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VOL. III. H E L E N A , MONTANA, W E D N E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 28, 1904.

Coming Down. To Socialism

T h e f o l l o w i n g ar t ic le in the Seat­

tle " N e x t " by the comrade whose

name is signed is r ight to the point

a n d worthy of r ep roduc t ion :

I speak as a class conscious , w o r k i n g class Socia l is t . Yes , a wage-work ing class Soc ia l i s t ; a pro­le ta r ian Socia l is t . It seems to me that oui content ion has not been c l ea r ly enough stated. N o r the reason for our fear of middle-class d o m i n a t i o n of the party. Nei ther is the preventative we advance f o r s u c h domina t ion put c lear ly enough before the membership of the party.

L e t me state the case. There is a tendency amongst the members of the A m e r i c a n Socia l i s t pa r ty—of the In te rna t iona l Socia l i s t par ty—to ap­pea l for support to the d y i n g midd le c lass , and even to the capi tal is t c l a ss ; to appeal " t o a l l c lasses ," as the quickest and most effective way to reach the goal of the co-opera­t ive commonweal th . T h e argument b e i n g that once a person under­stands the beauties of Soc i a l i sm , p r o v i d e d they are of o rd inary mora l w o r t h , they wi l l support it irrespec­t i ve of their class interests. T h i s the scient i f ic Socia l i s t brands as f a l ­l ac ious doc t r ine and capable of be­c o m i n g destruct ive of our purposes. H e n c e there has ar isen a conf l i c t w i t h i n the party between the sup­porters of these two ideas.

N o w , the base of our argument is th i s : T h a t whether it benefits any­one else or not, S o c i a l i s m is the o n l y th ing that wi l l benefit the work­i n g class. A l s o , that it is the his t o r i c miss ion of the w o r k i n g class to conquer a l l other classes and by the establ ishment of S o c i a l i s m abol i sh a l l class rule. Reasoning f r o m this first premise the latter natural ly f o l ­lows . These things granted, the t h i n g to do to a c c o m p l i s h the end des i red is to acquaint the workers w i t h their his tor ic miss ion in order that they may act. We have no t ime to bother with the midd le class n o r the capital is t class if we pay proper attention to the work ing c lass .

Rises the sentimentalist and says, " Y o u wou ld keep a l l honest i n d i v i d ­ua ls in sympathy wi th the workers out of the party, or at most merely tolerate t h e m . " W e answer, " N o , that is not our i n t en t i on . " Hut if it were, what d i f ference? The work­ers are s t rong enough and numerous enough. However , we merely ask that the midd le class and the capit­a l i s t class understand the h is tor ic mis s ion of the work ing class and not hinder that class in its work.

W e say, show the workers their c lass interests.

T h e y say, appeal to a l l classes. W e say, expend you r efforts

where they wi l l a ccompl i sh the greatest results.

T h e y say, one midd le class man is wor th ten wage workers.

We say, the work ing class rauvt

emancipa te the wor ld . T h e y say, get the midd le class

a n d the workers w i l l fo l low l ike •heep.

Marx sa j r i : " T h e low** midd le c lass , the i m a l ! mannfr.i turer, the shopkeeper , theerr tsan, the peasant, a l l these f iRhl against the bourgeoi­sie , to save f r o m ex t inc t ion their ex is tence as f rac t ions of the middle claas . T h e y are therefore not rev­o l u t i o n a r y , but conservat ive. Nav , more , they are react ionary , for they try to r o l l back the wheels of his­t o r y . " H a v e we the t ime to spend o n their educat ion when so many of the work ing class are wai t ing? The oppor tun is t would appeal rather to th i s class than to the work ing class.

It is that tendency which we are f igh t ing , and it is that tendency w h i c h we must conquer or the So c ia l i s t party wi l l die. When the

store keeper loses his store, when the manufacturer loses his f ac to ry , when the fa rmer loses his f a r m and when the leader loses his fo l lowers , it is possible to make of them good Social is ts . U n t i l they have lost their a l l we can most p rof i tab ly spend our t ime i n educat ing those who are already propertyless.

K. B . A D L T .

Outline of Work for

Socialist Locals to Do. B Y M . W . W I I . K I N S .

1. ( let subscr ibers for Soc ia l i s t papers.

2. Ge t new members f o r the L o c a l .

3. H o l d an occas ional publ ic meeting when you can get a good speaker and see that the meeting is wel l advert ised.

4. Scatter leaflets or bookle ts over your te r r i to ry once or twice a month , tak ing care to put them d i ­rect ly into the hands of voters, and do not dupl ica te each other's work .

5. H o l d business meetings not less of ten than twice a month and make it a rule to never a d j o u r n a business meeting, unt i l you have planned some work fo r S o c i a l i s m , and p rov ided ways and means to car ry it out.

6. K e e p a complete list of a l l Socia l i s t s i n your precinct or pre­c incts , whether members of loca l or not ; see that they register i n t ime— that they vote on elect ion d a y — a n d that a l l fo re ign bo rn Social is ts are natural ized.

7. H a v e a commit tee i n p o l l i n g booth , f r o m opening of pol ls un t i l coun t ing is finished and prepare to keep tal ly o n vote.

Duties of Officers of the Local. LOCAL O R G A N I Z E R .

H e is the business agent of the l o c a l ; does local ' s cor responding and reports month ly to the l o c a l and to the state secretary, the growth , work and c o n d i t i o n of the l o c a l . H e has power to ca l l a special business meeting to order, and asks, " W h o wi l l you have f o r cha i rman of this meet ing?" H e keeps a list of a l l members of the l o c a l , with the i r ad­dresses, and must no t i fy all members by ma i l , when or where a regular or business meeting wi l l be held . H e observes the adver t is ing of pub­l ic meetings, and such other work as the loca l directs .

RECORDING S E C R E T A R Y . Me keeps the records of every

business meeting and when same is read and cor rec ted at next meeting should be t ranscr ibed i n the minute book i n ink. A l l business t ransacted such as a mot ion made, ca r r i ed , lost —reports of committees -names of candidates f o r membership accepted or re jected—totals of monthly f inan­c i a l reports, etc. H e takes the place cit organizer when the latter is sick

or absent. F I N A N C I A L S E C R E T A R Y .

H e has cus tody of blank mem bership cards and due stamps, issues membership cards to a l l new mem­bers, col lec ts dues monthly and pastes due stamps in members, cards as receipts K e e p s a l ist of a l l pledges of con t r ibu tors to the specia l state o rgan iz ing f u n d , col lects and forwards the same to state secretary each month . Keeps an i n d i v i d u a l account f o r a l l members of the l o c a l , keeps an i t emized account of a l l money received and turns the same over to the treasurer. A t the end of each month gets an i temized account of expenses f r o m the treasurer fo r the expense side of his account . Re ports monthly to the local and has books audi ted every three months.

