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Show I Marxian Club Socialists 1 I : - -i ; i Any question concerning Social- , Editorial Committee: I 1:oTThuS. " ATES:TH'!ARD- I t'-TTT:', " ! ' ROY SOTUTLHW,CK. i fulness la drink. Our middle f:la. does not supply ; ua with, drunkards. They aro falrl well clothed, housed, and fed. Again, lot mo remind yon that this la tho aw of property. Property Is th0 chief eonsidoratlon today, .inudc-s, navies, policemen, militiamen, all are enpaed In tho protection of property, Man 13 only a secondary consideration. considera-tion. Our court9 aro also instruments In tho hands of tht property owning class, and safeguard their ownerstlp. Steal a ham to keep your wife from starving and the samo judge will give you three years You see, he 13 paid to watch the ham, and he does bis duty well. What Is thU civilization (so-called) doing for man? ' This and this !on Js the chief consideration How Is he housed? How Is ho fed? How Is he clothed? How is ho educated? He, LheT laborer, Is the builder of all houses, yet. has none -f his own. He, tho laborer, Is tho creator of all food, but. is hfmseh' starving. He, the laborer, Is the weaver of all cloth, but is naked. He, the laborer, Is the builder of all schools and theaters, but has ben reduced re-duced to the university of the street and the moving picture show. Toilers, are yon satisfied? Docs (( mean nothing'to you but beastly toll? You produce all and have nothing. Those who have all produce nothing. Is It not time for a change? Profes- sor Sidney In Iron Molders' Journal 1 . 1 Bare and grim the marshes are, Yet one day, and that ere long, Flowers tho somber waste will star, And the sllenco pulso with song; Gold will gk.aoi and green will glint "Where now glooms an ashen tint. Haste, O wonder working hour! Wo aro spent with chill delay; We would leap, had we tho power. Sheer into the heart of May, Seeing, hearing, feeling all Its comrnunlcablo thrall! Clinton Scollard. Capitalism makes every man the enemy of every other man. Socialism will niako all men brothers. It is the only thing that can do so. And tho workers are tho only people who can establish It, Capitalism is (he private ownership of the wholo social means of production, produc-tion, and the private appropriation of the whole product of cooperative social so-cial labor. Socialism is the collective ownership owner-ship of the?o moans and tho collective appropriation of the whole social product prod-uct for tho use of nil. The emancipation of tho wage-class must be the work of the wage-slave hlni3clf and the unity and solidarity of the wage slave., of all countries and racea Is the indlspenslblo precedent to the self-emancipation of tho wages. Tho strain placed upon Mayor Rey-burn Rey-burn of Philadelphia by the Rapid Transit compauy strike Is causing the worthy to becom-j Incoherent. The ministers of the city having gathered themselves Into an association, and demanded that the conflict be arbitrated, arbi-trated, the Mayor angrily answered that '"the ministers should attend to their own affairs, and not talk about things they know nothing about." Why, that's Just what the ministers are doing attending to their own affairs af-fairs by talking about things that they know nothing about. Weekly People. . 1 VOTES FOR WOMEN. I Oood for Anna! ' Mrs. Anna Shaw J is credited wlrh saying: 'Nothing will get us the vote until some political party sees that it is to Its own advantage, advan-tage, to give 113 the vote, and when that tlrno comes we'll get the vote whether wo want it or not." This lady could give Tom Watson cards and spades and heat him hands down. In her mind there reenis to be no cobwebs cob-webs on the subject of the materialist conception of history. She realizes that material Interests have to be relied re-lied upon, and will have to be the bed from which, plowed, harrowed, hoed, rnlied and weeded, will sprout up the plant of "Voles for Women." PILES CURED IN 6 to 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to euro any caso of Itching, blind, bleeding bleed-ing or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c PHILADELPHIA'S MIDWINTER 4TH OF JULY. Next Fourth of July the City of Philadelphia may dispense with tho performance of reading tho Declaration Declara-tion of Independence. It has dono so In advance. During tho last week the city has been practicing the thing with a series of thrilling tableaux. The tableaux represent two groups: One group consists of President Kru-ger Kru-ger of the Rapid Transit company, with George H. Earle, one of the clty'a representatives on the Board of Directors, Di-rectors, to his right, and Maor Roy-burn Roy-burn to his left. Those constitute the central figures. Grovped around them are Director of Public Safety Henry Clay, before whom is spread a map of the city over which he is shifting pins representing policemen: General Groome, commander of the State Constabulary, Con-stabulary, looking grim, and ponderous, ponder-ous, and ponderously and grimly Issuing Issu-ing orders; the magistrate before, whom Pratt and Murphy were hauled; ami last, not least, the multiple spirit of Gen. Stewart, who has promised to pour ln.o.io soldiers into the city. This group represents the "Government," "Govern-ment," mailed otf-haad, in the full panoply of power. Tho ether tableaux represents rails pulled up; trolley cars Jumping into the air and crashing Into stores; piles of brick barricading one street; a dumped truck-load of coal barricading auother street; iiollce shooting and flcclnc whllg they shoot; bricks flying In tho air and crushing through the windows of cars; strike-breaking mo-tormen mo-tormen and passengers falling flat 011 their faces to escape contact with brickbats; trolley cars, that but even now corrlvaled greatness as they left tho stables, Itmomlnlously turned turtle, tur-tle, or lying on their beam-ends; and around U all, a surging mass of humanity, hu-manity, workers and their friends, refusing re-fusing to be governed by the "Government. "Govern-ment. This group represents the "governed." It was in that Identical Philadelphia that, on a certain Ith of July, a certai.i document wa. issued which contained this clause: "Governments ire Instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed." WHAT'S THE CAUSE The Workingman Produces Everything, Every-thing, but Has Nothing. What's the cause of consumption? Poor nourishment, foul air and overwork over-work Wipe out the tenement districts, dis-tricts, venlilato the mines and factories, facto-ries, sherten the hours of labor and you have solved ihe problem. We hao abolished hog cholera, but not consumption, because It co3ts more to buy a hog thnn a laborer. One-third of all the children of the poor die prematurely from preventable prevent-able diseases and iinder-iiouriidimeiit. Thirty thousand men aro killed and 2,0110,11111) Injured on cur rallroadn every year. This frightful slaughter is almost al-most entirely unnecessary and roiiie-(pieully roiiie-(pieully criminal, and if justice were done the men resionslblc would be declared guilty of manslaughter, ThU would put a stop lo It at once. This much for the phyfical man. Now. what about hln Intellectual progress? prog-ress? Tho children of the poor have their vitality prematurely sapped In shop and factory, all liner sensibilities destroyed de-stroyed or stunned mentally, morally and physically. We still expect him to father the citizen of the faturo. Our present system Is to blame. We have "societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals." but none to demand de-mand a change of an Industrial system which damns the many us well an the few. What a howl goes up from these people when a fanner attempts lo work an Immature eolt. But child slavery Is lo them . question of uo Importance. Core for Drunkennecs. Tho mad rush in business and Industry In-dustry Is responrlblo for the nervous unrest of today. Poverty or the fear ol poverty, unemployed and the fear of it all thoao aro responsible for our over-crowded lunatic aybuus and tho increase in the number of put-eid. put-eid. Drunkenness Is also on tho In-crnfe In-crnfe and caDuot be cheeked until yoif tfko from UK 11 the nend of a stirunloo'. 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