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FBESIDEJfT OF TDTBER WORKER'S UXI0X JAILED OX suits will be in the vast majority of cases, the loss of the greater part of WHAT SHALL REPRESENT THE SOCIALIST PARTY? i HK i SOCIALIST I I NEW TESTAMENT. (By D. R. Piper.) "You cannot serve both God and Money." Matt. 6:24.

This being the case, the present age Is not at all serving God. Every-thing is on a commercial basis. If a man has money he Is respected, and he may commit crimes against society and go unpunished. If he has no money he is jailed on the suspicion of crime! Money makes up for what a man lacks in character. But character without money Is of little value, If one is dressed In a silk shirt-front and a stiff hat.

he can get far more favors than he can dressed in overalls and jumper, the badges of honest toil. Money 1b the basis of character. Money 1b also the basis of industry. Goods are not produced to being comfort to mankind. They are produced to make money for a few.

Every new machine ought to cheapen production and make the life of the toiler more comfortable. It only serves to forge his chains more fast. Human lite la valued below, money. Eighty three men are killed every year and large numbers disfigured for. life, In our match industry alone, because the cost of producing a non-phosphorus match is 5 per cent greater than for the death-dealing kind.

Children ara still being ground Into clothing and food-stuffs, in spite of all legislation and agitation againBt child-labor, because money 1b more valuable than the happiness and health of little ones. Savages eat their children, and we eat ours. The process Is a little more gradual in our case, that is the only difference. Yet the fourth of July liars have just finished telling us that we live In the land of opportunity, the greatest and freest country In the world. No country can ever be a tree country with equal privileges for all its citizens when Its commercial, industrial, moral, political, and too often, even its religious standards are money standards.

The only true basis upon which "Industry can rest is the basis of service to the whole people. So long as the chaos of unorganized Individual enterprise thrives public service must be subordinate to private Interests. Social production is the only way of guaranteeing social service and social justice. People can serve God only when they are serving the people, who are the representatives of the God who created them. Yet they tell ua that the present i.fi mitm i A 1 HOW THE ASS DIDN'T SATE ROME.

"THE PROPHET AND THE ASS" In somewhat iconoclastic. Most of the preachers and doctors and all of the grafters and politicians will not like it and we don't care a snap if they don't, It's not written for their special benefit. Thegrafters haven't any time for the Ass, anyway, except to work him, and the particular Ass that edits this magazine has chewed up his harness, kicked down the stall, busted open the barn door and escaped to the open road, and is now raisin' particular 'ell with all the other mules in the barnyard. THE PROPHET AND THE ASS is 'specially good medicine for "worklngmen with Capitalists' minds." It knocks the wadding out of their think-tanks and gives them a place in which to grow brains, It saves the doctor's bills, and many lost souls will be found by their owners after reading its sermontees, It will not grow hair on bald heads, but it will help to put brains inside of 'em, and that's better. It may say "damn" occasionally, or oftener, but It will be a very Innocent sort of a little "damn," used kinda as a shock to start the wheels movln'.

For all that It's cheerful and wholesome and it's main preachment will be that men should agree to disagree, but should come together and reason with each other, each striving to find and LIVE the highest expression of TRUTH. If you are a thinking animal you will like It unless you are one of these critters that's pretendin' to do the thinking for other people, then you won't like the Prophet and the Ass because you will be afraid that the' "other people" will get hold of it and learn to do their OWN THINKING, and land you out of an easy Job. If you're not thlnkln', it's time you were this thing of taking the other fellow's word for things is a had habit. It keeps both you and I in slavery, because I can't" get away until you are read. Break away, brother, break away! Just stand up on your hind legs once and look over the rut in which you have been mentally groping for years and see the Great Big World outside.

Just listen to the Ass bray once or twice. He don't make very good mus SOCIALISTS TO PROTEST FOR FREE SPEECH A protest meeting for the right of free speech and assemblage will be held at a picnio of the Eighteenth ward and associated branches of the Socialist party in Forest' Park, Aug. 11. Duncan McDonald, secretary treas urer Illinois Miners' Union, and Win- field, R. Gaylord, Socialist state senator in Wisconsin, will be the speakers.