T R E A S U R E R .

Me has cus tody of al l funds , keeps

News, of ten walk ing f r o m place to place, Comrade E y n c h says for his part he has reached the l imi t , and that if the Social is ts don' t want the paper, to <)uit the thing. However , Comrade E y n c h wi l l always be found doing something fo r the cause, while he is work ing at a trade that wi l l soon get h im back to three meals a day, and secure clothes enough to keep h im warm in August • t least.

"Black With Menace." The Times arguing in f a v o r of the

maintenance of our present set of g f i , M M Broder ick , Forster, L y t -t leion. Aus t i n C h a m b e r l a i n and C o . in "Mire, declares that the future is "b lack with menace." We think so and hope so. But what sort of peo­ple are these and their fel lows whose abil i ty is whol ly of the head-clerk order fo r such times as we are c o m ­ing to? Never in history were the international relations more c o m p l i ­cated, the antagonisms between east and west more marked, the soc ia l problems more d i f f icu l t to solve either peacefully o r f o r c i b l y . Japan has already beaten Russ ia and w i l l beat her worse and worse the longer the war goe* on. C h i n a is waking up and can rely upon Japan to re organize her. Ind ia is rousing her self and w i l l short ly comprehend the unspeakable infamies of our b lood sucking rule. So A s i a has to be seriously reckoned with In Russ ia herself persistent revolts in town and country are swell ing into something very l ike revolut ion. In Aus t r i a , not to speak of race feuds which Socia l democracy wi l l do something to sof ten, preparations are being made fo r warl ike movements in the spring. In C e r m a n y an i r respon­sible despot, wi th l u c i d intervals, may at any moment set Europe i n a flame. H a p p i l y France and E n g ­land are on good terms; but he must be an optimist indeed who does not recognize that both internal ly and external ly Grea t Br i t a in may have dangers to face which are quite un­exampled in the past half century. Everywhere , too, the peace at any price Soc ia l i sm which has found so much favor of late with erudite sc i ­ol is ts is d iscover ing that, after a l l , i n human affairs force counts for just as much as ever it d i d , and that to wait sempiternally fo r automatic rev­o lu t ion is a sort of cowardice which

the coast, where he expects to re | the next generation may scarcely

account of a l l money received f r o m the financial secretary, pays b i l l s of the loca l on order signed by the sec­retary and cha i rman of the evening , keeps i temized account of a l l ex­penses, reports monthly to l o c a l and has his books audited every three months.

L I T E R A T U R E A G E N T . H e has charge of al l leaflets, books ,

booklets , etc., belonging to the l o c a l , keeps account of a l l l i terature re­ceived with names thereof, a lso dis­t r ibuted or sold. T u r n s money re­ceived over to treasurer and takes receipt. Not i f i es loca l when l i tera­ture is needed, l i a s charge of the c i r cu l a t i ng l ibrary f o r the l o c a l if there be one; d i sp lays at pub l i c meetings for sale, such l i terature as the l o c a l has fo r that purpose. Re­ports month ly to the l o c a l .

T h e f o l l o w i n g should be elected as permanent committees: A u d i t i n g C o m m i t t e e ; Program C o m m i t t e e ; L i te ra ture Commit tee .

A u d i t i n g commit tee examines the accounts of the officers at least once in three months o r when o rdered by the loca l , and reports back to the l o c a l .

P rogram commit tee arranges a l l pub l i c programs, such as speakers meetings.

L i te ra tu re commit tee reads and examines a l l samples of l i terature re­ceived or purchased by the l o c a l and recommends as to the l i te ra ture to be purchased in quant i ty f o r d i s t r i ­bu t ion by the l o c a l .

T h e organizer is c h a i r m a n of the program committee.

T h e l i terature agent is c h a i r m a n of the l i terature commit tee .

O R D E R O F B U S I N E S S .

1. E l e c t i o n of c h a i r m a n . 2. Read ing of minutes. 3. B i l l s and correspondence . 4. A p p l i c a t i o n s f o r membersh ip . 5. Repor ts of commit tees . 6. Pavment of dues and pledges. 7. Reports of officers. 8. U ..^hed business. 9. New business.

10. G o o d and welfare. 11. Ad jou rnmen t .

E a n m

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NO. 15

Iowa I*aper ^ Quits the Fight

Comrade Lynch Quits

His "Graf t" on News. C o m r a d e L y n c h , af ter work ing

nearly a year in the interest of the M o n t a n a News, has severed his con nec t ion wi th the paper, and gone to

turn to work at his trade— telegraph ing .

N o t w i t h s t a n d i n g that the writer ins is ted , and others a round this of­fice at tempted to impress upon C o m r a d e L y n c h that he was desert ing a " g r a f t , " he persisted i n c l a i m ing, l ike the managers of the Iowa Socia l i s t , that the l i m i t had been reached. D u r i n g his hard year's work on the paper he has received the extravagance of one pa i r of pants and a new hat, as wel l as two meals a day, and some days three. O h , yes, we almost f o r g o t — a n d two pairs of 15 cent socks. Suppos ing to work o n commiss ion , w i t h ex­penses pa id , he f o u n d himsel f in debted to the paper some $20 when a l l the accounts were aud i t ed ; thi-* is encouraging , to stand in the noble cause of the proletariat , wi th ragged

Y o u r Unc le Ira doesn't take much stock in Attorney Genera l D o n o v a n as an of f ic ia l , lawyer or reformer . H e gets mighty energetic at t imes, and then all this surplus strenuosity

clothes and empty s tomach , and at- J oores out at the ends of his fingers tempt to preach to the u n i o n man and t o e s - a n d a l l is serene again the ph i lo sophy of S o c i a l i s m , while H i s sudden attack upon gambl ing , the "pu re and s i m p l e " lines up at I once pushed with zealous f r e n / v .

appreciate. In fact, we have ar­r ived at a period when anything may occur . T h e " a c c i d e n t " in the N o r t h Sea may very easily be fo l lowed by accidents in other direct ions . It is the duty of Social-democrats every­where, therefore, to keep themselves wel l organized and in readiness f o r the unexpected. Above a l l , let them car ry on their propaganda vigorously in the army and navy. There are plenty of Astiuiths about. A n y up­heaval must do something to shake down the decaying capital is t system, but we must not be taken by sur­prise.— Justice I l . o n d o n \

the bar f o r free booze and scabs at the polls on elect ion day .

W i t h his year 's work it was con­fidently expected that the paper would be put on its feet, but such is not the case, for as he leaves, two other comrades are left here in a shape that prevents their getting away at any hazard.

That this is a prole tar ian income no one w i l l dispute, and whi le it does not compare well with the pro le tar ian income of £125 per month of our nat ional secretary, it shows that it is through the sacr i f ice of such men a i C o m r a d e L y n c h that the movement is made what it is to­day .

