The Emporia Convincer from Emporia, Kansas • 1

7 At MB LS VOLUME 1. NO. 22. EMPORIA, fQNE 15 1912. PRICE 6 CE 11 11 XHE EMPORIA CONTWCER.

HOW THE FARKER IS ROBBED. i WOMAN PICKET OUT OF PRISON fl j'- Leader of Corset Strikers Beeesacs Socialist When Released Today. (By Pauline M. Newman.1 Kalamazoo, Mick. Miss JoseDhlne mm WW a nr 1 rw.

rs.a i im. Casey, leader of the corset strikers; was released from prleea today after serving a thirty-seven daye' sentence in the couity jail for peaceful picketing near the Kalamazoo Corset Io-tory. Hundreds of strikers gathered In tht Michigan Central depot to cheer Miss Casey as a hereine when she left for a short rest with friends la the eaat women waved their handkerchiefs, men shouted their acclamations! aid all crowded around her to shake hands with her. While in prison Miss Casey thourht of the intolerable industrial coodi- uons toaay, now women are jailed without having committed anythiM Il legal merely because they try to help their oppressed sisters get a decent, honorable living wage and cendittens, while the bosses commit the moBt re volting crimes against their employes without fear of punishment, and like thousands of men and women befort her, she came out a full fledged Socialist. At the reception given her In the depot Miss Casey, waving a red flag, said: 1 "I used to be a trades unionist pure and simple and thought that trades unionism eventually could solve all the problems that confront us; but the trades union movement looks a great deal different from behind prison bars.

I have felt the barbarous cruelty and injustice of the present industrial sys tem and I know what it is like. In prison we learn that diplomacy with- the employers is silly nonsense, and it is In prison that we learn to know the necessity of political action." Miss Casey made application to become a member of the Socialist party today and the party may be glad of having gained one more' brave and loyaf fighter for the cause. Miss' Pauline Newman, who 'took' part in the New York shirtwaist mak- i ers' strike and the Chicago garment workers' strike and waa campaigning Michigan to organize some of the nonunion district, was telegraphed for to take Miss Casey's place while she Is in the east. Within two hours af $sr- her arrival in Kalamazoo she was eerv- ed with an Injunction prohibiting htr from picketing. 1 IA.A THE 't SCOUT 11 1 i IS THE MAT TER VITH FUSION II There is evidently something wrong with the Democrats' and Republicans of Milwaukee, a the mayor baa rejected the Leader reporter from the public hearing, saying, "You get out of here, I have told you that I don't want you in my This shows on the face that there is something crooked, as reporters from other papers were not excluded and no capitalistic correspondent was ever refused admission to a public meeting while Siedel was TENANT AND LANDLORD.

John Pickering Ross in the Farm and Fireside, says: The great Ashi-ton-Smlth estates jn England have been In the family over 900 years. They now yield an Income of nearly three million dollars' per annum and are said to possess four families as tenants who have been on these farms for five hundred and sixty-eight, families years. Hundreds of such or similar Instances can be produced. These tenants are well to do on, well managed estates, but here In America It will not work so well, and while there are good, bad and indifferent renters, the same also is true of landlords and even farmers themselves, i While we have never been a tenant, but a landlord on the small scale, we think the "farmers plank" in the Socialist platform recently aected in the national convention at Indianapolis, is at least "food for thought," and very close to the present and future crying needs of our farming populace. SHOT IN SIBERIA.

One hundred and sixty-three gold miners on a peaceful strike, which was about to be adjusted, were shot dead and one hundred by the czar's soldiers. The people Jn, general over the empire set up such a howl of pro test wherein the general had upheld the. soldiers that his caarshlp apolo gized, but that did not bring life again to the dead nor health to the wounded. Such was the digust that Count Meschersky, an extreme conservative said in an I have been editing this paper for 40 years and this is the first time that. I find myself in agreement with the Socialists.

Does it mean that I have suddenly become a Socialist? I do not think so. But it means something much more serious. It mean that there are times In the life of Russia, timea of deep stress, in which an honest writer believing in God and loyal to the czar must perforce speak as if he were in the very presence of God. And I do find truths In the utterances of the Socialists. The soldiers were ordered to shoot, not for what the strikers actually did, but from what thev might have done.