The press committee states the purpose of the protest as follows: "In our national constitution It is stated that no ilaw shall be made 'abridging the freedom of Bpeech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to Why then are the people's rights being infringed in the city of Chicago? This question must be met and answered. It will noj; be answered by those holding the reins of government, but by the thous ands of liberty-loving citizens of Chicago. VjJJ his investment, If not all and his reputation as a business man thrown in for good measure Then he of necessity joins the army of wage workers, it he can squeeze In. lt us suppose the voters who are not enjoying much, In the living rate, and the certainty of being able have that tor any length of time is even more scant than their measly living rate; ba has investigated the worth of his vote, If cast for himself In the Socialist party. In less than 20 years it is going to pay out, and when it pays out it will amount to this that there will be steady work all the year around, with no deductions for rent, interest, and profit, sick and death benefits and old age pensions, the workers living rate will be equal to an Income' of $5000.00 annually.

There will be no adulterated goods, short weights and measures, foods will be wholesome and pure, wearing apparels will be "all wool and a yard wide" and modern homes will be large and ample, and every useful worker ran commence to live and obtain his fullest stature in its every sense. This government is 136 years old. The assessed valuation of the U. S. Is 126 billions.

This value haa been created out of what was practically nothing. The land and natural resources were here some considerable time The 1910 censuB shows that 1 man In 300 or 1-3 of 1 per cent of the population owns 88 per cent of this amount, while the other 299 organize political parties, fall out and fight, organize and campaign on measures and draw platforms progressives and otherwise, as to, how the other 12 per cent of 'the national wealth shall be divided. 4 How long, Oh! how long, will men vote for things they don't want before they get what they do want. I Again, 78 per cent of this wealth has been concentrated in the last 50 years, or at the nominal rate of 1.56 per cent, a trifle over Vk per cent per annum, at this low rate of tran-ferance to the capitalists in control, How long, Oh, Lord How long, will it take them to get the other 12 per cent that the people now nominally own. BISHOP CARROLL'S BRAND OF SOCIALISM (By John C.

Kennedy.) When Bishop Carroll was making his attack on Socialism the other day, he laid particular emphasis upon the point that Socialists are. unpatriotic. The following is his statement on this subject: "Socialism is unpatriotic. It aims to destroy all constituted civil authority. The liberty of opportunity and personal initiative guaranteed by human government it would, crush out by its deadening doctrine of absolute equality.

Its treasonous outbursts of indignation against the powers lodged in the constitution and in the judiciary, its attacks against leaders in civil life, are evidences of its anarchistic alms and purposes, With it love of country would cease to rouse the patriotism of the patriot." When we recall that the bishop was speaking to Irishmen at the time we are surprised that some of his hearers did not ask him whether he con sidered the Irish an unpatriotic peo ple. The Irish have protested against the tyranny of England for centuries, just as the Socialists ar.e protesting against the tyranny of American cap It a lists. The Irish have complained of the tyranny of English courts and judges, just as American Socialists are fighting the tyranny of American courts and Recently, for example, Representa tive Berger protested against Judge Hanford's illegal action in revoking the citizenship papers of Mr, Olson because he was a Socialist. The congressional Investigation of Judge Hanford's record has disclosed so many outrageous acts on the part of that "ornament of the bench" that he has resigned under fire. Bishop Carroll will probably call Representative Bcrger's resolution to impeach Judge Hanford "a treacherous outburst of indignation againBt the powers lodged in the constitution and in judiciary." We Socialists have little use for the kind of "patriotism" which allows judges to overrule the constitution and ignore the rights of the people We have little use for the sort of "patriotism" which enables the cap italists In control of the government to keep wages down to a starvation level.

i The only sort of "patriotism" that we care about! la the kind that, gives Equality of opportunity to all the people and protects their liberties. only kind of "patriotism" We are in terested in Is the sort that assures to every worker a job and the full pro duct of his labor. This sort of "patriotism" Is fought by the Morgan and the Rockefellers as treason. We can understand why this sort of "patriotism" is fought by the Morgana and the Rockefellers as treuson, bul we canuot. understand why a Roman Catholic bishop would tell Roman Catholic worklngmen, to struggle for liberty and Industrial justice Is irreligious and unpatriotic.

MURDER CHARGE A. L. EMERSON, 1 Here Is. the first photograph ever published of A. L.

