Shawnee County Socialist from Topeka, Kansas • 1

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JOIN YOUR LABOR PARTY. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MAY 23, 1014. JOIN YOUR LABOR UNION. PRICE: FIVE CENT. SHAWNEE COUNTY SOCIALIST.

BUT THEY DONT GO THEMSELVES TO HONOR MOTHERS OF NATION c4 that their former prices have been slashed down so that the total cost to the consumers will be only 40 cents net per month, when in fact there is not the slightest reduction in the price charged per k. w. hour; and Whereas, With that the company offers an easy payment plan for wiring houses for the very evident purpose of getting people under obligation to them and diverting their attention from the great advantages of having the city furnish this service at cost; and Whereas, We are Informed that the Topeka Edison Co. persistently and in open violation of the terms of its franchise, failed to make an accounting of its finances to the city, and to turn over the share of profits Justly belonging to the city. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the Socialist party of Topeka, denounce this move of the Topeka Edison company as an infamous outrage meriting the severest condemnation of every honest person, and that we caution the public not to be caught in this ensnaring trap so cleverly laid not to be misled into believing that any actual reduction In the price of electricity has been offered; and be it further Resolved, That we urge upon the mayor and commissioners to take immediate steps to enlarge the city plant and furnish electricity at cost to all who wish to use it, and that we call their attention to their neglect of duty in failing to compel the Topeka Edison company to comply with the terms of its franchise and turn over to the city the profits belonging to it.

THE BIG CAMPAIGN AHEAD (J. L. Engdahl) Every Socialist in the United States will be asked to contrlbue one days wages to a huge fund to elect Socialists ito (congress in the fall elections, if one of the recommendations in the annual report of Walter Lanferslek, secretary of the Socialist party, to the National Committee in session here is adopted. In order to secure funds for the campaign, I suggest that your committee call for a one-day wage fund, to be paid by every member on 1, and to be devoted to campaign purposes," says Lanferslek In his report. There are several districts that should have special help and no other practical plan presents itself.

The plan is meeting with considerable support and may be adopted as a method for raising national campaign funds In alT future nationwide elections. In his report, Secretary Lanfer-siek shows that the average monthly membership of the Socialist party for February, March and April, 1914, was a huge Increase over the average shown for May, June and July, 1913, which was 82,624. With each Socialist contributing only $12.50 as his dally wage campaign donation the Socialist national congressional campaign fund will reach a quarter of a million dollars, Secretary Lanferslek in his 'report shows the vast Increase in the activities of the Socialist Party Na-j tional- Headquarters during recent years and submits a budget that will call for the expenditure of for the regular! work of the office during the coming year. The Socialist party literature department has handled 5,000,000 pieces of propaganda matter during the ten months since July 1, 1913. It is urged that leaflets be hereafter printed in million editions.

In calling the meeting to order Secretary Lanfersiek declared that the party members exempted from paying dues brings to the total present membership up to $110,000 and that this will greatly increase during the next few months. Morris Hillquit, New York, was elected chairman, Ida Callary, Arkansas, secretary. The total membership of the committee shows 62 members. Max S. Hayes, Ohio, was made vice S.

P. P. S. Published every Saturday by the Socialist Co-Operative Publishing Topeka, Kansas. Published under the auspiees of the Socialist Party of Shawnee bounty.

Editor Ilattie Olmstead 1732 Filmore Street. Associate Mary Avery 1334 Kansas Avenue. May Taylor 1612 Topeka Avenue. One Year 75c. Six Months 50c.

Kntered as second class at the postoffice at Topeka, Under the Act' of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to Socialist Co-Operative Publishing Topeka, Kansas. Socialist local meets every Monday evening at 8 o'clock at W. C. T.

hall, 107 East Eighth street. F. Felton, secy. The womens committee of the socialist local meets -with Mrs. Jennie Griffin on Horne street Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. Lora Rudolph, secy. (SOCIALISTS SUGGEST MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT Criticise Topeka Edison Company Ask for Lower Rates. At a recent meeting of the committee of the Socialist party of To-peka local No. find the committee of the womens committee of the So- clalists local'-jJo.

1, passed HuTloI-lowing resolution regarding the Topeka Edison company: Whereas, the city of Topeka owns good electric light plant and is 'lighting its streets and public buildings at a cost of only about one-fourth as much per k. w. hour as the people have to pay the Topeka Edison company, and Whereas, There has for some time teen a healthy agitation in the city urging the mayor and commissioners to enlarge the municipal plant so as to be able to furnish electricity to any of its citizens at cost; and Whereas, This agitation has reached a point where it is receiving the respectful attention of some of the city commissioners and seems at the very verge of being successful; and i Whereas, Then at this Critical moment the Topeka Edison company flooded the city with big flaring circulars purporting to offer big reductions in pharges, the reading being, Notice to electric light consumers. Thd Edison Co. plans to place electricity in all homes, offices and Btores in the city.

