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Show MISS TWINING SPEAKS ON SOCIALISM Miss I.uella Twining, the third speaker to appear in Ogdcn on the Socialist Lyceum cotirso. spoke to a l.ir. audience at the Tabernacle last , nl: In on the subject, Tbe Class Con- nici The speaker related numerous Incidents In-cidents from her experience as a J traveler in England and European Countries and told of the conditions that exist in tbe slums of the larger cities She stated that with so much unrest in the world. H is stmuce that the spirit of unrest that now prevails i oll not originate sooner ' She spoke with pride of the rapid I growth of the Socialist party and stated that In Salt Lake alone tbf party had Increased 400 per cent In I two years Statinr that ten men In th United States own the country and that others oth-ers must bow to their wills, she declared de-clared thai i' was time for the middle mid-dle classes to awake and asBert their power by voting for their own good I Miss Twining told of having leen 'thrown into jail in Denver years ago for speaking on the streets on So-Iciallsnj. So-Iciallsnj. and In Jail she met six girls Of the streets, who. though they were i from the tendoiloln. were not devoid j of redeeming qualities of heart and mind. She told of now these girls had shared their bedding with her bo-Ofl bo-Ofl iBe the Jailer would give her none. I She described the oris, told how one of them from Red Cliff. Colo., had ,C4 m traded hlood poison. how her mother nursed and cared for her, and finally enabled her to get an education educa-tion In music. Then came more slck-16, slck-16, loss of resources and finally she 'ent lown and down until she landed I in the Denver "redllght ' district. Yet Miss Twining was impressed by the I i good in Ibis girl and the others, who were the victims, she pointed out, ot the profit system. "Prostitution is simply one phase I of the profit system," said Miss Twining "It is a part of tbe profit system." Miss Twining declared that human ntuuro is not predisposed to be had; cn the contrary' humans are predisposed predis-posed to be good, and crime Is the result of environment and material eruditions. "Put the best of your boys and girls in the misery and poverty pov-erty of the slums and they will soon become bad, or put the children of thi slums in a better atmosphere and they will make good, as a rule." Miss Twining was one of the delegates dele-gates from this country to the International In-ternational Socialist convention at C"ienhagen. and spent two years lecturing lec-turing and Investigating social conditions con-ditions in Great Britain, Germany. Holland, Denmr.rk. France and other countries. She found the Socialist movement In Germany to be wonderfully wonder-fully advanced by reason of the excellent ex-cellent schools where socialism and economic questions are studied, with the best writers, teachers and scientists sci-entists of Germany at the head of the Socialist movement. She met August Pchel the foremost Socialist of Germans Ger-mans and the most popular member of the German Reichstag: she also met Karl Ksutsky, known throughout the world as the author of "The Class Struggle,' and other handbooks on socialistic subjects. And Miss Twining Twin-ing spoke of Rosa Luxembourg, who is not r.nlv one of the most prominent promi-nent Socialists in Germany but Is at the bead of the school that is maintained main-tained In Berlin for the training of speakers, teachers and writers, Mls Twining said in part I saw the ast estate owned by Lord Rosebery and I saw many of bis tenants While in Dublin I was ns-lnnished at the large number of funerals The were a constant pro-ci pro-ci sslon. Some of the dead were enclosed en-closed in rough pine boxeB, while :-eme were merely wrapped in cloths, and the were carried on the shoulders shoul-ders of men. or even women at times It was a very sad spectacle, but there were no very evident appearances of gr.ef, at least not outwardly, h seems 2s a natural consequence. I was reminded of the thought of Whit, tier: 'Small leisure have the poor for grief.' London Is a festering spot of misery and poverty and crime, hut Dublin Is still worse "In 177 when Robert Owen put in his labor saving machinery in the cotton mills at New Lanark. Scot-laud, Scot-laud, and thus having 2500 peonle do the - work of 000.0(0, Kreat Britain !ssw tho beginning of the capitalist sstem under socialized Industry :Thls has developed until the present day when they have so man unemployed unem-ployed that they can not take care of them, and their Jails even will not bold them. In spealcing to a group of these unemployed in Lncland. I asked. Do you condemn this machinery0 A yr.i.n man replied, 'We do not, hut we do condemn the present owner-' owner-' ship of the machines.' j ' The Socialists are