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job ramus THAT far 'removed from want, that he can not see the want and misery so close around his door step, that comes of the ownership, of our God-given land by a few private individuals for the SOCIALSTS 1ICT CAPITALISM SAVES YOU MOHEY THIS MUST INTEREST TOU. Judge Taft has made tbis maxim the statement of a child. It was left for him to say, "let who will make the labor laws of the country If I can only issue the Injunctions." I Under this Inspiration Judge Taft for the first time in America took the Sherman anti-trust law, made for the protection of farmers and working-men, and turned it into an engine of oppression against labor. How this purpose of piling up millions and rolling in luxury, until they become no better themselves than the beasts of Remarks by D. S.

froSrt the forest. Ponder this well, dear about Socialism Arthur. reader, and' draw your own conclusions. i Editor -f- If one will only observe he can hear 1 "nt rtnAnurrn Ins iep" and see the same attacks made 1 by Too Will Want Some letterheads, En. relopes, Or Otacr Printing.

No, Brother Worker, we do not mean to "divide up." We have been KALAMAZOO. MICHIGAN FLAW IN PARSONS SERMON. was done can be seen by consulting the case of the Toledo Ann Arbor railroad against the Pennsylvania railroad in the Fifth-fourth Federal Reporter, page 730. 1 preachers, who are not Socialists, in their sermons. The Methodist preacher who preaches at Gum Springs school house on, the second Sunday in this month.

THE '0-P4KTISVy rARTISlX. I've been thinkin' up, Dear Parson, and my thought's are true, I know, 'Bout that cruel competitive sermon, dividing np for a long time and we want to quit We want every one to haye a fair and equal chance to work and then pay to each one his entire social share of the product. And after the running expenses of society are paid each will receive proportion We have a dandy linen finish bond, 16-lb. stock, for letterheads, that is bound to give satisfaction. Letterheads 500, 1,000, $3.00.

Envelopes 500, 1,000. $2.50. It was in 1893 that the engineers of the Toledo Ann Arbor railroad called a strike to protect themselves against a cut in wages. Arthur was honeycombed with political trickste and dishonest men, this fellow takes upon himself the task of picked out the good ones and sometimes ha even boasts of his intentions to r'" About this time of the year there what you preached not long ago. Now you've been preachin' competition lor about 40 years and seven, are a bunch of fellows 'who bob up and show their ignorance'of the great preached a sermon on what he called "Holy Ghost Religion," and in that sermon he asserted there were so much pride, hypocracy and graft in the churches that one could not see any Holy Ghost religipn there; and ately according the labor he has Business Cards 500, 1,000, then the head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers.

In 1893 P. M. this. 'r class struggle that is now on by de $2.50. In reality this "non-partisan," claring that they are "independent rendered.

Now, there are some of you that think this cannot be computed. But voters, and propose to select tbs dependent" citizens is one of the greatest jokes oi the times. He don't know it. ofc ourse, but he is jnst a case of best men" regardless of party affilia you forget that just such figures have tions. And been tellin' us to do, things, what ain't right to do in Heaven.l So when I think of this, parson, it fairly makes 'me eech, And you bet if I was a preacher, I'd practice what I preach.

Why I'd even take my -nage, parson, and all my surplus funds, When one of these phonograph rec yet some of them will say that Socialism will destroy the churches and religion. It seems tqn-e from what this good, honest and truthful Methodist preacher says, that pride, hypocracy and graft that are in the churches, are the 'individualism" gone to seed. The plain facts are that any solu ords gets this off he puffs up and Calling Cards 50, 50c; 100, 75c. Socialist Post Cards 25, 10c; 100, 85c (postpaid). 500, 1000, $2.65 postpaid).

leaflets Willi Cartoon (Best Yet) 500, 50c; (postpaid). Cartoon Propaganda Cards 500, 1,000, $1.50. Cartoon Campaign Cards 500, l.ooo, $1.60. 'Prices on Socialist Post Cards and tion to the great prbleme of the day struts around and seems to think that already been gathered by the Census Bureau of the United States. We know exactly how much average labor time it takes to make a plow or a watch.

will we do with the capitalist? very natural question. You Arthur was a dangerous man; dangerous then to capital, as later he was called dangerous to labor, which shows that the cause of progress does not stand still. Arthur gave his consent to the strike and the battle commenced. Of course all of the comfortable and snug In the railroad offices, as well as the servants on the bench, believe that a Strike is Inspired by malice and hatred and is only a holiday for workingmen. Only the toiler and the student know that it means want and gaunt famine, suffering, danger aW abuse.

he has really said something worth while. The poor chump don't understand that he is making a fool of him self, or rather that some one has made a fool of him and he is just demonstrating the fact are so used to taking care of him that you cannot be expected to stop all at Well, we are going to give to thing3 that are destroying the churches and religion. I was talking to an intelligent school teacher a few days ago' on the subject of Sciallsm, and ie asked me what we were going to do about sitting down to a common table under Socialism. It seems from that question that Leaflets are postage prepaid, all the balance are the prices F. O.

