically is yet et undeveloped organically cally cal As yet ct the Industrial organization tion lon Is In Us its Is embryo embr o Not ot yet et has It reached the minimum of consistency to enable enible It to lo forego the warmth ot of r the tho mother hens down to o grub for Itself In short to entitle It to take possession While awaiting the ripeness of this development through trough the tho united Apolitical ical and economic organization and drill of tho the proletariat capitalist go so 10 doty cot ciet Is now marking time on the thc th March lIach Fourths 01 course courso capitalist society imagines it Ills is for and anti of all al time and that thes ceremonies uro are confirmations of o Itt Its 11 I Itle title tle But what It IL Imagines does docs no not alter facts These ceremonies aro are just tho the reverse of what capitalist society Imagines It I has no Inkling of the Iho focI fact that its recurring presidential inaugurations inaugurations rations arc aro tre hut a marking of o timo Yet that Is all al they thoy are ae McKinley left let Roosevelt right I Taft left let and d so on 01 until the lie productive and use useful useful ful CuI nation naton finally filIally or organized Industrially shall Issue the 1 word or 01 order Then Thou will wi the shell shel be bc cost cast off oI Then will wil the tIle social stage be freed Cee from cap capItalist I rule tho last of the lonu lon ly I nasty of oC class rule ule Then will wil ilC t socialist or Industrial republic seize the reins of government and ani al ushel In 10 Inthe Inthe the thc era of human freedom each in indeed Indeed s deed the architect of his social fate Until then left right left out will vIll wi go one In another marking time lime Dividing Up I IOne One of tile the most ridiculous arguments arguments ments against Socialism is that ot of o dividing up UI Jt it 1 Involves a a grotesque misconception of the aim of Socialism It I has bas been dubbed du lcd by b Socialists the stalest of or the stale When wo we see seo that Socialism contends that a wonter shall receive the tile ful full social value ot of othis othis his services how can cn It imply a ai ut 1 up Today a produces say nay Y ten dollars worth ot or wealth and re ro receives in wages ages wa es only two dollar tolar He HeIs HeIs HeIs Is dividing up UI with the tile boss one ant he heio h heIa io Ia I getting a very ver small smal part ot or o tn tM division But Bitt some pome opponent conIcs comes I along and says that ho believe in dividing up anti and thinks he Is arguIng lug Ing In against Socialism Yet 1 would put pul an end to t tile the capitalists Continued on o Page P ge Fourteen F teen MARXIAN CLUB SOCIALISTS I Continued From Pago lago Twelve Twel I method of 01 taking this big bib division from front the workers Socialism Social of or aiming at any dividing up l contemplates contemplates plates limo tho concentration of capital that Is land and amid machinery etc ote into the hands of or society Itself Socialism Opposes Anarchism m I contused Socialism Is commonly with Anarchism Anar Of course contus contusions ions coons of this kind usually spring from Irom crafty sources While Whilo Socialists and Anarchists both convict eon the present system s stem they do eo so on different counts count I and they tho have hac very ery different alms As Prof Ely Lly EI says t Socialism and Social Reform Everywhere Socialism lights Anarchy and on the other hand Is antagonized anta by hy it Il Where I ohe is strong tho the other Is 10 likely to tolan languish lan The Thc Social Democracy drove Herr Most out of Germany ana unu Horn from early earl days has exerted itself itsell most vigorously to keep down an any anything thing thin Mice an arm ac movement The rho New International Encyclopedia l l says saYI that The Socialist toda lOlla today is the tho ol or Anarchism strongest opponent r and amid It h Is time the German Social Demo Democrats DemoI Democrats who practically extinguished I Anarchism In lii their country countr I Eve a desultory study stud of the two is to show shoo the difference that exists between them Item themI I SOCIALISM TAKES ROOT IN CAPI CAPITALISM CAPITALISM It is sometimes argued that lint Social Socialism Socialism ism Is a foreign importation atlon and antI not notI indigenous to the soil soli This is the I same trite remark that Is heard in ht inI j I every country In England the opponents flouts of say sa It was made auntie In III inGerman I Germany German and In III German they tho say sa that It comes conies from some other place anti and so Sl on ou Whoever argues s In III this tills way a merely merel exposes his own limited knowledge of historical events Socialism appears in lm every ever country whore machine Industry prevails and j I where there l ore Is an unemployed lored ques question questin tion tin anti and other manifestations of cap capitalism Socialism Is a natural prod product of o modern Industrial conditions lolI and anti it Is bound lo to present pr Itself where wherever wherever ever ler these conditions arise It Il has hus recently appeared In Japan because of the fact that Japan Is 16 becoming progressive that Is 18 because that lint has hm adopted a the capitalist s s torn loin This is ono one of tf the time proofs proMs of tho Limo correctness of the tho Socialist position end and Justifies the assertion that hat Social Socia Socialism I ism Is Inevitable Every Ever capitalistic nation on the globe has hos a Socialist movement and it il does not appear where there here is no Industrial system s to give it birth Switzerland has harbored and shelter sheltered ed a vast number of exiled Socialists and agitators and nul yet is lacking In a rood good Socialist movement and for far the then verv n very I simple staple reason that its industrial development Is very cry poor Norway hrs hns mude mode but little progress ss along In industrial Industrial lines and consequently the he Socialist movement in that country countr is not strong The fie Asiatic countries do not possess