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SOCL.LISTS AGAIUST SCCIfilST CO-OP LOOK AT THIS Frederick Engels. One of the most Important works in the literature of So cialism. SO cents. struggle but a state and national one as well. And the effort to conceal this struggle by detaching the THE FIRST OF MAY.

(By Camile Huysmans, Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau.) city and its issues and problems from the state and 1 national situa ERATIVE PIPER PARTIS II- We are passing through a splen i Books in Paper Covers. The Class SiTTTglP. By Karl Kauts ky. One of the clearest explanation: of Socialist principles ever published. 25 cents.

Socialist Songs, Dialogues and Reel- did period of working-class unrest. Comrades, this Job Plant should be kept busy and here are the prices that should not allow it to stand idle an hour: More and more the workers' army is List of Socialist Papers Published at solidifying and consolidating its or (By Carl Thompson, Director of the Information pepartment. Socialist Party.) the Central Plant at Iola, Kansas. Uatioiis. Compiled by Josephine LETTER HEADS.

ganization in. a- way that makes for its well being, prepares the way for its emancipation, and imposes its policy of peace between the nations upon the world. Yellow Exchange, 14-Ib. Stock. ARKANSAS.

$1.50 The Red Flag, Fort Smith. 1000 500 Every year, on the first of May, 1.20 White County Worker, Judsonia. we review our army, which has now Cole, i Just the book to help in arranging for a Socialist entertainment by young folks. 25 cents. Under the Lush.

By C. F. Quinn. A Socialist play suited to the use of amateurs. 23 cents.

The Republic of Plato. II, IIL IV, and VI now ready; each sold separately at 15 cents. Industrial Problems. By N. A.

Richardson. An admirable propaganda Crawford County Star, Van Buren. by these commission charter reformers? There is nothing on ballot no distinguishing that connects these names with the policies which they represent. Is it not obvious that that kind of ballot fails ouh that that kind of a ballot fails to supply the vojter the information he needs at the most critical point? It may very easily happen that certain individuals may be prominent in the advocacy of certain ideas, while the actual candidates put forth may be much less prominent. The name of theindividual, therefore is not a reliable guide to the voter.

In many cases it may be no guide at all. Local Issues Also Involve State and 1 National Issues. II. Local issues in a municipality also involve state and national issues and therefore require that state and national party organization and voting be permitted. Our secoud objection to the non-partisan election, is that it destroys the power of the people in their state and national fight for local relief.

On this point, we quote the report of the committee on the commission form of government made to the last con French Folio Linen. COLORADO. The World For the Workers, Denver. 1000.. 500., $1.75 1.10 Stationer's Bond, 13-lb.

Stock. reached the goodly number of just upon ten million well disciplined soldiers, representing families which may be counted as 50,000,000 people. The history of the world has never seen since the birth of Christianity such an immense movement, nor one which has made its Influence felt so rapidly. tion, serves only to deceive the peo- "There is hardly a serious praob- pie and to prolong the period of their enslavement." Eliminates Principles and Introdu-c ces False Issues. III.

The non-partisan election eliminates principles from the elections and introduces false issues. In the first place it throws the weight of a campaign thu personality of the candidates. There must be something upon which the effort to g'et the candidates elected shall be based. Since nothing but the names are to confront the voters at the polls, the supporters are forced to emphasize the namethe candidate and his personality. Thus the advocates of an Idea or policy are compelled to unduly emphasize the personality of their candidate in order to force his name-upon the attention of the voters.

This is especially so in the case of minorities, which almost always lack men of special prominence or fame in the beginning. Such a course is repugnant In that it unduly emphasises the importance of the individual. It is not only harmful to the candidate himself, but introduces an un If you favor non-partisan elections answer these arguments for us. If you oppose non-partisan elections as we do maybe you can give Us some better arguments. We have listened patiently and followed carefully the whole line of arguments put out by our municipal reformers in favor of non-partisan elections.

