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Established -Aug. 31, 1895 .463,731 FIFTY CENTS A YE4R Six Meat 25 Cents Oabaef Fowor Mora (40 Waks) 25 Costa This is Number 830 NEXT WEEK Number of nw sub (or wk ending October 14 1 7,53 N- m' of expiring subs for week ending Oct. 14 13.532 Gain for weak 4024 -I IVork" Edition Total Number of Subs for Week Endlne AM EYE OPENER October 14th, Lrt your neighbors know what the Socialists are act-ua'l doing. 1 hat's the best answer to all criticism. Total Edition Printed Last Week Piattvd at CtrartL 536,600 J.

A. VAYLAHD FRED D. WARREN Guard, Kansas, U. S. October 28.

1911 Total naml-er of subscriber for week tndmt Oct. 7th sTs oaaaffica asrssial rlaaa ttor In tha tespectivo Preparing for Big Battle The Appeal and the Appeal Army join the national executive committee in sending the following telegram to State Secretary Merriam, as the official representative of the Socialists of California: "The national executive committee of the Socialist party, in session, sends WHY Even a simple-minded person, tinder proper direction, can produce enough wealth to 'supply all his needs and pay for the necessary time of another for this direction. What, then, is the reason that men who have virile minds and bodies should be unable to find places where, they may produce the equivalent of wha will supply them in all the comforts and even some of the luxuries of life? What kind a "system" do we have that permits men and women who are able and willing to work, to rot out their lives? The cause of their inability to apply their energies is that a few have monopolized, under the laws the lands and machinery that they cou use to for themselves and their families. What would you say of a general, hard pressed by some enemy, should he refuse more troops who-were as able and weil-dril ed and equipped as those he Would you not say he was incompetent? Then are not the generals (politicians) of the present conditions, whom you have been voting into power unfit when they cannot provide facilities for every wil ing producer, all the while complaining that there is not enough food and other wealth, which these id are competent and willing to provide? It must be that we have the simple-minded directing public affairs. Socialist know how to provide a job for every worker; and give him for that work all he produces.

That will not make a burden on anybody else, wi.l not do an injustice to anybody e'se, and will make him and his familj better citizens and happier. Why not do it? DISCHARGED A TEACHER. ATTACK ON CHINA. Again does China feel the fists of the powers at her throat They have taken advantage of the fact that the people of China are awakening and demanding a republic, with a cessa-ion of the oppression that has kept the country stagnant for centuries, and come from far as friends to save the monarchy. As a price of saving the oppression of the oldest dynasty in the world, now represented by a child not years old, they will demand concessions that will make.

China merely an adjunct of European powers. The shameful part is that the United States, a republic in name and supposed to stand for liberty, should have a part in the disgraceful affair. Once before this has occurred. Because there was an up-rising hi the interest of liberty the press joined in abusing the Boxers, declaring that the cry -against the foreigners meant murder. and all the powers of Europe and America rushed to the scene.

Besides the charges of loot that followed, concessions were obtained wh.ch place China more and more under oppression. The concession America obtained consisted of franchises for the building of a continen ai railroad in China given to John Pierpont Morgan. The old game worked in America in the and 'o's vas repeated there. Bonds were voted, land grants were made, and the railroad was not built Yet the money and lands wrested by this fraud from the people of China will remain in the possession of the American' capitalist. The armies of America simply held up China in the interest of John Pierpont Morgan.

It is a shameful thing, something that should make every American blush, but it is a fact Now we wonder what the game is. There is something behind the forcib putting down of 'his rebellion against the exaction of foreign capi alists. -The press will not tell us what that is. for the present It will aid the capitalist in holding up raillons of poor people in China. But you may depend on it that it will mean further oppression for th coolies and possibly the use of these much oppressed people to bring down the price of labor in America "FREE LOVE." Don't expect a Moses to hep you.

