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Cirard, Kansas, U. i5. November 9, 19011 II 111 II on your isoei joui muatriynui caiac Uo 0 with. the next number. SOCIALISM is an ideal state of society-perfect in its adjustmentjust in its perfection mity and loss butnojt an individual oss, except as people werekilled, pr maimed and suffered.

The nation would at once put the peo joy such pleasures. The same would be true of, the bottoms float on the waves and rivers and lakes. When business for profit has UNDER SOCIALISM there will be no time for idleness but plenty for leisure and plenty of entertainment for that leisure. done under conditions and relations thatvWill make it a real pleasure if possible and it is possible to do it. Some employers today have ple into as good homes and.

shops elsewhere as they had, and none would feel any financial loss or worry- UNDER SOCIALISM there will be no mate- hift houses for Uvinr or industry. The na'tion is aDle to erect the best and the people wm OWIl tnem. And there will be no working th crude or obsolete machinery, for it will be to the interest of all that each worker shall be supplied with the best appliances that has been discovered. UNDER SOCIALISM there will be less chang ing of locations by the people. One place will be just as good as another, so far as oppor- travel as much as they desire, or can change locations for health or other reasons, but the incentive of bettering one's self financially vviu not be.

a factor in sueh moves. to this country except by invitation of the whole people or a majority of them. As all industries would be owned and operated by the whole people, they could find no place to apply their labor except by the consent, of the owners the whole people. The Chinese ami rinp miAcf ion wnnlfl Ve settied bv So- 'x SOCIALISM WOULD simplify all human transactions. Everybody would know what they were to receive, would know the cost of what they had to buy, would get just what they asked for without adulteration, or decep tion, and would not have any reason for lack ing confidence in humanity.

The present sys tem is so complex that nobody knows all about it. UNDER SOCIALISM a crop failure in part of the country will not be the ruin of the people living there. It will be borne by all the nation and the burden will be light. Men working in the famine districts will receive the same reward that those do in the favored districts. The loss will be national not in dividual.

UNDER SOCIALISM excursions by rail and water will be going all the time and the peo pie will have time and means to enjoy them, We have the people and the material to make and operate them and, why not enjoy what we are able to Haver insteaa 01 aomg useless and narmiul things the people will- De put tp making pleasurable things for --t- rrr-r 4 -r to-i r. i 1 -ff UflWJiU ouuiUUDiU wnen any ueparimeui ui iuuaiiJ( muvU11 fciT purpose, the whole genius 01 the nation win be invited to the matter. Sdme of them will -I -I -I -I J. 1 T7 1, oe ame 10 uiscover.iue iueiuuu. rui which nation will honor him, as it honors a iiincom or a Dewey.

That will be greater pay than money can give. UNDER SOCIALISM telephones would be free. As every house would have one, it would be a waste of labor to keep books and ac counts for so small a matter. Each would pay the same sum, no matter how paid, so the cost of operating would be equalized by the adding of a fraction of a per cent to the time price of some public utility, the same as the schools would be supported. UNDER SOCIALISM there isho reason why the people should not have fresh vegetables and fruit all the year round.

The people would own the transportation and we have climates J. it. i- 5 4 r.r SOCIALISM will give to every willing worker more than $3,000 in wealth a year for sun eight hour day. SOCIALISM will free men industrially ts they have been freed politically. They will have only themselves for masters.

S0CLALISM is not the demand of the ignor ant and brutalized, but of the intelligent and thinking men and women of the world. SOCLLISM is the paradise to which the human family have been aspiring since men first gathered together for helpfulness. SOCIALISM will give men and women -the best machines to produce with and not have them waste their energies with poor appli ances. SOCIALISM will produce harmony among all people by eliminating competition and mak ing all interests mutual, like partners in a business. SOCIALISM has been the dream of the poets, artists and seers of all ages.

It is the "Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men" that has been promised. SOCIALISM will produce the BrotheThood of Man by making all men interested equally in the same things, flicting interests. There will be no con- SOCIALISM will elevate men and women to higher standards than has yet been seen on the earth, for their surroundings will be the highest conceived by men. SOCIALISM will be a great monopoly, but all the people will be in it. Monopolies being a good thing for those in them, it follows that it will be good for all the people to -have an equal interest in them.

S0CLA.LISM has faith In man. It does not. believe he is by nature depraved. Every man has some good in him if it can be developed. Make his surroundings good and beautiful and true and he will be good and beautiful and true.

SOCIALISM will fill the earth with gladness which will give even the present rich more joy without personal than all their wealth now gives them. The rich accept Socialism as weir as the poor as soon as they comprehend it. S0CLLISM is the co-operation or partnership of, all the people in. the production and distribution of all the things that go to elevate and happify mankind. Each will get his part as he helps to produce, with no subtraction for interest, rent or profit.