To us the whole non-partisan idea seems such a transparent fallacy that we frankly confess to a certain degree amavement at the fact that intelligent and thoughtful people seem to be misled by it. The whole host of our municipal $1.75 ILLINOIS. Rock Island County Socialist, Moline. The Quincy Socialist, Quincy. IOWA.

Monroe County Leader, Albia. Boone County Searchlight, Boone. Linn County Searchlight, 1.40 $2.00 lfl-lb. Stock. 1000.

500. 1000. 500. 1.50 Rapids Stock. $2.00 1.50 book appealing especially to wagfe-workers.

25 cents. Christianizing Henthons under Pope Taft, Booseveltisni. By Harry McCul-locb. Illustrated. 25 cents.

Mailed on receipt of price. Socialist Co-Op. Publishing Iola, Kas. The Common Sense of Socialism. By John Spargo.

Addressed to wage-workers, but even better suited to farmers or professional men. 25 cents. Principles of Scientific Socialism. By Rev. Charles H.

Vail. One of the most popular statements df the fundamental principles held in common by nearly all Socialists. 25 cents. Crescent Laid, Flat, 16-lb. 1000.....

500.... Fawn or Pink only. reformers in America seem to have been swept off their feet with the Stock. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MOTHER JONES. In writing to the Cleveland Citizen from the "Military Bastile" at Pratt, W.

Mother Jones, says: "I was kidnapped on February 12, while walking along the streets of Charleston, and they brought me 22 miles in order to bring me within the martial law zone, so that they might try me before a drumhead military court. Commercial Linen, 16-lb. 1000.. 500.. vention of the Socialist party at Indianapolis, Indiana, May, 1912: "There is hardly a serious prob- $2.00 1.50 government that fad.

As though by the simple de-ylce of striking the party name off Of ballots we would eliminate, as by the stroke of a magic wand, all the vils of municipal mis-rule! the'-veal with which the re lem of municipal can be solved at all aside from a Mall Order Bond, Linen Finish. 16-lb. Stock. state and national movement. Take fortunate amount of harmful per Voice of The Toilers, Centerville.

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Cerro Gordo Leader, City. Muscatine County Socialist, Muscatine. Marshall County Tocsin, Marshall- town. Ottumwa Referendum, Ottumwa. Dallas County Worker, Perry.

The Vanguard, Waterloo. KANSAS. The Chanute lola Co-Operator, Iola. Leavenworth Socialist, Leavenworth. Harvey County Socialist, Newton.

Linn County Searchlight, Pleasanton. Saline County Socialist, Salina. 1000.. $2.35 500.. 1.75 sonalities.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY. (By Jean Jaures.) Furthermore, non-partisan ele Yale Bond, Linen Finish, 20-lb. Stock. tions tend to thrust false issues into the campaigns. It must be admitted that campaigns will be fought and For the twenty-fifth time, May Day, this year, re-unltes in one in $3.00 2.00 1000 500....

ternational demonstration the organized working class of the two worlds in their affirmation of solidarity that there willbe something to fight about. Campaigners are going to put up some kind, of an argument for their candidates and, against their "I refused to concede to their right to try me under those circumstances and while the civil courts were in session. But the cowardly whelps of the millionaire operators had their orders and tried us anwhow, and none of the boys, nor do I know upon what charges we were tried or what sentences we must serve. All that we know is that we are locked up while the flag of liberty is waving over our stockades. "I am watched day and night by three capitalistic tools, although I ENVELOPES.

Light Manila. without distinction of frontiers, and opponents. If the principles in in a mighty declaration of their de 1000. $1.40 1.00 termination to overthrow the forces the question of home rule. Here in the very nature of the case the city is powerless in the hands of the state legislature.

