Shawnee County Socialist from Topeka, Kansas • 3

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A rumble, an Allegory or What You Will, Rut Get the Point. ARKANSAS STATE NOTES 0 Pa Tenches Young; America Why Women Should Not Vote, By Lockwood. 000 0 00 To the Socialist, victory at the polls without organization behind It, Is disaster. A man called at the home of a friend and told the maid who came the door that he wanted to see ho man of the bouse. "Ho has Just gone out, f.ho girl Informed blm.

Tbpn I should like to speak to your mistress, said the visitor. She also is out, Well, In that case I'll Just wait them, a nd If you dont mind Ill take a seat by tho fire. "Unfortunately, returned t.hc maid, "the gas has gone out, too. Recently a comrade while solicit ing subscriptions for the Agitator on a street corner, was asked by a business man what we were agltat lng for, then told that we were agitating for world-wide righteousness In government through which all citizens would get the full fruits of their toll. The gentleman asked, "would there be no profits tllowed.

On receiving a negative answer he replied: "I am not In favor of any such system." No doublt this man expressed the sentiment of all men who are reaping profit from the toll of others. He is sordidly selfish. Because he haB plenty be has no sympathy for those who suffer from poverty caused by the system and methods that gives him profit from the toll of others. Perhaps he Is a professed Christian. If so, it Is a false profession.

No man can be a Christian and oppose Justice and honesty In government or otherwise. We now have a system of government which robs that class of people who were the friends and favorites of Christ while on earth, for the benefit of the money changers whose types he drove from his temple, branded as thieves, and one of the most absurd ideas that ever came to the minds of men is the belief that they can endorse and support this system and at the same time be Christians. It is impossible. Christ condemned interest, profit and rent. Which three curses are the fundamental principles of capitalism.

Capitalists are blindly selfish. Even if they care for nothing except Ihelr own interests which seems to be the case. They should favor a co-operative commonwealth for self protection. Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. Few Indeed, are even capitalists whose holidays are safe under capitalism.

Other capitalists more powerful are liable to skin them at any future time as easily as they now skin those weaker than them-Belves. Should capitalism be perpetuated for another half century a very few of the more powerful capitalists would own all wealth. The power given to a few thousand men to own and control the national money supply which all citizens must use in their carries with it power to ultimately own all wealth. This is the irresistible power by which wealth producers have been robbed of nearly everything they have produced outside of what they consumed while producing. Under capitalism it is inevitable that the larger fortunes will swallow up the smaller.

The larger fortunes are growing much faster than the smaller ones. Wealth is rapidly drifting into fewer hands. Individual victims of the system may see a- understand how they are robbed. But as individuals they are powerless to escape the robbery. They must stand and deliver.

Many capitalists are unknowingly acting as collecting or bunching agents for other capitalists more powerful who will at some future time gobble up the collection and add another member to the army of have-nots. J. P. Morgan gave the country an object lesson on this line when he gobbled up the Tennessee Coal and Iron Companys holdings for less than half Its estimated value. Morgan was one or the few thousand men who were given the power to own and control the national supply.

His national bank was made a depository bank for government funds. Thus he got the use of government revenue funds free of Interest. The masses will never know anything of peace prosperity and happiness under capitalism. The many who produce everything have the power to control everything If they would unite their forces at the ballot box and put a working class party in power, but instead of taking control and putting an end to exploitation and poverty they are giving tbelr consent to be robbed and oppressed by a non-producing few. The willing blindness of the many makes it possible for a money mad gang of exploiters to drive tens of thousands of their victims to Insanity and suicide, a majority of wealth producers Into helpless poverty, millions of women and girls Into lives of shame, millions of men, women and children into slums and tenements less decent than stock barns of their exploiters, milion3 of little girls and boys into wage slavery to grow up in ignorance and degeneracy and many other revolting conditions resulting from capitalistic methods.

When the many who have the power to abolish the wrongs come to rational consideration of existing conditions and an understanding of economics they will realize their responsibility. And will get a conscience lashing that will drive them to class consciousness and united action on the political field to abolish capitalism and establish a co-operative commonwealth which will bring peace, prosperity and happiness to all citizens and make a brotherhood of man and fatherland of God possible. Then collective society will own and control the machinery of production and distribution now owned and used by the few to exploit the many. Professed Christians who oppose this change are in awful shape. No one can be a Christian and oppose justice.

