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Show TRAVELING SOCIALIST LECTURES HIBNER FORCEFULLY UPHOLDS CAUSE OF WORKING CLASS. He Predicts Panics Under Present Wage System UntM Workers Unite and Remove the Cause (!eorge F. Hibner, a traveling Socialist So-cialist lecturer, spoke last night to an attentive audience of over 200 people, peo-ple, in the open air at tho corner of Twenty-fourth street and Washington avenue. Mr. Hibner has been lecturing lectur-ing on the road lor the past four years, covering most every portion of tlie United Slates. He Is traveling to the coast, intending to speak in Idaho. Oregon and California, reaching reach-ing tho Golden date City about July 1. He addressed a large' gathering in Union Hall, Salt I-ike City, on Wednesday Wed-nesday night, and has three more engagements en-gagements to speak in this state. Mr. Hibner spoke In a clear, forceful force-ful manner, driving his opinions home in well-balanced argument, on the relative positions of the working man and capital. He said in part: "Socialism, as a science, analyzes history and shows the causes of the changes in human events. From this analysis of history -we are enabled to know the main form of tho society that must follow capitalism. As a practical movement we are uniting the workers at tho ballot box to help bring thi-j new step. "The Socialist, more than a half century ago. outlined clearly the present pres-ent trust-ruled society and also the society that will grow out of tho present. pres-ent. In these times of crisis the Socialist, So-cialist, who al.me so long ago saowed the cause of them, who alone predicted predict-ed them, and also gave the remedy, deserves a hearing. "The workmen are the ones who suffer when there is any unusual condition con-dition prevailing in t'no commercial or Industrial world. When the mines and tdiops are closed I he workers have no jobs. The workmen are the majority of the people, and it is, to say the least, unfair that the mnjoritv of the American people should suffer suf-fer to enrich the minority. "There Is, however, a great change coming in our industrial organization. One of the reasons is: Crises or panics will come under the wage sys tern, and recur and get worse and worse, until those who suffer from them, the workers, the majority, will unite and remove the cause of them, the wago system." Mr. Hibner declared that the market mar-ket in America is the American people peo-ple .adding that their power to exist, to buy their homes, and to prosper, depends entirely upon their income. According to the speaker, the market depends upon the people, who are putting , into the warehouses much more than their wages can buy back. He declared that when the warehouses ware-houses get too full, tho owner of the mine or shop "closes Indefinitely," throwing thousands of willing workmen work-men out of positions, and causing a panic. Mr. Hibner said that machinery displaces workmen, and that labor troubles, in most instances, were due to the development and private ownership owner-ship of that machinery. The remedy, he asserts, is to let tho workers own in whole or part, tho product of their work, including the public works. A man to be free must own the job by which he lives, and the machinery in industrial u.ce must be owned socially, by tho collective commonwealth. |