Shot at the option ot the soldiers, at their own sweet will for daring to strike for a betterment of their conditions. That same species of "rule or ruin" Is stalking the streets of San Diego, and showing a feather here and there in other cltie of our glorious U. S. and too often has the sanction of government, as In the case of the prosecution for persecution of the edi tors of the little old Appeal for cham pioning the. peoples Tights against the hlghhanded brigands of high finance.

YE EDITOR EXPLAINS AND SER-JIONIZES. We presume that Uncle Samuel failed to deliver our "copy" last week. At any rate not a line of it appeared in our column of the Convincer, and except for one word a polite swear one the expression has never passed from our Hps nor pen from boyhood days to this, we would not make this observation this week forour new readers. Our old" friends and readers are aware that we believe In chaste all communications, and that In embracing Socialism we did not 'this foulness of mauth too often fcund In Socialist literature and among agitators of lower caste, who without question have a right to believe in our doctrine of equality and better environments for the many. But we retard its growth and usefulness by using any but pure language, and we are fully aware i that there are writers and speakers as pure and clean of mouth and pen as- can be found in the ranks of any of the noblest of causes on the face of the earth, political, religious, or otherwise.

Xow, comrades, we are all aware that the "by-laws" prohibit the use of any "swear word," so let 'e- live and 1 TO HELP The Socialist of Chicago, through the Cook county delegate committee of the Socialist party, have pledged their support to Clarence Darrow, who is now being tried in Los Angeles on tne charge of having bribed Jurors In the McNamara case, to the end that he be given a fair and Impartial trial. The following resolutions passed by that body: "Whereas Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, who Is now, on trial In Lob Angeles, ostensibly for Jury bribing, but actually of unusual power, energy and bravery in fighting labor's battles; and, "Whereas, without the support of the working class, there )e danger that he will not get a fair, and impartial trial, and will become the victim of labor's most active enemies, against whom he has been, engaged; be It therefore That we, Socialist delegate body of Cook county, Illinois, in meeting assembled, pledge our support in an effort to secure for Darrow a fair and impartial trial and bestir ourselves in getting like support from the organized workers of this city; and be it further 1 "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Darrow, the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Socialist press." 1 Los Angeles, Cal.H. H. Flather, cashier of the Rlggs National bank In Washington, D.

who testified for the Btate in the Darrow trial, will now be called as a witness for the defense. Earl Rogers, chief attorney for the defense, said when today's Besslon be gan that Flather mjght be, called be fore night. Flather testified yesterday about de posits of money in his bank by Frank Morrisonysecretary of the A. F. of who was in charge of the fund raised by that organization for the defense of the McNamara brothers.

His tesflmony consisted almost ex clusively of reading into the record in the Darrow case the checks Morrison had drawn or sent to.Parrow, In a brief cross examination Flath er admitted ttfat he consulted with the officials of the Department of Justice before coming here to testify. Darrow says that this shows the federal administration is joining hands with the local district attorney in the effort to send him to prison. "If a man works and makes a for tune, should he not enjoy it?" Certainly he should. But most men who get a fortune do not make it. They steal It from the useful workers.

It is true many capitalists work hard. So do burglars and slave raiders and highwaymen. But if a highwayman holds up a coach and gets away with a few hundred dollars, no one thinks of saying that the highwayman has "made" a fortune. The capitalists do not "make" a fortune. They steal it.

We Socialists will prevent the capitalist steals, and so will allow the man who "makes" or produces wealth enjoy the social value of what he has made. "Socialism will destroy ambition." No, it will not. It wjll make men ambitious. You cannot make men anj-bltlous by Just giving them a bare living and taking away all the rest of the wealth they have produced from them. It Is not the robbery that makes men ambltlouB.

They are ambitious in spite of it. A good many workers start out with the idea that they can by hard work become prosperous. Tbey work hard and stay poor and lose their ambition. It is the height of fol ly to, say that it will make men unambitious to give' them the result of what their ambitious toil has produced. There are a good many other foolish objections urged to Social-ism, but the above seem to be the chief ques tions pnd objections treed.