Emerson, president of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, who Is now under indict Went for murder in connection with the recent labor massacre ut Grabow, La. FIFTY LOUISIANA TIMBER STRIKERS FORCED ISTO TEW. TABLE PLAGUE SPOT New Orleans, Aug. 8. In a com plaint made to that source today, the Louisiana Board of Health is made acquainted with the unspeakably chocking conditions which obtain in the jail at Lake Charles, where more than fifty members of the Brother hood of Timber Workers are incar cerated awaiting trial on charges of murder.

The iprisoners are confined with others in a room which the complaint alleges measures 30 by 40 feet. The toilet arrangements in th? room are totally Inadequate to the needs of the prisoners and the consequence is that an unutterable" condition of in sanitation prevails. The room contains a single tub in which the prisoners not only bathe but wash their clothes and eating utensils. Across the room, the jail authorities have strung a rope which separates the' black from the white prisoners. The blacks are reduced to the necessity of using a large tin pan In which they bathe, wash their clothes and dishes, making periodical trips to the side of the white prison ers to dump their sewage in the sin gle receptable there.

to tniB vertiaDie piague spot are brought twice daily the "mealB" of the prisoners, and In the inevitable stench and nauseating filth they are laboriously consumed. The timber workers are confined as a result of a shooting fray which occurred at Grabow recently, when the Brotherhood of Timber Workers were holding a meeting in the open road. On that occasion, thugs who are said to have been concealed in the office of a nearby lumber plant fired upon the assembled unionists, killing and wounding several. For the crime which is charged by the workers to the thugs of the Southern Lumber Operators' Association, the unionists were arrested and Indicted for murder fey a subservient Grand Jury, This step was taken by the bosses' organization, It is declared. In the hope that it would cause the disruption of the growing union of the timber workers.

Dr. Dowltng, President of the Health has ordered a full investigation of the jail at Lake Charles, In which the unionists are confined. The same jail was once before condemned by Dr. Dowling as insanitary, and a new prison is being built there. A BRIEF ESTIMATE ON THE VALUE OF YOUR VOTE Let us say that a man's vote is iworth $100.00 since it is said men are willing to sell their vote to the interests, that 1b a high price to pay and Is a liberal allowance of Its valuei as most men give thelr's away for no price.

Put that amount by at interest for twenty years, the amount will be about (3,000.00. Money obtained in this manner Is "easy money'' and rarely ever of any benefit to the recipient Ifs too much like picking it up In tlje middle of the road, come eay, go easy. But if he had been saving and put It to accumulating, after 20 years he could start up a business of his own, (or a while or till be voluntarily closed the doors, or the Sheriff did it for hlra at 6 merchants In Sapulpa, have been compelled to do in Uiia last past, week, Like a butterfly he would flutter, but competition In merchandising causes 8ti per cent of the ventures In business to fall. But competion is the Life Trade and anything better Is not radical and won't do, The aet re- I lie J-'KUPIlfc 1 ASS 1 ic, mebby, neither does a bust law, but you better not fool with the business end of either of 'em. And as for music, even an Asa sounding the danger signal makes better music than the Capitalistic Sirens softly singing you to sleep while all 'ell it gitin' ready to break loose.

It is 'bout time, Mr. Worklng-man-wlth-a-capitalist-mind" that someone is making a "noise" that you can hear. You have listened to "The Sound of your Mas-tor's Voice" so long that many of you are nothing but phonograph records or banks, and cracked at that in fact, some of you are "dead broke," and haven't even a suspicion as to the cause of it. They tell us that the cackling of a lot of geese once saved Rome If Rome was anything like Chicago the geese ought to have been killed- mebby the braying of the Ass may help save the working class from slavery. Mebby, just mebby! At any rate, the Ass is going to bray, on the theory that it's better to be a lively braying Ass than a phonograph record.

And, you may ask, "Where does the Prophet come inr' Well, to tell you the truth, he seldom "comes in." The Ass just uses him as a punching bag to keep himself in good humor. The "prophet" has had his day already. Give the Ass a show once! He cant make a worse mess of the situation than we have at present. The Ass has come to the conclusion that the reason why he is an Ass is that ha and his class have not been doln' enough thinking in the past to keep their brains from shrinkin' for the want of use, and the Masters, nothln' the vacuum, have filled it with "popy-cock." So when the ordinary Ass tries to think now-a-days he's apt to get his brains mixed with the popy-cock and talk like a Jim phlzz. Twelve doses of the Prophet and Ass are guaranteed to either kill or cure, and if you can't be cured, you're a "dead one" anyway, so it won't hurt you.