The fight for the home rule itself is a state and national fight." Take the question of the commission form of government itself it has been an issue for state legislation very largely. Or consider some of our commercial and industrial problems. The real difficulties that concern a people in a city, involve state and national For example, the supply of coal for a city what can any city in America: do on a problem of that sort without state and national action? 1 The city may establish a coal yard. But that is only the merest fraction of the problem. The coal must be shipped to the city over railroads that are owned by the mo 500.

volved are lessened in importance the inevitable result will be that News and Views, Sedan. formers have hunted out this witch of partisan elections and striven to drive it out is worthy of a better cause. The commission charter recently proposed in Traverse City, Michigan, for example, provides: "The ballots for election of city officers shall be separate from any other ballot and shall be without Insignia, emblem, or designation, etc." (Section 26.) The charter of Grand Junction, Colorado, and of Spokane, Washington, which are worded identically the same, are even more extreme. They provide: "Nothing on the ballot shall be indicative of the source of didacy, or of the support of any. candidate.

No ballot shall have printed thereon any party or political designation or mark, and there which plunder and murder their other matters will be thrust into the class, and endanger the peace of the LOUISIANA. Imperial, White Wove, XXX. campaign. religious world. J.

The Socialist Light, Shreveport. $1-60 and race prejudices, always ready to At this moment when the struggle 500.. 1.15 MISSOURI. between capitalism and labor is at its height. Social Democrat, Independence.

Reliance, White Wove, XXX. spring into action, are almost sure to be aroused. Such things, besides being very harmful In a community, are also false issues. Gives Advantage to Men of Wealth. At this moment when govern 1000 $1.75 ments place, more and more, at the 500..

1.25 We guarantee everything in this am past 80 years of age and would not be able to go very fast If I could make my escape. No one is permitted to see me, and any newspaper man that would dare to approach the gate would be snapped up like a dog and run into the bull-pen. They wrote over the door these fatal and memorable words: "All hope abandoned ye who enter here." IV. Non-partisan elections give list to be a genuine bargain. disposal of privilege and.

capitalism all their both military and police, in order to suppress the workers who are claiming a little more of their due. Joplin Socialist, Joplin. Kansas City Socialist, Kansas City. People's Appeal, St. Joseph.

NEVADA. The Ballot Box, Fallon. OKLAHOMA. Grady County Socialist, Chickasha. Rogers County Voice, Claremore.

Progressive Worker, Henryetta. Hughes County Socialist, Lamar. the advantage to men of wealth and prominence. Elections carried on SUBSCRIPTION CARDS. nopolies and trusts.

The transportation of coal becomes a problem of interstate commerce. Thus the upon that basis put the working classes and the common people at One side, regular post card self- At this crisis it is imperative that the organized workers everywhere "Labor, in all its conflicts, never 'shall not be appended to the name of any candidate any such party or political designation or mark, or anything indicating his views or opinion." sThere's a Heason. most elemental problem of the city becomes a state and national prob- addressed to your paper and the should signify to the capitalist class- other a subscription card good for met with a more cold-blooded, merciless crew of pirates than we are con leiti, a question requiring a consist Commanche County Socialist, es that they have tolerated longi en- one year or six months subscription ough a regime founded on the bond- and every card numbered in red ink ent and comprehensive program for fronting In this slave-cursed state ton. state and national action. To un a disadvantage.

Individuals who own banks, railroads and great daily newspapers are not on an equal footing with individuals the working class. The latter have no hope of matching the power and influence of the former except by group action. And the possibility of that group action must be age and subjection of the producers, with numbering machine. of West Virginia. They are now at Pittsburg County Hornet, McAlester.

dertake to solve problems of thi3 Nothing! could be more complete. The authors are not content with Let us be stirring, so that on May These are just what you need and Muskogee County Emancipator, kind by limiting our efforts to local Day we may demonstrate in one body are for paid subscriptions like the jrdenyihg the Republicans, tempting to resurrect the methods, of the old Spanish inquisition and are testing them out here to see how far they can go. This is a danger to our Issues, and separating our cities that the workers of all countries are Appeal to Reason sub. cards iiftocrats and Socialists the right Nowata County Plain Talk, Nowata. from state and national issues, is ready to recover their rights; ready 250 6 mos.

or one year. .75 absurd. maintained up to the very moment 500 6 mos. or one year. to oppose the plots of capitalism, and 1.00 1.50 PUB.

movement that every union official in the country should understand and all members as well. of governments that endangef inter May Have Nothing in Their Program 1,0006 mos. or one year. Wagoner County Socialist, Wagoner, TENNESSEE. The Social Memphis.