The original Moses, you remember, never led Israel into the PromiseJ Land. Taft does not cease his pernicious activity against the reca ling ot ju lges the people wih soon demand the right to recall their president. ru Ttivr was a splendid idea on a banner displayed in the McNamara defense parade at Portland. Ore. I.

read: Was it Dynamite or Gas? A Little Gas Bums" Taft announced that his trip to the west was for the purpose of educating the people. He has not given them a single idea, but it is thought the president himself has learned something. James J. the railroad magnate, has uttered fur her wisdom. He says, "if the people wou dn't ta so much about conditions business might he better." That's.

true. If the people were not aware that they were robbed the robbers could, go ahead without any. interference. Wipe spread agitaion for a tiniver-sal eight hour day is in progress and demonstra'ion will begin on May 1st, lyii, the Universal Labor Day. It is.

a move in the interest of labor and also in the interest of Socialist agnation and should mee: with the hearty co-operation of all workers. Debs' Meetings The Debs meetings the past tveek hart all been up to contract, financially, and ar more than our expectations. fa as lnteret and enthusiasm was contented. We consider that at Clarksburg. W.

Va another record-breaking tueeliug was held, r'or a town that size we bare never bad so ltue a meeting, or one conducted any more (-ystcmatic Two thousand tickers were settled for which broticbt the office for the subciiptions $375 and not count nz the sale af reserved seats, if there were any, netted the local $100. Debs Dates for October 2S, Mr. 8 p. Hiawatha park th-at-r. 29, Akron.

3 p. Colonial theater. 31, Canal Dover, O-, s.15 p. Big Four opera bouse. DATES rOB XOVtMBtR.

1. E. Liverpool. 8 p. mM Ceramic thea.

2, 8 p. tSorg's O. II. 8t Marys. 8 p.

Grand opera bse. 4, Dayton. 0 8 p. Memorial bat. 5, Cblllicothe, 2.30 p.

Maonlc opera bouse. 6, Hamilton, 8 p. Coliseum. The law cf gravity has been repealed by capitalism. It is big capitalists that go to the top.

The Telegram of Elyria. N. signalized Debs speech in that ty by a labored editorial in which he says thai Socialists are weaklings and that the capita ists are the men who do things. While it is true that the capitalists "do" things, the Social's are not so weak but that they are ge ting these came capitalists very badly worried. How is it with you, Mr.

Telegram? The Boy Scout movement is spreading even to Australia. Over 80,000 are members of the organization there. Service is compulsory there and there is no pretense but what it is a military move. Over 70,000 exemptions have been granted to sons 1 of the wealthy. You see it is after all a mere training school for murder, and none but the working class are able to do even that class of work.

Miss Phoebe famous as a lawyer, is finding out the gratitude of the profit mongers. In consideration of championing the Cause of he brewers she has for years been allowed by them $350 per month. Suddenly, however, they ceased to pay her. and now she finds herse.f at an advanced age without any means of support. She ought to have known that it was nothing but the prospect of profits tha' caused them to employ her and as soon as her influence had waned because -of taking the part-of a ykious traffic she was dropped.

How to Boost the List You can help us without much effort on your part by Joining the Bundle Brigade. It rlsht bandy to have copies of the appeal that you can give to a neighbor. You want your own copy for tha family, and you dislika to part with it. But if. yon get four copies each week (and these four copies coet you lass than the average capitalist weekly) you can keep three of your neighbors supplied with reading matter during the long winter evenings.

We are making an especial effort to add to our list by persuading our friends to order regular weekly bundles. Here are the rates 4 copies per week for a year 1.00 8 copies per wek for a year 2.00 12 cop.es per wtek for a year 3.00 20 copies per week for a 5.00 :10 copies per week for a 7.50 40 copies per week for a year 10.00 Uow many can and wlU you distribute? Victim of the Courto The Aiteal an extra lwt week a page scry of a twenty-two year old boy who had been confined in the Wyandotte county, Kansas, jail for four months wi hout a preliminary hearing. The attention of ihr editor was called to his case by a paragraph in the Kansas City Times while on the train returning from Garden City. Kaiu, where he had been he ping to defend Oakford, of the Prolocutcr. He decided to stop in Kanos City and look up the reasons why thi boy had been confined in jail so long w.thout a trial.