A f t e r making a thorough canvass

suddenly and suspiciously ceased. A n d now he has filed suit against the harvester trust, the meat trust and other combines, seeking to prohibi t their do ing business in Montana . People might take the crusade a li t t le more seriously had D o n o v a n always proved consistent in his spurts against sin, and had he commenced these actions and persistently prose­cuted them at the beginning instead of the end of his term. A s a reformer D o n o v a n either gets t ired ami takes a prolonged rest, or doesn't begin i n t ime to br ing his suits to a conc lu ­s ion . Democracy is responsible f o r a few warm officials in this state, of whom C l a r k , G i b s o n , Donovan and W e l c h are among the I h ich . — For -

I*he Iowa Socia l i s t has quit the newspaper field; its board of man­agers announced i n its last issue that it would suspend because of not being able to secure support sufficient to keep it going. It ap pears by the announcement that it has run behind f o r some t ime and that the deficit has been made up by some of the few comrades deeply interested in the cause, but that the l imi t has been reached.

Such is the l i fe of the average So­c ia l i s t paper, and such must be for some time to come. When popu­l i sm had its great day there was the same trouble i n the early stages of the fight with the newspapers as now exists with the Socia l i s t papers. But condi t ions have changed so wonder fu l ly since that t ime that there appears to be little hope i n the future for any better c o n d i t i o n to exist for the Socia l i s t pub l i ca ­t ions.

There are many reasons fo r this c o n d i t i o n , and one might just as well begin to look the facts square in the face; let us see what the con­d i t i o n f r o m a business s tandpoint is, and then we can see whv the Soc ia l ­ist papers are d y i n g . In the state of Mon tana , — probably no better example exists—the large d a i l y pa­pers are run at a he^vy loss every month, advert is ing has been reduced to cost or less, whi le job p r in t ing is done on a very smal l ma rg in : the great loss to these papers is made up through the "g ra f t svs tem" in a thousand and one wavs.

T h i s being the cond i t i on , when a Social is t paper enters the f ield it must do business below cost, e l im­inate some expense account, or go out of business. In fact the busi­ness end of it would compare well with a man starting a smal l grocery store where some large firm is sel l ­ing below cost: how long would he stay in business?

Being up against this business cond i t i on under the present system, it is impossible to make a Socia l i s t paper a good paper, for the better the paper you get out the fur ther behind you go.

A s poor as a l l the papers and publ icat ions in the Social is t move­ment are, they are far ahead of the organiza t ion in the revolu t ionary understanding of the movement. They should be, but that does not

bar the support of the rank and file of the party to its publ ica t ions . The average Socia l i s t that comes to

this office and declares himself " r e v o l u t i o n a r y " and wants the clear dope in his Soc ia l i s t paper, can a l ­ways be found reading the capi ta l ­ist exchanges; seeing how M r s . C h a d w i c k is c o m i n g o n ; whether N a n Patterson w i l l soon be on the stage; how many Russians and Japs got murdered last night; a l l the rape cases, suicides, etc. etc.

Cons ide r ing the present svstem of business, it is p la in to see that no paper can be made to pay f r o m a purely newspaper business stand point not even the capital is t sheets pay. Therefore if the comrades

class war by resolution at one place at one time, and then d i rec t ly after repudiate his own vote and make out that it had no s ignif icance at a l l . In nrwise. F r o m first to last in a l l his manifestoes and speeches he pointed out that the class war be­tween the laborers and the cap i ta l ­ists was go ing on steadily and grow­ing cont inuous ly . Me showed clearly that there was no hope of peace, or of benefit to the people at large, unt i l the huge powers of mak­ing wealth now owned and con t ro l ­led in the U n i t e d States by a smal l minor i ty of the populat ion, who use their riches i n a most unscrupulous way, should be at the disposal of the whole na t ion . In fact , f r o m start to finish, and over and above al l pal l ia t ives, he stood for the So­c ia l Revo lu t ion , in which it is Quite possible the U n i t e d States may yet take the lead. Yet Debs pol led 600,000 s o l i d votes against 87,000 four years ago. The more advanced his program, far the greater his p o l l , Amer i ca has evident ly begun to move in earnest. - Just ice ^ L o n ­don )

A TIMELY LESSON.

A t imely lesson has been given to Socialists by C o l l i e r ' s Weekly . It has been the fash ion for certain party papers to advise their readers to buy capi ta l i s t publ icat ions con­taining art icles favorable to Soc ia l ­ism. T h i s adv ice was follow ed in the case of C o l l i e r ' s . Co l l i e r ' s repl ied with an ed i to r i a l saying that the let­ters and postal cards f rom Soc ia l ­ists were a nuisance. It insulted Socialist workers by charg ing them with ins incer i ty . Co l l i e r ' s remarks were brutal , but, to a cer ta in extent, true. Socia l is ts who have monev to spend for propaganda should use it to bu i ld up the regular party press. T h e spasmodic purchase of this o r that per iodica l with the attendant correspondence, is just what C o l ­lier 's calls i t — a nuisance. What such per iodicals want is regular sub­scribers. W h e n the general demand for clear-cut Soc i a l i sm is strong enough, plenty of Social is t articles wil l be printed i n them. T h e best wav to create the general demand is to sustain the straight party press. Th i s is so obv ious that no argument is cal led fo r . N o t that Social is ts should boycot t the capital is t papers. O n the cont rary , the more they read the b ioader wi l l become their minds . In buving magazines, it is not a bad idea to pick out those which c r i t i ­cise the c l a ims of the Social is ts . Usual ly the c r i t i c i sms are so flimsy that the Soc ia l i s t bubbles over with answers and is more than ever c o n ­firmed in his fa i th . But now and then he w i l l find something that makes him th ink. H e may d iscover weak points i n his idea of S o c i a l i s m . A n d when this happens, he may be sure that he has the scient i f ic spirit and not the dogma of the fana t i c .— Cr i s i s .

Judge H i g g i n s of the first c r i m ­inal court of Jersey C i t y , i n order

want a paper or papers they must j t o do one good act before Chr i s t -put up the required wherewith to m a s , turned loose several prisoners; keep them go ing : otherwise papers wi l l continue to suspend unt i l only such ones live as the movement wi l l support.

of the state in the interest of the svth l imes.