POSH S much of a Socialist movement either elthor as modern capital capitalIsm capitalIsm Ism has hns not lot yot yet been lIeen Introduced in any auy all of save Japan It Is I very err plant plain that Socialism Is bound to appear wherever the mho conditions necessary to its Itt existence obtain Now as its some people still maintain that Socialism Is JI we will sill Just take tuko a over oer tho his imis history histon tory ton of the thc American labor movement Wo W find that the early carl labor movement in this country countr was decidedly Social Socialistic Prof IL n T Ely In Imm his book The Thu I Labor Movement Iol in III America cites numerous Illustrations on mm this point He II 1 shows that the tho working class formed separate political parties and ancl that hat they thc were conscious of ur their own class Interests ts Ho Hi further points out I that In 1830 1530 a labor paper Young America advocated twelve radical Ical dc do d I which WelO printed on all time the I tops of time the paper Mil and which were en endorsed endorsed by GOO COO other pUllers papers Tho rhu ninth o 1 c r I demand was Equal t rights i for far wo tern women women men rile with men nien In III all respects and the he I tenth was ws the i revolutionary evolutionary de der demand nand mand for foi the Abolition of chattel slavery slaver and of wages slavery Prof Ply Ely goes on to cite several I other illustrations of a Socialistic or Jr radical spirit which permeated early enlI I American labor unionism and refers to the radical addresses of or Ely EI Moore president t of The rime General Trades rodes Union of New York and of Stephen Simpson which were sere delivered d In 13 1 I and ISiP 1833 A striking Socialistic dec ace deci i is that if of 1 Thomas Skidmore 1 t tI I labor candidate te for governor of New NewYork NewYork York state uttered In 1539 Skidmore I says san Inasmuch as great wealth is ts an instrument which Is uniformly used to extort from hone others their property it ought lo to be taken away assay aWL from Its pos pas possessors paso o on the same principle that a sword or a pistol may ho bo wrested from front froma fronta a L robber rohber who shall undertake to ac accomplish the samo same effect In a I different i manner Without going tiny any further It Is evi el evident elden evident dent den t that these Socialistic tendencies cies these foreign importations of oC recent date are of sturdy old Amer American AmerIcan AmerIcan ican origin By W V H Casack TRIFLES The triflers trillers are fire up again and doing Against the can canteen canteen teen they have epithets without num nun number number ber her not an epithet however howen r have lavo they ther against the more murderous bay bLY bayonet onet gun sabre mud and powder in camp campor or 01 against time the social so lal system s stem that be begets beel begets gets el the time lIe nuisance intended to t keep up the system s s tem tea of overwork for men anti and women and amid child labor Against these linger huger evils not a word from tho the The law that bids tho the drunkard die Is far too just to pass the time by b Exchange f I I Made It a Full Day DayI I Hero Hem Is ono one man who vho does docs not limit himself to lo eight hours o work n a day dayA da daA dayA A farmer in the he ledsworth Bedsworth district Warwickshire England created a n local record In connection with the hay hap ha harvest by working In one field neld for 21 n hours in a single Bingle day da He lie began hegan cutting culling at al a m and ceased c at ten at night when the grass graas grassI I was turned Domesticated Elephants Tho The efforts of tho the Congo Conso State au an authorities u to domesticate tho the African elephant have brought brou bt out some Inter Interesting Interesting esting peculiarities of those animals During the time wet season which lasts I four months the elephants aro are not worked but mire arc turned out into tho the I forest forout Instead however howo r of oC rejoin rejoining ing lug their wild kin they seem acorn to keep apart as I if conscious of the that their training has produced On being brought back to their duties dulles thoy tho ho show no on to shirk I work Their presence sometimes at ill attracts attracts tracts wild elephants to 10 tho time vicinity of their scone of limit hilt wild animals aro are usually too loo old od and Intractable blo to be used as recruits Youths Companion Expensive Luxuries Castles In the air cost a vast ast deal dealto dealto dealto to keep uy Lytton Temple of Serpents The Tho small town of Werda In tho mho kingdom of Dahomey Is celebrated for Its temple of serpents a long lont building In which tho the priests keep up liP upwards upwards wards of 1000 serpents of all sizes These thoy tho feed with birds and frogs brought to 10 them as offerings by tho the natives Too Much Tall TallOne Ono One of of the time dangers of or the lile as a In Is that thaL of oC speaking too much ns from Cram the tho frequency with which a few lew people give glo the world the ot or their views on every possible subject it il might be thought thin thi they le were werl I qualifying for tho the post of o lecturer I to lo lothe the human race Childs Guardian Solicitous for Their Nerves I lost a number of my sensitive 1 boarders this summer said Maid the man manager tiger ager of a dog dOl and cal cat boarding hoarding house Tho owner of the property properly pro pert next door put pul up tip a big apartment house and anti many man of my patrons took hIgh bight priced d pets away awa for tor fear feal their nerves would bo bu unstrung by b the noise of or building Surely the Limit LimitA A friend was once talking with 1 a crazy craz woman oman when a stingy moan man passed by b Do you see that hat I man mansa said sa it she with cunning snipe smile You could blow his soul through a L hum hummingbirds birds quill Into a mosquitos eye e c and the time mosquito wink Sunday Magazine I Seldom People seldom forget forgot the names or faces of those whom it may ma pay par to know |