In the majority i in German but not in their parlla-i parlla-i ment. because the olties, where the majority are Socialist, are not allowed al-lowed their proper piota of representation. represent-ation. Berlin should have more representatives rep-resentatives than it now has; It should hae one for every one bun- ,dred thousand but it has one for several sev-eral hundred thousand In the coun-I try districts. It is the reverse. Education Edu-cation in Germnn is advanced, es-j Ipcclally amonc Socialists Thv have a Socialist school In Berlin for men and women " "The unions of Germany are most all Socialistic and their pners are the same They organise the unBklll- ed as well as the skilled workers, and they are organized industrially! and by craft and thus ther are keep-Ing keep-Ing up with the organization of In-dustry. In-dustry. Germany is smaller than Ctah with hardly any natural resources re-sources comparatively, but it has a population of sixty million. The general conditions of the people peo-ple and the workers are better as a whole n Germany than here or mc I ntr other eountn ; true the skilled ' workers in this country are better off than the same workers In Germany There are no slums in Germany ; thanks to the large Soc ialist voie and jits Influence. Berlin is the third largest citv in the world and the houses of its workers are remarkably s.inliary and clean, and look like tbe middle class houses In this country "1 was present at the Balllner Investigation In-vestigation In New York and heard the evidence that proved that the piesldent of the 1'nited States was in connivance with the GugKenheitns In steallnp Alaska coal and other public lands. You have read in the paper 'tonight that Mr. J. Pierpont Morcan will be brought to answer for stealing I public lands. I ask you If the Lord created the land for the few. "You sav that Socialism is a dream. , that it Is chimerical, that it Is a good thing, but that it will never come We have it now in the socialized social-ized system of production. "The workers are the ones who in-I in-I vent and improve and mak- and run : tbe machines, while the owners are 'at Monte Carlo gambling or sailing the Mediterranean Men are forced out of employment while the women and girls and little children are forced to work for barely enough to keep body and soul together or forced out inio the streets to sell their bodies for bre?d. And yet the working peo-' peo-' p!e comprise nine-tenths of the population pop-ulation On my tour Into Idaho, Oregon. Ore-gon. Washington and Montana, I am ; to deliver lectures on the white slave traffic. Get the reports of the vice commissions of Chicago and Minneap-' Minneap-' olis and New York and read them I You ma likely gel copies in our library. And you will be surprised to see how large a business the white ,slae traffic is. It is an organized j institution like the steel industry. The sell them from the block in the back of New York saloons. The ca-jdets ca-jdets are mostlv young men and sell i girls in a small way They become j more proficient later Poland Russia and Paris have been the chief cen-i cen-i ters of the white slave traffic in the : past, but New York City is now the center of the world in this damnable traffic. No man can be elected to of-flce of-flce In New York without the support Of the white slave trafficers. the cadets ca-dets and procurers. Tammany Hall Is Lack Of It it is the political organizations or-ganizations that Is most involved in this traffic of human bodies Politics I and business are kuown to be so Involved In-volved Do you know that the Methodist Meth-odist Church of New York city is owner of some of the lowest places 'in New York-' Charlemagne in his d.v publically whipped the owners of bouses of prostitution The most re-l re-l spected citizens, some in the church end some outside of the church, own the houses of the redlighf distric t In the big cities. The great difficulty, as with all social reforms, is that they It .uii'ot reach the business men and Ipropert) owners The underpaid girls employed in the large business con-i con-i cerns of the country as in Chicago, are not paid enough, they do not want 'moral commissions.' but they want bread These girls want some- J thing to eat. something to wear "I is only the working people who lean settle this question by organizing! 'all over the world, and thev are doling do-ling it. In 1SSS we had 2u00 votes and and the people did not even make fun of us then we crept up to 'J'J.OOn by next election; then 88,1 96,000; 22f,nnn. 436,000, and last year to i90l!(00 and the votes were not all I counted "If there is anything in arithmetic, i If there Is anything In geometrical I progression, and if we had only 21 I In 188 and have increased at this ! ratio the time will come when e i will have Socialism." |