He cal'ed on the boy in jail, who told him a simp story of his arrest and confinement for months in the ja I wi flout a trial. He found it the same eld story of the lawyers, working with the ful. knowledge, not th-actual co-operation of the coun officials. These lawyers hang around jaiij like vultures wai ing to ho up th prisoners for all thr money can raisii for defense after the prisoners have been thoroughly scared. Jacob S.

Detwiler an attorney at Kansas City, had agreed to defend the boy wiihout CAh in advance and wait for his fee when Casey could pay him. The Appeal got behind the case, and when theci jurlge bound Casey oer to court instructed the attorneys to take. habeas corpus proceedings. Such proceedings were had before Judt F. D.

Hutclungs of the district cour. Saturday, October t4. In rendernjc a decision the judge said: "I don', sre in the testimony on wh ch to hold this 30ung man. The prisoner is discharged." This is another victory for the Appeal's Legal Defeie League. The boy whose case we report wuu.d either now be in the Wyando county jail or on his way to the penitentiary at Lansing had not the facts reached the public The Appeal hopes to see the time when the Legal Defense League will spread to every c'ty and become a power before which corrupt judges and grafting proseca.ing a.torneys wul tremble.

We instructed our attorney to bring mit against the county in Casey's behalf for fa se arrest it there were an grounds for such suit. Th following letter was received in reply thereto from Casey's attorney Kansas City. Kuu 0 t. 1 1011. ify )iir Brother Wen-err Ihnnk vou tor the chck for IV making si total of $5 which yju burr paid 'Mr.

Caey: shall bave credit for it. This" crtanl' jtvk1 yon. in fnklnu hld Casy. I 11.i so, an I have.donij maoy thtips lfii-. simply -t help a poor cic II out ot 1 I i roti Me, and l-ecaue I hint -nocent, sr.d not In th hpe goitin fee nionry lut a hotter and higber reward.

Casey's proud plrlt wan nor l-iok'i by liti month of ti hi 4 heart wss lillrtd with bitterness Knlnt everybody, his church on. th lI, and especially the r.fli-er of ih law. for th way he bud tieald. I fevl, with Cusey. tt.at once iho hitid tlif n'-tii-intf uflWr I upon a man.

th lejtal flctlu that "every mm Is presumed i ln-iii cent until proven 'gulity," Is rvrs arnt the condemns him. and ojuts blm a criminal loucb as If be had bad hU trial and tn-tn convicted. In other words The public maks no distinction hetweon the accused and the convict. It is sucu treatment as this man has rzcMvM st the bands of our law eafor Ing oDIc-sls. that makes criminals of lionet men.

and Casey, to all purposes alu his arrest bas been, la now. and obably for all ta test oi Ufe will be. a criminal In th public rye, It is known that be ba4 done tiai. and his photOKrar adorns th page bupi ti In all probability, and al-tb'jusb clatd by a judge of sll suspicion gnijt. still th offlcars ft the law will and insist that he 1 a criminal.

Inst the same, and I lo-jk for them to follow, and annoy and haruss him, uctll thy find in some wrongdoing: an lofied, tbs msn vrbo out of fall Into frdoin, must walk stralrhiep tban you or I. for he Is directly undr th eya of tha vigilant law, and th plain clothes policeman takes an erperfal prld In brlnrlug In su'h a man fo- the doubts purpose of punishing violations of tbe law. and to ahow that tfci jifdg mad a mistake when be to man free vindication of tbe pollcs. There is co recourse on th stats ner the city, nor tbe county. V' bave a well-meaning chief police her who la ovr-7alou in running criminals to cover; jumped at thi conclusion tbat Casey wss of course guilty, and h.