ENGLISH IDEA OK VOTE. T h e more we cons ider Debs ' po l l

of 600,000 for president the more remarkable and the more satisfac­tory it seems. It is undoubtedly a genuine Soc ia l Democra t i c pol l . Eugene Debs, we reioice to say, re sorted to none of the t r ickery which seems to find ever- increasing t iVOf with l l a r d i e , M n c D o n a l d , Glas ie r and C o . H e d i d not declare en­thusias t ical ly , that is to say, fo r the voted for

among them was one man who was thoroughly d isappointed with the order of the court , which meant the losing of his comfor tab le quarters i n the jai l . H e sa id : " I guess my onlv chance is to get drunk and dis­orderly and get locked up aga in , " as he walked away f r o m the ja i l with a dejected air. This is al l 111 pros­perous A m e r i c a where there are two job* for everv man. Ge t t i ng pietty tough when a man had rather stay in ja i l than out, but you laborers have voted for this k ind of a con­di t ion and the considerate capi ta l ­ist has g iven you just what vou

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T h e absence of the middle class i n Russ ia is one thing that w i l l as­sist i n hastening Socia l i sm.

T h e new year wi l l soon be here, and it would be a good thing for the members of the Loca l s over the state to get out a good meeting and resolve to continue with good meet­ings the rest of the year.

Sunday the legislators convene i n this c i ty . W i t h few exceptions they are a gang of money hirelings and al l have their pockets stuffed wi th ra i l road transportation. They w i l l be a nice look ing bunch to make laws fo r the "peop le . " However they wi l l look good to the rai l roads and other graf t ing insti tutions.

gotten ins ide and so it has been f o u n d necessary to spread out so that sugar c o u l d be kept at a higher pr ice . Sugar ought to be put on the free l i s t . " Yes, possibly sugar ought to be put on the free list f o r the jackasses who have voted this c o n d i t i o n onto the people. Clothes ought to be put on the free list f o r this same class of working mules, and the men who persist i n vot ing f o r a system of this k i n d ought to be put on the demo-republ ican free insane list .

B o t h old parties, the democrat and republican, are dead now, and wi l l remain so unti l capi ta l ism needs its right and left wings again to sai l into pol i t ica l power. Both wings of the capitalist vulture are made out of workingmen's votes, and if the Social is ts wi l l do their duty for the next two years it wi l l be hard f o r the o ld bi rd to fly at the next at­tempt.

T h e " L i n e - U p " a new Social is t publ ica t ion issued at Kansas C i t y is one of the latest addit ions to the So­c ia l i s t i c ! newspaper field. Judging f r o m an issue o r two it is a good li t t le class conscious paper, edited by a comrade of the real revolut ion­ary type, and one of the k ind that is needed in that Kansas country w h ich appears to be pretty well imbued with a bourgeois sentiment. Success to the revolutionary " L i n e - U p . "

TRAITORS TO LABOR. E d i t o r O ' N e i l l of the Western

Federa t ion of M i n e r s ' Magaz ine is a roaster. H i s long drawn out bunches of bowery rhetoric, del­uged in adject ives which he brought in to play in his attack on C o m r a d e U n t e r m a n and i n the " e x p l a n a t i o n " of the " S o c i a l i s t " vote is long on vi tupera t ion and short on log ic .

H e and his bunch of Iscariots i n Labo r ' s cause are going to educate the wage slaves who delve in the bowels of the earth by dec lar ing f o r S o c i a l i s m and spout ing Soc ia l i sm i n the columns of his organ, and on elec t ion day tie in with a bunch of democra t i c bal lot box stuffers, " that those who have cal loused hands may be restored to c i t izenship once m o r e . " A n d one must be on the ground wi th the assistance of an X - r a y to see why the " S o c i a l i s t s " are just i f ied i n their actions. Perhaps the treachery of the labor leaders in C o l o r a d o is well paral leled by the ac t ion of their local secretary of G i l t Edge N o . 107, L o c k e Bruce , who is drawing $3.50 per day f o r d o i n g their secretary work and on the siue tak ing orders fo r c lo th ing manufac tured i n Kansas C i t y by scab sweat-shop labor, and who sup­ported cit izens a l l iance C e o . C o o k fo r sheriff on the republ ican t icket in Fergus county, when there was in the field as his opponent Co mr ad e Rober t M c M i l l a n , a brother mem­ber of the Federat ion 's l oca l N o . 111 at K e n d a l l , Montana . G i l t E d g e loca l was the bunch of union men I ?) aff i l iated in the Fergus county Trades and L a b o r C o u n c i l and with the nat ional body of the A m e r i c a n L a b o r union who turned down the " f a i r l i s t " of the A . L . U . . str ikers in Lewis town last year and refused to assist their s truggling brothers in un ion . When Bruce was affronted f o r his perfidy he dis­missed the matter bv saying he had as much right to support a republ i ­can as the nat ional officers of the Western Federat ion of Mine r s who have declared fo r Soc ia l i sm have to support democrats. The actions of organized labor and their soft-handed representatives would mys­t i fy an East India Juggler.

our demands, assemble i n front of the K a z a n cathedral at one o ' c l o c k . "

Comrade Oscar Edgar, former ly edi tor of the F lo r ida Social ist , i n ret i r ing f rom the staff reviews the situation and hard struggle to keep a Social is t paper going. H e says: " A s it is, the time has come when I must do something that wi l l at least feed me. T h e need for three or at least two meals a day may be largely a r t i f i c ia l . N o doubt it is. But when one has formed the bad habit of eating regular meals and persisted i n i t unt i l middle age, it is often fa ta l to break off the habit too sud denly . A n d dead men do not make good edi tors ."

T h e noted N a n Patterson t r ia l has come to an end by the jury agreeing to disagree. T h e charge against the g i r l was that she k i l l ed a M r . Y o u n g i n a cab in New Y o r k C i t y a few weeks ago. It is a ques t i on whether M i s s Patterson should be prosecuted or not, fo r the simple fac t that she was a show'g i r l , f r i v o l ous but beaut i fu l , and M r . Y o u n g was a married man, and should be supposed to at least have horse sense, and having that, he would be at home with his fami ly i n place of cu t t ing around at parlor drunks wi th a variety actress. M a n y are heard to remark, " A marr ied man m i x e d up like this needs k i l l i n g . "

A n eastern exchange says: " T h e N o r f o l k , Nebraska , beet sugar fac tory has moved to C o l o ­rado. Fo r years this outfit was outs ide of the trust, birt now have

S O C I A L I S M IN R U S S I A .

A dispatch of the 11th inst. says: N o t since the riots of 1901, when

Cossacks stretched across the Nev-sky Prospect f r o m bu i ld ing to bu i ld ­ing , and charged down the boule­va rd f r o m the Moscow station to the Neva , has the Russ ian capi tal l i ved through such a day of excite­ment as this. T h e authorities last night got wind of the big anti-gov­ernment demonstrat ion planned for today by the Socia l is t - labor party, to demand an immediate end of the war, and the convoca t ion of a na­t iona l assembly, and in every leading paper this morn ing , i n black faced type, was an expl ic i t warning to the people at their peri l to desist f r o m congregating i n the Nevsky Pros­pect near the K a z a n cathedral .

