Show t Marxian Club Socialists j jAny Any question concerning Social Socialism Editorial Committee 5 i ism answered Address all com corn communications KATE S HILLIARD L to K S E A BATTELL BATT Ell Herrick Avenue ROY E SOUTHWICK X I I r The Time times of that superstition which attributed revolutions to the of oC ofa oCa a fow fey agitators have hae long lon passed pa sed away Everyone knows nowadays that wherever I ever evor there Is a revolutionary convulsion convulsion convulsIon sion there must be some social want In the background which Is prevented by br Institutions from satisfy satisfying lug ing itself The want may ma yet be he felt as strongly stron l as ns generally generall as us might en ensure ensure sure suro Immediate success but every oer at attempt tempt tom lit nt ill forcible repression will only bring It forth stronger and stronger until It bursts Its Us fetters Karl Marx SO SAY WE ALL London dispatches quote Keir Hardie as saying In ill the London Socialist Re Review Review Review view for tho the current month I am Inclined to be doleful concerning the time future of the Socialist party part In Amer America America ica lea the doleful prospect being due duo duoto to 0 the tho deplorable fact that during the thelast thelast thelast last ten years cars no trades unionists of any an standing In New York has been brought into inlo the Socialist movement There Is n II world woId of wisdom theo theoretical al mId and practical In Keir estimate e and a flood of o light It sheds on on things past present and future In Inthe Inthe inthe the Socialist movement Keir Hardies estimate whether he ha O Is aware of o It or not matters little resolves Itself Into Inlo the following se so sequence I quence quenco of thought 1st Without the unions of the land connect with tho the Socialist political movement the one and the other sLag stag stagnate nate The unions minions or economic move movement movement movement ment remain a power of or undeveloped potentiality the political movement degenerates speedily Into a flash In Inthe Inthe I the time pan jian of profit only to stage I 2nd None but tho the revolutionary union minion will ill connect with the Socialist political movement and consequent consequently ly I 3rd It must be he the tho preeminent task Lash Lashof of the Socialist movement to urge Into life the tho union in other words tho tile preaching of the Social revolution upon the tho only onh field on which it I t can be he preached the civilized field Clell of political action I From the tho circumstances that the S P with sith its pure vuie and simple political policy has no prospect and anel that the theS theS theS S L P with Its Us combined economic and political policy polle makes makos even a worse showing as ns far as votes yoles are arc I concerned the conclusion would seem scorn wan warranted anted that the absolute outlook ok for I Socialism in America Is doleful at I least so far as a the thc minds eye CC can see sc abend Such a conclusion would be I rash rash because It falls fails to take In all nIl the tho facts in the Influence of Social Atmosphere I Dogmatic Socialists Incur the error of holding hold In that a certain quantity of or orI I capitalism must produce a n correspond corresponding tag IllS quantity of Socialist movement and that seeing the United States fur I 1 the tIme largest lar est quantity of capital capitalism I ism therefore It should also have hao tho th I largest quantity of Socialist movement to show Finding this not lIot so the So Socialist SocIalist dogmatist Is puzzled frequent frequently ly h looking bewildered much as ns a duck cluck In Iii thunder As AR with vegetation even evon evenIn evenin In tho time panic anc latitude but different at atmospheric atmospheric atmospheric conditions tho thu course of tho the Socialist movement Is Intimately af nf affected by b different social atmospheres The Thc social atmosphere In the United States Inevitably raises the delusion of pure antI and simple political Socialism Tho The delusion Is not one ono to be argued I down It hall hail to be demonstrated Had Find time the S L P remained alone alono In Inthe InI inthe I the field the time process of the demonstration tion lion would have boon been greatly retarded Valuable Is the service rendered the American movement by b the lie S P It did not mean to be yet et it a self seH sacrificing holiest behest Bv liv B setting up tip its antiS L 14 P pie It demonstrated dr with Its Us own full fail failure ure mire the tIme soundness of the tho S L P For a time lime the of oC demonstration tion could not choose hut but retard tho the movement The Tue presence of a party part that flew flow the colors of Socialism yet et etI advocated tactics which for the very verr reason renson of their being un I Socialistic chimed In with favorite prejudices and anti were w re hound bound to meet meal with greater popularity had I 11 Ih Ihy v lo to block tho tIme path of progress for forthe forthe the Uie S