To pray for establishment of Gods kingdom on earth and at the same time work and vote against abolition of interest, profit and rent, poverty and prostitution, all of which were condemned by Christ, and against establishment of honesty, peace, prosperity and happiness on earth as taught by Christ, are acts of mockery, blasphemy and hypocrisy too extremely wicked and revolting to be excused even by an all merciful compassionate and forgiving Creator. Ye serve God and mammon. Capitalism is the quintessence of rnammanism. It fosters everything that Christ condemned. Opposes and prevents everything he favored.

A religion that will not force people to condemn and oppose everything which is unjust and destructive of peace, prosperity and happiness and to endorse and work for that which makes for righteousness, peace, prosperity and happiness regardless of public opinion, is only so-called religion, too absurd to command respect of sane people. To say nothing of an all wise Creator. G. W. GALLOWAY.

er end of tho room. "Well, listen, Johnnie, and let your Ma tell you a few. "When it comes to fighting tho female animal Is more ferocious than the male but the females fight for their young while tho males fight among each other for possession of the females. Tho human males fight each other like a lot of 'ninnies Just because some king or potentate of some kind tells them to fight. They seldom fight for their own rights or the rights of their class but go out and murder each other for the private spoils of their masters.

And when it comes to being Informed 'n tho political questions, the women, not having the chance to vote, have not given these questions very much attention. But, even at that, it would be practically Impossible for them to know less about the real political questions that affect themselves and the race us whole, than the average man. "And as for the polls bein' a dirty place Its about time some decent women went there and cleaned it up. Most any place would be dirty after a bunch of men had been there very long unless there was some women around to straighten things out for them. "And as for womans plac being in the home if this is true why is it that these great providers and protectors (and Ma cast wittering look at poor Pa) dont provide and protect so that woman can stay in the home, instead of being forced to seek work in the mills, factories and stores? "Talk about providing and protecting (by this time Pas head had entirely disappeared behind the table and his feet were shuffling uneasily).

Talk about providing and protecting nice sample of providers and protectors we have in this family. Hero we are as poor as Jobs turkey, living from hand to mouth, barely able to exist at all. Both your sisters are at work in the department store right now, and you, poor little kid, will soon have to join them. And your Pa stuffs your poor little head full of his old party bosh that has been stuffed into him by his political friends, who taffy him Into voting for them and against himself and his wife and children. Talk about women meddling with the lawmaking machinery its about time some one smashed the machinery that is now operating and that keeps the great masses of the people in slavery to a privileged class, that not only permits but compels the working people to starve right in the midst of the plenty their labor has produced that Say, Johnnie, where is your Pa? Ma has been so warmed up over the matter that she did not notice that Pa had quietly made his getaway.

Why, Ma, Pa haa been gone almost five minutes. Well, sonny, it dont matter much. Your poor fattier is not right in his head, anyway and will never understand the system that exploits him until he gets in the breadline. There Is nothing quite so dense as the head of the average old party voter like your Pa. "Say, Pa! Bid you say that men had to fight to secure the right of franchise?" "Yes, thets what I said, and it was a glorious privilege worth fighting for." Well, Isn't that what the women of England are doing, fighting for the right of suffrage?" "Well-er-er-yes, but thats different.

Women haven't any right of suffrage, this right belongs only to the men. "So, pa, you think the laws are all right for everyone on the whole?" "Well-er-er-yes." "Just yesterday, Ia, I heard you tell Ma that we were already in the hole over twenty dollars this month, how about the laws for. the people In the hole Instead of on the whole? "Say, kid, dont try to get smart. Its true we have a mighty hard time of it, but thats no reason why we should denounce the grand Institutions of this country or fall to recognize Its glorious privileges. The trouble Is that there are not always enough votes of good men to select good men for lawmakers and thats why it Is that we frequently have bad laws.

"Say, Pa, are the women very much worse than the men? "Women worse than the men? What do you mean, kid? Women are, as a rule, not so bad as the men, that Is, they are supposed to maintain a higher standard of morals. "And, Pa, arent the women as well educated as the men?" "Well, yes, I suppose (hey are. The fact Is that there are more girls receiving a high school education now than boys, ana the women also have a chance to read books and Inform themselves. I tell you, boy, its just what I said, a glorious country, brim full and running over with blessed privileges. "Well, Pa, if these women as a rule, are as good a the good men, and as well educated, why not give them the franchise so they can add their votes to the votes of the good men and thus help to elect other good men, or women, to office to make good laws and Well, before this right belonged to the men, because they fought for it, wasnt that what the king said, that the right belonged exclusively to him? Well-er-er-why he might have said something like that but-er you see it wasnt true, the men had the right and they took it.