T h e fo l l owing is the text of the proc lamat ion of the social demo­crat ic labor party, ca l l ing the dem­onstra t ion:

" W e have raised our voices, ca l l ­ing for better things, but the govern ment has turned a deaf ear to our c ry . We, f r o m day to day, draw out a laborious existence, a cond i ­t ion worse than convicts , while they convert mi l l ions into smoke and sacrifice thousands of workmen's l ives under incompetent generals. We are shedding our blood fo r our torturers, while they are entering in to a shameless bargain with wealthy landlords and zemstvoists. E n o u g h , men, we cannot endure it longer. We must arise and bod i ly p r o c l a i m that we want an end of war and a government by represent­atives of the people.

" A l l who are ready to fight fo r

W H A T ABOUT UNEMPLOYED?

C a p i t a l insists upon its r ight to hire labor at the market rate. W e al l know what this means. T h e "marke t rate" is always be low the rate at which men are ho ld ing their jobs, no matter how low that rate may be, so l o n g as there are men out of e m p l o y m e n t . — C . J . O ' B r i e n in T y p o g r a p h i c a l Journa l .

But is the man out of employmen t ent i t led to no cons ide ra t ion? Wha t are you going to do wi th h i m ? W h e n men are out of jobs the nat­ura l inference is that there are more men than jobs. H o w w i l l t ak ing them into the u n i o n better the situa­t ion? Can y o u create a new j o b fo r every man that comes in? Y e s , the men out of employment make the "marke t ra te . " When work is scarce a l l the un ions in C h r i s t e n d o m can not main ta in high wages; when work is plenty, employers must b i d against each other and wages w i l l rise, even if un ions try to prevent it. So what is the use of a u n i o n i s m based on f o r c e ? In times of pros­peri ty the members do not need it, and i n times o f adversity it c a n not do them g o o d . — Indus t r ia l Inde­pendent.

T h e above comment by the c i t i ­zens al l iance organ is s igni f icant . T h e great t rouble is that the u n i o n man does not unders tand it as such ; if he d id he w o u l d be a Soc ia l i s t . If the union men investigate they w i l l discover that since the year 1850, when organiza t ion was started in the U n i t e d States, they have increased in numbers, but that their share of the wealth p roduced has decreased, due to private own­ership of machinery , with its c o n comitant , the unemployed p rob lem. T h e al l iance pert inently asks the un ion men, " W h a t about the unem­p l o y e d ? " W h e n the unio/>.:.>i under­stands this, he inva r i ab ly wi l l be in the Social is t ranks.

A BOURGEOIS P L A T F O R M .

T h e adopt ion of a c i ty Soc ia l i s t p l a t fo rm at this t ime is a piece of work that needs the very closest at­tent ion and deepest study possible in order that noth ing be said that shou ld not be said, and also in order that a l l be said that should be sa id .

In this matter the St. L o u i s So­cial is ts have produced about as bad a mess, ba r r ing a few points, as d i d the W i s c o n s i n Social is ts in their state p la t form. In their opening paragraph they declare:

We , the Socia l i s t party o f St. L o u i s , pledge our fidelity to the pr inciples of in te rna t iona l Soc i a l i sm as enunciated i n our na t ional plat­f o r m , and invi te a l l f a i r m inded men to study the great labor problem i n relat ion to m u n i c i p a l affairs .

Three points of interest i n that paragraph: first they declared their fidelity to internat ional Soc i a l i sm , wh ich is, acco rd ing to the late inter­nat ional congress, revolut ionary So­c i a l i s m , and then they say i n the same breath as "enunc ia ted i n our nat ional p l a t f o r m , " which is an op­portune l i terary edict . One asser­t ion contradic ts the other; the th i rd point is that they inv i te " f a i r -m i n d e d " men to study the labor problem. N o w what is " f a i r -m i n d e d " men?

T h e n after cove r ing the c o n d i t i o n of a number of cities in other states this paragraph appears:

T h e publ ic interests are almost entirely ignored?

W h o is the p u b l i c ? if the work ing class, the above is wrong because the interests of the workers are ab­solutely ignored , not " a l m o s t . "

A n d if it means the bourgeois or ex­p lo i t ing class b y the " p u b l i c " then the phrase is out of order .

In the next paragraph they declare f o r 'publ ic or c o l l e c t i v e " ownership. Co l l ec t ive ownersh ip is Soc i a l i sm but ' p u b l i c " ownersh ip is graf t i sm the same as the present postoffice plan where the postmaster draws about I300 per month to pul l po l i t i ­cal wires while the poor wage slave who does the hard work gets f r o m $50 to $80 per month .

They also declare fo r " m u n i c i p a l " street railways, " m u n i c i p a l " l ight ing and heating plants, etc. But after declar ing for in ternat ional Soc ia l i sm, mind you Internat ional Soc ia l i sm, they adopt the f o l l o w i n g paragraph:

N o person shal l be emp loyed on any street ra i lway wi th in the c i ty of St. Lou i s who have not been resident citizens for at least one year p r ior to

the t ime of their employment .

T h a t dec la ra t ion would be a dis­grace to a capi ta l i s t p l a t fo rm, and would not be " r a d i c a l " enough f o r a B r y a n - H e a r s t - W a t s o n p l a t fo rm. Just th ink of that bourgeois rot? Suppose some of you Soc ia l i s t s get fired out of your jobs in some other state o r c i ty , and should go to St. L o u i s , you c o u l d not get in to the street car service un t i l you had l ived there one year; dur ing this t ime, we naturally suppose, that a democra t or republ ican "mul l e t -headed" un­ion man would ho ld the pos i t ion , not because he scabbed at the bal lot box, but because he belongs to the union.

A f t e r dec la r ing fo r in te rna t iona l Soc ia l i sm and capi ta l is t ic c i t i zensh ip in order to ho ld a job, they also de­clare as fo l lows :

O n l y organized labor sha l l be em­ployed by the c i ty , and the 8-hour workday shal l be s tr ic t ly observed in a l l m u n i c i p a l work. Where con­tract work is unavoidable , the con­tractors shal l employ organized labor only .

It appears f r o m that that the party of the class struggle has relegated itself in to a un ion p ropos i t ion . A l l these organized labor parties have been a fake, and have repeatedly sold i n the po l i t i ca l market to the highest b idder—the same as they sold out i n M o n t a n a in the last elec­t ion fo r a cer ta in specif ied sum to endorse the democra t t icket . A n d now St. L o u i s proceeds to nar row the party of the class struggle down to a un ion propos i t ion w h i c h only represents about 14 per cent of the workers of the country . T h e n they take a shot at the tax p ropos i t i on as fo l lows:

Tha t immedia te steps be taken to r ig id ly enforce the laws c o m p e l l i n g the big corpora t ions to pay their quota of m u n i c i p a l taxes, i n p ropor t ion to the f u l l valuat ion of their tax able property.

