Shawnee County Socialist du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 2

VJ Literature. the death of Comrade Dr." Stanley T. Peet, one of the oldest workers In the Socialist movement In the United States. A very beautiful memorial covering the life and work of United States, We need the bitter tlon of Independence, to us has come oppression that the foreigners have an Intellectual evolution, and we con-experienced, and in West Virginia, celve of democracy ln lu full aud Michigan and Colorado a few are logical sequence. Bit today, the'" feeling the Iron heel.

predatory rich" laugh at he Meeting of the State Convention' Our revolutionary forefathers, declaration and are ready to go while not understanding economic back to monarchy, but as Moses democracy, did understand political said, Command that tney go tor- fellers college from one of Mr. Rock-efellers hired men. But wait. There are signs In the AND TA te democracy, and expressed It In most unmistakable terms ln the Declara ward," and we must go forward, or we will go backward. cal Muskogee.

Owing to lack of 8 plendld tribute to our departed FIXANCl.t STATEMENT MARCH, 1014. Cash. FOR .4 i Balance March 1, 1914 8 YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN 400.00 DO ANIMALS HOLD COURTS? It Is cliamed by some nature students that certain animals and birds hold courtB of justice and punish their criminals. That seems to be (rue of beavers especially. Then It would also apear that bees and ants hold courts, try violators of their laws and sometimes kill them.

Elsie C. R. Wilkins, a writer on such subjects ays those having made Convention called to order by the state secretary at 9:30 a. m. Comrade John Lancaster was elected temporary chairman.

Comrades J. W. Spitz, Ida CaTery, A. Shaver, and E. W.

Perrin was elected committee on credentials. 1i.mrades E. W. M. Ferguson and J.

J. Henley was elected committee on rules. Motion prevailed for convention to recess for fifteen minute for the committee on rules and the committee on credentials to confer. The convention was called to oraer at 10:45 a. m.

when the committee on rules announced that It was ready to report. Thei (rules co many tee submitted the following report: 1. Report of. credentials committee and seating of the delegates. 2.

The election of permanent chairman and secretary. 3. The report of the state secre- OUR TEACHER. (By Sydney Hlllyard.) Special from the P. P.

S. The country school teacher ought vote the Sodallst ticket Instead. he says, "Oh, bother politics. School teachers have nothing to do (with that, thank goodness." And so he leaves politics to the farmers, art tha farmers delegate It to the business men, and the business men delegate It to the politicians, and the politician take It from Big Business, and Big Business Isnt interested In country school teachers. And so the teacher throws away her franchise and a simile Illuminates the features of Wall street the following morning.

Tho country school teacher rs veryodys goat. If a row starts up i between the Presbyterians, who have bough tan organ and pnt It In the I school, and the Methodists, who, hav- ing rented the use of the organ, wlsn to have something to say as to who else shall use it and for what pur-! pose, then both Bides rush to enlist the teacher. If she sides with the Methodists the Presbyterians loudly urge that a much better teacher can bs hired for less money and their children arent learning, anyway. If Bbe sides with the Presbyterians, the Methodist trustees refuse her supplies. If it becomes necessary to ro- fuse promotion to the stupid daugn- ter of one of the trusses and to iwhlp the noisy son of another at the National Dues.

Paid out Received Defalt 191.18 a study of 'birds have seen them assemble ln large numbers as thouga8wee aPPe ree- Im Being to get a they had been summoned for the ladder and see; shes not trying to her nest down la the FATHER JONES COLUMN tary. 4. 5. 6. with Its little dimity school maam awakening.

One of these days wm pub her arid 11Qe whiz! but Ive been a chump." (Yes, school maams use slang Just like that. Walt till you hear her.) WllAT TOOK COURAGE. Helen Keller was asked: What have you done that required the greatest courage on your part?" 4 Casting my lot with the workers of the world," was the answer. "We would think more of you If you were not a Socialist," Helen Keller was 'told after her recent lecture a1. Milwaukee.

I would think more of you If you were Socialists, wus her spontaneous reply. Helen Keller is the gifted woman ho, though deaf and blind from childhood, has mastered speech anu delivers lectures. She Is an auuior of noto and has attracted widespread a tention because of her attainments. -Slnee she was 10 yeras old she has been a subject of study for medical and psychological experts. When a delegation of working women called upon President Wilson to a8k his Interest in woman suffrage tho president replied: oral, states and I cant well afford General Fund.

tr Cash AH Funds. Cash ln drawer Total on hand Total for the week: Locals, 20; new members, 171. necks of his fellows to raise himself Instead all rising together, lie cant be class conscious, and such people cant develop solidarity. i Thats what Pie cry of the full diner pail meant ln the republican campaign. The politicians knew the (American character, knew they were sheep, ready to be killed and skinned and utter no protest bo long as tbe pasture was good.