I think, is most! to b'ame for tbe illegal arrest; but tbr would be no recourse on bloo unless you coild establish a conspiracy and he ovm of the couspirators you have ecours oa the complaining witness for swearlnz out tbe complaint, perhaps, but mv opinion 1 that did what he was told by th officers to do, and had no malice. It all ro-nea about, to my nalnd, because of th tack of knowledge and edticat 00 alone th ln of duty devolving upon our offlcr. fal nss la the discharge of tbat duty, and, a sclnsb os're to excel or succeed at all harards rather tban rlht. and Ao tizht or admit a wron. Yours truly.

Jacob 8. Ditiu- BT J. A- WATLAT. WINTER evenings are coming on. In every town and city five or six Socialists should ge.

together, at one of their homes agree upon some methods and each pledge himself to get three or four of his neighbors to his home one evening in the week to read and discuss economic subjects. Persisted in, by spring able corps of well posted Socalis-s, able to meet a.l comers, will be the result "Who would be free must first strike the blow." ABOUT one-fourth of the wages paid laboring people go for house rent In other the working people work two and one-half hours every day tor the landlord. They are not one-fourth slave: to him Oh, no! THE rulers of this land have no objection to the red flag when used to sell men's property under the hammer for the usurer's benefit It is only when an emblem of opposition to the king, nobles or millionaires that the thing needs suppression. THE signs of prosperity on the sky are presaged by "assignment." "trustee's sale," "slaughter of bankrupt stock," "raise the price of iron, glass, and other trust control ed goods." Like 'em? Then vote for the old tickets some more. WHEN a nation bonds itself to another nation it ia no longer free, is ic? Would a nation or an individual bond themselves to another if could avoid it? No man in bondage is free, nor is any nation in bondage free.

The United States is not a free nation. IF the capitalists of this or any other land, made the earth I cou see why they owned i If they made the houses and machinery I could see why they own them. But as God made the earth, and laboring peop made the other things mentioned, I cannot see any equ.ty in any other ownership than in them. It is really hard 10 believe that capitalists have persuaded ah the producers of wealth that they, not the makers, should be entitled to them. THE best way, the surest way, to get a crop out of a farm is not to farm but to own the railroads.

The proportion of wheat that goes to the Gould estate in consequence of its owning the rai. roads is more than 100,000 farmers and 100.000 farms produce. See how slick it is to raisei wheat while oiling about fashionable resorts or yacht-racing in Europe? The people would be ruined if they owned the rai. roads and kept the millionaires from working so hard and getting such poor pay! SEE that mansion over there? What has the occupant made and given to the many people who built and equipped his elegant home? He paid them money? Yes, but what did he make and give for his money? Now chase it back as fr is you will and you will in' a most every instance that he! always got it from somebody else, stage did he make and give an equivalent. Just how the hocus pocus game is played will be explained to you if you will read one book on Socialism ihe science of the social structure.

The White Ribbon, published a Raoid City, S. takes the Appeal to tak because il opposes the Boy Scout movement This hypocritical Christ'an and temperance paper pretends that the Bo Scout movement is merely in the in er-est of the development of the boys. It ignores the fact that it was suggest and organized by military people and that it has already been used in the m-terest of strike breaking. It gnores th: fact that it is armed by the United States and trained in military tactics. There is no danger of a foreign war and there can be no purpose behind the Bov Scout movement except to train irresponsible boys in'6 shooting -down the workers when they come to demanding their rights.

It i bad enough hat such an organization shou exist, but that people and papers pretend ng to be Christian should defend this movement is an insult to the Prince of Peace whom they profess to serve. 9 1 wtfCJ in-rnx Like magic comes the repl'es to queries propounded by opponents of Soda ism when you have a copy of the Appeal Arsenal of Facts in your mside pocket Nothing, like this l't'le book has ever appeared- in print before. Nearly 40000 copies are in circula ion. each copy doing splendid service in our common cause. New editions are printed from faime to time, containing the very latest and best information we can get hold of.

