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Show I Marxian Club Socialists Y 1 V EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Kate S. Hdllard, T Eugene A. Battell, Howard Kali. v I Qutlona concerning Socialism I answered. Addrees all conuuunlca- tlons to Howard Hall. 27SJ l'aclflc V avenue ...... -t-. .. uso It. In the year 1910 there is a labor market. He who ha ability U not free to u-e U. H must firs; find an employer wilJ'ng t., buy It of blm. The clear statement of the problem rint. the ay to If iolJ;l..n. The private ownership of tho means of production is at tho root f the iron-Mi. iron-Mi. Tlx:' political equality now considered con-sidered one of the cornerstones of the republic must be carried over Into the Industrial field also. As the Socialist 1-abor party has dccla-d In Us platform plat-form since li'W. "We hold that the true the-ory of P-litlcs Is that the machinery of gov-trnim-nt must be controlled by the whole people; but again taught by ex-perlence ex-perlence w bold furthermore thai the true theory of economies Is that the im-an of production must likewise lie owrx-d, operated and controlled by the pes') pi' In common. Weekly People. i ; t i i : : ;-.-r-.--t-i-r-:-i---; m-h t Strength I a much of the quality aa the quantity of the muscle, wbll superiority in performance requires a certain mind a well aa strengib LEW WALUVCK. Socialism Neither Scheme Nor Dream. Class Struggle a Factor. All social forms have hitherto been the result of long and tluctuaing struggles between the expbv.tod and the exploiting chooses, between the sinking and reactionary rl;ise. on the one hand, and the pron-sr-h e and revolutionary one, on the other. In (he course of the-- Struggles one nt of tbeye several classe N found merged In all manner of combination- ( to battle with the other net of cboe that oipo.j-i them Ttu camp of the expb'l'd at tlrn-s couuin!1 both revo- billonary and reactionary elemeuts;; the camp of th' r'-volutlonistj vnntaln J at tinier both eilnlter and exploit-j ed Within one and 'he tame clap Itrao for He!-1!! Keller! With an I aruir.rQ which p its to shame many who hae th- full u.e of their eyes ! and ars. sh d- lares "th time will , come wh'-n Instead of looking with i iriile on our reai charlta.ble instltu-1 instltu-1 Hons, we Mhall come to look upon I hem jus inounments of our Ignorance, stupidity and folly." Hatter himself , as iin charity worker may. all Ms j -nergy merely pnes to prolong a sys-I sys-I teni which reasrb ssly prluds out the ! very results he is seeking to overcome. over-come. I ; If th. r.fto Weft Point cadets, who are under rourt-mnrtlal for insaltlne C-ap'aln Kufus K. IiOnttan, should all be dismissed; and If th-lr successors should show equal moftl with the consequence of belnR llkewi.oe dismissed; dis-missed; and no on; then there would be a pood prospect of peace on earth and pood will among men. the United : Stat- l-adinc. Mn trained for war I are pledfied, not of pence, but of I strife. I There U one Filipino, whatever may be said of the others, who has cauphi on." He Is the Snlta.n of Sulu. now in this country and investing invest-ing In jack knives, iron bedsteads, nnt-crarkers, mouse-traps, epp-beaters and sundry other articles of American Ameri-can brira-brac wherewith to clville his people " The times chance, arid we alone with them. Time was when the Turk and the Hungarian were in each others' hair. Help from either to the other w.lk not Imaginable. How the t'm.B have changed: What the Koran's Ko-ran's urihcrnal benevob-nce and the Christian charity failed to brini; about capital has accompllFhed. As a mire way to secure it saf.-ty Turkish Turk-ish capital, ju8t triumphant over Turkish Turk-ish feudalism, paches the hanrl to itself different factious are frequently formed according to the Intellect, the t. iiiperanienf , a:id the i-ta'lon of both Individual;-. ;uol wnole s'-ctlone. And. flniilly, the power wb ld' d by any single sin-gle class has never ben p-nn.'in-tit ; It has risen it fallen according as it .a imderKanilinK d the Furrouud nig conditions, the conipnrtness and 'he sire of Its orcmiUatlons. and .U importance im-portance In the mechanism f pioduc-llon pioduc-llon lncrea.ei or diminished. In the course f the lluctuatine strucRles between these clashes, th-elder th-elder social form, which had become untenable, cnimbbl down and were pushed afide by new ones. The new poclal order that took the place of th ; old one was mt always lnimed':t ly th best possible. In order to have been rio. the revolutionary classes at each such epoch would have bail to be In pofisesi-ion of the fole political power an, of the niont perfect understanding under-standing of their simMaI condition. As long as this w a not the cae, luist.ikes w-fre unavoidable, not Infrequently In-frequently a new noclal order proved itself partially. If not wholly. J uM as untenable as the one It had overthrown. over-thrown. Nevertheless, the btronger the pressure of the economic develop- J tucnt made lt.