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APPEAL TO REASON, GIRARD, KANSAS November 8, 1913 Clubs of four or more, 40 weeks, 25 Weekly, 50 Cents per Year Mending a World The average man today la ready to ad-fenit that tbe world needs Troe enough, but I can't do it alone, neither the fact that this old parties had imported a professional anti-Socialist agitator. All this fellcw succeeded ia doing was to crowd Evans auditorium where I spoke to its capacity. When the returns are in there will be some surprises in store for these fellows who have put up their good money for a lot of hot air labeled "Replies to Socialists." The Socia'ists enjoy the fight and welcome the controversy. We know no converts to capitalism can be made, and it does give us the ear of a good many people who we can't possibly get in any other way. So on with the dance the right to exploit womanhood.

They who are prosperous have to thank for their prosperity the misfortunes and sorrow of the workers. There is no other reason for it To merely return thanks that they are prosperous is hypocritical. The rich ought to be thankful for battleships and armies which enable them to secure graft and at the same time keep the workers in subjection. As for the workers, they have absolutely nothing to be thankful except that the world is beginning to realize that the toilers have been robbed throughout the centuries. It is in order, then, for them to be thankful that they have been robbed of ten times more than they possess.

Knowing this they may be thankful for the prospect of emancipation. These are some things to remember on November 27th, even though they are not mentioned in the proclamations of the president cr the governor. The "powers" refused to recognize the Chinese republic so long as a Socialist was at its head. Niw that Yuan Shi Kai has been elected president by the united houses of parliaments rather than by the people, and, to quote from the dispatch telling about it, "the foreign office had previously guaranteed that the new president would undertake to observe all the treaties and contracts made by the Manchu government (an empire) and to maintain the established customs," the so-called republic has been recognized by all the powers. In other words, the revolution in China has been nullified by a conspiracy of the powers urged on by capitalists, and the people have, been betrayed just as they were betrayed when the American constitution was adopted.

Capitalism lives by loot, and to assure itself of that will betray, assassinate as in Mexico, lie, or commit any crime on the calendar. GETTING READY FOR THE CHANGE The Pennsylvania Railroad company has, announced a billion-dollar bond issue covering its already over-loaded lines. The New York Central follows with a similar announcement- industrial enterprises will do likewise. The bankers will exchange the money of their depositors for these "gilt-edged" securities. The bankers will then take these securities to the treasury of the United States, when the new currency law is put in operation, and receive for them national bank notes.

The railroads will be operated in such utter disregard of human life and public service and convenience as to pay interest on these bonds to the bankers. The bankers will have in addition practically an equal amount of currency which will be used to buy up more industries. This game will be played until the public can no longer carry the burden. Then the railroads will bz offered to the government at a price covering the inflated stock and bond issues. It does not take a prophetic mind to see that the railroads are getting ready to unload their properties on the nation.

Government ownership is the sole remaining issue that will keep the old parties in power ard continue the game of exploitation. The people will "endorse this idea at the ballot box under the impression that it will afford them some relief. They will discover after the change is made that they are merely working to pay interest on londs place of dividends on stock. The corporation boss will still be the boss at Washington. There will be this very decided advantage, however, and so no one should be discouraged over the outlook Just as combination of industries has simplified our industrial life, so the taking over of these industries by the government will simplify our political system.

As I see it. the job ahead of the working class will be the capture of the political powers of government that owns and operates the industries. It will then be a very simple matter to re-Heve the bondholders of their income by using the taxing power of the nation. When you loan a man a copy of 'nson's "Tnith Alout Socialism" yon have the satisfaction of knowing that that is exactly what vou have sriven him the truth nlout Socialism. Book titles are often m'slead-inu.

but not so with Benson' lnok. the contents of which ko truly tits tbe title that any other title would a Th price of this srreat book is but if ordered through us we elve vou two -40-week subscription cards in addition to the book, all for a dollar. In tti' way the book only costs you 50 cents because you can easily sell the two cards. ALTHOUGH very little las 1 said in these columns in rr Ij to the souvenir edition cf 'r first issue of the little old still hundreds, yea thousands, of this fac simile copy have been mailed to members of the Appeal Army th 3 last few weeks. This souvenir is a faithful reproduction of Appeal No.

