Show r Ii c j t r cr crIt I 5 J r It M F 0 Club Socialists S 0 j Any question concerning Social Socialism i ism answered Address all com corn to K S t Herrick Avenue H War Its thousands slays a Peace Paco its Us ten len thousands EXTRACT FROM AN OPEN LETTER DISCUSSING THE WET AND QUESTION of or Roanoke On December 30 20 a red letter day ily da in tho th histon of the town you OU voted and auth the drys won out In read reading big ing ill the tho arguments and studying tho the tabulated votes for and anel against the faloon aloon I 1 concluded that thal no longer being amongst t you OIl I would venture a fl row low remarks ks on the tho election as a viewed by a worker In the first place lIace I am heartily heartH in favor favol of oC any movement forthe for fOI the up tip uplifting lifting of humanity but although not nota no noa a a yet d you must show mo tue that local option op or prohibition alone will vill dp IC so If It did what would bo be bothe bothe bethi the thi necessity lt of If sending missionaries to Turkey or India where the religion of tho the people prohibits tho the or ute tusO of intoxicants Surely if the tho use HIO ot of o intoxicants Is as tho the the cause of pov poverty PO erty Olty vice and crime of oC all nil kinds then those people should be he paragons of or peace hince plenty and pure morals But ButIn ButIr In ix such the C case lH No Xo From all e countries conic como the cries ot or starving millions of murder arson and depraved a cry er which finds a n responsive echo In the tho hearts of tho the starving millions of Europe and America not for fin relief from tho the demon of Ci f drink but hut from the monster who wh absorbs the wealth Iwo pio by h the tho working class of all countries No Na N drink Is not nol the cause of the iho evil you ou must dig deeper and lion IHn you ron got get t lo to bed rock you will wilt find that vine Iro and Intemperance aro arc merely merel effects which will continue as M lout long as you vou permit the cause to re ie reain reain ain NonAlcoholic Countries Why do 10 millions die by hr h starvation In nonalcoholic Brahman India Pre Previous to the British conquest thereof the natives knowing that there came camo years ears of 01 drought prepared for It by storing away In their thell public store storehouses storehouses houses houss something against that calami calamity ty t Under Christian England rule everything except a u bare living is swept away awn from the poor loor people by bytho bytho bythe tho the English capitalists leaving the people penniless In the thc face of o famine In alcoholic Turkey 1 and Persia tho lie poor suffer the same sam fate rate at the hands bands of their own aristocracy It Il is the same story stor ston everywhere irrespective of religion creed or color The cry of hunger hung from Christian rail mil millions lions is ie echoed all over oer Europe and re ro reechoed reechoed echoed across the broad Atlantic to the broad bread lines in tho the industrial cen centers centers of our great groat republic under tho the regime Teddy Toddy the I J of ot prosperity fame Again and again Is tho the cry ery taken up lip in our Christian United States carried across her hei broad bosom to tho the Pacific slope and on across that broad expanse of water to lo China and Japan Its the same samo old story ston tho the people veople suf suC for fer because the aristocracy crac as well we as the plutocracy of the Old World Vord and anti the tho capitalism of the New absorb all the wealth except a mere mero pittance from the tho working class who produced it all That and not drink is the cause camiC of poverty intemperance temperance in vice crime and depravity of all kinds The Tho conditions will continue and anti get got worse year bj by year yeal as long as the tho working class by their votes otos sustain the tho present system of oC capitalistic ex exploitation be he It Il in monarchIal Europe or in republican United States Society Dinners Versus the Bread BreadLine BreadLine Line LineAs LineAs LineAs As long IonS as this system of oC lion of tho the working class goes on we have our cut dinners where nude girls step stell forth from the pie Jle when it itis Itis itis is cut open ollen and tho the din dinner dinnet net ncr table In natures dress to lo the tho do lIe dolight light of o our bachelor In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York we will ihl have Christmas ties tre trefor for puppy hogs dogs hogs lining dining with their mistresses from silverware