-clf Mi, the clearer al- ! ho became the social iriKl Hut Ions which it teqi.ired, and proportionally gr-at- i er liecame the power of the revolu- , tlonary lapses to carry out what was ne-ersarN. In such cases the Institution Institu-tion of the revolutionary clasaetj that may hae conflicte,! with the economic econ-omic development then existing, soon ' dropped off. while, on the contrary,! tbore other Institutions which were in keeping with the economic conditions condi-tions soon struck root and could no longer be upset by the surviving upholders up-holders of the older system. ! It Is In this way that hitherto all new soi ial orders have arisen. S i- called revolutionary times differ from 1 others only in this, that events take place at a more rapid pace and with more vigorous pulse. The genesU of social institutions Is, accordingly, a very different one from that of a house. Previously perfected perfect-ed plans are not applicable to Uio former. In view of this fact, to Hkctch plans of the oncoming social Mat Is about as rational as ocenpa 1 Hon as to write In advance the history his-tory of the next war. Weekly People Hungarian capital and the hand is clasped The Hungarian government ha-s given itx sanction to a Turkish scheme to furnish Turkev with tlec-trie tlec-trie light It is worse than 'folly" on the part of the proletariat to take up capitalist capital-ist Issues. Capitalist Issues split up the ranks of labor hence It fa suicidal for labor to be lured from iLs own interests by capitalist Issues. What the capitalists mean hv "good American" workingmen is a dull mass of deferential, obedient slaves Once in a while these capitalists run acrosj a foreign-born wo.klngman who is less submissive to Indignities than they, the capitalists, like, go they try to play native workman against foreign workman. That Is why In capitalist news accounts of strikes and strikers it is always "foreigners-' who "assault "as-sault strikers; "foreigners" who are. shot dowTi by deputies. It is the samo with rep, rts of accidents. It is always "foreigners" who are killed or injured. in-jured. The capitalist press, by thi use of the word "foreigners," aNo hopes to kc?p the workers from perceiving per-ceiving the real fact that the word translated into "foreigner" is ro.illv the word Proletarian or Worklngman. Worklngmen who rend such capitalist capital-ist papers should riot forget that they have no more regard for the native-lorn native-lorn worklncfunn than they have for the foreign bom worklngman. From the People. CUT OUT THESE STATISTICS. ' American Labor Far Cheaper Than British. Washington, Oct. 13. From figures on the world's coal supply, in a recent Prltish publication, the Hunan of Manufactures of the Department of Commerce and Labor has compiled statistics, showing that the Pnlted States, with O'.u.i.iss persons etuplovod in mining coal in 1'J'iS. produce -d UG, ."t2.uiii tons of coal more than were produce d by I't'.ij.J'j I persons .similarly employed In the I'nited Kingdom, an i that the production of coal in the I'nited States amounted to tonn per person employed, as against 211 tons produced per person In the United Unit-ed Kingdom Exchange FRANK DARKCLOUD'S PARADOX. Havlni; committed a small theft after af-ter five weeks" Ineffectual s-ureh for work, Frank Parke loud, a Carlif! fob lece srraduate. Is serving a 113-day ftentence in the Chcari Brldewi-ll. Itarkcloud, the scion of a oncv proud Chliijiewa Indian chieftain, wan half-; back on the college team. Five weeks qko. with hU youni; Indian wile, he! went to Chicago to look for work, I hoping to put his education to u.n-. When he at last landed a place, his money wan pone, no one would trust him, his wile In deilcute health and etarvlnp. For tin- first time in hlj life he df r-:ardi'd the law. Hole, and wan arrest" d. In th" native state, when his trlb: roanml free over their ancestral lands,' the flKht against nature was severe. Tin t every im-w fact acipilred. every ; new faculty developed, was n added weaKn in the htrugcle. KveiV addeil weapon meant an caller conquest and ' more certain victory". The idea of a fully educated nian's being put out of the running would have been pre-, pofctc-rous. i Now . how ever, tt eeMns to be quite possible for a man who ha spent' three ear In ncoulrltin fucts, training train-ing tils abilities, a-id "nttliu himself for life" as the baylni; in, to be slow-) ly forced to the wall and driven to theft to keep body ond bou together. Here- is a paradox. Evidently the trained man of the present ha,s Home. ( thing to contend with which the train-ed train-ed man of tribal days had not. j What that "b-tnethlng" K every day of our experience Is proving. No; amount of training, no amount of abll-j It v. will any longer enable a man by his own ltor to oconJre th mean of economic Independence. The mVrn tool of wealth-creation l too vn.t, too expenslxe. for any worker's honest earnings to purchase I'pon the heeli of this fact must fellow another: he who has not tro meam of production must tend. r himself to th. mercies of hlni who hM. lie in'it practraJy well hlnielf In the labor market to th( employer, the factory ownr, tho labor buyer. All bis skill, a bis train-Irn. train-Irn. ore of no ne to ;ltn un!-sn h r.nela a purchar; and all hU aMHtles and facullle rr.oy go bagging If thero l many more ej'aally ej ilppe w iu, blmelf. all linking for the am. Joh. 1 In tribal thre s no US-r rrr- ket He bo .d ability was free to |