| Show socialists HOLD RALLY william WilHam M thurston brown the speaker tells large audience the differences between the national parties and socialite socialise Socia lise the socialists of sevier county are not overlooking any bats in this campaign a as s was evidenced by the sc securing euring of william thurston brown of silt salt lake city to open the cam here mr brown is one of the best platform orators in this or any other state and his speech at tho the opera house last friday night was a winner for the party there was a good sized audience present and the speaker was given the closest attention and judging from the expression after the meeting his arguments were satisfying to those who attended mr brown spoke in part as follows the socialist party differs widely from the republican republic an party or the democratic party or any other canisal party the representatives of the socialist party are not men whose chief purpose is that of gaining votes or winning of fiLes ies the chief function of the socialist party is to educate the people as to the economic and industrial du conditions under which they are living and to prepare them for intelligent cooperation with the forces of economic and industrial evolution which already are producing within the decaying husk of capitalism the new and higher order of socialism old party politicians motive by the desire to get votes and so BO per petru ate their political graft are stilt atilt repeating the tha stalo stale and worn falsehood that the nation is unexampled prosperity it if these men had any regard for the truth or enough brains braina or moral sense to grasp a situation which is becoming all tha while hile more obvious to the masses of the people they would not re hash this ancient and explode de lie every housekeeper and every bread win winner nerin in america knows that the cost of living has been steadily in continued on page 8 socialists HOLD RALLEY continued from page cage 7 creasing year ear by b year and that now h here e re among the producing classes whether farmer or wife ige earners has I 1 income kept pace with tho the cot of living Goern government ment statistics statistic show that while the cost of living his has advanced percent the adrige increase in ili incomes his has 1 I IS been 20 percent it is not to lie be expected that men and women who think the same old things which their fathers thought and vote a political ticket solely from force of hibit or because their father voted that ticket will be interested in socialism or in ani other living i a aie ie today whole action as citizens is 13 controlled from the grave yard absolutely absolute nothing art an be hoped for from that kind of people president garfield had tl 11 ent em it ili mind in one of the most impressive ond and significant utterances utterance a he ever made speaking of some of the 3 boung clang men I 1 of his time he said you ie ia men melt dont pitch your political politic jl tents in the graveyards of dead issues no better aduce was etier eer given than that but eer eera man or woman 0 o day who votes vote any ticket simply from force of abit or because their father doted it belongs to the class of people mic have pitched their political tents in the grae graveyard ard of dead issues political parties crow old decad deca are bound to die often die and cumber the earth for wint want of decent burial that is 13 the exact condition of our capitalistic p arties artiea of all sorts borts they are inseparably attached to a dead or decadent a system stem the rhe system slattern of capitalists is already decadent it han ban out hoed its usefulness it cannot endure it must pass away to make roo rooi n fir the social order which has haq been germinated within the buah hua of i capitalism the new econ IRIC and I 1 il and social order of socialism do you want proof of this state ment merita you have to con consider siller the conditions prevalent today in our whole industrial system or to cot coi bider the admitted soi ial eila which menace the eri lif of the nation and of all the nations to understand the exact situation what are some of the admitted social ei IN of this nation today one of them is child labor do aou ou realize that for ome reason oter oer two to and a half millions of bos and girls under ili ib y ears of age ire are today toda forceno for cedo become mire mi re commodities in this capitalistic sy stem of wealth fr D 03 you iou know inow that over 80 children under 16 oer inder 12 are being tied ti ed today in the cotton mills of file north and south that orb other r ris are being employed in the elds factories the dye work the coal break era the tobacco fetor ici the stock yards ad ind and in ili various other J and their employment in these indu industries tries means accord dc cordine inQ to the testimony or 01 physicians ind other thi undermining of their health the robbery of their childhood and the blasting bli sting of their manhood and in ili the bud in this rp respect we are arc face to face in 11 america with the struggle which england had on its hands a hundred years ago why are we using the ehi children laren of this nation merely is as industrial ind d du u commodities to be literally li terill coined into wealth wi bilth for the benefit of a few fews why ire we a system of child slavery in this falsely called land of the free and th home of the brave empt and hypocritical on in lips in the face of wh t tifa nation ig permitting under ltd its bear spangled span cled ban her nera 7 why is 13 it ita there is only one angher nut only does this system of child sl slavery claery aery this system of can sm this modern slaughter of the innocents compared with which the alleged murder of babies under herod in the childhood days of jesua was a neali ne eligible gible event nut does doci this system of child slavery have hae its rout in the wages system or capitalism but ao 0 o does eer other trum tremendous enious economic industry I social and moral problem with which we tire are menaced the problem of poverty the nat tot a al scandal and disgrace of the white traffic the c economic compulsion which aich is forcing ever bear at leist least a hundred thousand women in ill this country alone to make merchandise of their virtue as the price of e asting at all on earth and all the other social evils and vices with which we are afflicted what is the wages system or capitalism which is 13 producing this evil array aard ot of menacing social and moral problems 7 it is 13 the system of industry under which we are living to borrow the language lanau age of dr limati abbott editor of the outlook the wages sy 3 stem means that a small class clas of men own practically all the tools tool 3 of industry but do not use those tools while a large class of people use those tools but do not own them