and ani I reclining reel In beautifully upholstered cradles radl s while the children of thos who shio produce It all shiver shier in a n freezing atmosphere eIther cither in their hovels 01 or 0 oron on the streets and men stand in bread breadlines lines waiting their turn for Co I a cup of ol coffee corree and a roll Oh the tho of or It to think that a strong man able alle and an willing to work worl is driven by b starvation to smother his natural pride and accent In alms a part parl of o the wealth produced by him and his sure that he is blame blameless blameless less Jess in this matter matler Are Arc you yon not the time ones to whom those starved find and children of this country countr are arc point pointIng pointing Ing their bony hOIl fingers lingers as they shIver In their rags at the corners or In iii their dens Oh hollow hollo cheeks and raking cough say to you y u husbands and fathers ot of tho the working class that not tho the capitalists alone but you OU also are ame responsible for foi their condition You can change those these conditions by h wiping out ont capitalism I As a means to that great seat end I would i urge you ou to connect c yourself with ami work for fOI time the advancement of ot tho the only j I I political organization In iii the I States the tho Socialist Labor Party Part pledged to this present ss 1 torn tern t of capitalism and amid rear in Its Us stead ll tho the Co operative wherein all willing TO w O work shall shah bo b afforded an opportunity to do 10 so SU and enjoy to the full the fruits ol at ll hid toil And Aud as a meant or immedi immediate ate relief while battling rot rOl time tho final goal gon I would urge you vou to rOm form a branch of the transportation depart department I ment of the Industrial Workers ol of the iho I World to take tho the place or or your our pres lICa present ent out working class disIntegrating cratt unions ti Ballots Need Backing Besides a political organization the lie working class must have a solid eco economic economic organization motto is an injury to ono one is an Injury Injun to all We must have all our industries BO io t O or organized organized r that lint when wo vote yote our into lute loWit wo VO can insist on our victory being recognized To 10 return to tho lie dry and wet wot Issue again The flue fact act net is iK that whether tho wets win or am tho the drys Ihy win tho the wage wago ago workers win will bo li 11 no no hotter better bett I oft nfl In lii wages or 01 conditions As long longas lomi as the tho capitalist s tem t ib is II allowed to 0 continue continuo the lie workers will continuo continue comit to tobo ho bo slaves If I hall had boon been in hi Roanoke on election day n 1 J should have hae ha voted for Socialism as at capitalism because capitalism dictates how ho I Ishall Ishall shall shull work and how little 1 shall re reo 1 J Editorial Committee KATE S HILLIARD E A BATTELL l ROY E SOUTHWICK 4 tol it therefore dictates my motto mOdo of life liCe I am nm your for the prohibition of 01 nil all parasites on the body of or tho the working class and my mr vote oto Is cast every eer time for the only ani party part pledged antI and able to wipe thorn out Socialist La Labor Labor bor hor Party H D Va Vav v CURRENT COMMENT She leaves her babe to others to climb the factory stair 1 She creeps homo home at night to her chil children dren d rm T Too weary wear to hind bind hot her he flair nair With the tho sacred chrism of mother mothe motherhood motherhood hood hoodIn I In her tired and careworn hands Through her hi h l they must como coma with souls horn born dumb The men who shall rule iule our lands lamIa Calmly coolly brazenly were these thes I lines recited on tho lie floor of I on tho the of this month by br Representative Sheppard Shoppard of Texas the tho tar lar larest est of Free Trade Trado in iii tho the houfe Calmly coolly brazenly were the lines linos I I hurled at al Protection despite the fact that they lucy tho also fit Free Trade as Illus Illustrated by In the tho woeful wo ful condition or woman labor l bor in iii Free Trade England Lick Branch W r Va celebrated Its second mine disaster within thle weeks minors miners killed Is the latest holocaust burnt on out the altar of o a social system the lie law 01 ol whose existence Is Property is II more than Life Both oth the hue and tho the philosophic anarchists who declare that personal morality is in independent Independent independent dependent of economic environment will have to stick