B. Iola. Socialist Co-Operative Publishing Iola, Kansas. It takes very little thinking to con And give 'em all away to the starvin' little ones. 1 It's time to waken up parson, preach us one that's some account, Give us something Socialistic, like the sermon on the Mount.

You bet I'll stick to you, parsoni tight as the bark on birch, If you'll take up this social subject and preach it in the church. the capitalist nice, suitable labor vince any one that the great questions alongside of o'urselves. You see we have nothing against him. We are of the day are not individual ques must come through co-operative action and that in order to co-operate it Is necessary to form organisations' with definite principles and aurposes. Every political organization.

1b eo formed. And every hi that organization, but represents the principles of the organization. The trouble ia that few neapl understand these political formations, and are often found supporting the worng one, and thla ia particularly: true of the working class. To analyse theae political panttea and ehow Just what each standa tor is a Big question, the Ass may take tt up later. But to eay that th eUow Tho cuts himself loos from all eucih or tions, butc lass questions that effect the people in accordance with their the toller and student know this, and these are not found in the railroad offices or on the When the strike was called the men let go the throttle, got off their en IS PREACHER WELL FEB? going to take him into the industrial family! WTe do not wish to exploit him as he has exploited utf.

We will position in society as either "workers" this intelligent school teacher thought that under Socialism all our productions would be put into a common fund, and a common table would be set for all, and that all would have to eat at that common table. or "masters, or memners or max non wipe out the past. gines, gave up the pay car and went descript intermediary class that Will pay him for his present makes an effort to serve Itself by serv. wealth? That will be left to the peo ing both of the main classes, or else A preacher will stand up in the pulpit and tell us that the world belongs to us, the people. That to man only was given dominion of the earth, and how happy we should be that the good pie that are living at that time.

If you are still here, you will have a vote on skinning them. G. 0. P. "PROSPERITY." Here usually is where the "non partisan mania" breaks out.

Some lit home to wait to wait to find which came first, the surrender of the railroad or the gaunt specter of want. The days passed by and the company began to run its trains with scabs men who turn their backs upon their class and join the enemy in times of war. By this means the railroad began to move its trains and deliver freight. At it3 terminal points the God gave us the But those of the proposition. And the workers are so generous that thee apitalists need have no fear.

We move along the lines of orderly and historical development. tle petty merchant or dealer or professional man or "hanger on" of gome Nothing is gained by undue haste, kind, who can't see through! a plane This competitive system, parson, a true man would provoke, Cause some can take the name "of Christian and use it as a cloak, A cloak to hide their meanness, 'parson, where the devil himself doth dwell, And just beneath its borders, its black as the slime of hell. No, I'm not a Christian, parson, like those we often meet, Cause some, they wear a Christian's cloak, and they're srictly on the beat, So, Annanias and Saphira, we can find i on earth today, But God don't use his power to take them out of the way. -v ganizations and. evpects to do IJhtngs "independently" is Buffering from a bad case of over-exhalteA ego, and hasn't yet started to understand the real problems of the age.

If eame one will just bore a bole. In Ma ieaO, gently mind you, andl etrthe but qir out the Ass will take all tie responeiftlll-. ty. The Asa himself did it and any sort of violence leads only to reaction. The thing for us to do now is to get the government by peaceful of glass, locates all the difficulties in the present industrial chaos as coming from "bad men" in politics, and thinks that if we had "honest men" in politics everything would be lovely.

Realizing that both old parties are road switched its loaded cars of freight to other lines engaged in the sacred business of "interstate commerce, "a nd these roads hauled them political action. When the power of organized society is finally in our hands then we can go swiftly, legally and in brotherly fashion to fie goal. My THE ONLY WAY TEDDY CAN EXPLAIN. us who know that. God gave us the world and desire that the people take charge of the world that He so graciously gave us, and use it to glorify his Holy name, instead of allowing a few individuals or class of individuals to keep it for no other good purpose than to exploit his fellowman, since in order that we may live, we must pay "tribute to this individual or class of Individuals who has appropriated a portion of this God-given land to them- selves.