What interest has the Soc ia l i s t party or the workers who make up the party i n the tax p r o p o s i t i o n ? None whatever. T h e sooner the tax propos i t ion eats up the l i t t le f e l low and causes h im to lose his property the better. T h i s applies to the hou r geois, and he must be d r i v e n into the ranks of the proletar iat before Soc i a l i sm can be o r rather w i l l be established. It is a wonder they d i d not say something about ar rang­ing the seats i n heaven fo r the lit t le tax payer.

O f course they dec lared f o r an 8-hour day, and when you th ink of al l these k i n d of immediate demand reforms, it is no wonder that the I L . P . , comrades take such fa l l s out of us. If the comrades don ' t wake up and get down to business i n this p ropos i t ion of adopt ing r evo lu t ion ary p la t forms in place of the senti mental , r e fo rm, meaningless asser tions l ike the above, why , B r y a n w i l l jump i n with his c r o w n of thorns and cross of go ld and adopt a plat f o r m that w i l l put these bourgeois ha l f -baked product ions i n the shade.

EXPIRING SUBSCRIPTIONS. W i t h this issue we close the year

of 1904, and with the c lose of the year many subscr ipt ions exp i re . T h e great number of two-bit subscr ip tions added to our list d u r i n g the campa ign w i l l expire on this date, and we desire to ca l l our readers ' atten­t ion to the fac t that they may renew in t ime to not miss a single issue of the paper.

If you w i l l l ook at the labe l on your paper bear ing your name you w i l l see whether your subsc r ip t i on expires as above suggested o r not. If to the right of you r name appears i j a n o s it signifies that Janua ry i , 1905 has ar r ived , or w i l l have before another issue, and that y o u r sub­sc r ip t i on has expi red , and the name w i l l be d ropped f r o m the m a i l i n g list unless renewed.

W e trust that our many comrades w i l l look after these subscr ibers as closely as possible and assist us i n this work .

D o y o u wonder that men had rather be i n ja i l than ou t? H o w many do y o u th ink fa i l ed to eat tur­key d inner on Chr i s tmas who were not i n j a i l ? D o w n in M i s s o u r i the authori t ies of the state peni tent iary arranged a swell d inner f o r the con­victs o n Chr i s tmas , i n c l u d i n g every­th ing cus tomary to the o c c a s i o n , from turkey to the celery, c ranbe r ry I

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sauce and other t r immings . T h i r t y -five hundred pounds of turkey were purchased and this one i tem on the menu cost $630. T h i n k of sit­t ing d o w n to that feast or being a t ramp, one of the m i l l i o n and a half who are now on the t ramp i n this prosperous count ry , whi le pr ison b i rds are d i n i n g at swell luncheons. Is it any wonder that men are com­mi t t ing cr imes that they may get i n j a i l f o r the winter at least? W h y , under the present cond i t i ons in j a i l is better than out. This is the f ru i t of the present compe t i t i ve system, where more is p roduced than can be consumed, and yet i n the midst of plenty we are i n want.

Congressman H u l l of Iowa has in ­t roduced a b i l l i n congress i n the i n ­terest of organized labor and the w o r k i n g mule i n general It pur­ports to be a b i l l " t o encourage rifle pract ice and excel lence i n marks­manship among ci t izens of the U n i t e d States so as to render them q u i c k l y avai lable f o r eff icient service in t ime of w a r . " M r . H u l l is a " g o o d " repuc l ican , and y o u repub­l i c an u n i o n men who voted on elec­t ion day fo r O p e n S h o p Roosevel t , wi l l p robably apprecia te the excel­lence of this b i l l . O f course you see this b i l l is meant to give the workers an oppor tun i ty to get i n

prac t ice in the murder business, so when a str ike is ca l l ed they w i l l be i n good t r im to go out and shoot the capi ta l i s ts , eh? T h e first paragraph c o o l l y appropriates #1,000,000 a year to ca r ry out the scheme. O f course the capi ta l i s t puts up this one m i l l i o n dol la rs because he is such a ph i l an th rop ic enterpr is ing i n d i v i d ­ual . U n d e r cap i t a l i sm the bullet and bayonet are in t roduced in the schools and the c h i l d taught the spi r i t of m i l i t a r y murder. U n d e r S o c i a l i s m the weapons of murde r wi l l be rele­gated to the scrap-heap, and S o c i a l e conomics w i l l be in t roduced i n the schools when c h i l d r e n wi l l learn of the establishment f o r the first t ime of the real b ro therhood of man.

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CORRESPONDENCE Nine Mile, Mont., Dec. 18, 1904.

Mr. J. H. Walsh, Helena, Mont. Dear Comrade: If you will

kindly send me some sub cards I will try to sell them, and will remit for them when sold.

Yours fraternally, C. F. CATON.

[You are the kind of comrade the movement is looking for. It is upon the efforts of this kind that the Socialist movement depends. The cards have gone forward. — Kditor.]

Rimini, Mont, Dec. 14, 1904. To The Montana News:

I see by the election returns that there were 3,742 votes cast against the amendment concerning child labor in the mines. Ye gods! To think there are that many wretches in this state so lost to all principles

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of humanity. Ye parasites, know this: The finger of scorn of every honest man, woman and child is pointed at you.

You would condemn innocent children to work in the mines, where the smoke and poisonous gases at many times almost equals the ortho­dox hell as represented by our mod­ern preachers—that you may wax fat on the product of their toil. I wonder that the ever-living Cod had not paralyzed the hand that marked the ballot, and caused the miserable carcas to shrivel up until Rider Haggard's "She" would look like the fat woman in a circus beside you. You have no place among men. You are a burden on the back of suffering humanity, and a wart on the face of nature.

JOHN BRACK.

That the people are awaking to the idea of Socialism, is demon­strated by the insistence they mani­fest by asking for information, and the first and paramount question seems to be, How can it be intro­duced? It is a pertinent question and deserves an honest answer.

The best part of the doctrine is that it does not require any lies to introduce it to the people. They generally admit that it is good, and what they want, but there is some­thing about it that makes them think it should be applied at once; like the changing of a soul in the twink­ling of an eye.

They fail to understand that it must come through the same pro­cess that other revolutions have come. The gradual teaching of Luther and other reformers taught the people the selfishness of the church of England and the church of Rome, and Protestantism was the result. Cradual political training taught the founders of our republic to see the dishonesty of King George, and to despise the despot­ism of an aristocracy: and they did not wait for their leaders to unfold to them a definite plan of government before they began the revolution. They believed in the wisdom of the men who inspired them with the courage to undertake the battle for independence; and the results are sufficient proof of the soundness of their reasoning. And the condiMons that confront the common people of the United States are identical, with one notable ex­ception, and that is the ballot. We have not yet lost the right to use that weapon; and it is the most potent weapon in the hands of hon­est men that is known. The time may come when even that mighty power will be taken from us. The political sharks are threatening to

abridge the rights of the negroes to­day. There have been attempts to agitate the idea of disfranchising the illiterate of all classes; and these straws point out the trend of un­checked political power.