The Montreal public at least have got beyond the stage of thinking that Socialism means dividing and that it will break up the home or destroy religion. Cotton's Weekly. WHAT RECALL DOES The following f'aets concerning the recall are two good reasons why every Republican and every Democrat should be opposed to and why Socialists favor the use of it: Since the Inauguration of the principle of the recall In the United States, no Socialist officeholder has ever been recalled. In every recall election inaugurated to remove a non-Socialist officeholder the recall has successfully ousted him from Socialist. Some succeed because others are Suckers, SOCIALISTS DARROW Published Every BBtiirday by Socialist PubllthlngCo.

a-bHshed under the auspice of the oclallst Party or Emporia, Kana. E. Hlnahaw Editor ONE TEAR 60o. BIX MONTHS 25o Entered as aecond cIhsb matter rebru-ary 3rd. 1912, at the FoMoHlce at bm-Poria, KausaB, under the Act ot March ird.

1879. Address all communications to oclallst Co-Operatlve Publishing Co. Emporli, Kansas. ANSOUliCEMEMS. The Emporia Socialist Local meets very Sunday afternoon at 2:30.

Everybody cordially Invited. AN INTERESTING MEETING. "Local Emporia" la Jubilant over the prospect to use a part of the second and. fourth meetings of each, month, beginning at 3 o'clock, for other than the Tegular grind of business and the often squaring of the ballance sheet, for other purpose more often than their own; to which the comrades never or seldom complain examples worthy of those who carry a much more dilated purse with strings. The efficient committee on program 1b Comrade Roberta, Miller and the indefatigable secretary.

Hunter. Dr. Morrison was assigned the opening salute, of which in tongue and demeanor, he venerable old warrior for Socialism stands spbynx like, a model unto himself. And it la hoped many will avail themselves of this opportunity, not always to be met with, the listening to a deep thinker who also plays rythmlcally with our English words, of which we smile but never tire. EMPORIA.

Emporia is the Emporium of the plains. The city of first choice of the evoluted great and noble state of Kansas. How we love her for her beauty and excellencies. Her churches and her schools; her adjacent rural thrift and vim and honorableness. -and yet we see many inequalities of injustice, little' pinches, of poverty, little flagrant wrongs, little.

heart 'VorYowful, blttr tears. And we look across the yeara and ee or hope we see the dawning of a better day. The lessening of strife, that eternal grind of competition and toll, and while we toll the money vultures are unsealing the dinner palls, little and big, lifting an ounce here lid a pound there, only a little we know but enough drawn from the many to feed the few aristocrats around the needless million mark of wealth. i Toil Is Sweet. We love toil, it Is recreative, and we Jove responsibility and construction, but why with the system old as the world Itself, keep alive that brutal In-ttlnct of the of the fittest" and that fittest to be one whose highest enjoyment Is to "fit." What a grand opportunity and hallelujah Emporia hna to advertise her- self to the world if she would be the first to "come across" to municipal and co-operatrVe control In the entirety.

She would be the "city of brotherly love" of the West. INTENSIVE FARMING THEN. The spears of competition would be turned into plowshares or road-drags and the gun barrels Into dock diggers by the roadside, would work while the band played "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "Here is a picture of labor and love." Then there would be no "night hift," no slave, no WHsie. but one great institution of learning and doing with the friction and brutality gone with the Berkshlres over the brink into the sea of acorn and we would hope never to return." Let's strive for this very possible condition, this gem of great price In the commercial world Just as real as in the spiritual world. Indeed the two need to go bo we say let's strive' for this possibility, for a greater Emporia and more brotherly Jove.

At present, however, the word pC'Cialism fits nearer to the ideal than any. other. so let's sow the seeds and flatter the leaves of propaganda that they who run may read, for all things are possible unto those who try, rightly, prayerfully. FOR COUNTY' TREASURER. If the esteemed county commissioners fall to hang up a scarecrow in the treasurer's oflice In the shape of "glint we are Inclined think that ''Eilly the efficient," tho present incumbent, deserves to be and will be his successor In the office where rich and por.r alike nre treated like to the gold standard in ponying Vt their plunks for the progressive Mods of the county Kin SHOPMEN END STRIKE The strike of tbeshopmea on the Rock Island, which was called at 11:30 o'clock yesterday because the company refused to fire a non-union man who would not join the union, has been settled.