Simply because we believe the land belongs to all the people and not to a few, this preacher is heard to exclaim, "Free-loviers," Can it be possible that this is an utterance from a preacher living in the Twentieth Century. I am certain that such rot belongs to the Sixteenth. Century and 1 not to the modern Twentieth Century, where men have lerned to think a lit- ty 117 a HOW MEN ECOME SOCIALISTS. would rather be president than be right. Man with a chance towoskii business lasts 'til he gets there, The man who is just about to-be believe in a government of the people, by me asum' come a Socialist, always asks tho same and for Big Business, have nothing to say regarding labor conditio questions as do you, and he is not eat away to help the ownees of the Toledo Ann Arbor to get the sinews of war to carry on the fight against its men.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 33,000 strong, and driving the glnes on every road in the United States, had adopted a rule, "No. 12" which provided that "after a strike had been sanctioned by the grand master that it should be a violation of their obligation for any member 'of the brotherhood to handle the cars ofvnv icu wc CUii.twjt ftlti Oil ix strike." And this is the man for whom thousands of workingmen voted, and for whom they will vote again if he is nominated. isfied you can show him And those given to hypocrisy, and greed and show and style, Now mark down what I tell you, parson, He may use it after awhile. Now, you've tried to tell the children. parson, how to get a heavenly seat.

In the name of Clod, how can they. t' 1 nr rr! t--- rt A-uan and. the tariff, it's a bad idea to bite tl complete working "moel of the co hand that feeds me. In father is operative commonwealth. This1 fender.

'-manifestly impossible, fo. J. voijny4a.iUiU.manwrons:3 iwi T- jr TTCCdii friends, are made for no other gtare reason than to. side-track you from the main issue of Socialism. In the name of the Great God in Heaven, do these men or class of men think that a living wage will make men Free-lovers "ACCESSORY BEFOKE THE FACT." eat? But I like a social system, parson, which won't do.

you've firmly said, When these millions of little children, would be warmly clothed and fed. But why shouldn't I be a Socialist parson, like where all the public own? And don't elect a few to scheme, to build a tyrants throne. Forgive me now, Dear Parson, if I may be too bold. But I'm just tryin' to get you, too, just as Christians did of old. M.

S. MORRIS, Pond Creek, Okla. and Atheists. He reflect discredit and shame on the name of every good family whose living comes from a government job. Are we to assume that government ownership of the means of production and distribution (Social-Ism) make of us all Free-lovers.

I will ask you a question, kind reader, and leave you to answer it for yourselves Is the man grossly ignorant and prejudiced, or is he so well fed and so In the ranks of the (wage iworkrs themselves, it will be along the line of old age pensions, sick, and accident insurance, reduction of hours of labor) factory inspection, etc. The fanners have demanded nothing, because they have no paganized way of expressing themselves, but soon they will have Before long the tenant class will organize. The small farmers wip continue to cry out against the trusts, until they will see that they must demand the social or state ownership, with Democratic management of 'packing plants, elevators, warehouses, machinery making plants, railroads, etc. Now this, not a part of it but all, is Socialism. The details cannot ba worked out, in advance, but they will follow as necessity, expediency, and experience produce what is good fc the most, and at the same time practical.

When you see this, my brother editor, you will be a Socialist. There i no place else for the man who wanu to be right, and 'who wants the best that is coming to him, and realizes that his chances are slim under the present capitalist system. A. R. RICKER, Associate Editor Appeal to Reason.

that Society is a development. The prinicple and methods of an old order of society always, merge and shade into the new. Socialism is already beginning to develop inside the capitalist shell, just as the butterfly develops, 'in the coc-coon, from the caterpillar. The butterfly is the caterpillar, and yet it is not. Socialism will be society still, but in a new form.

Perhaps my illustration is not prefect, illustrations never are. but you will get tho idea. Socialism is another name for cooperation. Capitalsm is a name for exploitation, which means the use of one individual by another or one set of individuals by another. In chattel slavery the master used or exploited the slave.

In wage slavery the capitalist uses, or exploits the wage worker and the farmer, the former directly and the latter indirectly. The Socialist proposes to substitute for the private or capitalist ownership of socially used property, ieuch as the railroads, shops, mines, banks, the co-operative or social ownership of the same. He would take over this ownership as i tbecomes socially necessary or practicable, just as' the farmer picks the fruit that ripens. The way to become a Socialist is to admit that the Socialist principle is correct. Having done this, you proceed to apply this principle wherever it will work out better for society, than capitalism.

If it is better for society, then it is better for you, providing of course, that you are not a captitalist capitalist is not in favor of Socialism because it does not appeal to his self interest. The members of the capitalist class are the precise beneficiaries of the present system, because by it they compel the producers to do all the drudgery, to make all the good and useful things, and perform all necessary service, even to taking care of the very persons of the rich. The capitalists enjoy the art, the music, the travel, and1 the luxuries. Hardly will they want to change, any more than the feudal lord wanted to give up his vassalSi or the plantation owner his slaves. The working class, wage workers and farmers, however have all to gain and nothing to lose, by the change to co-operative or social ownership.