Socialism means equal rights to all. It means equality in fact, not in the musty folds of a constitution that through political treachery has become obsolete. It means that the teachings of that sacred Parch­ment shall become the guide to fut­ure greatness, as it was originally intended to do; and the application of the economic reforms taught by Socialism will re-establish firmly and for all time the doctrines con­tained in that time honored docu­ment.

Political parties are not going to die out in a day. There will be the same strife, the same lying, the same dishonest efforts on the part of the dominant class of the present to succeed themselves; and after defeat we will see the same old re-organiza­tion, with new issues to entrap the voter. The fight will be bitter, but when the people have tasted the sweets of self government, when they have found that they are a part of the government established by and for themselves, and that every­thing belongs to them, then self-in­terest will forever prevent the ruling of any party again.

The greatest trial will be the re­formation of the great host of nar­row minded asses that will flock to the fold for refuge and to concoct new schemes for plundering the commonwealth.

Blood will tell. T. P. C R U M L E Y .

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Dec. 22, '04. Comrade J. H . Walsh: I just re­

ceived the News wrapped in the en­closed poster. Now I have a collec­tion of 60 portraits of prominent Socialists and have them pasted on a 4 by 8 map to hang in our head­quarters. I have room for a few more and I want yours. Now send me one, if vou have no better ones, send one of the same. Of course I have been compelled to use any newspaper cuts for many of them, but I would like better ones. But if you have no others please send this back and I will use it. I have a bulletin board 60 feet long that I keep full of the best utterances of the most eminent writers and speak­ers, which I print by hand with H inch rubber type on heavy cardboard that is easily read ten feet away. We are waking up a little since the elec­tion; have taken in 12 new members, and gaining a little right along.

Fraternally yours, JAY RAND SANBURN.

Monarch, Mont., Dec. 24, '04. Dear Comrades: Herewith $5.00

for cards. Please send more at once; think I can sell five and perhaps more.

Merry Xmas and happy New Year to you all. J. M. R.

[it is the efforts of this kind by the comrades that will make the cause a success; everv comrade in the state could do as much if he would. All that is necessary is to throw off that old capitalistic idea of "can't" and get out and do a little hustling. If all our Socialist readers would do as much as a few of the earnest workers in less than 60 days the News would have the largest circulation in the northwest; and not only this but you would receive the financial assistance from the non-Socialist and at the same time carry the educa­tional propaganda to the ones who must be reached. Awake comrades! — Kditor.]

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Missoula, Mont., Dec. 25, 1904. Dear Comrade: Knclosed find for sub cards sold since last re­

port. Will try and sell some more and remit Dec. 31.

W. P. G R A H A M .

Socialist News From Headquarters.

The following donations have been made toward paying off the old debt standing against the state organization: John Beard $2.30, W H. Pierce $5, Local Butte $5, Local Anaconda $6.50, total $18.50.

Local Butte reports the expulsion of Patrick Leamy for violating his pledge by working for the demo­cratic ticket.

Locals wishing to make any amendments to the constitution will please forward proposed amend­ments to headquarters as soon as possible, as a new s u p D l y of con­stitutions will be printed soon.

Local Butte has always held the distintion of being the largest local in the state. In November Local Livingston was second, having 7 members less in good standing than Butte. The comrades in Butte had better look to their laurels and be active. Judging from the orders for stamps from Local Livingston, it looks as if they intended being ahead of Butte this month. This brings to us the question, where is Great Falls, Helena and Missoula?

The spring elections w i l l soon b e upon us, and it is necessary t h a t t h e locals in the cities begin t o plan their campaigns. Everywhere pos sible the Socialists must be in t h e field with a full ticket. If we intend to be t he second party i n 1906 w e

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must w in prestige in the city elec­tions. This calls for greater efforts in organization. Furthermore, we must have a dues paying member­ship of at least two thousand before we can hope to be the second party in the state.

< >ur candidate for governor, Com­rade O 'Malley, received 3,431 votes which would indicate that there are 3,431 philisophically class conscious Socialists in Montana, .-urely it is possible to get 2.000 of these 3,431 philosophical class conscious So­cialists into the party organization. Co after everyone whom you know to be a thorough Socialist, give them an application card, and get them into the organization.

(>rganization, good sound, strong organization is what is required. The day of the free lance propa­gandist is past. Do the propaganda work through the local, use system, develop organization, anil better re­sults will be achieved.

The holidays will soon be over, and it is hoped that the comrades throughout the state will turn their attention to organization. We are in hopes that an organizer will be started on the road about the end of January, but that all depends on what support headquarters receives from you.

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L W e, the Socialist party, in convention assembled, make our ap­

peal to the American people as the defender and preserver of the idea of libe rty and self-government, in which the nation was born ; as the only political movement standing for the program and principles by which the liberty of the individual may become a fact; as the only political organization that is democratic, and that has for its purpose the democratizing of the whole of society.

T o this idea of liberty the republican and democratic parties are utterly false. They alike struggle for power to maintain and profit by an industrial system which can be preserved only by the complete overthrow of such liberties as we already have, and by the sti l l fur­ther enslavement and degradation of labor.

Our American institutions came into the world in the name of freedom. They have been seized upon by the capitalist class as the means o f rooting out the idea of freedom from among the people. Our state and national legislatures have become the mere agencies of great propertied interests. These interests control the appoint­ments and decisions of the judges of our courts. They have come into what is practically a private ownership of all the functions and forces of government. They are using these to betray and conquer foreign and weaker peoples, in order to establish ne»v markets for the surplus goods which the people make, but are too poor to buy. They are gradually so invading and restricting the right of suffrage as to take unawares the right of the worker to a vote or voice in public affairs. By enacting new and misinterpreting old laws, they are preparing to attack the liberty of the individual even to speak or think for himself or for the common good.

B y controlling all the sources of social revenue, the possessing class is able to silence what might be the voice of protest against the passing of liberty and the coming of tyranny. It completely con­trols the university and public schools, the pulpit and the press, arts and literatures. By making these economically dependent upon itself, it has brought all the forms of public teaching into servile submission to its own interests.

Our political institutions arc also being used as the destroyers of that individual property upon which all liberty and opportunity depend. 1 he promise of economic independence to each man was one of the faiths in which our institutions were founded. But under the guise of defending private property,capitalism is using our politi cal institutions to make it impossible for the \ast majority of human beings to ever become possessors of private property in the means of l ife.