1. dated August 31, 1895, and is printed on good paper. I cannot express to you how highly I appreciate tho little paper," writes Comrade Allen Cook of Canton, Ohio. "It will find a place in my scrap-book among tho choicest gems." What can be a mors beautiful and inspiring memento for Socialists than to have a copy of the very first number of the greatest Socialist paper in the world. Its bold challenge for the abolition of wage slavery hurled at the capitalist clasi eighteen years ago thrills us with admiration at this day when one million voters now march under banner.

How daring and brave were the handful of Socialists of that day! It is to their pioneering work that our present standing is due. We owe it to them and to those who will come after us to keep our banner aloft. And what is more fitting than that he who is to receive this piiceless souvenir shall get five subscribers Socialist possibilities for the sane little old Appeal? This is what Comrade Cook did and all those who have received this memento. You can have one on the same condition, too. But this offer will be good only during November as our supply is limited.

This week the honors for the largest lists go to Comrade Edward Lowry, Chicago, with a batch of 32 40-week subscriptions and Comrade H. A. Todd of Bremerton, with 0 four-year subscriptions. All along the line comrades are rallying to the support of the Appeal. The recent victories are inspiring the members of the Appeal Army to greater efforts.

Each comrade should determine to give the Appeal a circulaton large enough to score the Big Victory the attainment of the Co-operative Commonwealth! A crf.at hall was recently held in S.n Francisco attended ly the fashionables of that and other nearby cities. The BARRED SOCIALIST BOOKS A man named Richards, a cheap John democratic, politician who is a member of the library board of Oklahoma, rushes into print and announces that he will bar all Socialist books from the public library of Oklahoma City. He says the library is patronized by boys and girls and that he is opposed to their reading books that teach free love and that minimize the importance of the marriage vows. Of the 5,000 volumes written by Socialists on economic and industrial problems, there are perhaps ten books in which the writers "express their views on questions entirely aside from those political issues upon which the Socialist philosophy is founded. When a man becomes a Socialist he does not give up his sacred right to express his opinion upon any question.

If Richards' rule of procedure were followed, the shelves of the public libra-rises would be swept clean of every book thereon. To begin with, it would be necessary for him to exclude the Bible. The Appeal recommends that the gentleman read the eleventh chapter of Second Samuel, in which is set forth the rape of Uriah's wife by King David and of the subsequent murder of Uriah by the despoiler of his home. Perhaps Richards will say that this story of David's immorality is proper literature for the boys and girls of the community to read! As a matter of fact, it is not what a few Socialists have written about what they believe to be the future state of the marriage relation that causes Mr. Richards so much concern.

It is the economic dynamite contained in Socialist books that he fears. Mr. Richards knows, and if he does not know he has no business on the library board of Oklahoma, that no Socialist can impress upon the Socialist party his own ideas about marriage without receiving the endorsement of a majority of the Socialists of the state and nation. Socialism is purely a political movement. Some of its seers have looked into the future and they have tried to see a very marked change in the material relationships of men and women.

The Socialists are not alone in writing on this subject. The daughter of Henry Clews, the banker and republican politician of New York, has written a book on this question in which she takes a very pronounced position for the abolition of the present marriage system. But we have heard of no member of the library board of Oklahoma insisting on cutting out of the library all books written by republicans! Consistency, thou art indeed a jewel rarely found among democratic and republican politicians! I AM FIRE I warm the world. I rule the kitchen, from which womanhood, with my aid, feeds the world. I release the spirit of steam that does prodigous work and draws great trains across the continent.