SOCIALISM will do away with all the uncertainty and worry about the good things of life. The mind will be perfectly free as the little child's Is free from such worries. Witlt the ability to produce and store the needs of life and enjoyments, our lives SHOULD be as free and blithe as the birds. It will be under Socialism. There are only two social systems of society.

One is based on the private ownership of land, machinery and exchange the other on the public ownership of land, machinery and exchange. It must be one way or the other. The people of the earth have followed private ownership, and the record is one of crime, usurpation and oppression. Let's try the other one the one of the poets, seers anf. philosophers.

A thousand pleasures that now do not exist will offer themselves to every human bcinj; under Socialism. There will be parks anr drives and games and plays and concerts arc" lectures and sermons for everyone free the air and available for all. Life would he a pleasure and never a misery, as it is in the case of millions today, many of whom suicide to of its agony. The Socialist believes that environment moulds our lives more than anything else, Surrounded by beauty and justice apd helpfulness men'will not be ugly, unjust and shiftless. We believe this for the reason that wi throw around our children all the good influences we can.

Men and women are affected the same as children by good surroundings. Socialists believe that laws have to do will-the weal or woe of the people, else the corporations would not employ lobbies and bribe for, laws that they know will help them at the expense of the public. If laws can hclj corporations laws can help the people. There would be no child labor under Socialism, for all children would be kept in school until they had graduated and been trainesl in some useful vocation. The adult could make all the wealth that could be con sumcd in less than eight hours a day.

Only those who do not understand Socialism oppose it. Even the meanest men to it the same as any other once they comprehend it. Like Saul, they will get a change cl heart or mind. There can be no poverty under Social! except voluntary poverty. -jpeles3 men become anarchists; hep become Socialists.

made' very pleasant conditions of labor, but what they have done is nothing to what can be done when the people build for themselves, with no element of profit being in the way. UNDER SOCIALISM congress will be com posed of representatives from each industrial department of the nation. There will be no politics in their action, for all their acts will be concerning the" operation of the national industries and all will be subject to the revision, rejection or approval of their constitu ents. There will be no large private interests to employ a lobby to bribe them. The men who now sell out the people to the corpora tions will, under the Socialist environment, serve the people with their highest ability.

There will.be no "business" under Socialism. It will be abolished. There will be vocations only. There will be no wrangling about trade any more than there is about competing for the sale of postage stamps. Great stores owned and operated by.

the people will be con veniently located, will bo as stable in' price as postage.no clerk will have any interest in your, buying or in deceiving you, and the system of distribution will not employ more than one-fifth the present number of people, except by shortening the hours. The resf will be offered employment at the same rewards in other vocations many of which will be greatly increased, the department of creat ing pleasures for the people; for instance. There are sixteen thousand grain mills in this country, or one to each 5,000 people. Under Socialism there would not be likely more than a hundred, each supplied with the best appliances, located in the best localities for power and distribution, with relation to the grain districts. Such mills would not take more than one-tenth the number of peo ple that are now required to make the breadr stuffs, and the rest could be put at lightening the load in other necessary departments.

Such combination would throw no one out of employment under Socialism. Many of the occupations now followed by men will disappear under Socialism. All the soldiers and war sailors, all the lawyers, all the speculators, most of the preachers, all the real estate men, all these engaged in advertising in any of its branches, all those engaged in adulterating goods, all the promoters of trusts, all bankers and those who live by interest or rent will be given other vocations that will produce something that will be useful to man kind. Those vocations will no longer be needed. That will add millions to the produc tive class.

Actors under Socialism will be watched for in the child and such as have a liking for it and show the ability will be carefully cultivated and trained. Such will develop real artists, and people will not follow the stage, half starved and dishonored, becaSse they have no other place to employ themselves and have no aptitude for the play, as it is now. Every body can do something well, and they should be given a chance to prove what that some thing is, and have them follow it. Men do best what they like best. Three hours labor now under the best condi tions with the best machinery will produce a barrel of flour, including the raising of the wheat.

Under Socialism with greater com bination this could be lessened. Who could steal a barrel of flour with as litttle as three hours time, even if there no punishment? When one can get wealth cheaper (with less effort) honestly than dishonestly, who would be fool enough to steal? The financial strain that drives men mad will disappear under Socialism. There will be only competition for the honors of the people for inventing and suggesting things that will give them more Pet ce, Plenty and Pleasure. To apply one's self to seeing how much one could accumulate would be considered insane, as it really is. There will be no skimping and-saving and denying and doing without what is good under Socialism.