TEXAS. Social Democracy, Austin. Or Platform. SOCIALIST CO-OPERATIVE that the ballot Is cast. Our policies should not be settled upon the basis of personalities national peace.

Let us affirm with a vigor our de If I ever gain my freedom again "It may be true that neither the COMPANY; IOLA, KANSAS. T.ie issue is not "is this candidate mand for the limitation of working -'lo the use of their names as a means of helping the voter to quickly and readily select the ballot which will represent his conviction they prohibit the use of any and all kind of Resignations whatsoever on the ballot anything and everything that would in any way connect an individual's name with the policies he represents. And these extreme provisions are Republican or Democratic national narties have anvthine in their plat an honest, upright is he a hours to eight a day. The Eye Opener, Bdnham. The Plain Dealer, Corsicana.

the country shall know what an infamous crew of plutocrats and their crooked political hirelings are daily conspiring to keep the working class in slavery and subjection In this -us prove by our action that forms or programs looking to the re MAY DAY. (By August Bebel. the working class will not rest con lief of the people that live in cities Ft. Worth Fort Worth. Hill County Worker, Hillsboro.

tent until It has secured the complete But to attempt to find relief from kind husband, a good father, a worthy citizen?" That is not the question. He may be all of that. Ho may be a man of fame, so that his name is in the mind of every voter. And yet, from the standpoint pf the The first of May.the feast day of state. They say I have already put control of the means of production Henderson County Winner, Murchl- the International working; class and exchange, the possession of son.

the evils that torment them without state and national action is the and Democratic parties have no height of folly. If the Republican movement, is here. Throughout the which Is the condition of Its eman only types of scores of the city char-- ters being adopted or urged by the advocates of the commission form them to an expense of $500,000 to keep their grip on their privileges. Well, I will endeavor to double and treble that amount and fight them The Workers' Warrior, Palestine. San Antonio Socialist, San Antonio.

cipation. civilized world the workers are uniting to propogate their ideals and of government for cities. until they emancipate- my boys and Social Progress Sherman. The Searchlight, Taylor. Freestone County Truth, Teague.

SOCIALIST GAINS At this point we Socialists dissent entirely and most emphatically. To slav- to press forward their practical demands on present society. So close your ranks. their wives and children from ery." exclude all possible, designation froi: In Two Harbors, Michigan, the This universal feast. has made en- SnrrlnHsts plpctfid the mavnr and Bell County Socialist, Temple.

Kaufman County Socialist, Terrell. Limestone County News, Common Sense, Tyler, The state-wil remain the state of the ballots seems to us unwarranted and abortive. And we frankly believe not only that a partisan public welfare, he may be the worst possible public enemy, He may represent wrong and harmful policies. The people must have the means of rallying their forces around principles rather than individuals. V.

It Gives a Terrible Advantage to The Press. The capitalist class and Its powerful members own the press. To make elections turn upon publicity and personality is to play straight Into the hands of the capitalists who own and control the agencies of publicity. The non-par eight other officials, winning all but ormous strides In the course of the two of the elective offices. The op- twenty-four years wich have elaps- the rich as long as the rich control not only the economic resources and posltlon was a combine of the other program nor principles that apply to the, great problem of municipal government, so much the worse for them.

Let the people know it, the sooner the better. y' "Such is not the case with the Socialist party. It has a program, municipal, state and national. And they are a part of one consistent whole. same principles for which the Socialist party stands in the state and nation apply with equal force, though with different details, to the city as well.

And what is more, there iB no solution of municipal problems apart from the prlnci- ed since the International Congress of celebrating the first of May is increasing. May Day is becoming forces society, but also the politi or i designated ballot Is right but that it Is the best method for securing desirable results in our civic parties under a "fusion" ticket against them. Previously the So cal thoughts of the people. It will more and more a world-wide event; become the state of the common peo THESE ARE BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ affairs. cialists had the mayoralty and four the day of international demonstra I.