But let them try It on a lot of hogs, and all the rest are ready to fight. Americans are sheep, but foreigners wear bristles instead of wool. Taka f.lie (attendance at. (locals. Where a vote is cast that either carries the town or makes the tin horn politicians nervous, not 10 per cent of the Socialist voters are red card members, and that less than 10 per cent of that 10 per cent attend the local and keep paid up, but the foreigners do attend, when their work dont prevent.

In Hamburg, Germany, the Socialist vote was onty a little larger than the party membership. It is so anywhere in the United States. When tlioric referendum were a art- to reduce the red card contri butions from 25c, I dont know, but I I I What He Said. row. Both trustees are mortally of- ru see.

1 am ly the expres- fended. Tho first one knows tfiat his slon oE tlie Party- Until the pany, daughter Is the brightest thing up aR BUch considered a matter party statistics show 71 per cent are the creek, the second knows that hm and taken Its position, I am not at boy Is always good ln school because liberty to Bpeak as an individual, the boy told him so. The only thing tor 1 a not an individual. 1 have that saves the teacher from lmmedl- aready explained the limitations to discharge is the fact that the are aId uPn 1110 tllie loader jmwaubee Leader other trustee is delighted at the situ- of a It Is impossible for me per cent tUe party support eight stion and all the rest of the parents to initiate anything." cry that Justice Is being done at last. 1 What lie Meant.

If the country school teacher intro-1 ls I am afraid to take duces something new she Is dis- ay 8tand on thla Question. You see, Gemail and 0(hcr foreign socialists, charged, for the trustees are sure 1 want ano.her terra, and there are that there is tho reason why Johnny vcry powerful Interests opposed to didnt pass the county examinations. woman suffrage. The poirft Is, now If she tries drawing, nature study can I aord to antagonize them? and manual arts, she Is discharged There is the whisky trvJt and the Tb0 (-j-, icagir) jj xily Socialist, well because the "children find school brewers and the great corporations we know ltg history. The Bohem-pleasanter than it was, whereas It and WaU street, you see.

On the jang Bupport a daily ln Chicago, B0 ought to be unpleasant all the time other hand women vote now in sev- dQ Germans The Finng support shows me there is a great difference. lore in the United ates, the dallies The Leader had a hard time to get on its feet, and no doubt but for the Election of committees. Report of committees. Nomination of candidates. Motion prevailed to amend rules to allow members at large to have vote in the convention.

Motion then prevailed to adopt the rules as amended. Report of the credential committee was then submitted advising the following delegates he seated. Local Argcnta Wm. Langehennig, A. W.

Spitz, J. J. Henley, J. Spurgeon, a. R.

Finke, N. F. Labonik, Mrs. F. Labonik, Mrs.

A. Spelr. Alex, E. E. Coffer; Dyer, W.

M. Sutton; Denning, C. A. Randolph. Garland, G.

W. Walter, Mrs. Ella Mann. Jua-soiiia, C. E.

Skidmore; Little Rock, Lillard Gould, E. W. Perrin, Rev. Lcdgard, O. P.

Audit; Nashville, Thos D. M. Hixon; Pine Blubb, M. A. Thompson, W.

A. Wright, G. W. Galloway, J. A.

Moore, alternate; Spring Dale, Carrie Tumage; Van-Buren, O. A. Shaver; White County, John Lancaster, W. S. Biram, W.

B. Saye, S. II. Hale, W. M.

Fergusop; Huntington, Dan Hogan; Geo. C. Moore. Motion prevailed that the deN gates be seated as accepted by committee. i The election of permanent officers was next in order.

I Nominations for permanent chairman Dan Hogan, E. W. Perrin, election by a rising vote, resulted In Hogan, 15; Perrin, 14. Nominations for permanent secretary was C. E.

Skidmore, and E. W. Perrin. Perrin declined and Skidmore was by ace lam a- tion. The state secretary (Ida Gallery) then read a report of the work doqe Insure true and sound learning, trial.