I melt the rock and release the metals. I weld and fuse beam and brace, making machinery and great buildings possible. Men, women and children seek my comfort, by night. Into the wood fires lovers and parents gaze tonight, seeing visions that are not found on earth. Before stove and grate a thousand arc gathered, and fire means to them comfort and happiness.

In great mills where flames roar and scorch, and red iron crawls like serpents, half naked men sweat and swelter. Stoking great vessels in the stifling hold, or firing furnaces on moving leviathans of flame men toil through the long night. Some sleep because others dare not sleep while serving me. Then, I destroy. In the stillness of the night there is the beating of bells, the noise of the engines, the hiss of water in the human caldron, the of great shadows amid the ilame and smoke.

I am fire man's servant and master, the comfort and the terror of the world. Jobless, Became Desperate. Adrew Joss, a carpenter, who had been out of work for six weeks, cut his throat in the vestibule of his home at No. 302 East Eighty-fourth street, says the New York Journal. He was taken in a an ambulance to the Harlem hospital, where it was said that he might live.

In his letter box in the vestibule he placed" this note to his wife: Dear Wife I could not endure it any longer. I decided to end it." Andrew 4 whole it is but a repetition, in different words, of the exposure of the Appeal made two years ago of another "model" federal prison that at Leavenworth, Kan. Sometime the world will awaken to the fact that the prison system capitalism employs for the purpose of hiding its victims is more criminal than the crime it affects to punish. The whipping of the slaves in other days was nothing to be compared to this modern inquisition. And in most cases, a few yards of well kept lawns are held up to the public as evidences of model conditions.

It is pure hypocrisy. Capitalism not only robs and kills the workers, it also tortures to death those who will not submit to it. and then hypocritically prates of its philanthropy and piety. It is time the horror was banished from the earth. AN ANTI-SOCIALIST'S PREDICAMENT Milwaukee.

Sept. '20th. Capt. Francis L. Borchardt.

aged year, a justice of the peace, well known In national guard circles throughout Wisconsin, today was sentenced to nine months imprisonment at the house of correction by Jutlcje I'aire of the district court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. When this dispatch appeared in the capitalist newspapers, I mmcdiatcly came to the conclusion that Captain Borchardt was not a Socialist. Why? because had he been a Socialist this fact would have been heralded in flaming headlines and pages would have been devoted to his misdeeds. To satisfy my curiosity, I had a Milwaukee comrade investigate the captain's record. This is what he found: Capt.

Francis J. Borchardt is a faithful member of the democratic party and a still more faithful member of the Catholic church. He was an avowed enemy of Socialism. Borchardt has been a member of the state militia the branch known in Milwaukee as the Kosciusko guards. He made himself thoroughly hated back in 1889 when he was in command of a squad that fired upon a group of strikers during the great iron moulders' strike in the Wisconsin metropolis.

One man was killed and several seriously hurt. Nothing was ever done to cither Borchardt or the militiamen under his command. Several attempts to enter political life have been almost uniformly unsuccessful, though he has been a justice of the peace for about fourteen years. He was a colonel on Governor Rush's staff for five years. lie was a member of the Wisconsin assembly for four years, due to the strength of the Polish vote, controlled largely by the Polish Catholic priests.

His attempt to win a nomination as district court judge in the last judicial elections when he had to appeal to the entire electorate of Milwaukee county resulted in a complete snow-under. Borchardt is now serving a nine month's sentence in the house of correction for enticing young girls into his office where he subjected them to revolting indignities. He was sent up in record time justice moved on ball bearings. He. was arrested at It a.

m. and at 4 p. m. he was "doing time in hoc" as they say. Borchardt was a well known orator in Milwaukee political campaigns.