"Why do men want to vote, pa? Because through their ballots they are able to select the men they wish to govern them and to make the laws for them. "And do the men always make a wise choice of their lawmakers? "Well, er-er not always, that Is some times the wrong party gets in power, but on the whole everything comes out all right. See here, kid, mis fool talk of yours has gone about far enough. You dont seem to understond anything. If women vote they would be expected to fight as well.

"Say, Pa, do you mean to say that women cant fight? Pa looks around cautiously to see if Ma Is any place within hearing before answering this lust question; not seeing her he answers up boldly: "Of course women can't fight who ever hpard of such a thing? Well how about the women In England, arent they fighting? Why-er-er-why well that Isnt real fighting. I mean they cannot shoulder a musket and march to the gory battlefield. And isnt it true, Pa, that women have taken part in every battle of the world, not only on the battlefield itself, in the hospitals and I camps, but haven't they done the necessary work at home? and haven't they furnished the soldiers? and "Slay, stop it! I dont propose to have a son of mine dispute my word right in my own house. I "But, Pa, is this your house? If it is why are you paying rent for it and Look here, you brat, you. Dont you go a step farther with this kind of anarky talk or Oh, Pa, dont get mad at me! I really want to know about things and you told Ma just the other day that you were awfully tired of paying I rent and fixing up another mans house for him, and besides I want to (know just why women should not vote, and thatB why I came to you, Pa, to find out.

1 Pa softened down considerable at this implied compliment, paid him by Young America and said: "Well, my boy, dont exasperate your old daddle any more, and we will go ahead with the conversation, for I really want you to be a cmart boy, and I am glad you come to me for information. And with this introduction Pa warms up and explains to Young America all the reasons why 1 women should not vote, and becomes so interested in his theme that he Is 1 entirely obvious to his urtaundings. Finally Pa and Young America are startled by someone who says: Pooh! Looking up they see the stately figure of Ma looking down upon them with a twinkle in her eye. She had been standing there for some time and had gathered the entire drift of the situation. "And what is it you are asking your Pa, Johnnie? "I was just asking him why women should not vote.

"And what was your Pa saying to you? Pa began to fidget uneasily in his chair and look at his hat lying on the nearby table. "Well Pa was telling me that women should not vote because they could not fight, and because they not properly informed on political questions, and because the polls was not a fit place for women to go, and because the womans place was In the home, and because the men are able to provide for and protect them, and because it is entirely out of womans sphere to meddle with the lawmaking and governing machinery of this country. During this recital Pa seemed to settle down lower and lower in his chair until he became almost hid behind the table. He had already gained possession of his hat and was looking at the open door at the oth Comrade Thos, Buie will make two dates In the state during November. Jefferson, Miller, White, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian and Green are some of the counties that have or are preparing to put out organizers.

Ten new applicants for member-ship-at-large havlj cent in first month's dues this week. I am willing and anxious to do everything I can for the cause. Send mo blanks. N. C.

Thompson, Denning. We need not look to West Virginia for a parallel to darkest Russia. Down at Spadra, the conditions of the miners In the strike zone are even worse than there. I am ready to assist in every way to advance the cause of Socialism and to bring about the co-operative commonwealth." W. B.

Saye, Beebe. I want to see Arkansas come to the front. Send me blankB and supplies. L. Berry, Havana.

"I rejoice in the rapid growth of our party and know that tho momentum is now so great that no political force or combination can long stop It. B. F. Milliken, Bayou Meto. Let us all join forces and make next year, campaign year, the hottest that old Arkansas has ever known.

Send in a report of your local to headquarters. Get behind the de-liquent member and urge him to do his duty at least. I am going to start out at once with my moving picture machine and if I don't keep you busy Issuing charters It wont be my fault." II. H. Davis, Bigelow.

