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Show I Marxian Club Socialists I : 1 f EDITORIAL COMMUTE; .Questions concerning So( lalisrn j I Kate S. Hilllard, nnswered. AiMrcs all comruunica- 3 f Eugene A. Battell, Hons to Howard Hall, 27SI Puclflc T r Howard Hall. uvenuo. dently consider it a purely individual matter. The so-called "evolutionists" who believe In expropriating the capitalists capital-ists out(of "one thing at a time" would do well to ponder the annual report of the Philadelphia Ilapid Transit company, wherein the admission is made that in the attempt to crush the carmen's unien in the big strike the company suffered a voluntary loss of $l,329.ono. Vbe9i the attendant loss of life Is also considered, the old adate is again proven true the tiger will fight as savagely for the tip of his whiskers as be will for his whole head. P'ecemeallsm gains nothing, noth-ing, njt even its piece. Weekly People. Peo-ple. The two arms of the labor movement, move-ment, necessar for the emancipation of labor from wage slavery. The Political arm of labor is absolutely abso-lutely necessary. Through tjie party press It can spread the gospel of freedom, free-dom, to the workers, and the ballot is the weapon which civilization has placed in the hands of the workers But he who talks Socialism to the workers, and does not mention the economic arms of labor, Is a disrupter disrupt-er and political grafter The Socialist party of America claims Socialism as Its goal, and it intends to reach that goal by dabbling In politics alone. Those who heard Mrs. Anna M nicy's lecture of a week or so ago will note that she paid, "Vote the Socialist party par-ty ticket and you will get Socialism." I She did not once mention the economic econ-omic arm of labor. Those who talk politics and don t mention the economic arm of labor are only visionaries and aro leading the workers astray. Government means class rule and J oppression Government Is the In strument of the Capitalist class, to keep tho workeds In subjection. The workers' aim in capturing the reins of government is to abolish government. gov-ernment. Then there shall be no classes in society, henco there Is no need of government. Then the workers , through the economic arm of labor, that Is, tho Industrial In-dustrial Union, will set up a Parliament Parlia-ment of Industry. And In this Parliament of Industry, Indus-try, every Industry in the world shall he represented. The representatives are to be elected by the rank and file of those who work in the Indus-It Indus-It ie?. The aim. then, of the Militant Socialist So-cialist is to abolish the wage system, sys-tem, and set up the Industrial or Socialist So-cialist Republic rm Errors, like straws, upon the surface sur-face How; Ho wbo would search for pearls must ulve below. Dryden. SOCIALISM NEITHER SCHEME NOR DREAM. Economic Developent Decides. Moreover, the construction of a plan upon which the future bocial order ; thall be built has become, in our days, nut only purposeless, but wholly whol-ly irreconcilable with the modern standpoint of science. Iu the course of the lattt century, not only did a treat revolution take placo in the economic world, but likewise, in the heads of men. The comprehension of the causes of the social development has become unite general. Already la the forlled Marx and Engcls thowed and from that time on every step In social science has proved It that, In the last analysis, the history of man Und is determined, not by tho ! Ideas of man, but by the economic development which progresses lrro-! lrro-! sistably, obedient to certain under-! under-! lyiDft laws, and not according to the ! wishes or the whims of the people, i This economic development is In steady motion; it brings about new forms of nocloty; It starts new wants among men which compel them to rc-llect rc-llect over their social conditions and to devlso means whereby to adjust tocloty to the new system under which production is carried on. Because, Be-cause, he it always remembered. ' '- process uf adjustment does not go on of itself; it need the md . i -human brain. Without thought, without with-out Ideas, there Is no progress. But these ids which thought generates, are only the assistants of social development; de-velopment; the first Impulse does not proceed from them, as was formcrlj I believed and as many still think, the lirst Impulse1 comes from the ccon-! ccon-! oujic conditions. j Accordingly, It is not the thinkers and philosophers who determine the trend of social progress; that is de- ; tertulned by tho economic development. develop-ment. What the thinkers can do Is to discover, to recognize, the trend, and they can do that all the better the clearer their understanding is of the conditions that proceded. but they can never themselves predetermine the course of the Foci.il evolution at their own will. But even the discovery nnd recognition recog-nition of the trend of social procress has Its limits The domain of social life is most complicated; even the clearest intellect finds It impossible to probe it from all sides and to niea-Hurc all the forces therein at work with sufficient accuracy to enable him to fortell accurately what social forms will result from the point action ac-tion of all these forces. A new social form does not come Into existence through the conception of a plan by certain specially gllted heads who convince people by degrees of Its utility, and who, when they have acquired the requisite power, 1 undeitako at their ease the construe t'on of the .social edifice according 1o this plan Weekly People, Continued next week.) The olave holder of old had the power t.. lock his slave up and keep birn on nhort rations or on no rations at all, to the point of starvation, if he cho?e. The British Cotton Employers' Federal ..n has Just voted a provision lock-out to begin October 1st, by which HOO.OOo mill bunds and all dependent de-pendent upon them will be deprived of work and food, and If the struggle be long continued the famine conditions condi-tions witnessed iu Sweden during the great strike will fatedly be reproduced. reproduc-ed. Is the wages system slavery or Hot? Adding its little note of confusion to the blurring of clans Hues attempted attempt-ed by Miss Anna Morgan when she dabbled in the shirt waist strike, tho 1 A. F. of I "Shoe Workers' Journal" ! defends her by declaring: ' Organized labor does not war ou women." We may now expect to see Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al donning petticoats and anrons, in the Interests of "harmony." But seriously, by what feat of biology does parasitism become les.s parastic and more Immune from attack-through attack-through being practiced by a woman? A big candy manufacturer and a bigger carpet manufacturer are accused ac-cused of smuggling. Strange isu't It hw little knowledge these tariff protected pro-tected manufacturers have of Just how wide-spread the tariff really It. Both must have thought that It was for th. ir special benefit only and was not intended to Include the other manu-factuiers manu-factuiers It was General Hancock who said that the larlff was a ' local l.-isue." These alleged smugglers evl- |