His favorite "argument" against Socialism was that it was and destructive of the home and the famil-." Next week's issue is our special anti-military edition Order your bundle today, Dt RiNG" the year 1903. OOO.OOO men and women and children were killed and injured in the industries of the country. A very large percentage of these accidents are avoidable. The Socialist are not responsible for this murder of the innocent and helpless. DIVIDING UP LAND Has the Socialist party settled to Its atUfactlon that all land must owned by the governments And if o.

upon what terms and at what esoense can the man who desires to be a family man ut and obtain possession of a residence? How will desirable and undeiirable location, such as "Qualify Hill" and "Poverty Flat" be divided up amongst the faithful? In the first place the Socialists have never declared that all land must be owned by the government. They have, however, declared that, all land held for speculation must pass into public lands. The idea is not to stop the private possession of lands actually used by the holders thereof, but to break up landlordism and the holding of lands from use and raise in price. Whatever land would be socialized (and perhaps it would not be necessary to socialize a fourth of it) would in no sense be divided up. Anything that is socialized is not and cannot be divided.

The socialised land would be held in great bodies and farmer! by the whole people. This would remove all possibility of undesirable locations. The advantages of socialized farming is that it would admit of the use of land for what it was best fitted for and would obviate the allotting of poor land to poor people as it is at present. It also would admit of the use of the best machinery instead of the poor machinery that the individual is often forced to use today. Representative Bichaxav of Illinois has introduced in the house a bill amending the act creating the postal savings bank, and providing for a loan bureau in connection with the postal banks.

The Buchanan measure would empower counties, cities, villages, townships, school districts or any other public taxing body to borrow money deposited in the postal savings banks, for the construction of public works, at three per cent interest. This is a great deal better than compelling the municipal corporation to issue bonds and tie themselves up to banks and individuals. While it is not so good as the use of this money, up to a safe banking margin, directly by the government in constructing public works, without any interest whatever, still it sets precedent for the use of the money deposited with the government, and in that respect is a great advancement that may lead to other and better things. Did you ever reflect that the ballot originated as a means of averting war? It was discovered that battles were won by preponderance of numbers, and it was. therefore.

projosed that instead of fighting the victory be given to the largest army without battle. It saved life and secured the same result. The ballot today is merely a means of arbitrating differences. The majority rules, except as conflicting intercuts divide the armies into many bodies and enables a minority to rule. Wilson is a minority president.

Socialism proposes proportional representation, which will give minority parties representation and adjust affairs amicably. Census reports for 1910 give the population by states of males between IS and 44 jeers, which they term "the militia age." The total for the United States is This shows whether the military law does not reckon you as a soldier Uncle Sam has you down in his book. There was no enlistment, no contract about it. Capitalism cares not a whoop for "the sacred right of contract" when its own interests arc at stake. You are listed as a defender of the rights of capital as against your own rights as a worker and if you don't conic to time may be sent to the penitentiary or even shot, without civil trial.

The next time some Henry Ihibli asks you how oti are jroing to make the traiim. dunkard. and l.izy ieopl- work under No-Ha'ixm. ju-t hand him a coi.y of A iifAl.x Answers to Jnet lyntt" and lifm read It all throiiah rarefiiUy. It will Im-ppks him iiKnc to rid it than to you te! it: that's human nature you kn'iw.

Fifty copies of 1 hifc little teacher of Socialism only coat you a ikii jvu. Ill iuu l'tft juu lur juu aoiu alone: ercn to mend that part of the world as the United States we haro first to rzet a majority of the voters to help before we can even start on the job. Wblle It la pretty generally conceded that the world needs mending, there is as yet a wide disagreement as to how the mending shall be done. As Socialists we know that the world never can or will be mended by those who are now In possession of it tbe capitalists. The first step in mending tb world is to take it away from capitalism and vest its ownership in all the oeople.

The world and the fulness thereof belongs to all the people and when a majority understands this such majority will not le slow in taking their own and asserting their rights. Comrade Phifer points the way in his little book. "The Road to Socialism" and it should le widely circulated. Keep ever In mind that in order to win the world we must win a majority to our way of thinking. When we get a majority It won't fake long to mend the world.