There will be enough for all who will do their share of the public work without turning one's self into a miser and hog. All will be rich under Socialism, buj not rich in the sense that they can make others do their share of the national labor. You will have all the capital of the nation you ean use to work with, but only those who work with it will get any results. The" attenon of all the peoples of the earth is being more and more attracted to Socialism It is the. rising sun of hope for a heaven on earth.

In every land it is the greatest topic of conversation. It is the coming social order. Life was not made to be a struggle from the cradle to the grave. Socialism will open the way. to make it easy to get the things and conditions that will make it a delight.

Nothing will be too good for each citizen to enjoy under. Socialism! Improvements will benefit all not a few' who possess wealth as it is now. All the good and proper things that you have longed for jail "your, lit realise ii rider I-- been done away the people will have the use of the public utilities for making life worth uvinjr. UNDER SOCIiVLISM one child canno matize another that it is that has not as good clothes, or that it cannot enjoy this, that or the other. Such things now embitter.

even if unexpressed, the lives of millions vf children. All children will have as good as any. Ability vill not depend on the wealth of irents to develop oppor yiity. Every child will have every opportunity that it can make use of. t.

UNDER SOCLLISM machinery will do the Work mostly that is now done by horses, which require so much work in caring for, so much work to raise the feed, so much of stables and building and harness. This will relieve many thousands from such labor to enter better employment. As now does the work of 5,400 teams in a day, so machinery will be applied to all things possible. Horses for pleasure will be retained. UNDER SOCIALISM houses would be built by the wholesale, as it were.

Evejy machine and appliance that would lessen the labor would be used. Under such conditions houses could be produced better than at present and for half or third of the labor. All people can then live in houses fit for homes. They will all be equally good and convenient and sani tary, though of different sizes and desigus. Then ill the earth become beautiful.

UNDER SOCIALISM crime will disappear, for no one will be able to gain anything, but lose, by every crime. There will be no incentive or crime. You know the first thing that the law looks for now, when crime is, discovered, is the incentive that led to it. Incentive is behind all crime. In almost every ins ice the incentive is money or property or disputes that grew out of them.

No conceivable crime would give any person property under Social ism. UNDER SOCIALISM no part of the national labor would be diverted to life and fire in The nation would guarantee every citizen against want by reason of accident or sickness. The children would be protected by their supply of food, clothing, shelter, instruction and entertainment. Who would have or could have "any better insurance? AH labor now wasted in the insurance business would become productire and the nation that Eueh richer in consequence. UNDER SOCIALISM every house will be sup plied with a NEWSpaper.

It will give all matters of interest to them as citizens. It will have no advertisements, for there will be no business" and skin games to advertise. There will not be a dozen papers printed in the same place to give the news. One paper can do it better and cheaper There will be no private interests to be served by having many papers duplicating the same work. System will re place anarchy and confusion.

5 UNDER SOCIALISM public questions would be simple. No private interests would be served by making them obscure or compli All public questions would be a mat ter of the seeing how many good things to please the people a given number of hours of labor could produce. There would be no money question, no tariff question, no imper ial question, mo anti-trust question, no labor capital question. None of these things could have a place in the public affairs. UNDER SOCLYLISM the farmers will live in the beautiful cities that the nation will build, and the farming will be done under scientific management.

department of farming will be specialized that the greatest results for the-labor employed may ensue. There will be no isolation of the farmers' families, no long hours and.no lack of enjoy ment or association, but they will live sur rounded by the same pleasant and good envir onment thaV other citizens enjoy. UNDER SOCIALISM the gold and silver mining will be done away with, except as the nation can work its richest mines and ex change to barbarians for coffee, sugar and other things that cannot be so cheaply gotten by the other surplus products of the nation, because the barbarians place so much value on the metals. We shall need none of it for our use, except in the" sciences. And there is more of it now than is needed for that de mand.

The large army now mining can be available for useful vocations. UNDER SOCIALISM the pleasure houses- theater, opera or lecture would be increased many fold and made much more attractive than they now are, for all the people would have abundant time and "means to attefid. These would take up hundreds of thousands of the people who would be no longer-needed in the abolished vocations. A large per cent of the people would be employed in the de partment of pleasure and entertainment. The world has not enough to accommodate one- fiftieth of the population now.

-UNDER SOCIALISM the factories, mill3 and places of employment will be made as beauti ul and pleasant as the skill of the architects and the capital of the nation can providt Labor is '-jbafl, eaqrji si bsst sn34t fionld.b UNDER SOCIALISM armies will be raised, equipped and drilled to produce wealth instead of destroying wealth and men. UNDEU SUUJAMbM me wm nare enougn physical work to keep in good health and enough pleasure to mate lire a cieiignt. UNDER SOCIALISM navies will be con- structed to carry people and exchange pro- ducts, instead of destroying people and destroying products. UNDER SOCIALISM every person will be full rf nntrintiRm for that means a love of a coun- try's institutions, and they will be good and Just and lovable. UNDER SOCIALISM everybody will love the flag, without any question, for it will mean the nation that loves protects the weak- nnd mrps tlipm nil the Treasures of life.