Their self-interest will move them to bring about the change. The change itself will be a development from capitalism to Socialism, at times sudden, and at others slowly, but always must the change go on. In cities the change is manifested in municipal ownership of gas, electricity, transportation, ice etorage, cold and dry, and in public control of health and housing. This school teacher also asked me what he and I were going to do about our little homes. He seemed to understand that no one under Socialism should haj-e a A I replied to him that the Socialist proposed a system by which all could have a better opportunity to own homes, and that land should not all be owned by a few.

He said, "Well, I know that something will have to be done about the land A rural mail carrier made some guying remarks to me a few days ago for subscribing for the Hughes County Socialist, and I asked him what were there bad about the Socialist, and he said that it was too rotten for him. I asked him to tell me what there were about Socialism that was rotten, and he replied that he did not have time then and would tell me some other time. I guess when he does tell, if he ever does, it will be the same old political and capitalist lie, free-love, destroying homes, the churches and religion. Dan. 2:44.

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed." And Math. 16: 18. "Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevai'against it." To prove the establishment and perpetuity of the churches, and then reverse themselves, make God and Jesus Christ out liars by debating against Socialism and saying that it will destroy the churches. I am a Baptist and will deny that Socialism will destroy the church. Jesus Christ said: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against." I am not going to say that Jesus lied, as some of thes Baptist preachers and other preachers do.

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(By Olive Baled1! "Accessory before the fact." This Is the slogan of some of the corrupted tools of Capitalism as they are trying to railroad to death two of labor's exponents. To put away these two innocent men, and establish a precedent that well nigh convicts the whole of society itself; to throttle free speech and suppress assemblage is their aim, their ultimate goal. Accessory before the fact which means two men about to be convicted for murdering a girl, carelessly murdered by a policeman, when neither was near the scene of the slaying. Think o'f it to be convicted of a crime of which one is entirely innocent. Not only that but to be convicted at the instigation of those who were responsible for the crimed Think! An effort to throttle free speech and assemblage by holding those responsible for the gathering liable for the crimes committed by the tools of the masters in dispersing the crowd." Oh working people all over the land, are we going to stand meekly by and let this crime be perpetuated without a protest? If we do; if we are so meek and lowly then, we ought to be crushed.

Are we? If we do not protest against the installation of this infernal machue are we not? From five thousand Socialist locals should come as many shouts of denunciation. From every union in the land; from every organization of working people in the nation should come resolutions-denouncing this monstrous interpretation of "Accessory before the fact" in an attempt to convictEttor and Gio-vanitti and set this precedent and demanding the immediate acquittal of Ettor and Giovanittl. From all the unorganized working men and women should come letters of protest to these capitalist tools and their masters. Not only because two working men are to bo convicted of murder who are innocent, should we protest, but because this is a test case. This is a terrible effort on the part of the masters to set a precedent that will literally convict working men of all crimes perpetrated in'labor-capital disputes; i to throttlo free speech and right of assemblage: fellow workers, if this precedent is it.

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Ottawa, Kansas. uci, uusy, xerestea exploiting you would AI1 subscriptions stopped immedl- tribute money to. defeat, ately upon If you are re- Your subscription to this paper ceiving this paper and have not order- hasten the triumph of the workcry' Since this paper is so owned, it will always be at the disposal orSthe workers and will do all it can to aid you. Why not help the paper that will always help you? Wo are going to ask all of our sub-" ea it, some triena nas paid or it. iso and assure tho success of this pnrer.

BILL will be presented to you. Subscribe "A Sample Copy" is an invitation to 1 Others besides the Socialists are beginning to realize that there ought to be a great change' in existing conditions if the advance of Socialism is to be retarded. Some even predict a bloody revolution, which Socialists are continually planning to avoid. Dr. Charles W.

Galvin, writing in the Boston Post, says: "'t "The real cause ofthe crime that is being committed today that 95 per cent of the people don't care what harm comes to the other fellow so long as It doesn't happen to them. "If a change does not takef place in the existing conditions which will stop the rapid increase in the number of tinemployed, I predict, with all sincorlty, that by 1915 there will be such a revolution as will make the millionaire afraid to stop outside his home for fear of husfsjc bis brains blown out by tho starving man who awaits him." It was a wise man who said, "Let wbd will make the laws of the country if I can only write its songs," CUT ON THIS LINE 1 B.F.D. OR STREET OR SOIBER SA3TE. 1 TOWIV. 8TATE.

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