Send anything from postage stamps to fresh eggs. A long green 9 bill in an envelope is easier to send than a bale of hay, and, while It hasn't any real "intrinsic" value, ve will he able to fool the printers with! it and keep the noise going. So fire it along and join the immortal bunch of kickers headed etraigbt for the Promised; Land. "In the past few weeks many men and women were iplaeei under arrest, and their meetings broken up at the behest of our city officials. Nq only are the city authorities determined on crushing the printing trades for the benefit of the Publishers' Association; but likewise are they determined on striking a deadly blow at that most vital part of our national constitution the rieht of free sneech and assemblage." The arrangements committees George W.

Perry, Edmund James, L. Washbourne, Press committee: M. A. Gurley, E. James, Wilbur C.

Benton, Greeley Baker, Souvenir: Olive Baker, C. F. Knute, Ce-lia Zavelsky, Literature: H. Henry, George V. Adams, Wilbur C.

Benton, Grounds: Arthur E. Smith, G. Perry, B. y. Moore, H.

Thomas. They are still trying to take the leadership of Tammany away from Charlie Murphy. This midsummer farce will continue until Murphy's assistance is needed to take the votes away from the workers. Party Papers do not tell you oneiialf the truth concealing whatever might benefit labor and reduce rn vested capital. If you want to know whose any political party will represent.

Just find out who pays that party's campaign expenses; this method never fails to reveal the truth. You should Join the party whose campaign expenses are all paid by th workers, a party, that all of those interested in exploiting you would contribute money to defeat. Your subscription to this paper will hasten the triumph of the workers and assure the success of this paper. Subscribe now. si Towy.

STATE. concerned "their representatives (four-legged animals) are correct as they are not serving the people at large, but a The capitalist class might have one figure to stand for them all. The most appropriate would be a1 hog. The Democratic party hasu't even horse sense bo a donkey is appropriate. The donkey kickB but never accomplishes anything The elephant is wonderfully appropriate this year.

The elephant, like Taft, accomplishes nothing unless there is someone to drive. The bull moose is quite the caper for Teeth-a-Dore as both love a scrap and are fond of hearing their echo, the bull moose in the forest and Teddy in the papers. The camel la another beast that Is outlined and expplolted without knowing why. Its distinguishing feature is one or two humps and the platform has but one point to make instead of covering all points. Let the Socialist party be represented by the human family.

Father, mother arid child, because its principle and platform concern itself solely and alone with and for the human family," A. E. Blood, Milwaukee, wants the beaver. He says this" animal is aggressive when molested, constructive and Industrious. He also explains that the beaver is social, the members of each colony working together in the construction of dams for the com- CHAMPION mon good of all.

The beaver works systematically and in perfect accord with scientific principles. D. Robison, Green Bay, says the Socialist party ia boring Its way through the whole country and for that reason he believes a boar ought to be the symbol selected. W. R.

Moffett, Findley, suggests that the "horn of plenty" ought to be used as a symbol for the Socialist party." C. D. Van Nordstrand, Des Moines, believes that the faithful work horse would be just the right animal. T. H.

Feldman, Milwaukee, wants to see the figure of justice (eyes unfolded) smiling at a dove of peace on right hand, to be used in cartoons. E. Hartley, Lexington, wants to know why we should want to use an animal as. the emblem of the Socialist party. He says that Socialism represents a stage in the evolution of humanity and he does not believe that we ought to represent such an Ideal as an animal, A.

M. Osborne, Elk City, suggests the sheep and he supports his suggestion with a verse from the bible. "Blessed are the meek for they shall Inherit the earth." ly or unconsciously it may be on his part, but the fact remains, it has always been done, so far. The white worker is in daily competition with the black worker, the standard of one must be the standard of the other. The degree of the black mans independence is the exact amount 1 of independence the white working man will have, so you can see that the economic independence of both, because the black man has no political Bay so, Is exactly equal, ly force of competition between the black and white workers, with the odds in favor of the black man getting the job because of that very fact.

Because the black man has been disfranchised his white competitor can be forced to terms without being disfranchised. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Louden are making a votes for women tour through the farming district of New York State. Mr.