You are needd In this work. Get In your order for .10 or KM) copies of "The Road to Socialism" and see that every rotor in your ward or precinct gets a copy. Klfty copies will only cost you a dollar and by placing them carefully you can probably reach two or three hundred people with them. Don't put this off. but sit down right now.

this minute, and write out your order for 0 copies of this great propaganda book. If you haven't got a dollar to Fpare yourself, bustle out and se some of tbe other comrades and make ihem "chio in." And while you are at it make it If you can and order 100 copes instead of 50. You'll find good use for them all. BRUTALITY IN CALIFORNIA Twenty or more men are charged with murder and are in danger of the gallows because they struck on the Durst hop ranch, near Wheatland, on August 3d. The grand jury refused to indict them and recommended tlreir discharge, hut they are still held, on the demand of the district attorney.

The strikers had protested aginst indecent and insanitary conditions, only six toilets being provided for 2,300 men, women and children. Water was prohibited on the hop fields because a relative of the proprietor had a lemonade concession, and it was charged he put acetic acid instead of lemons in the water. Tt appeared on oath that the Durst Brothers charged the workers 75 cents per week each for camp room, which for "four acres of sun baked flats" to quote from report of the state health inspector netted the millionaire proprietors $900 a week. When the strike began the proprietor sneered that so many nationalities could not hang together. In response he dismissed the leaders of the strike and then claimed that the strikers were an illegal body.

On August 3d, eleven armed men charged into a peaceful meeting of the strikers and began shooting and wounding the workers. Two workers and two deputies were killed and a dozen other workers were wounded. The charge of murder followed the forced battle. As indicating the brutality of the prosecution, the case of Henry Surr. a telegraph operator who reported the case, is noteworthy.

Surr was taken from Prescott, to Los Angeles, in a refrigerator car, being kept awake during the journey by Burns detectives. In Los Angeles also he was refused the right to sleep. Taken to Fresno, he was still forced to remain awake, being prodded with a gun every lime he sought to sleep. At Oakland he was kept awake day and night for four days, the entire time he was deprived of sleep being two full weeks. Finally, to buy a little repose he signed a- paper that was thrust in his hand, which proved to be a confession.

When he awakened he repudiated it. and almost immediately became insane because of the outrages he had suffered. The jail where the prisoners are kept is so foul that the sowers back up their filth ankle deep in the cells. All this is happening in a state under the control of the Roosevelt reformers. Governor Johnson of California was Roosevelt's running mate in the last national campaign.

It is plain that the bull moose talk of "social and industrial justice" is mere political buncombe. THE REAL LAW MAKING POWER Representative lrnderwood whose father-in-law runs the Woodward Iron company of Birmingham. and who is a near relative of the American Tobacco company, in an interview in the Birmingham Xezcs. defends himself against the criticism of one of his colleagues. In order to show his loyalty to recent prohibitory legislation.

Mr. Underwood said: "As leader of the house majority I arranged for an opportunity for consideration of this bill. It could not haze been passed nithout my consent and co-operation." There you have it There is a fiction abroad in the land that, the American people make the laws of the nation. And now comes the leader of the democratic majority and tells you in plain and unmistakable language that laws cannot he passed without his consent. This being true, why not dismiss congress and turn the job over to Mr.

Underwood This would save a very considerable sum of money to the nation, besides the congressmen and senators thus relieved from the distressing duties of voting for or against the bills which Mr. Underwood permits to go to a vole, could be utilized in building good roads and making parks and doing other useful and necessary work. LET US BE SINCERE As Thanksgiving day approaches it is well for people to express their thanks for what they arc really grateful for. The worker with a job ought to be extremely grateful to the tramp and the man out of employment, because it naturally follows that if all the idle had work others would, therefore, have to be left out. The small merchant or.

business man ought to be devoutly thankful that his competitor has failed or is failing. If his competitor did not go out of business he probably would have to. Big Business ought to return thanks for the thing that is making the business that is, for ignorance on the part mi the workers, for child slavery, for The Business and Professional Men's league of New York is sending out a confidential letter, signed by G. Murray Hulbert, which reveals the inner workings of politics in that city. Says this circular: "The proposal to own and operate public utilities is but one item in the scheme of social revolution which embraces state insurance among its planks.