this small class of people owning the tools of industry but not using them is 13 the capi capitalist taht class the class which under thit that system has been able tu to get pos poa aeb iun of nearly all the health of the so that toda today in this land which our fathers intended to offer a free and equal opportunity tunit to all kinds and conditions of moo mn all ami women thin one percent of 0 the people own more of the wealth of this thib nation thin the other ninety nine pt rient and over h hilf III of the people are property lesa on oil the other hani th alii class which the tool of if industry foi the production of the class la bor produces ill wealth is 19 lincoln said but which docs not own the tools tool with which it works and ii 11 there fore robbed of th most moi of its product by the clini that gwng the tools th a s i la the working class tit clr only indispensable pen sable sible alasin this or i ly jy other nation io fo quote again from dr abbott ane bible says in ili the sweat f thy brow ahalt thuu thou eat bread but the system sas to millions on millions of men and women in fore fora gli en countries and to multitudes in this country thou not earn tho bread in ili the swell sweat of th fate fale thou not have the chance what la is it that laa acta s this to of huma human I beings the batzes system whit what d lies es that it inlang tint thit the wages s system stem is not only a fine system a at variance with the highest ethics of the bible hostile even tu the ethical sense of a people but it is simply simple and only the latent form of slavery the wage workers of today toda the world over are the slaves of today and they must remain slaves and nothing else lust just so long as 19 this damnable system continues it is undoubtedly true thit that they have little or nothing to hope for from this great mass of religious or prof religious people who so glibly use the words brother nd in sister in their communication with members of the same sect or creed because these loud professions of our supposed religious creeds dont go beneath the ekin it we dont think of this vast multitude of wage slaves as our arr and sisters they might just aust as well be utter it tt ringers to js is might as well be dogs or mules or a vine or products of the mines and factories our professed religious creeds and faiths do not avail for teta tem tn ir rit right on and the rink hypocrisy of our all religion is open to the know ledge of the wide world we are by bv our on confession a race of hypocrites but these slaves are waking up to a sense of their condition slid and the socialist mo movement ement the wi ane e world is the product of their waking up the socialist movement mo ement is the tuni of the last ast mass of biale slaves fr fir emancipation the social boci soci ilist is party parti is 19 the political icil expression expresion ion of tl tint tit mighty this bartys campaign never ends it ja n milling holding lit meetings every ever month and every in the year it is the bunal party it foreshadows fore shadows already the file unity of the whole world it iq 11 the only pledge of world wide it lives to educate the masses in the th ns chieh make for their e n inca I 1 to toi I 1 already it is 13 the I 1 virgast parti in tho the world it numbers more than tin tan million voters it hu hai established itself in every civili c of notion on earth birth for mire than au years the party his hishaw had representatives I 1 n i c cry nty city of the german empire for a large pait pail of that time it has a lually controlled the affairs of na miny iny of those cities As aa a resil none ot of the gerain cities hive anything curre apoi it to the slums which are the ut rt hi L and america in the german empire where th reial party has mo e than a million votes mire than any other party part the i if Is of the nation havo have been corn com elca el cd to grant na amny illy of thu the demands of the work workers pra and over of perona in that country are insured by the against siLK nesa over 1 are i a radava that accident t and over against old age over are paid out andua by the german government in old aie aaa pensions why wh 7 because the vork ing class went into polities politics with a party of their own instead ot of throw ine ina away their votes by supporting the parties of their masters mag tera as so many vage workers in this thia cu cau it ry are doing but capital sm is destroying it g S if it cannot possibly pos silly p D a 0 its own existence wily 0 because Be caust it cannot possibly insure work worl to au the ulu working class because it cannot feed fee or clothe or house douse or preserve the people of the nation its most moat andiss pen sible citizens capitalism exist n a market take away its ita birket and it must die it cannot have a home market because the great working class cannot buy bui back more than ole oie fifth of what it produces the working class according to govern m nt statistics receives in the form ol 01 0 wages less than one fifth of the values which it creates the capitalist class must find a market for that four fifths labor creates but does not get obviously it lai a I 1 only find a market for it in some other nation which dues does not a the goods it wis his depended on the foreign market of china and japan as well ell as other it irions which form erl furnished sheu a market for our sur plus products it ir decomine be comine capital baic themselves thea alie are installing the very veri same kin binl I 1 of industries industry til es that we have they hive all alic ic raw material right at hand ind they have an unlimited supply ot or the file cheap t kind of latter labor bal labor which with modern machinery is 13 i lb efel lilt as at an in tre tie wrid world our fore forean izol market is gone and the doorn doom of is eld ever t of sell il reservation eser on the pint flair of the vor orling liny cl at and also albo on the part of th farmer eliss cliss aich will very soon be calely in the san e condition as their brother wage slaves must incite them to unite in a political party of their own on to effect their emancipate ton on to 10 other an the republican and democratic parties are avowedly avow adly capitalist parties partie s the stand lot for the system which would w 0 uld rob labor of its product both of them are labor a and the interests 0 of f all producers la is to abolish the private ownership of the tools of prodoc tion and make the users of the tools the owners of them this thia does not mean dividing div idine up nor does it me min in the end of private property it means stopping the process 0 of dividing up and effecting the widest possible d dis 1 s trib ution of private property prop arty consi consistent lt with justice to every mancho man who works tl TI is 13 is the mission of the socialist party |