Local issues require local aldermen. tion on which the solidarity and ple when the comon people have got hold of the means by which society and state live, and do their own thinking. unity of -the demand for social bet The Milwaukee Socialists elected tisan election may weaken the power of the old 'time political boss, but parties and designated ballots. Our first argument against this non-par-tisan fallacy is that it disorganizes the people at the polls at the very terment of the workers expresses two candidates to the school board itself in the strongest possible terms. it would put a tenfold more danger last week, against the combined EUGENE V.

DEBS. Be on the alert! Fateful things Books nt Fifty Cents. i Ethics ii nd Materialist Conception ot History, by Karl Kautsky. Shows how changing moral codes result from industrial changes. 50 cents.

ous power in his place the press, owned and controlled as it is. to forces of the "non-partisan" ele are unfolding themselves. The capitalist classes are persistently en ment. The Socialist vote was In read Comrade Debs has recently an overwhelming extent by the tocfatic Interests. round numbers 12,000 out of point where they most need facilities pleB of sociai democracy; and the for marshalling their strength.

principles of social democracy can-Must Express Themselves in Groups not be applied except through state As to Policies Advocated 'aud national action. The effort there-- fore to eliminate' national and state There are distinct differences of is8ues Rnd t0 prevent tne organl. opinion different policies Pos of a gUte and national poliu. H. 50c deavoring to conquer new markets for their goods and to crush out their 000 votes.

Jn spite of the capital the new book just out by G. Lockwood, Kalamazoo, paper, 75c cloth. He writes: This, the power of the press, must not be A mlnorlty ist press, the "non-partisan" vote Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome, by William Morris and Ernest Belfort Bax. A Socialist classic, until lately competitors in the world's markets, was a slump. Evidently the people My Dear Lockwood: Have and they are using their dominion party never has a strong press at been your have weighed the "non-partisan" ad sold at now 60 cents.

going through the pages of in all civilized lands to increase arm the beginning. The pross is general Bible Wltn regara to municipal a ministration and found it lacking. What's So mid What Isn't. John aments both by land and sea. They ly on the side of the majority.

By cal party that shall have also a municipal government. "Furthermore, let the Socialist thus lay terrible financial burdens constant and imposing 3 advertising, M. Work. volume of brief, crisp answers to the most common objections In Chicago the Socialist vote in "How to Live 100 Years," and have found it to be exceedingly interesting and illuminating. It is in your characteristic style, plainly written, breezy and stimulating, always to the point, full of horse sense, with urged against Socialism.

50 cents. the city election increased from upon the people, as a result of which the progress and the raising of the social conditions of the workers are 000 to 25,000. 1 This is more than The Evolution of Man. By Wilhelm sadly neglected. Boelsche.

An illustrated book for be-binners, explaining Darwin's theory 10 per cent of the total. The Progressive party, which stampeded the city last fall and took first place on Against this disastrous policy the helpful hints and suggestions, the results of experience, scattered workers must vehemently protest. and including many new facts discov ered since Darwin's time. 60 cents. the ballot, fell to third this time, The Triumph of Life.

By Wilhelm May Day gives the desired opportunity of expressing to the full this protest. The working classes do not party of America grow to sufficient strength and nffWbers; let It cap-tuie enough of the cities of this country, let it secure enough representatives in a few of the state legislatures and the national congress to make its municipal, state and national program a real menace to the capitalistic parties of today and we shall very quickly see the political parties of capitalism rush into a party that will be the most bitterly partisan that this country has known since the anti-slavery times. through all its pages. Your analogy between the human machine and the, automobile is especially clever, and your merciless iconoclasm in dealing Boelsche. A vivid study ot life in its fairs, Just as surely as there are in state affairs.