Capitalism is the enemy and destroyer of essential private prop­erty. Its development is through the legalized confiscation of al l that the labor of the working class produces, above its subsistence wage. T h e private ownership of the means of employ men! grounds society in an economic slavery which renders intellectual and political tyran­ny inevitable.

Socialism comes so to organize industry and society that everv individual shall be secure in that private property In the means of life upon which his liberty of being, thought and action depend. It comes to rescue the people from the fast increasing and successful assault of capitalism upon the liberty of the individual

' If. A s an American Socialist party, we pledge our fidelity to the

principles of international Socialism, as embodied in the united thought and action of the Socialists of all nations. In the industrial development already accomplished, the interests pf the world's worl ers are separated by no national boundaries. The condition of the most exploited and OppfSSBtd workers fh the most remote place, of the earth inevitably tends to drap down all the workers of the world

Socialist National Platform: to the same level. The tendency of the competitive wage system is to make labor's lowest condition the measure or rule of its universal condition. Industry and finance are no longer national, but interna­tional in both organization and results. The chief significance of national boundaries, and of so-called patriotisms which the ru l ing class of each nation is seeking to revive, is the power which these give to capitalism to keep the workers of the world f rom uni t ing, and to throw them against each other in the struggles of contending capitalist interests for the control of the yet unexploited markets of the world, or the remaining sources of profit.

The Socialist movement, therefore, is a world movement. It knows of no conflicts between the workers of one nation and the workers of another. It stands for the freedom of the workers of all nations; and, in so standing, it makes for the fu l l freedom of all humanity.

III. The Socialist movement owes its birth and growth to that eco­

nomic development or world-process which is rapidly separating a working or producing class from a possessing or capitalist class. The class that produces nothing possesses labor's fruits , and the oppor­tunities and enjoyments these frui ts afford, while the class that does the world's real work has increasing economic uncertainty, and physi­cal and intellectual misery as its port ion.

The fact that these two classes have not yet become f u l l y con­scious of their distinction from each other, the fact that the lines of division and interest may not yet be clearly drawn, does not change the fact of the class conflict.

This class struggle is due to the private ownership of the means of employment, or the tools of production. Wherever and whenever man owned his own land and tools, and by them produced only the things which he used, economic independence was possible. But production, or the making of goods, has long ceased to be individual . I he labors of scores or even thousands, enters into almost every

article produced. I 'roduction is now social or collective. Pract ical ly everything is made or done by many men—sometimes separated by seas or continents—working together for the same end. Rut this COH tpefStiofl in production is not for the direct use of the things made by the workers who make them, but for the profit of the owners ; and to this is due the present division of society into two distinct classes; nid from it has sprung all the miseries, inliarmonies and contradic­tions of our c ivi l izat ion.

I'< < •.'•'11 these two classes there can be no possible compromise or identity of interests, any more than there can be peace in the midst of war, or light in the midst o f darkness. A society based upon this • lass division carries in itself tbe seeds of its own destruction. Such • society i- founded in fundamental injustice. There can be no pos­sible basis for social peace, for individual freedom, for mental and moral harmony, except in the conscious and complete t r iumph of the working elm SI the only class that has the right or power to be.

IV. The Socialist program is not a theory imposed upon society for

us acceptance or rejection. It is but the interpretation of what is, sooner or later, inevitable. Capital ism is already s t ruggl ing to its destruction. It is no longer competent to organize or administer the work of t h e world, or even lo preserve itself. The captains of indus­try ar- appalled at their own inabi l i ty t o control or direct the rapidlv socializing forces of indnstrv. T h e so-called trust is but a sign and form of this developing socialization of the world's work. The uni­versal increase of the uncertainty of employment, the universal capi­t a l i s t determination to break down the unity of labor in the trades unions, the widespread apprehensions of impending change, reveal thai the Institutions of capitalist society are passing under the power

of inhering forces that w i l l soon destroy them. Into the midst of the strain and crisis of c ivi l iza t ion, the Socialist

movement comes as the only saving or conservative force. If the world is to be saved f rom chaos, f rom universal disorder and misery, it must be by the union of the workers of a l l nations in the Socialist movement. The Socialist party comes wi th the only proposition or program for intell igently and deliberately organizing the nation for the common good of a l l its citizens. It is the first time that the mind of man has ever been directed toward the conscious organization of society.

Socialism means that a l l those things upon which the people in common depend shall by the people in common be owned and admin­istered. It means that the tools of employment shall be long to their creators and users; that al l production shall be for the direct use of the producers; that the making of goods for profit shall come to an end ; that we shall all be workers together, and that opportunities shall be open and equal to all men.

V . T o the end that the workers may seize every possible advan­

tage that may strengthen them to gain complete control of the powers of government and thereby the sooner establish the co-operative commonwealth, the Socialist party pledges itself to watch and work in both the economic and the political struggle for each successive immediate interest of the work ing class; for shortened days of labor and increase of wages ; for the insurance of the workers against acci­dent, sickness and lack of employment; for pensions for aged and exhausted workers ; for the public ownership of the means of trans­portation, communication and exchange; for the graduated taxation of incomes, inheritances, and of franchise and land values, the pro­ceeds to be applied to public employment and bettering the condition of the workers ; for tbe equal suffrage of men and women ; for the prevention of the use of the mili tary against labor in the settlement of s tr ikes; for the free administration of just ice; for popular govern­ment, inc luding init iat ive, referendum, proportional representation, and the recall of officers by their constituents ; and for every gain or advantage for the workers that may be wrested f rom the capitalist system, and that may relieve the suffer ing and strengthen the hands o f labor. W e lay upon every man elected to any executive or legis­lative office the first duty of s t r iv ing to procure whatever is for the workers ' most immediate interest, and for whatever wi l l lessen the economic and poli t ical powers of the capitalist and increase the like powers of the worker.

But, in so doing, we are using these remedial measures as means to the one great end of the co-operative commonwealth. Such meas­ures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of government, in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of indus­try, and thus come into their r ightful inheritance.

T o this end we pledge ourselves, as the party of the work ing class, to use all poli t ical power, as fast as it shall be intrusted to ttSJ by our fellow workers, both for their immediate interests and for their ultimate and complete emancipation. T o this end we appeal to all the workers of America , and to all who w i l l lend their lives to the service of the workers in their struggle to gain their own, and to all who w i l l noblv and disinterestedly give their days and energies unto the workers ' cause to cast their lot and faith with the Socialist party. ( >ur appeal for the trust and suffrages of our fellow workers [l at once an appeal for their common good Mtd freedom, and for the freedom and blossoming of our common humanity. In pledging our­selves, and those we represent, to be fa i thful to the appeal which we make, we believe that we are but preparing tlx s o i l of the.economic freedom f rom vyliich w i l l spring the freedom of the whole man.