OCR Text |
Show ffiUROl SEES NATIONAL CRISIS I William Thurston Brown, former pastor of th? Unitarian church in thU city, and the princlpnl speaker at i Socialist meeting in Liberty park. In Salt Lake Sunday afternoon, declared that this country was facing a great ! crisis If the struggle between the 1 capitalists and the wage slaves if j noi settled peaceably, said he, It will taean another civil war. ' During the course of his address I Mr. Brown quoted etxensivcly from Abraham Lincoln's writings lu an at i Uropt to show that the great emancipator emanci-pator sensed the Importance of th or.fllct between capital and labor. Mr. Brown said In part; "Great, problems are facing thi country which must be solved. A labor Is the creator of all wealth it l.s entitled to all that it creates, declares de-clares a Socialist writer. If this .-talement were made by Socialists in Salt Lake City the capitalist pa jv?rs would take up the matter and make fun of the statement. Lincol.t was a ware of the evil influences of capital during the first year of the civil war. This la evident from on of bis messages. He saw that Unpopular Un-popular institutions never were ai at stake There was an attempt at that time by the capitalist ciass to hold up the government on contracts lor supplies to be furnished the army. An Irrepressible Conflict. "There is an irrepressible conflict on at tho present time. Such a con-lilct con-lilct was on prior to the French revolution. rev-olution. While there were a few 1 rave spirits making speeches an ! writing articles against slavery, a. early ns 1835. no one at that time sensed that a great struggle was coming. com-ing. You would hardly think it po-j- Hple that people could live duri lg ( those days and not see that one ,f I be greatest crises of history wiu impending. Lincoln declared that 'no i ation can permanently endure, half-slave half-slave and half free.' Society todav Is facing the same Irrepressible conflict con-flict that was faced Beventy-five o-? o-? hundred years ago The wage slave today is just as much a slave as ever the colored man In the south was; he i no more master of hla fate than was the negro. "All the Instruments of production and distribution are being centered under the single control and ownership owner-ship of the capitalist class, and ju.-t this far. that it indicates that on the ether side you have a class of slaves. The only people that are aware of the great crisis that fronts us today are Uie worklngroen who have a- quainted themselves with conditions. How many of our lawyers, and po'.'-tlclans po'.'-tlclans are aware that waite slavery exists? Problem of Children. "Another problem that confronts the country is that of child labor This is one of the things that must be solved. The conflict that Is on never can be settled until there Is om emancipation of the wage slaves. "Bye and bye. there will be n foreign market. Foreign countries ar. manufacturing the goods we used to iend to them. The curtailing of our foreign market will result in panics becoming more common and frequent In the future than they have been in the past. It means another civil war unless we can alTect a peacable solution so-lution of this question "Organized labor will never cease t- make demands for higher wacs and shorter hours until It gets tho full product of its toll. The cost o living will cause the elimination of the middle man In the near future, and then there will be the most tremendous tre-mendous uprising against capitalism that we have ever had. The only thing for worklngmen to do is to unite with other worklngmen, bitii economically and politically. Th only party open to them Is the Soel?.l 1st pnrty There will be no ceasing of the struggle until the government o' the capitalists by the capitalists, and ;nr the capitalists, I done away wltj ,ind I supersede! by the government of the workingmen, by he working-men working-men and for the worklngmen." |