Reduction In the mtni- mum charge. Our former charges of 11.50 per month for the six winter months and 75 cents per month for the six summer months. Minimum reduced to 40 cents net per month, and this having misled, who knows how many, persons to think A. P. TONE WILSON, JR.

Lawyer. 0 217 West Fifth Street. jgj Phone 1304. Topeka, Kan, 0 CRUCIFYING THE OH (Sea Government I Second Sunday In May I Set Aside top Publlo Expression of Reverenco Washington, May 23. Mothers Day, the second Sunday In May, will hereafter be a national holiday, and the president is directed to see that the day Is observed a a such throughout the United States by the raising of flags on all government buildings and by public proclamation calling ou all civilians to display flags.

The Joint resolution providing for the observation of Mothers day as a national holiday was called up in the bcnate by Senator Sheppard of Texas and passed. It already bad passed the house. Several years ago Senator Burkett of Kansas tried to get favorable action on a resolution to recognize Mothers day as a national legal holiday, and was laughed out of the ceu-ate. Many speeches were made ridiculing the suggestion and irqnlca.y suggesting that Fathers Day and Mother-In-Law Day were equally in order. Had Burkett been In tl senate today he would have had ti.o pleasure of seeing his resolution in substance passed without oppositU or any of the withering conto that met it when he proposed it.

The resolution as passed Is as follows: "Whereas, the service renderc 1 the United States by the Amerlcsm mother is the greatest source of the countrys strength and inspiration, and Whereas, we honor ourselves and the mothers of America when we do anything to give emphasis to trie home as the fountain head of the state; and Whereas the American mother Is doing so much for the home, tho moral uplift and religion, hence so much for good government and humanity; therefore, be it Resolved, That the president, of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the government officials to display the United States flag on all government buildings, and the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on the second Sunday in May, aB a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of the country; and, bt it further "Resolved, That the second Sunday in May shall hereafter be designated and known as Mothers Day, and it shall be the duty of the president require its observance as provided for in this resolution. PROBABLY. Miss Wheat, the new teacher, was hearing the history lesson. Turning to one of the new scholars, she asked: James, what was Washingtons farewell address? The new boy arose with a promptitude that promised well for his answer. -st them burial x- IH systematically, 73 VILLA TO MEET HIM AT CAPITAL Rebel Commander Suggests Lifting of U.

S. Embargo Until He Has Vanquished Huerta at Mexico City. Juarez, Mexico, May 14 My congratulations to General Gonzales. We meet soon in Mexico City, Gen. Francisco Villa, gathering his troops for an assault on Saltillo, where 12,000 federals are encamped, sent this brief telegram to constftu tionalist headquarters here today in response to a message sent at midnight, advising him of the route of the Huerta forces at Tampico.

Paredon, Cahuila (via Torreon), May 21. Jubilant over the prospects of an early campaign against Mexico City, Gen. Francjsco Villa suggested a novel scheme by which he might induce the United States to permit him to import enough arms and ammunition to drive Huerta from the capital If the American people still fear they may have to Invade northern Mexico and that any ammunition they allow to come to us may be used against an American army," said Villa, I would make this suggestion: Let President Wilson appoint a military -commission to judge how much ammunition we would need to fight our way to Mexico City. Then the Americans could allow that much and no more to come in. Several skirmishes with federal outposts at Saltillo were reported to Villas headquarters here.

The main body of Villas troops, camped here, will not begin to move to the outskirts of Saltillo until late. We never look1 on Jesus Christ as an humorist, but he was. He restored a man to reason, but by that act destroyed 2,000 hogs! Count that up at the present price of pork. The jobless swineherds hiked and reported the loss and the civic alliance deported Jesus. Hogs must be protected.

I Each generation thinks that the world is progressing because it is moving. But pendulum moves. He who gives money he has net earned generous with other peoples It is foolish to make all good things necessary to life, let it be stolen away from us, and then try to buy it back; again. Patriotism is your conviction that this country lq superior to all other countries because you were born in it. membership, we understand, was Now it is scarcely 50.

Getting quite exclusive. Sure! During the suffrage campaign postcards reading A.ny person may become a member by paying dues. But now anyone who trains with the exclusive set and will vote for Arthur Capper. Consistent isnt It, to say'theleast? Mrs. Lila Day Monroe is peeved at this paper because at the time of the billboard fight we favored the billboarc, and stated that the pictures of the chorus girls on them were -no worse -than the pictures-! society girls in the daily papers at that time.

Now we learn that Mrs. Monroe thinks Mrs. May Taylor was the author of the article, which Is not so. The editor of this paper alone is responsible, and, say, the way she tried to get revenge on Mrs. May Taylor for it through the good government club shows a very small, narrow nature.

We are afraid tho reference to those society girls hit Mrs. Monroe some way. The preacher that disturbed the peaceful worshippers in John D.s church In New York got six months In the workhouse. But what will John D. and son get for willful murder in Colorado? The plaudits of the rich for ridding the earth or a few more slaves.