State insurance means the elimination of insurance companies, together with the army of agents, brokers and employes depending on the companies for a living." This is the first time Wall street showed any worry over the possibility of insurance workers losing their jobs. Wall street is not worried over the possible loss of profits! Tn.vr scarcity of cattle is the cause of the high price of meat has been effectually disproved by a bulletin of the federal bureau of labor, which shows that the meat trust is buying cattle a cent and a half cheaper per pound than it did a year ago. The only reason for the high cost of living is that the trusts think they need the money and know that under capitalist government protection they can get it. The masters of transportation on the great lakes and oceans, being threatened with the passage of a bill to end human slavery on the sea. actually shed tears.

It is a serious thing for the robbers and murderers of the people to be denied the right to kill and exploit. As serious as it may be, however, that thing is going to conic to pass. Processor Irving Fisher. Yale university, says 030.000 deaths occur in the LTnited States that are preventable or postponable. The misery arising from these diseases and the deaths occurring because of the neglect of these unfortunate ones are not chargeable to the Socialists.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad company was convicted of having scld on its dining car so-called cream that was full of bacteria and was fined the excessive sum of $:2." for trying to poison and kill its There is clearly too much baiting of the railroads! So many who object to Socialism on the ground that it is a foreign movement go to Europe for their vacation and hire cheap labor to finance the vacation. WHY I AM A SOCIALIST. ly Fred T. Warren. This is No.

of the Arrr.Ais second series of leaflets just off the press. $1 per thousand, or if that is -more than you ran usn in your locality we will till out vour order with some of the other leaflet. We now have" a tine bunch of leaflets Hi of them. For a dollar we will send you 1.000. assorted.

THEATENS STARVATION Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Steel corporation, in a recent speech, condemns the agitation against the exactions of capital. "Capital," says, "always timid, has been seriously affected by this unreasonable and uncalled for agitation and attack. Indeed it is becoming frightened. Confidence has been shaken." Capital is not only timid, it is cowardly, just as all criminals are cowardly.

The threat which Gary makes when he says that "capitalists have power and authority at their command and if they measure up to it and as a consequence multitudes go hungry, they icill furnish the remedy and that zvithout much delay," is one that should arouse every red blooded American. If they think they have power to force the whole people into starvation let them try it. The people may then be forced to expropriate the expropriators, taking over the property which they have through the profit system taken from the workers. SOCIALIST VICTORIES ASSURED I broke away from the office long enough a few days ago to make a short tour through Indiana and Ohio. I spoke at El wood, Muncie.

Indianapolis and Evansville, and at Cincinnati and Columbus. At each and every one of these places, with the exception of Indianapolis and Cincinnati, the Socialists feel confident that they will elect every candidate on their The enthusiasm of the comrades in these places is something wonderful. There is not the slightest indication of discouragement or uncertainty. Paction have disappeared and the sole aim and object is to overcome and overthrow capitalism. The meetings at these places were the largest I have ever held.

For instance, at El wood I spoke last spring: to five hundred people. this occasion there were two thousand present. At Evansville interest in Socialism had been intensified by reason of USe To mM ball room was prepared like a Brazil ian forest in which the squeaks of monkeys, the twitter of parrots and cockatoos mingled with the strain of a hidden orchestra. The tano was danced. The only tiling to interfere with the happiness of the occasion a-the seizing of one of the dancers by a monkey who evidently felt cry much at home.

Thus do the exploiters enjoy the workers" product. TiiK number of children dependent on charity in Xew York City has doubled (hiring the past fiht years. Causes of their poverty: Death. per cent: desertion. 24 per cent; illness.

