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Show any other srbntii.e ditvc tion ; they nio vncadcil in a complete panoply of prejudice culled "coinuiun nenhe." , W'e are neither antl-Jupanet., ail 1-Chlnese, 1-Chlnese, nmi-N.-jm, antl-JJntish, antl-Germau, antl-Germau, antl-Fi i n h. nr anil any other people r race; we an- nnil-t:iplt.ilihtie nnil-t:iplt.ilihtie and ptolabor. V have uuly uuo friend tbe worker, und one enemy the capitalist, no matter what raci', creeil or color. Weekly Peopl-. Another lutcr-vatlnc tart thrown up by the present British elections Is the dandldaey at Plymouth of Waldorf ftor, son of tbe American multimillionaire. multi-millionaire. William Wnldorf Afi'or. Of what parly wus Waldorf Astor a candidate? can-didate? Sirey not of the Socialist, c r of the Lntior party, but rertaluly c.f the Liberal and untl lord party? Not at nil. He was a candidate of the ex-t' ex-t' me pro Ixnl party, and wns elected. Thus American dollars, sweated by American libor. ko a rosa ro Kurop-? to oil thr wlie'-ls of n carapalpn that flies In the t.'cth of the political principles prin-ciples of the American Revolution. U this n easy .if Asior retrogression? Not at nil. It Its a case that Illustrates Illus-trates the tenacity of bad Instincts. In the das of the American Revolution, Revolu-tion, th" Astors, clustered nroun 1 Trinity church, prayed, not for George Washington, but for George 111. The pietlstlc words "man does not live of bread only" which have latterly lat-terly llgured extensively In the speeches of Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats addressed to hungry workers, are about to be amended. James H. Hoyt. a Cleveland lawyer speaklnsc at the dinner of the St. Nicholas society at Delmonico's on the 13th of this mouth said: "Why. lu the name of heaven, should we hate the rich? The rich buy pictures to put them where the poor can op them." The original economics of phrasc-uslnR capitalism was to the effect that the workers could live on air; the present amendment amend-ment Is to the effect that they can live on pictures quite as nndigeftible a diet us air, hot, tepid, or cold. Peo- ITT I 1 I 1 I ' 'TTTTT-r. . m WORK FOR SOCIALISM. S i Eleven Reasons Which Every Work-Ingman Work-Ingman Should Consider. Because it means freedom to Labor. Because It will wipe out private ownership own-ership of the means of life by the capitalist clasa. Becaufeo It means full lile for all vho labor and do their fchare or tho world's work. Because It will abolish poverty ond employment. Because it will resume. In the namo of the whole people, what tbe collective col-lective and social labor of the whol of the working society ha3 evolved fcnd produced. Because It will give equal opportun- Ity to all to develop their bodies and brains to tbe full, and enable men and women to live decent and human lives. Because it'B u question, "Who 8 going go-ing to own the world the working class or the capitalist class?" Because capitalism Is responsible for the crises, panlcu, war and slaughter, which keep the world a perpetual hell upon earth. Because tbe working class produce til the world's wealth, which the capitalist capi-talist class own, and only return to tho workers lu the shape of wages a portion of what labor alone can pro-vlurc. pro-vlurc. Because, so long as capitalist prl-atc prl-atc ownership of the earth and the means of life remain Insecurity and jKivcrly face tho majority of tbe hum-juj hum-juj race. Becauso Socialism must come; and the party fighting for It Is tho Socialist Labor pa.rty. Weekly People, PASSING FILMS. Thrown on the Political Canvass for the Guidance of the Worker. Tho whole world-wide social evil in ono word: "Slavery. Tho most terse and correct definition defini-tion of slavery In human language a living wujp?. Apart from untoward happening? tuch as floods, droughts, etc., that is exactly what tho chattel slave had, and be had no need to worry; ho was guaranteed that. Tho chief difference between the chattel and the "wage" variety of slave Is that tho modern slave owner ctnnot guarantee a . living wage to Lis slave or even any wage at all. Those who deny that ulavery exists here Miid now ran only arrive ut that conclusion by denylug the evidence of their own senses. They have a strong family resemblance to the d-J-fendunt In a case recorded In American Amer-ican history. Eli Whitney proceeded auhjiisi a certain lirni for pirating his fi'iijoiiM Invention, the cotton gin. 'P!.e ilett i! lint Moully denied the b-hg'-d plracv, while, he in common with every cither person i i court, could distinctly hear the peculiar sound or Whitney's machine going full rip in tf fenilanfs works not twenty yards away. The nttltud" of rhul defendant Is the same as that of both Republican Repub-lican and Democratic parties alike, tbev both teach the same lying doe-trine doe-trine -"Slavery does not exist.'' The capitalist, a such, does not prod u:e uny vvejlth (valu'(. If he takes part in the work, then in tluit case, be reckons as one average laborer labor-er no tnoie, no le?s; but as i capltai-tki capltai-tki be has no right whatever to a single sin-gle fraction of the wculth-value that labor alone produces. That the workers bhouhl "Uil;e and hold" the whole product of their labor, lab-or, and thereby abolish the Institution of social wrong that awards the bulk of labor's product to idlers. Is the econom.c and ixdltical platform of the S. L. P. All who enderstand aud believe lu it have a clear and bnundeti duty to perform: Vote Its state ticket tic-ket straight, under the Ann and Hammer. Ham-mer. "Ants," it was stated, lu a recent scleutlfic lecture, 'rank next lo rn.ni Pi Intelligence." "The Amazon ants.' continued tlx- lecturer, -have developed devel-oped a .slave trade, and are entirely dependent upon these slaves for their food snpplie-." Piobablv thi.-. was what Solonian meant vvie-ii be said. "Go to the .nit. I bou Flueg;ird." The ' .sluggard' referred to, of .course, is the idle p..-esslug class, whlcli uas thus iilvlsed ;o Rot on the level oi the -inn. . nd live on tlie labor j or slaves. Anyhow, that's what they do. It's tine-. ;)iou;li. that the ware slaves d-vc!iMei more lntc-llicence than the ant aves. Why rem.iln o.i tbe level id the Insect-, fellow .workers? .work-ers? E-VcbaiiM- vour manhood, and organize jn the S. L. P. and the industrial in-dustrial union to end your slavery. We constantly are coming in contact con-tact with "superior" people who lauh to scorn the Socialist principle of economic and soclnl equality. ind we invariably find them in the regions of logic and reasoning power, very Inferior not only lu sociology, but In |