We have searched the world's best literature and called to our aid the best statiticians in preparing the Arsenal. And here it is bound in fine leather, printed on tough thin paper and just the right size to slip ipto the vest pocket Every agita'or should be equipped. It comes prepaid to your address 4 for 12 forty-week subscriptions at 25 cents each. Or you may buy 12 40-week sub cards or join the bundle brigade by ordering 12 copies of the Appeal for one year; Any one of these three propaganda bargains costs you $3. And it is the biggest value, every famtrd out by a Socialist paper.

1 USE fraternal greetings and cheer to the i v-amornia comruc. icjui the splendid victory for political democracy, represented by the adoption of woman suffrage, the initiative and referendum and the right to recall elected officials. "This great measure is in large measure due to the organized efforts of the Socialist party, and we rejoice that where the Socialist party is strongest and most active, as for example in Los Angeles, and in the farming and mining districts, the vote for woman's suffrage most heavy. We hail this as a happy augury and call upon all comrades in the state to strive with renewed energy to carry on the fight and thus use the newly acquired powers of political democracy to establish industrial democracy the rule of the working class, the Co-operative Commonwealth." The farseeing Socialist recognizes in the recent victory in California an advantage in the McNamara battle that cannot be overcome by hostile judges, prejudiced juries, high-priced lawyers and all the millions of the steel trust. Wisely used the political power which the recall of the judiciary places in the hands of the working class will save the lives of the champions of the toilers now on trial.

That they will be convicted is the opinion of the Appeal. It was our opinion at the beginning of the unlawful conspiracy. We have had no reason to change that opinion. We hope we are mistaken, and the Appeal will certainly rejoice if it is proven a poor prophet. But with this opinion, and our utter lack of confidence in capitalist courts, the Appeal laid its plans along different lines than that of defense in the orthodox way.

The week after the structural iron workers officials had been "legally" kidnaped, the Appeal nailed to its masthead the slogan: "Carry California for Socialism." Around this standard the Socialists of the United States rallied almost to a man. In all my experience in the Socialist movement I never witnessed such enthusiasm. This fight centered around the adoption of the three important amendments to the California consti ration recently adopted by overwhelming majorities the recall (including the judiciary) leading by a vote of three to one. And this in face of the intense hostility and opposition of Taft and all the forces of reaction. Let us not lose sight of the fact that it is the members of the supreme court of California who will have the final say in the McNamara case in the event of a conviction.

And this court, be it remembered, is owned body and soul by the Southern Pacific railroad and the interests back of Otis and the steel trust. With the recall now a part of the constitution of the state we announce again the bold determination of the Socialists of California to recall these misrepresentatives of the people and place men on the bench who will be guided by the facts and the evidence and who will have the interests of working classes at heart. The next battle will be the municipal lection in Los Angeles. This contest is being waged on strict class lines, and the indications are that Job Hcrriman the Socialist candi date, vill be elected mayor in December! This will be followed by sue cessful municipal campaigns all over the state and the fight carried into the presidential and congressional campaigns next year. Every political victory makes the working class stronger industrially.

Inch by inch the working class is gaining ground and the encouraging and hopeful fact is that we do not have to wait for complete political power before capi.alism capitulates. Capital is timid oh. so timid-except when it can persuade the wcrking to fight its battles. These political vie tories for the toilers is a fair warning that the class will have to fight its own battles and when that pregnant fact dawns on the Wall street gang, they will haul down the black flag and surrender on working class terms! On with the revolution! That excellent Socalist magazine of cartoons, Hope, published by Ward Savage at Chicago. having its with the posta department.

In some cases a magazine was two weeks on the road, where it should have carried two days. Perhaps this is due to the slow freight method that the government has adopted, the freight being merely an excuse of delaying Socialist mail in the hope that people. would become disgusted and quit patronizing So-. calit papers. It is sot iixly to work.