UNDER SOCIALISM a man who works at any vocation will be just as high socialty, beinjr fitted for such society, as any other worker in any other vocation. All will be useful workers. UNDER SOCIALISM there will be no cor- poraiions 10 unue unu uuhul i'uuuv; sciutc, 1 i I the public service and give pleasure to the whole people. UNDER SOCIALISM machinery and organization will take from the housewife nine- tenths of her labor. They will cease to be drudges and the servant girl question will be a thing of the past.

UNDER SOCIALISM everyone will have to do his or her share of the world's work if they Would enjoy the benefit of it. There can be none overworked or underworked. There will be neither slaves or masters. UNDER SOCIALISM every house will be heated with either natural or artificial gas, for it will be cleaner and more convenient, and produce three times the heat from the same coal that the burning of the coal will produce. UNDER SOCLVLISM every house will be sup- plied with hot and cold water, gas, electric light, bath, sewer and telephone.

The peo- T)le want these things and the people can have everjthing they want, if they do their share of 1-ihor UNDER SOCIALISM every great trait of men can be developed. Individuality can find ex- Dression. need die undeveloped tor lacK of opoortunitv to unfold their genius. A "thousand great men will develop where one I ,1 -l -r-r, UNDER SOCIALISM the waters of the great streams would be made into irrigating uses and no drouth could prevent the national har vest. AH the central states could afford to be placetl under irrigation and the saving of single harvest would pay the costs.

UNDER SOCIALISM men and women will Hot be driven to distraction by mental worry over business, property or disappointment, Every effort will produce for them its certain and proper reward. There will be no element of chance in any of the affairs of life. UNDER SOCIALISM there could be neither borrowing nor lending between individuals There could be neither usury nor deception, There would be no debtors nor creditors, cept ashe nation would hold trust for the Individuals all things until they needed them. UNDER SOCIALISM all the people engaged in useless or non-productive occupations will te put to productive employment ana me earth will have that much more wealth to consume. This will add immensely to the wealth each year over the present planless eystem.

TTATTVCT CfifT A TCXf 4V.a -H Tvitilrl cities of beauty and as the earth has never seen, and the people will leave the old dirty, unsanitary blotches on the earth and occupy homes fit for the sons of God. The old nightmares with and crime and porrow will pass away. they will have the means to travel or other o- the wealth the nation can consume. UNDER SOCIALISM there could be no cor nering and speculating on the necessities or 'pleasures of the people. The produced would belong to the whoje people until they were purchased by the individuals for consumption.

The price would be the same to all the time cost of the average production. UNDER SOCIALISM improvements will be adopted in every department whenever it is discovered. Old appliances will be thrown aside and new ones substituted when the new is wo rth the change. No one will be permit ted to waste their time working with crude ii, national loss to have tools. It would be a tLem do so.

UNDER SOCIi'ALISil the dostmction. of Ij hj fire cr flood would be a cali- I I I I I i I I will produce fresh vegetables all the time and somewhere. Enough for all can be produced. Only the rich can have such things now. We will all be rich under Socialism rich enough to buy anything in the market.

UNDER SOCIALISM shorter hours with a nil day's paywill induce volunteers in any department of the public service where the WOrk is hard or dangerous. But no danger will be incurred if any reasonable expense can make it safe. Men will risk their lives today for the public service. They will do it freer under Socialism for they will be more honored for the doing of such acts. UNDER SOCIALISM all the best talent for music that is discovered in the children will be carefully cultivated, for it will be considered id i-i -n i rm Horolnnmnflt.

1 hprp TftA lit LAU AUU. AAA WA A-VA. AAAAAAWA.W AA V. AAWMA UaC A a IUC Uti'ai fcUlVUU Wa. aaaUa'W A Va MiW WACAt3 UNDER SOCIALISM every child will have as good schooling as it will take, will have as good clothes as any other child, as good fbed, live in as good a house and have as good train ing for some useful vocation.

Socialism recognizes that the children of today will' be the men and women of tomorrow who will govern the nation and that no expense is too great to fit them for their station in life. i UNDER SOCIALISM the haulingof goods from one place to another and then back again would be done away with. Good3 would be shipped directly from place of production to place where needed for consumption. This would take away half or more of the running -i ox trams txiuv uuy ruut uuu uie ruuiu wuuiu ce freer to be used by many regular and excursion trains for the pleasure of tha people, for people hare tima and laeana to cn-.