This extraordinary occasion has been known to last for several days and all of the attendants would la some way or other take part. While some would be noisily -garrulous, (JThcrs would be grave and silent, and there would always be a number that would seem dejected, perched with drooped heads as though in deep thought or sorrow. At what would seem the ending of such a trial, certain numbers of the birds will fush at one or more of their companions and deliberately kill them, then aB though a duty had been done and an end accomplished, the remaining assemblage disperses. Starlings, jackdaws and the'erows are known to hold formal court martials for the trial of trea- passers of bird law. The lessons to be learned from those customs of birds and animals, Is that Nature abhors the lazy idler who tries to get valuable things ror nothing.

There are many such men in the capitalistic system of individualism. After Socialism is fully established, every able-bodied adult person will be required to perform some useful labor, and will be given the full value of his Industry. All speculators, drones, shirkers and i thieves will bo eliminated. This I60103 to be Die law Nature has given animal8 and and It is dear- ly the law of justice which should THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL-HOUSE 4- I ilAWCfc PT I CRUS AM a ov --s Air: The Old Oaken Bucket. The little red school house 1b nearer and dearer, As down thro the years I am passing along; IIow often the lessons I learned there have helped me! Nor can I refrain now to raise this, my song: No Mulligan Guards in the school of my childhood; We read not with prejudice but with our eye.

CHORUS Ill vote for lihe School House, The little Red School House; Ill vote for the School House, Ill save it or die. lands where the Romans longest dominion, lejgnorance blackest, and darkest ls crime. Awaken! ye Yankees, and guard well the school house; Tbe Foe ls upon us, dont lose any hold prevail Dague. in human society. R.

A. A GRATEFUL BIRD. Oh, mother, do come and see what tls the matter with this cat blrd!" Emma. Se how queerly she is acting, running about tbe walk in front of me like a poor crippled blrd, There gurely Bomothlng attract my attention for nothing." In short order, Emm, bad the ladder and was peering into the nest. Now what do you think was in it? Not a snake, but JuBt an old green apple as big as a lemon.

It must have been ln the nest for days for the side of it was all dried up like a baked apple. Emma thought it must 'have fal- len Into the nest before the eggs were laid; and now the mother bird thought It was soon time for the babies to appear and that made heT desperate! About a week after that, when Emma was again walking in the garden, lo and behold, here comes Mrs. Catbird and goes throqgh the same rolling and tumbling performance right along at Emmas side, as before. Again Emma went to see what bad happened, and wbat do you think she found this time? Four little woolly babies! Oh, she just wanted me to see her babies," said Emma. She was just expressing her gratitude because I removed the Emma saw her often after that, but she never went through such antics again.

Think lof Buell gratitude in so small a creature! Let us all take example by this bird and show gratitude for small favors. ANNA STOCKINGER. Father Whot3 putting such foolish ideas into your head, my son? What makes you think God owns the land? Johnny Because God never sold it to anybody, or anything' that Is in it. He says The earth is mine and all that therein Is. Then If It all belongs to God aint the mine operators stealing the copper from God? Father Who says God owns the earth and all that Is in it? Johhny The Bible says so.

Fatqpr Well, run away now my son. 11 look ls up. Johnny Pa! Father What is Lt now my son? I wish you wouldnt bother me eo much; I want to think. Johnny Thats just what I want to make you do think. Now suppose you would furnish the material and make something like a house or a wagon, wouldnt it be yours, unless you sold it to somebody? Father Of course it would, my son.

Johnny It would be yours unless you sold it or gave it away wouldn't It? Father Most certainly, Johnny Suppose somebody stouia come over' here and discover it, vould it be his? Father Why, no, my son, whats the copper and other things that are ln it, and has never deeded it to anybody how can men acquire a right 'to It by discovering It, or by buying some other men 1 who didnt own it. I believe that the earth is for all mankind and not that all the earth is for a few men. Father That's Just what the socialists say; you little rascal, youll bo a Socialist before yoq get old enough to vote. Rip Saw, Reforms are always financed and controlled by those who refuse the most determinedly to be reformed. Capitalism play up fe, "good man" Idea to lead people away from the Only Idea that will result in its finish Organization.

The Iconoclast, Minot, N. D. Between the children of the trustees, seem 'hostile to them. So I will the trustees, the clerk, the parents, side-step the whole thing as grace- another Philadelphia, Pa the visitors to the school, the county, fully as I can- meantime giving you 6Upport a daily in New superintendent, the state superinten- the glad hand and a nice, knd York CUy The guport on deat and the normal schools, she is mile. 'la Chicago.

And the Jews support ground between upper, nether and a Nobody reminded him of the. fact the porwards printed ln Yiddish, dozen other millstones all the (ime. that every day he Initiates eomething. occupyjng jtB own building, and Her education represents eight Nobody reminded him of the presl- wlth a daUy clrcuiation larger than year? of grammar school, four of d0ntial primary, the provisions of the th0 Callj the Leader and the chl. (high school and two of normal.