The Crawford County comrades will meet In county convention at Van Buren Saturday. Sebastian County holds a convention at Bonanza Sunday, November 2. The Progressive Star Is the name of a new paper gotten out from Red Oak, Okla. Comrade Ferguson reports good meetings along his route. "Comrade Alter and I have sent in twenty-five Appeal subscriptions during the last month.

W. A. Richards, Clarksville. Comrade Belle Younts, representing the Kalamazoo Corset Workers, Is In the state. Comrades in the towns she visits should assist her In the good work she is doing in every possible way.

Now that the supreme court of the state has knocked all the life out of the Inltative and referendum by upholding the Infamous "emergency clause," the workers are beginning to realize there is not much to democratic promises any more. Dora Merts will enter the state November 6th. Locals desiring her services will write headquarters at once. "I am a little boy, but I like to read about the Appeal Army. My father is a worker and I want you to write to me.

He is sick now. It 1b a baby letter that came In from Lynn Hubbard this week. Even our boys want to know what is being done. Lawrence Adams, down at Stuttgart, keeps his fathers dues paid up and reports the work down that way even though he is a small boy and likes things like other boys. Comrade L.

E. Katterfeld is open for a few dates in Arkansas. Locals wanting blm should write headquarters. I am glad to be a member of the Appeal Army and have heen a party member for tho last three years, I am a regular and willing to do anything I can for the F. E.

Smith, Fayetteville. Comrade Furrow of Gentry sends In two "Worker oubscripUons. Enclosed find 25 cents fer the Southern Worker. H. Chllcote.

hearts, and be proud to clasp their hands as comrades aud brothers. May this day soon come. J. SPENCE, ilasou City, la. MRS.

PANKIIl'RST IN CHICAGO. Mrs. Punk hu r3t, surrounded by a crowd of suffragists at the Hotel La Salle, was answering a stream of questions about the suffrage movement in Englund. ller trip across Illinois, en route to Chicago, had been a triumphal procession and she was delighted. Beginning early In the morning crowds gathered at every station and gave Mrs.

Pankhurst a welcome almost equal to that given a presidential candidate. Tlio Vote Within a Year. "Votes for women will be a realized fact In England within a year, Mrs. Pankhurst told the women who won the suffrage victory in Illinois. "The administration Is tottering now and it is tottering because it has refused to grant suffrage.

The subsidized press of England Is doing its best to suppress the facts and to inform the people that the cause of suffrage is hopeless. But we have the men votes and within a year I promise you wo shall win. Following the reception Mrs. Pankhurst made a short speech at a luncheon given in her honor. Chicago's squad or police women will guard Mrs.

Pankhurst during her stay In this city. Several of the police women met her at the station, rode in a motor car with her to her hotel and will guard the approaches leading to her apartments. Work for Socialism. LOOK AT THIS Comrades, tlds Job riant should be kept busy and here are the prices that should not allow it to stand idle an hour: LETTER HEADS. Tisrite Bond, Linen Finish 600 $2.25 1,000.

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6 500 $1.00 1,000 $1.35 We guarantee everything in tills list to be a genuine bargain. SOCIALIST CO-OPERATIVE PU COMPANY, IOLA, KANSAS. SUBSCRIPTION CARDS. One regular post card self-addressed to your paper and the other a subscription card good for one year or six months subscription and every card numbered la red" ink with numbering machine. These are just what you need an are fori paid subscriptions like Appeal to Reason cub.

cards. 250 6 mos. or one year. Pac GOO 6 mos. or one CiU-Pe 1,000 6 mos.

or ono year, 1256 mo. and 1251 yrM 250 6 mo. and 250--1 canary, GOO 6 mo. amt 6oo owing oiur 1000 6 mo. and 1000 CHURCH WAKING FARM FIRM TURNING TO DAIRY HVlFiKRK.

Many of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in the Middle West are turning to the dairy business with purebred livestock. This territory as a whole has been, and- still is, pre-eminently given to beef-producing but the growing of the dairy breeds indicates that it is to have standing in earnest as a dairy section also. I say it Is the farmers of the younger generation chiefly who are turning to dairying. There are two reasons why this is so, says F. L.

Kerr in the Nebraska Farm Journal. The first Is that the older farmers have the "beef cattle habit, if I may use that term, and they find that habit hard to break. The 'other reason is that whereas the older men could get their start by grain farming and beef-producing on the cheap land with which they had a chance to start, the young man now must farm more intensively to got his profit from a largo Investment In land, or with a high rate of rent to pay. The advantage in producing dairy cattle je advantage which appeals to the ambitious young farmer, is that while dairy-bred calves are worth as much as beef-bred calves on the market, there are still the dairy products produced by the co to, Ay the running expenses. rc.i bills, interest on investment and the like.