The company decided that It could not afford to do without the services of Its shopmen and fired the non-union workmen. The men will return to work this morning. All the men working in the ahopa of the Rock fsland In Chicago were involved in the strike. "i' -r Some dayi when the world will have become conscious of the spirit of al-truslsm and it will look down upon the present: social order with shame and wonder--thinking of the unhonored millions of human beings who died real heroes while attempting to produce results of genuine worth. TREE SOCIALIST IN BEE 'SPEECH VERDICT Upon a motlonof Attorney Otto Christensenr claiming that the arrest of two Socialist speakers, A.

A. Pat-erson and A. li. "Washburne, charged with speaking on the streets without a permit, Is unconstitutional, both were discharged yesterday afternoon by Judge Fry. Chief "McWeeny and several police captains were subpoenaed in the case to give testimony.

However, upon tne citation of the law, the judge refused to call the case, and the case against the men were quashed. It's dawning on some people already that the "direct primaries" law was Just another capitalist fake reform. It costs such a huge pile now to make the race for president, that unless you've got a Wall Street backer, you can't get Into the game, feut 'Gene Debs didn't have to spend a cent. The Socialists know a game worth two of that What's -the matter with Father Varaghan? He hasn't accepted the offer of the first page of the Appeal to Reason yeti'to explain his objectlqn to Socialism. Is It possible the learned Jesuit Father hasn't discovered that tins Of thousands of Catholic voters read the Appeal and are anxiously awaiting his response? OF Pa, what is the reason some people graft and the qury of the blacksmith's son.

Well, son, 'it's' Just this They are opposed to the other fellows graft but mark ye" son; each one of hse scoundrels has a pet graft of hks.iown that he wants to work; and they know that Socialism Will knock them out. But Pa, with nearly all the preachers lawyers, doctors and editors, and the big and little grafters against you, how do you expect to Well son, you saw how hard 'it was to kill that patch ot bermuda grass. The more we dug It the faster It grew, until we found that shade was the only thing that would kill it. So the more they dig at us the more we grew, and lHnd you, the shade of ig norance is the only thing that viHt knock, na-out, my boy SHADE IGNORANCE fa THE PURPOSE OF The purpose of Socialism is to give the workers ill they produce. And when say "workers" they do not mean only.

those who wear overalls and carry dinner pails. They mean everybody who does useful labor, i Socialists regard the general superintendent of a railroad as quite as much of a worker as they do the man on the section. But they do not reward the owners of railway stocks and bonds as workers. They regard them as parasites who are living off the' products "of labor by owning the locomotives, cars and other equipment with which the workers work. And since the ownership of machinery Is the club with which Socialists say capitalists commit their robberies, Socialists also declare that the only way to stop robberies is to take away the club.

It would do no good to take away the olub from the men who now hold it and give it to the indivdual, because with the" principle of private ownership retained, ownership would soon gravitate, Into a few hands and robbery would go on as ruthlessly as ever. Socialists believe the only remedy Is to destroy the club by vesting the ownerjhlp of the great machinery, of production and distribution in the people, through the goern-ment. 7,7. PARCEL POST Have' 'just read P. Campbell's speech, of Express Compa-.

I til ae Us in rltrhi jvhara Via anve that "No one has been able to give a good reason for continuing the express companies 1 The express com panies are. parasites, that get millions annually out of the public, that may be 'saved. He says, "The express companies are doing a 16 to 1 business, railroads do, for freight I do not agree with him as to the remedy. If the government has the power take the business from the express companies, why not go another step, take.Jt away from them and attach It, to the O. department, and name it the Parcels Post.

'He says the gross receipts annually are a good start for the Parcels A wise pan said, that the 13 express companies are that many good reasons why we cannot have the Parcels Roosevelt talks as If he would eat the Harvester Trust raw. Oh, how he bates 'em-those robbers of "the iplalji people Then Taft's" manager outs with a Perkins letter proving that this same Harvester Trust Is pay ing Teddy's campaign expenses. And still th fools nporay for Teddy! What was'lt Bamumsaid? Socialism will, when it comes, be an inheritance qf opportunity which every maa can leave to all his children and it will better than all the mon-'ey he could possibly leave them. The Demoorats are in favor of the toller dividing up with the small capi talist, Republicans want to concen trate the divvy with the blgmagnates. OLnd thera'yeu'- SOCIALISM It.

