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Show SOCIALIST AFTER CHIEF OF P-OLICE. 1 Salt Lake. Aug. 22. Speakers, scheduled to address a meeting of Socialists So-cialists at Liberty park at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, failed to put in an appearance and the promulgation of Socialistic propaganda was confined to a book-selling outburst of oratory by George E. Watts. During the course of his talk he continued his attack at-tack on Chief of Police S. M. Barlow and the board of park commissioners. Mr. Watts, In Introducing a book written by Carl Marx, said that the most -vital thing In the Uvea of the people today Is high prices. He declared de-clared that no one but a Socialist could give a reasonable cause for high prices and that Carl Marx ably gives that cause. To find out the cause, however, the hearor was referred to a little book which wrs sold by a number num-ber of solicitors at 10 cents a copy. "There is nothing in the world about which there Is a greater rolsunder- j standing than Socialism," said tho I speaker. "It is not a visionary nor a ! Utopian dream; It is a study of the laws of the social evolution of mankind. man-kind. "I have been interested in the freo spceoh fight against the autocratic and despotic chief of police and the equally arbitrary board of park commissioners." com-missioners." That Mr. Wafta has little use for a soldier is shown from a etatement mado by him: "Workingmen are tbe I enemies of other workingmen when they put on the uniforms of hired j assassins and murderers in the United Unit-ed States army. In time bf labor troubles trou-bles it has got so now that when the police cannot handle a crowd, the tin soldiers are called in and when they i fall to quell tbe disturbance they call , up the private paid army of the cap- i itallst class. The inevitable develop- ! j ment of capitalism means that it will j finally dig its own grave." |