Ixuiden Is a barrister and an uctor manager; Mrs, Louden, a Cornell graduate and an actress, hiivl.ig played wrth Sothern and Mar-low s' The question of what figure or animal is to represent the Socialist party in cartoons has aroused a great deal of interest among our readers. Up to this time the opinion of the majority of writers is that the lion should be the fixed figure to rep-( resent the Socialist party in politics. Comrade HarrU Rets, Philadelphia, is so enthusiastic over having the lion represent the cause that he enclosed the picture at the head of the column which explains his idea, He says: "If Labor is king, surely' the king of beasts should be its representative." Theodore Seawall, Hot Springs, S. factors the lion, He suggests, however, that, an ostrich might do, The ostrich is swifter than any animal and he hopes that It will outrun them all In 1916. I D.

Xrlmeister of Columbus, writes that the Socialists of that city recommend the entry of (he Hon In the American political menagerie, He says that the Socialist party has the "roar" and the strength to put the rest' of the capitalist parties to flight. G. C. Arno'd, Arena, also wants the Hon. He say the Hon' fears no one except man, while the Socialist party fears no one but Mrs.

Rose Schmidt, Milwaukee, wants the lion to be adopted as the fixed figure in cartoons. THE NEW Miss Inez Wetzen, Clairton, also wants the lion. She says that the lion is the king of beasts and Bhe vants the Socialist party to be the king of parties. Many other suggestions were received from all over the country and herewith we briefly outline a few of them: C. M.

Cunk, Montford, suggests a turtle. He says the turtle moves slowly and carefully but gets there and is also provided with a protective shield. i E. J. Walbridge, Pensacola, suggests that the only animal that is worthy the Socialist cause is the figure of a truly noble man to stand beside the camel, elephant, donkey, and bull moose and who would use his brain to train and educate these animals.

Will Hart, Detroit, suggests the figure of a young woman as typical of the true symbol of the human race. Charles W. Handley, Kouts, Ind.i thinks that the horse would make the best emblem. Rev. Fuchs, Pittsburg, believes that the human animali man, ought to symbolize the party.

He said as far as the other parties are! NO JIM CROW HERE, The internationallty of Socialism Is not a heavenly dream, but a cold reality forced upon the working class, In the daily struggle against international capitalism. The Capitalists and Landlords care nothing about the race, color or nationality of their employees or renters, they don't know the color line. They are In favor of cheap Vages and high rent. There is no Jim Crow law in the cotton patch or any part of the field of useful labor. When by so simjple a thing as voting the st'rajght socialist ticket, you can obtain a living rate 500 per cent better than you now have with the guarantee by all that you will never know want, and that there will be employment as long as there is an unsatisfied human want, why not do it, you will have a chance to have a voice in the conditions 'to be established uO-der Socialism, now you don't have that say, you simply vote and delegate your right to some old party candidate and be does you, conscious system of organized greed and Indi vidualism Is a christian system, and that socialism would destroy religion.

"Vanity of vanities." CHILD LABOR, (By Kate B. Fahert.) "Now I get me up to work," Jack London wisely said, And when I've worker 12 hours or more Again I'U go to bed. I work to sleep, and sleep to work-To work and sleep alway; For pleasures are unknown to me, And I know naught of play. I've never had a flower or toy, Nor gamboled on the green; Know nothing of the birds that sings, To school J've never been. No shoes or Btockings for my feet, Nor ribbon for my hair, No cake or candy come my way, 'Tho ask fdr them In prayer.

Marbles and. halls, I never had, Nor dolls, or beads, or hooks; No music ever reached my ears, Nor babbling of the brooks. I wonder if the Pearly Gate Will open to my call, And if the things I miss below Around my, feet will fall? A "beast of burden I have been, And will be till I die; And when I leave this earthy scene Will breathe a grateful sigh. United This paper will always assist the whether of farm, factory, mill or mine, In every effort they may make to better their condition. It will do more; it will constantly strive to awaken the workers to a realization of the fact that concentrated and vigorous effort Must be made by them if their condition is not to become far more unbearable than at present.

The only paper the workers can trust is the paper that they themselves own and control. This paper Is owned by worklngmen. Since this paper is bo owned, it will always be at the disposal of the workers and will do all It can to aid you. Why not help the paper that will al CtJT ON THIS LINE JfAME. Effort Will Accomplish Wonders ways help you? We are going to ask all of our subscribers to get other readers, as the more we have, the more we can help you.

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