Four- income tax law, a hundred points cagQ when lt wa8 running( an teen years for Rachel. What a prep- about the tariff, the orders concern- Cdmbine(j. laration for what an end. A corpora- 8 confirmations and appointments, Tha(. jg tll0 foreigner8 tbe 29 per tkra lawyer with no more preparation tho dai'y commands he sends down rentj bgat 71 per centi and no more sense draws fifty thou- the capitol.

Nobody reminded tpn tQ on0 besides giving a sup-eand a year ln the service of Big of tlle unequal power he sways port ihe Engilsll that Business. For four months in the over hls Party tl0r of the Palpable dld thgy not havg) both Qf tb0m year she draws no salary at all, but fictia that ls obliged to wait for would be out of business. I think plugs away iait summer school In order anythinS- (that shows a difference right here that she may do better work for the was a yory kind, considerate, jn y10 united States, same salary next year. While she generous delegation, as you can see. thlnk ijt ia nece3sary t0 ls away at summer school prices are Which was very well, for otherwise arg.U0 farther t0 prove ther0 ls a being attended to by Big Business might have given to the president difference.

and her board bill for the following a very Painful half hour, telling him Rua your 0y0 up coiumn where year goes up. If she happens to have Taci-S- i there are contributions to a strike lost her last school for any one or fund, and when you bump against two other dallies, one in New York, The the Party Binc0 tho WHY IS THE AMERICAN SOCIAL-1ST PARTY SO DIFFERENT FROM THE PARTY IN OTHER COUNTRIES? Is It different? I have met It in countrle8j and read of ltg ac tivitieg ln other countriGSi and my experience coupled to what I read, thrp0 dailiG8 the Germans 8UpPort the foreign element are class con- scious, Americans, as a rule, are not. um foreigners have for generations recognized themselves as of 1 the slave class, but Americans have had se long dinged into their ears.that every boy ls a presidential jidssi- bllity, and lftbey are today distinctly of the slave and not of the master class, they deem It simply a temporary case of bad luck, and the all, or most of them, cherish down In their hearts, the idea, naz? though lt be, that their state present is possible of a change. Now just as long as a man has one icta of a hope, or Idea that he could, or might be able to tread on the i A rn i I convention. Motion prevailed to accept the report as read.

The credentials of H. L. Mulkey from Local Center Point was presented to the convention and accepted, t' Also Comrade Finals Skates off Local South Bend, (not knowing that, written credentials was necessary as tj be seated upon the recommendation of Comrade W. M. Ferguscin who was at the meeting of the locjil when Comrade Skates was elected an a delegate.) Ve The election of the several commit- CE tees was next.

Olt The committee on ways and means. Motion prevailed that the com- 'ry mlttee consist of three. 'f 99 per cent Americans who voted to reduce and thus cripple the party activity, and either Jesuit spies or fool Socialists they made tools of who proposed it. My experience is, that American Socialists I have met, ftB the exception and not the rule to find an American class conscious Socialist, and among the Socialists I have met in Mexico, Chill, Argentine, Uruguay, Spain or Italy, or the foreign Socialists In the United States the one among them not class conscious Is the exception and not the rule. Read George R.

Kirkpatricks War What For? and there 'you will find class consciousness boiling out of It all over, but while lots or American Socialists are doctrlnally sound, Socialism is to them a logical and desirable, and a beautiful and hi manltarian theory, they are Socialists In their heads, and can explain lt better then some class conscious men, but lt has not entered their hearts. The difference between a non class conscious Socialist and a class conscious Socialist tS that, the first has Socialism, the second Socialism has him. Socialism In Europe and Spanish America Is iri ransigeate, that Is, Its uncompromising, inflexible, irs the expression of a claBs that know they are sltveB and are possessed of a burning and determined Intention that with 'Ihe master class, witn 11 political parties, and institutions there can be no agreements, only direct bppositton. Whatever party, church or organization not out and out with and for them, is an enemy to be fought, and there is no hesitancy ln opposing them, but in the United States, the party avoided putting among dts political demands free schools and separation of churcn and state, although 99 per cent of the rank and file, if not 100 per cent, would so vote on a referendum, and the reason given, (and I have letters to that effect), Is that It would bo an attack upon religion, but tare i.i but one religion, and that only lu Its ruling Hierachy, that would be attacked. But in all the Test of the world, the Socialists state their full views, and if any existing Institution is thereby opposed or lt Is their fault and not that of the Socialist We Bay In English Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they will." Until Americans get the spirit that' breeds bristles and not wool, Socialism will never win out in the I I'd risk monay that it was a fat figure in dollars and cents column, you will see that It is the Finns, the Germans or the Hungarians who have paid the cash, or to any list, of contributions to the cause.