Justice Harlan is dead. He is the one supreme court judge who proteste-l against the ot reason" dec $ion of the rest of the bench show. W.th the passing of this one man who made a pretense of now and then favoring the worker before the supreme court, Taf will have opportunity to appo.nt ano her corporation lawyer to the bench, thus packing the court with five ou of the nine judges since he hs been president. It means that the recall propos tion is going to gain in favor on ah tides. The Taft tour of the Pac'fic coast in spite of all that the papers have said about it.

has been a decided ros'. The day before he reached California the state adopted the ini iative, referendum and recall, as if to administer a rect s.ap to the president for h-s ve of the recall measure propo ed by Arizona. Taft was met everywhere by the cap-i alists, who pretended a measure of enthusiasm which they did no feel, but the workers themselves whi treat.ng him with respect due to his office, showed not the least enthusiasm in his behalf. Many clippings from capitalist papers are being sent to the Appeal con aining favorable comments of Soc.alism. The Appeal is glad to get them and glad to know that editors all over the country are experiencing the awakening tha is stirring the world.

But the agi ation comes, not from reprinting these things in the Appeal, which has new mat er which needs exploita' ion. but from having them printed in localities and by papers that are not Socia ist Encourage these editors by commending them for giving Socialism a favorable hearing. Protest meetings and resolutions are right, but they ehoqld be repor ed to local papers and not to the Appeal. Th? Appeal is crowded for space and these local matters have very 'ittle in erest to the general pub'ic but they are of supreme interest. local -y.

If pr'n ed local paper they will at'ract many, read ers that cannot be reached by the Appeal. Everybody knows wher Soc alists s'and, but we want non Soc alist' to know where they stand. Therefore, the thing to do is to break into oeal papers with all 'he Socialist news possi ble. and whenever is attacked to pub'ish a defense, brief and courteous, in the local raer, not some Socialist journal- Trrre an opportunity for many young people to develop ability to write in thi way tha will make 'hem usefu in the future an eive them prestige when the time comes when Socialists will win at the polls, i By the time you read these lints the press will be grinding out the big Social' ists at Work edition. Some big orders are already in, and small one are coming in a steady stream.

We are making a complete review of the Socia ist movement of the world giving mention to each nation. Don't overlook the fact 'hat this issue will furnish you the opportunity to set before your neighbors "SOCIALISTS AT The State university of Florida through its board of control has torced the resignation of Prof. A. W. Calhoun from the chair of history.

Prof. Calhoun is a Soda 1st and his resigna ion was demanded for that specific reason. He was given the alternative of abandoning his views on the subject or surrendering his job. He rep ied to the board that he would ra her give up his position than sacr.fice his Social'sm, so he resigned. The leading democraJc papers of the ate bad for month been making assaults on him.

and hey finally got his scaip. One of his ex-pupils, a lady, has this to say of him in the Taliahasse True Democrat 1 Dear Editor Your paper, rcntaicinar the article in reference to Tret. Calhoun reaches me. I eappoe yon think U' le etrucUon of all sorernntental authority end that he is as violent as a Russian Cut you are wrong. Yci a fto wrong it is pitiful.

In lb firt place, Mr. Calhoun is one of the roost highly educated men I have ever known, and what is ln-iiuit'y more, ha is one ot the best teach ers I have known. have botn a pupil of Mr. Calbotm and ie ner- taught me any- more- anarachjstic tban this: Educate the tjnoraat. punili id, vicious with bcter the condition of slum claM and vtbe people of the tenements and sweatshops.

His teachings were always constructive, not de-fetructive. Now be may heiiere in a number cf things, dreadful, aua.wfcistic' things, but take It fiom me. a pupil of bis. be never taught any doctrine wbloh "if they prevailed would cause the overthrow and destruction of our social fabric and our governmental This I do know. lie believe In anything which will he the-poor He is.

an ardent advocate of prohibition and believes In woman suffrage, as do Dr. Con-radi, Mr. McNeill aud a number of otber lueu in the faculty. And certainly Mr. Calhoun's record a b.amelees one.