their heads heth in the sand sand than over ever at the tho reports i beginning to come como In from Crom Cleveland CI I Ton thousand thou and people there pledged I themselves to live like Christ for fat two weeks and before half ball the tho timo was over ov r the experimenters were driven thriven to declare they the could couil not keep up tip the trial and maintain their liveli livelihood hood hooch under tinder present Industrial In and business conditions Exchange MANY LARGE CITIES They Are Ae a II Surprise to the American Amerlan Visitor One is continually surprised at atI finding such large prosperous cities In I Siberia writes Prof G E in the tho Boston Transcript has hasi i some somo inhabitants Ob Oh and I In ninny many man ways wa s how however j I over ever they still show the crudeness of frontier life lICe In Ob hardly a house Is over one story high and the dust In Inthe Inthe inthe the unpaved streets lies some Bomo s j thick On the tho other hand hamid there Is a aj i j largo large number of schools in the coun country country try I Is the tho educational cen center center ter tel besides being tho the largest city It Il IlI I has lets an nn Institute of or technology and a ai i university of some somo reputation which Is attended by several hundred sui SU dents After traveling for or days das over the tho level monotonous plains of the west it is a pleasure to reach the he th borders i i of or the tho hill hIlI country countr which stretches from some sonic hundred miles mileson on to Lake Lako Baikal In ones onos first en enI I I one Is IB tempted to exclaim I that Is one ouie of oC tho the most beautiful cities In the world It I car certainly Is la charmingly located remind reminding ing lag one of many a town on the tho Rhine It Is i built buill In the tho valley where whelo the i Hows flows Into the great i mountains on every overy side and tho the high banks of o the lie river above aboe and be below below low Jaw Seen from a distance with its many church domes glistening be between between between tween tho the hills it makos s tho the most de do picture of all Siberia i i A further ride of a day and a half through this hill country much of at which Is heavily wooded with a thick growth of o pine brings ono one to which after is the lie city in Siberia It Il Is s 5 In many man ways a aver very attractive place Its main streets are arc paved and It Is lighted by electricity i It has hns three dally daily dull papers a large thea theater theater theater ter a handsome art museum a tech technical technical school a theological seminary 26 churches chuiches and one of oC the most im ha imposing Imposing posing cathedrals In the whole em empire empire pire There are aro two or three factories I in Ia the city one of o which is a n porcelain establishment which turns out most excellent work In strolling through the business streets one ouie Is surprised at the great groat variety of goods displayed cd In the stores especially at the tile real ele cie elegance sauce gance of or the tho silver and jewelry assort assortments assortments ments meats There Thore are many man American n wares to be seen sewing ina mn machines chines typewriters reapers tools from Massachusetts canned fruit from California c nned oysters from Crom Maryland In iii some somo of or the show windows were w re pyramids p of boxes of or an American food product each with a Russian la lapel el and aDd a u representation of or the tho American and tho the Russian flags 18 I s over miles from Moscow a distance reater than that which separates San Francisco from Now New York yet it Is IB only of oC the way wa to Vladivostok I Fawn Faces the Camera One day da recently B N Rogers Rogerr a farmer In the tIme Shirkshire district found adoo and a n beautiful fawn not more than three or four days old in his meadow says the tho Dispatch The rhe doe doo became frightened and aud fled lied but the fawn showed no sign of or fear permitting the farmer to caress It and finally It followed him to the barn harn Mr Rogers Rogert drove to Falls and had the fawn lyIng at nt the th feet of lila his two little daughters photo photographed photographed graphed During the picture taking ho fawn awn gazed steadily at tho the photographer and his hia camera hut but gave save no indication indi tion on onor of or being afraid On returning to his home homa Mr Ir Rogers took tho the little ani animal ni mal raid back to the tho meadow and In a n short time It was w joined jone by the doe doo |