.1 MEXICANS FLEE El Paso, Texas Hordes of Mexican women and children are coming to the border from Chihuahua. Every train brings several hundred. Most of the refugees have only money enough to get to Juarez. Panic conditions prevail throughout the country south of Juarez and it is rapidly becoming depopulated. The last train from Chihuahua brought 300 native women and children and only two Americans.

Indications are that a battle will be fought below Jlmlnez within "twenty-four honrs. Every citizen' is entitled to a place to work, and any society not organized on this theory Is not worth saving at least not deserving the vote of any who must work, or tramp, or beg. Do you not have to ask (beg) or get the permission of some owner for the right to work and produce? What kind of a thing are you, anyway? NO SOCIALIST HAS EVER BEEN CAUGHT WITH DYNAMITE. John J. Breen, of Lawrence, was caught red-ianded placing dynamite in several buildings with the intent to discredit the strikers.

He was fined $500 and costs. 1 Oklahoma Socialists are organizing so rapidly that their movement Is threatening to sweep the state in November. Over 200 charters to new locals have been issued since January 1 and the total number of locals (and branches Is now 546, with a dues-paying membership of nearly 6,000. SOCIALISM TOO IDEAL It has remained for a Catholic priest to oppose Socialism on what was probably the most unique grounds on record. Father William J.

Klrby. of the Washington Catholic University, says Socialism should be fought because Socialists -have such a high ideal that it can never be attained, and that therefore Socialists must be pessimists. "Socialism tends to directly establish this frame of mind in its converts," declared the priest. "Once you have educated your multitude to this way of thinking, advancement is impossible. Nothing Is left but the radical over-turning, peaceably, if you will, of the present essentials of our Institutions.

It is well enough to be dissatisfied with the present and to desire better conditions for the future. But.it 1b a great mistake to set too exacting a standard, an ideal impossible of so the only pessimistic outlook la the result of comparing actual results with an arbitrary ideal." speak In such a manner that we draw and not repel thg'lntellectual and religious class to our ranks. We are aware as well as you are that many "high-up" men are guilty of this same foulness of expression, but remember we in Socialism are leadersout of all eTror into all truth commercially, the why not iy. It's on every thinking, man's mind -Socialism AC BORDER Greatest Erll of Modern Times. The great evil of the Boy ScflUl movement consists not alone in the fact that it prepares the boyB for ao tual military service, but In the tact -that it develoDB the military In the young people ofrtoday.

In this day and age of our great Increased knowledge aid ejOrhten-ment, with a growing tendency eft tho part of all natleas teXbanden the barbarous methods of' cruel and bloody warfare, also thersowth Afahe social consciousness that we are I'te'eeme extent (or at least eheuld ae). our brother's keeper. In the faoe of these facts end the fact that this nation boasts of taring: achieved the greatest intellectual at- talnments of any laflon'on tlie globe, it is strange, almost' Impossible to believe that we have a mope-eat that tends 'to develop and oruel butchery and mnrle'reuV spirit of warfare. Tlfis same movement 1 backed by the best of alposslble gov- 1 eminent, etfeouraged and foeietst by many ministers and' religious organl-aatleae tn this the most OkrWUat of all Christian natkne. If It was true, 'as seme of the promoters claim (in trying themselves), "that the -rtveient is for the purpose of giving tie soy? fresh air, sunshine, pleasant eutlngs for their physical development." it la a significant fact that these pious frauds seem to have no tSoo jht, care or concern for the welfare er development of the girls, who are as much entities to and perhaps mere In r.r; of, than are the boys.

J. N. LAS ATE Socialism is fact becoming a political factor 4e be tefikoned with In Texas, according to B. A. Oreen.

th state secretary. During the month of April, ninety-one new charters wr- issued and several defunct eYgar tlons were revived. Since Janur of the present year 2.800 new 1 bers have been added te the tarty. Numerous speakers ore In tfae field telag excellent work for Seclel-SB..