I think the whole thins can be summed up in these few words He relieves and practices an applied Christianity. All his political teachings were a repetition of ib teachings of Christ lore thy neighbors as thyself, do food unto all men and on. I have enjoyed many a itenslttiul discussion with Mr. Calhoun we met In the classroom three times a wee and in the dinn? room three times a day and I soon learned that his religion and his politics were practically one. And be Is the most devout Christian on the faculty.

The True Democrat what a name for a democratic paper. If 'here is any spot on the national map where democracy is a joke it is in the territory covered by his Tal ahassee sheet. Very democra ic, isn't it to fire a conl-petent teacher from a state ins itution simpiy because he is not a democrat? If Prof. Cahoun had been will.ng to teach that all wisdom is bound up in 1 he democratic party, and that wha the country needs is a ruling class and only the members of educa.ed, the editor of the True Democrat would have lauded him to the skies. Prof.

Calhoun's crime consisted of believing in the education of he masses, and the right of the women to vote. Sure.y this is true democracy. His character is above reproach. He is an ardent Chris ian, a loyal citizen loyal in every th ng that makes for pub'ic good. Calhoun committed the crime of not being a party democrat and for tha he was fired.

Some day the working class and the "cracker" farmers of Florida will rebels against the political oligarchy that rules he state It is for this down and out ass and because of loyalty to their in erests that Caihoun resigned rather than give up his espousal of their political cause. We sincerely hope that these will see to it that he will get a larger field for his teaching out on the platform where he can speak his mind freely. Someoxx called the attention of the publisher of the Los Angele Times to the report that Otis automobile was equipped wi a cannon. To this ''n-quiry A. L- Dennis, manager of circulation, rep'ied: "'General Otis has never had a machine gun on any of his automobiles, and as far as know never will.

The article which you probably saw on one of his madrnes was simply a large brass tube, machined to represent an o'd fashioned cannon, but it is dummy mounted on the hood of the machine as an ornament only." That is his version 01 it He admits that the cannon is there. In the meatime, union workers had better not get in front of that ts3S3y, placed far We are often accused of being free lovers while the facts are that the present capitalist system is producing what these objectors have in their minds as free love. What they mean is free lust, but being too ignorant or dishonest to use the right words, they use love where they infer lust. We live under a system of sex lust the four hundred thousand public women is ample proof. And the unnumbered thousands of un-for unate women who do not become public, must also be charged up to the present system and its votaries.

Just why the giving of men and women workers the full value of the products will make them more indecent or immoral, is not clear. When women receive as much for the same labor as men. and when they will not have to pay any man or set of men any interest, rent or profit, that they wi.l hrow their bodies on the market, is too absurd for anything. Women are driven by poverty today to sell themselves. To give them a greater income for industry would certainly make them more in dependent and thus save such from a life of shame.

Those who accuse Socialists of being free lusters are those whose private lives would not look weil in print There will be no woman so poor under Socialism that any man will be rich enough to buy her. There will be no prostitution when we have economic justice. We have prostitution now because we have economic injustice because we have a rule by republicans and democrats. Their sys em now produces free lust realism would abo ish it by making conditions under which it could not flourish. MAKING SOCIALIST LAWYERS.

Enquiries are pouring into Comrade Sheppard's office at Ft Sco't Kan, by the hundred asking for information regarding the Appeal's law course. The starting of this course is time'y. We need a corps of tra'ned Socialist lawyers, persons educated in he aw wi hout any reverence for either it or the courts hat interpret it Our court prac ice is abominable. The lawyers have control and they use the courts merely as a private graft Justice wiJi them is a joke. There is no way to get access to a court except through a lawyer and these fellows stick together like the members" of a trust There is great popular distrust of courts and lawyers, but as there is no way to get any legal bus'ness done except through at orneys the people are forced patronize them As we build the Socialist movement the law is the na ural and only channel of approach.