The question of the municipal ownership of water works, gas plants, electric light plants, street railways or other public utilities Is one upon which there is and muBt be a difference of opinion. And the only form of election that will enable the people to settle these questions and settle them intelligently; will be such as enable them to express themselves in groups formed according to the policies advocated by the groups. And the form of ballot that will enable the voter -at the polls to quickly and accurately express his purpose must be one that has some designation other than an individual's name. Is not this necessity perfectly obvious? For example, a certain by judicious and adroit editorial writing, and a news comment now and then, the people may be made to believe that a certain candidate stands for things for which be really does not. This Is one of the most common and most dangerous tricks of a capltallstically controlled press.

The people need the aslstance of every possible device with which to meet these difficulties and above everything else they need a designated ballot to help them connect the Individual candidate with the principles he is supposed to represent, and which also serves to connect the individual with the group Manitowac, re-elected the Socialist mayor and nearly the whole many forms and its triumph over ad- want a murderous war; they are fighting for peace, because they de verse.condltions. Illustrated, 50 cents. Socialist ticket. Germs of Mind In Plants. By P.

H. sire human progress. They are fight- with the humbuggery and false pretense'' of materia medtca deserves the heartiest approbation. I may not agree with your entire fAYmiilQ hut von hflvA frtfl1nlv Butte, went Socialist again In for free(jom and justice, even for France. Proves that plants receive sensations and act on them Just as by a majority of 600 out of a total the most lowlVi because in this man-of 8,000 votes, re-electing Mayor neP nnIv an thfi proletariat fulfill people do.

Illustrated. 60 cents. its mission of bringing liberty to hu The End of the World. By Dr. Lewis A.

Duncan, and practically the whole Socialist ticket, giving the Socialists 7 out of 9 seats in the city Wilhelm Meyer. Describes the des There Are Municipal Issues. "There is an isuo in municipal government that is bound up in- of people that put him forward as tructive forces 'that will in time end manity. The field of action will extend so far as you Identify yourselves more and more with the organized work council. This in the face of a "non all life on earth Illustrated.

50 1 cents partisan" alliance of all non-Social Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx their candidate, bo that they, too, may be held to account for him and his course after election. These arguments seem to us un ist elements, backed by the Guggen ing class of all lands, united in the helm-Standard Oil interests, with ail international, carry on, in com- the power of the capitalist press and with them( the struggle for the given tne readers the fundamental principles and the common sense of right living; and if people could and would live accordingly they would undoutedly enjoy good health and round out a century before passing on. E. V. DEBS.

This book is creating considerable excitement among the medical fraternity; they see an end to their graft If people get next to the general laws ot health and right living that it explains. The author has published, the book himself and will gladly refund the price to anyone but a doctor who is not please answerable objections to the nonpartisan election idea. We submit money liberation of the workers from want, misery, opression and exploitation, them with the hope that those who favor the idea will answer us and At Brsinard, the Socialists toward the highest aim of human- idea Is advanced by citizens in a giv- separably with the state and na-n community. Weeks and months tional program. It is impossible are spent by Its advocates in bring- to solve, the municipal problems Ins' It to the voters.

The idea gains apart from these larger state and na-support, people's opinions are form- tional problems. So the lines of conclusions are reached; convic-' this struggle may as well be drawn Uons aje settled upon this princi- sharply and closely as possible. We pit policy Then comes the election believe It to be the task of the So-Peoplo go to the polls desiring to ciallit party to bring this issue into express preference for this policy. the open and to make the people of Suppose they are confronted by bal-'thts country realise that the strug-lets on which appear only the names glo between plutocracy and the cornel certain individuals, as' proposed mon people is sot only a municipal and Frederick Engels; also in the same volume. No No Political Trading, by Wilhelm Lieb-knecht.

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Germany in 184fy by Karl Marx. 60 cents. Socialism Utopian ana ScientiSe, by elected the mayor, four out of ten uy. -v argue us down aay can. On the other hand we submit city, councilmen, and three out of May your watchword be liberty six members of the school board, and equality and everything which these arguments hoping that those who agree with us will suggest bet Heretofore they only held three seats makes for tho realisation or every Iri 'he city council and no other human aspiration.

offices. Cheers for the International! ter arguments than these if they 1 W1U IwHUTi can..