But woe unto jou, rich men, your time will come. The womens committee of the Socialist local met with Mrs. Frankie Parks, 412 East Seventeenth street, Thursday afternoon, hfay 14. There was a good attendance. Mills lessons were taken up; questions asked and answered." Visitors present; Miss Ethel Whitehead, Mrs.

Greer, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Everett. Ice cream and cake was served. A profitable meeting.

A meeting was called at Mrs. May Taylors last week and the "Characters were chosen for a play, The Judgment of Satan, which will be staged in the near future under the management of Miss Ethel White-head. The women missed Mrs. May Taylor at the regular meeting at Mrs. Parks, but they knew she was at the Good Government club defending herself, and we hear she did it, too.

THE RIVER OF PROGRESS. Did you ever stand and watch ice thaw out of a river? At first appeals a little hole wth water sibling up through and spreading over the ice. Then the hole widens, lengthens, as piece by, piece the ice is broken off by the gnawing and the rush of the water. Under the eye, the ice seems to grqw rotten and break down. The breach widens from bank to bank, and finally with a crash the ice all goes out with the current.

Thus it is Socialism is feating away at capitalism. The feeding sentiment and understanding groys and spreads; the opposition gets more rotten and weak. Soon with a crash it will all go out on. the river of progress. A fair audience greeted Miss Whitehead as she rendered ithe following interesting program 107 East Eight street Monday evening, May 18: -Irish Tomorrow.

Whos a Rid Hip. Song. I Barney OHea. Telephone Romance. Labor to Capital.

a.pOstltute. Song, Esmeralda. The march of the Hungry Man. Reading, I Want a Fiddle. The womens committee, with tlt? consent of the local, will arrange for a Socialist picnic in the near future A PROPHECY.

-1 see a world where thrones have crumbled and where kings are dust. The 5 aristocracy of Idleness has perished from the earth. I see a world without a slave. Man at last is free. Natures forces have by science been enslaved.

Lightning and light, wind and wave, frost and flame, and all the secret, subtle powers of earth and air are the tireless toilers for the human race. I see a world at peace, adorned with every form of art, with musics myriad voices thrilled, while lips are rich with words of love and truth a world in which no exile sighs, no prisoner mourns; a world on which the gibbets shacow does not fall; a world where labor reaps its full reward where work and worth go hand In hand! I see a world without the nargar's outstretched palm, the misers heartless, stony stare, the piteous wail of want, the livid lips of lies, the cruel eyes of scorn. I see a race without disease qf flesh or brain, shapely and fair, the married harmony of form and function; and, as I look, life lengthens, joy deepens, love canopies the earth and over all, in the great dome, shines the eternal star of human hope! SLUMP IN IDOL MAKING. Idol worship is on the wane in some parts of China and consequently many idol carvers are compelled to use their skill in other work. The man' in our picture at the left is a Shanghai idol maker who has turned to making lay figures for show windows.

American missionaries report that in 'the southern provinces many Chinese are not only forsaking thqir graven images, but are using a large number of old Confuclan temples as schoolhouses. Christian missionaries attribute the decline of idolatry to their own activities and to the general influence of western civilization. They say that resistance to their teach-lngs has diminished a great deal since the Manchus were overthiown. You are not a good Socialist unless you "bustle for Socialism. From the Dally Captial, May 16; The Socialists in Topeka have lighted on a real sore when they call attention to the failure ofl the city to enforce The ordinance in' relation jf- -a" 1 the partnership between the city and the Edison and' railway companies.

This thing has been permitted to drift along for years, no city government appearing to consider that these particular city interests are worth protecting. HURRAH FOR THE SOCIALISTS! SCORE 1 FIRST MONEY. A check for $1,190.33 presented to the "city commission yesterday was of unusual importance because it represented the first money the city has ever received from a public service corporation. tl The check, together with a yearly report, was from the Topeka Edison company and was in compliance with a clause of its franchise that requires a payment to the city of 10 per cent of its annual net earnings over and abov 10 per cent earned on the Investment. Comrades, it pays to get up resolutions and point to the loose business methods of the city, doesn't it? The Good Government club of Topeka will be exclusive in the future, and bar, the' women front, membership who have always stood fof the best oK government That of all the people' for all the people.

It will exclude all those who think for themselves and who recognize no leaders, and will not be subservient to the will of a few wire-pulling politicians, yet at the time of the suffrage campaign it was understood by many who are now members, that any and all women who would vote for the franchise and pay their dues were eligible to membership, but after the franchise was won it. was a different matter. At that time the ILDIlEN, COLORADO, 1914 Page 8) A newspaper heading says: The United States army now numbers twenty-two million. And if the T)00 learn to shoot for their own interest, what will become of Wall street? Judge Pat, I didnt think you would hit a little man like that. Pat Suppose he called jou an Irish slob? Judge But Im not an Iri-man.

Pat Suppose he called jou a Dutch Blob Judge But Im not a Dutchman. Pat Well, suppose he called you the kind of a slob that you are? THE HAND THAT HOLDS THE OIL CAN, IT roadsides, not 929. i' 1, 1 1 I t4 ft. s. 4 A 4-.