Take it In any local when the hat ls passed, the quarters, half dollars or dollars generally are dropped In bj; the members who are foreigners, while Americans, the 71 per cent, drop In copper cents, once In a whdle a nickel, and many nod at the hat. Thats a fact. And more. Tne foreigners ar not the men' with money, in the locals as a rule, as, the Americans, as a general rule, if they paid in proportion to their means and ability, would have to drop in a $10 note, instead of a measly nickel, or dime. There are Angora, April 12, 8 p.

Vlcl, April exceptions no doubt, I have known 13, 8 p. Cestoa, April 14, 8 p. of them, but 1 am speaking of the Fargo, April 15, 8 p. Gage, April general rule. I think that shows 16, 8 p.

Chaney, April 17, 8 p. m. a difference. Now let us consider why the difference. Comrade H.

H. Stoallard and Hon. The difference lays ln one fact, ant you would be to society If you time. For foul foreign' hands clutch the 'youve got wheels ln it havent you? throat of our Goddess; Johnny No; but'I was just thdnk-Come, enter the batue, with this for ing that if God made the land and got Into that, little head of yours? George W. Cornell of Weatherford, have arranged to debate in the Seventh congressional district, Resolved, That there is no good reason for tbe existence and continu nce of the Socialist party in the United States.

Tnose wishing to arrange for these debates will address Comrade Oles Stofer, Snyder, Okla. Comrade H. Grady Milner of Oklahoma City is open to engagement as at. organizer and speaker at $3 per day and expenses. OBITUARY.

It is with regret that we announce flfty-eeven varieties, visiting trijs tees, waiting around the office of tbe county superintendent and binding up very likely by not getting a Hcbool at all. She belongs to the industrial proletariat and doesnt know it Under a rational and sanely organized co-operative society the School teacher would he a woman or power, of dignity, in a profession iwhich would give permanency, advancement and rational emolument to all its members. No longer a chnck-about, a creature of everybodys whim, respected by almost no one, despised by her scholars ror being in. such a profession, a woraer certain of discharge and with no single avenue of promotion open, the school teacher, ln a rational society, (Would suddenly find that the dignity, pace and. nobility of life was the inheritance of the working class.

If our school teachers could only realize It, their interests eTe one and the same as thoseof the boilermaker, the bricklayer, street sweeper. Bat tbe snobocracy of the capitalist universities has taught her that she it just a tiny pinch better than the common workingman and therefore she enters the lists cm the side of the capitalist class. A victory of labor would be her victory, but she takes (humiliation and defeat and prunes herself on having a calling acquaintance with the wife of the university professor. Socialism is specifically ler battle, but she fights against it. he should carry the red card and embershlp in the A.

F. of L. Ia- i oad, she takes a non-rosldeut course .1 'political economy" at Mr. Rock- A. R.

Finke, John Lancaster sa4 i ct- A. Spelr were nominated and elected by acclamation. The committee on grievances to consist of three. Wm. Langehennig, Ella Mann and W.

F. Labonik, was elected by acclamation. The committee on resolutions consisting of three. G. W.

Galloway, John Lancaster and G. G. Henley was elected by acclamation. Auditing committee to consist or four members. F.

Labonik, E. E. Coffer, W. Perrin, Rev, Ledgard, A. R.

Finke and W. S. Biram was nominated, Comrades Finke and Biram declined to serve, the other four were elected by acclamation. Commltete ton proposed legislation by initiative petition. Motion prevailed that the commit- tee consist of three members.

A. W. Spitz, E. W. Perrin, J.

Spurgeon, Blackwell and F. Skates were Motion then prevailed to reconsider the that the committee consist, of three and elect the fiver-members as nominated' by eo damatlon. (To Be Continued Next Week.) A your cry: Chorus. YOUNG AMERICA. JoWhy-irrPa, who made the copper lu the mines? Farther Why, dont you know my son? It Vas God.

JohnnyirrWell, did the mine owners get; bold of it? Father j-They bought lt, my son. John'ny-iDid they buy lt of God? Father No; they bought It of other Johnny- But who did the other rr.en buy it from? Father They bought it of other men and the abstracts show who all owned Johnny Does the abstracts show that the land and the copper was ever sold to anybody by God? x-.