WHY AND nOW MEN BECOME SOCIALISTS. man who Is just about to be-Socialist, always asks the hestloas as do you, and ho Is not satisfied unless you can show him a complete working model of the commonwealth. This Is manifestly impossible, for the reason that Society is a development. The principles 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 cocroon, 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 perfect illustrations naver are, but you will get the Idea. Socialism is another name for cooperation. Capitalism Is a name for one Individual by another or one set of individuals by another.

In chattel Blavery 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, such as the railroads, shops, mines, banks, the co-operative or social ownership of the same. He would take over this ownership as it becomes 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 ii correct.

Having done this, you proceed to apply this principle wherever It will work out better for society. The oil of kindness will help the Socialist machine to run better than vinegar will. UP I I danger of calamity and pauperism, look upward foi; the dawning of a better day when exact justice shall reign. Under the present conditions, lives are being wasted as If they were of no more account than the pebbles on the beach. Face to face with pauperism and starvation sweated men and women are dragging out their weary lives in hundreds of citios in this great country.

Babies are being starved to death or killed off by preventable diseases because their parents are robbed of the produce of their' toll and cannot givo them nourishment they need. Wealth shameless and arrogant, flaunts itself before penurious wretches who never have the satisfaction of eating a good meal. Here is the churchmens work. Sock out tho root remedy for these social evils. Deal with the Industrial, political and social injustices that create unbridled luxury and lust at the top and degrading want at the bottom.

Denounce the sweater and the exploitation. We wl3h every church in this city would speak from the pulpit and tell the truth about this wicked and unjust state of affairs. Let churchmen follow up their congresses by plain speaking from the pulpit. Let them study Socialism by a fair unbiased vision. Lot them but act as if they fully intended (o bring the kingdom of God upon earth, and those who have In the past perhaps wrongfully most condemned them, w'll help with open arms I For years Socialists and genuine reformers have charged the church with neglecting her duties.

Ministers of religion have boen told from platforms innumerable that their duty has lain among the struggling masses. They have been chided for their preoccupation with celestial matters whilst epoch making and world shaking developments have proceeded In the terrestial sphere. Ministers of religion have all too frequently concluded that their duties have been bounded by the affairs of eternity. The -striving human forces in the social, the political, the Industrial and the economic field have been ignored and in some cases condemned. The welfare of the soul has been all, the condition of the bodies has apparently not mattered at all by many of tho ministers of tho church.

But all tho lime some strong souls have frankly declared that the, church had a greater duty to perform. These few forward spirits have pointed out, consistently and courageously, that so long as the people of this or any other nation are forced to live lives of penury and toil, lives taken ip entirely with laboring and worrying for the next days meal, they would never be in the mood to give their attention to tho spiritual which churchmen demand. And now the seed sown by fh-. advanced wing the church i.t bearing fruit. At i5c church coogreBS In Southampton, England, a.nd also at the Episcopal convention in New York, within the last few weeks, the social condition of the masses was referred to again and again.

It was realized fully that the church has a duty to perform, that Is imperative and necessary If It Is to be a power In the land. The womans movement and the problem of sex has been touched upon, and the reforming of our present social order. All these are vital questions and while the conventions may not have come to any satisfactory conclusion on the subjects, It Is a mark of advance that It has discussed them at all. We do not wish to be understood that we depreciate the work tho church has done in the realm of philanthropy and social help. Many lives have been sweetened, many tired bodies have been eased, and many beds of suffering and affliction have been comforted by church workers, but that is not enough.

The riddles of modern life that condemn the unborn and the helpless to lives of suffering and affliction of want and care must bn solved and the church must do her part. In ihe matter of sex we have got to realize that woman in tho world is no longer one of subjection. In science, art, In civic and national affairs, she has shown herself as competent and useful as man. And (he church lias got to realize tho same thing. Then the church must use its Jpost efforts to see that justice Is done.

The service of the church might be rendered to thoro tolling and suffering multitudes vtho from treadmill lives mi relieved by change, uncheoml by the prospect of better things, without margins of pleasure, la constant.