We must create a new brand of lawyers, one that can approach the court wiih contempt for its methods and no regard for its nrusy precedents. It requires no great brain to be a lawyer. If it did about two-th rds of the lawyers would be out of business. The typica' lawyer has deve o-ed craft and cunning more than real int 1-lect The Socialist who has mastered economies can master capi alist law. There ought to be persons every com-rrrunfty reached by the Appeal who can take this course and qualify.

Study af er working hours will do it Where two or more in one place take the course local study c'asses may be organized for mutual prompting and he'p A to Appeal Legal Department Ft Scott. Karw will bring you a handsome catalogue and full information. That wh'ch will prevent the Socialist party from being side-tracked by schemers and self-seekers is the urge of an aroused working class behmd an impulse that is not going to be turned aside for or by anything, A postal clerk calls attention to the fraud that is worked in registered mail. Unless you ask for a return card when you mail a registered piece you will not get a receipt back from party to whom you sent he letter or package. In that case no separa record is made of each piece in exchange by mai.

clerks and there is no way of tracing the article in question. Holidays are and many packages wid be sent by registered mail. Everybody supposes that government when paid to register mail real.y does so. But it does nothing of the kind under the admin-is ration of Hitchcock unless asked to do so, although it may be paid for the work. The petition gotten up by the wo man's committee of the Socialist party for woman suffrage is being w.de.y circulated.

In San Francisco alone several hundred copies are being passed around. Other ci ies and sta es are tak ing hold of the matter and the next congress will receive more petitions igned by more persons asking for wo man's suffrage than have come before ii on any other proposition. The petition should be circulated in every sec tion of the Uni ed bta'es in order to show the attitude of the Socialist party in the matter. Write Caro ine A. Lowe, gcrsral correspondent of he woman's committee, 205 -West Wash-ngton St, Chicago.

1 It is an open secret in San Francisco that a company has been formed for the purpose of importing Chinese m'o he United Sta' es and it is rumored that they have already chartered over twenty steamships, each capable of carrying 1,000 passengers at a time. The Chinese will enter America as tourists, students and merchants. Many of the touris's will be women Chi diren born in this country will be naive Americans and cannot- be sent back. Some of the women, will be sold as slaves. The company is organized for purpose? of profit only and wi 1 no doubt have a strong influence in the labor problem of the Pacific coast, if not the whole United States, within the next few years.

GEMS FROM DEBS. From recent speeches. Socia'ism is a science. Socia'ism is -industrial democracy. The old parties ask you to vote, not to think.

A Socialist is a crusader. He must educate his class. If co-operation is good for capital it is also good for the worker. You make an automcbile. but never nde in it except on election day.

If Carnegie had to dig coal you would never hear of a mine explosion. Socia'ism is the movement of the present It is the method of the future. A Socialist knows why he a Socialist, but you don't 4cnow why yoo are not Anyone can drift with the tide, but it takes a man to stand with the minority. The capitalist produces nothing and you get "it." You produce everything and they get "it" With Socialism exploiters will work for what he gets and the worker will get what he works for. -The McNamaras persecution is the work of the steel trust because McNamara is at the head ol the union Morgan voffed to crush.

Uxtra! Uxtra! Dvuarmre bomb found on rai'road track asead of the presidential train! Put there by Burnt men. probably, in order to rrejudice thn nub'12 in the McNamara tr al as Taft was approaching Los Angeles. Thty are such great jokers. exartly what the Socialists are doing to chanje cottditioits the whole wor'd over. The Socialist program will be given plain and readable form.

The non-Socialist wi'l be able to undcrstmd exactly what the Socia ists want and how ihev propose to get it. Every local sh distribute them, and where there is no local the Army should order bundles enough to go around. WORK" EDITION SO Cents per Hundred, $5 per Thousand Appeal Reason, Girard, Kama: You may enter my order for copi of the "Socialists at Work" edition, for which I enclose herewith AMP, STREET- TOWN. tJ..