L 11 P The expectations nursed by h S P error having suffered s ship shipwreck I wreck reek the tho path Is cleared at least It H Is clearing for more rapid progress Aye Ave A e Indeed tIme the of the time So Socialist Socialist Socialist party part In America Is doleful So sa say we wo all Ecu Hardies estimate esti monte gathered from Intimate anti and personal observation j I tion during durIn his recent visit to Amre lea ica amounts amoun ts to saying that the So Socialist party part has hag failed of its Us mission This is true yet not wholly true trite Special Mission of the S P There was a 1 special mission for the tho Socialist party to perform the mis slon of demonstrating the of tho the Socialist Labor Party Part position The Tile three principles above enumerated aLed are and have hae been beell cardinal prin principles with the S L P An element there is Iti In III tho the land whoso whose conception of Socialism Ir Is purely political To that element the economic movement Is at fit best merely merel a transient manis tation To ro them tho the idea of at all clo do clotting devoting voting time lime to the economic move moe movement ment mont except to Jolly Jelly JolI anti and captivate I Ithe the good will ilI of o Its membership Is a n waste of time It Is considered even oven WOrSe than tItan a waste of time It Is considered harmful The searching criticism that the conduct of the class unconscious union demands produces Irritation makes enemies The Utopian Socialist with his visions of political victory Insensibly acquires tho timo qualities of tho the capitalist politic politician ian lann iana a suavity that means all nil things to all men To the Utopian or pure J Jand and simple political Socialist accord accordingly accordingly II nothing is more mora than titan to lo glee offence As a n consequence like ostriches In a storm ho eyes to the economic question Knows nothing of or it wants to know nothing of o It IL This clement elemont har Its lg representatives tives lIvos In the S L I P They Tho objected to the S L 11 P posture on unionism They tried to remodel tho the S L P r principle They The failed bolted and In 1899 joined tir lIr kindred on tho the outside Thus S P It was vas to rush t to ti victory Unnecessary to repeat tho the review mado of the tIme SP S P Ote vote at tho last election that tho S SP SP SP P received In most mo t all Industrial cen centers centers tars beginning with New York City CIl evidently did not escape Hardie antI and he lie puts his finger upon tho the fatal the failure of the S P to en cn enlist enlist list tho the proletariat especially e the th or organized W P TO OUR TEMPERANCE FRIENDS Tho The letter from Miss Gordon GorJon con confirms confirms firms the tho statement s made by b us that Francis was a n socialist It makes not n a whit of difference what kind of a handle Is IR affixed to the tho name her statement of or tho tim social socialist 1st philosophy showed shoved plainly she un understood Ir As to the words of Francis Willard Villard Oh that I had my life to live over again it should have hac my life the weight of truth hangs evenly In the balance as one mans word Is as good as In law The brochure compiled by b the Rev Re J JH JH JH H Hollingsworth of Terre Torre Haute Ind irni IndIs Is composed 01 of extracts from addresses delivered during the tIme annual meet meetIng meetIng meeting Ing of the National W C T U held In Buffalo In Oct 1897 18 7 Presumably they ther the wore taken talton from tho the annual report where the complete completo address will bo be found MAKES A FLOATING COMPASS Peculiarity of Magnetized Needle When Placed PI ced in Vater Water If It a thoroughly dry and clean elcan new sew sewing Ing needle Is very carefully laid on tho the surface of tho the water In a basin time the needle will float noat In spite of tho high density of stool seven or eight limes times that of water On close Inspection It is found that tho ho surface of the tho water Is depressed under tinder the tho needle very er much arf as am If there thero were a thin film stretched over oer tho the water and slightly Indented by tho the weight of or tho the needle This property of liquids of offering a certain assist assistance assistance assistance ance to a force exerted upon their sur surface surface surface face Is termed surface extension The magnitude of the force of surface tension varies from one ono liquid to an nn another other It H Is greatest In the case of mercury The cause of the phenomenon non nOD must probably be bc looked for In Inthe Inthe inthe the attraction of oC the liquid molecules to one another A sewing needle thus floating upon water may ma bo tie used as a compass If It has haa previously previous been heart magnetized It will then point north and south and will maintain this po position position if the containing vessel is moved about if the needle is dis ds displaced displaced placed by b force It will return to Its along the tho meridian az a lJ I 1 1 |