31 per cent: intemperance. 2 per cent: idleness 2 per cent. The Socialist are not responsible for the destitution of thce pour children of the metropolis who are f.tnii-hi'i in the midst of wraith and splendor unrivaled in the history of the world. Tin: department of agriculture crown over tlic fact that, after convicting a Kansas City linn of selling catsup that contained bacteria per cubic centimeter, it was heavily lined $IH). The firm can sell more of its poisonous and more than remunerate itself, so the federal judge's severity must not be he caue of too much mourning.

To the capitalist who requires cheap labor in order to insure his profits nothing i so desirable as the undesirable worker. Publicity Is Eest Weapon. ('iinnot fiimitfli fatlicff of nx -t-rvliia tli- army mid navy rurtiUli iimm-v to ir--ciitp fur iinil vlulallcn of conlimt hikI coitim-I tlic h-I'-um oflliu fl'-cit-llU tu U'l I Hilli irilrtj tu i tOf share tu-orx1; VVyuian. AITl--n, S. I.

Experience has proved that the people's best and stronet weapon is publicity. Those want to -ec thrc wrongs righted should et back of the Ai-PKAf. and help circulate the "Anti-military special," which will appear under date of November 1.th. "I.et the soldiers raise beef." That's a good slogan. If you want to help, order a bundle of the "Anti-military special" and icalter them.

Vou can cover a lot of territory at small cost. $." for a thousand copies, cr copies for Why You Should Study Law You havf uuiIouM'tlly rii'l th aijror-t'iM-mciit of a -uir'f iuli'ii(c iiniiui In IflW Mllll- C'Hkln I'V III' AlCI 4T-4 2n 'l-paittu'tit iK-for-. Y011 liato lnn toll th rPBMiu iv by yon mIiuiiM Mi'lr law. Yon Imvc lo -rn jjlvfn I a 1 opi-rtnnll to tak" up this tuJy. Ttiou-ta ikIk liavf anu'mc- 01 ttn-M oflTt tu 1 YM" not utifn-j thrin.

It to yon who fall'-! so far to enroll that nr now -hMi'c Vns 'I'l'an not Hi following H'iifd whv on who ru'ls. linn'' liiiPH- Hiunli d''t'rin ij" 1 to iifftw a Socialist Itiw'i MODERN INQUISITION i Julian Hawthorne, son of the famous novelist, who recently served a sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta. for alleged misuse of the mails, declares the federal prison is a "living hell." He said: Prisoners are subjected to treatment that 1 nothing more than slow murder. is never enough to eat. The warden attempts to feed strong men on nine cents a day.

and when he succeeds he brats about it. For the sliffhtest fault, some-times for breaking a plate, a prisoner is Kent to the "hole. a place under the prison for solitary confinement. This is only a part. as a 7 nnN'TTHIrtlc MUCH 5uT LEWtAt awrts of Poor Henry Dubb's Head Won't Stand Very Much of a Strain 0 FTvTl a k.

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fr 1 ip-s ami fi ni.wcmt.liiK. A'ho Sm'IhMI parte iir(U lomt ant Ivtk li'-lp iiiitii' nltr th affair of nt inwiu whr tliT ar-nur in pnvcr or will Mi'n tnTlthljr Tin' ifxlivMtiHl work'T'' n-l brnrf and lawyer tu prott ihm azainnt tho of th capitalist clafc and lliHr to protect Hutu In Ihilr work. In tli-ir tIsLi at ttiant, in tbclr risrbt.1 citizen. 4. You op it tu yourwlf and familr to Improve your material condition whtlr car-It a Usui Mill holds away.

Write today for frei- particular und ft fre mnr of lieorze Allao Kagland'a nd the Tl VCaylain" law "a clocei Not. 21. ddreiia all -onnminl-ii ttoni to LEIT. AFPKAI. TO UCASOV.

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