The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-28

Its Aims, Objects. Organization and
PurPOses-Ihe socialists VIII Not
Fight UnIe-s Driven TO It-DeIer-
mined Men-N hat n Leader Says.

A leading Socialist and Communist IN
Detroit has given TO reporter a state
ment Of the aims objects snd principles
Of the party to which he belongs, snd SIS
the Socialist has printed the same, It may
be taken as in 3 measure official The
gentleman, in answer TO questions, said
be wss Socislis. and CommunIs:; he
knew no difference between the names;
Communism he defined thus "Com.
munism simply means liberty, that is, the
welfare of the whole community sep
arate from Iudividusism, that
every individual shall be granted
su existence The otiect of
the movement" he said, was
the complete ana absolute overthrow of
the present social system All means OF
production, such rs capital, lands, ma
chinery, railroads, te.egraphs. should be
held tor the benefit of all he said they
proposed to capture aiI this material by
abo.shiUg all title IN lands and other
means of production, the same TO be
=
worked on the cooperative plan, so that
everyone shall receive the fall value OF
bis labor. Land Is the Joint and indivis
ible property of the people, and must be
held sacred 10 sll O.hcr capital which
is extracted from land and laDor must
follow the same course, but under dlder-
ent principles. Hence, payment should
be offered Tor it. Now, to pa. this to
test, Congress must pass law that all
such capital be estimated and paid for by
the Government, except land. Land j.
natuTe and CsuUut be bSrtc-ri.
Now Whatever Man Produce. II
HiS
Under the present system the wurNIr --
man gets about one-slNlE the value Di
his labor; the capitalist -'ts the br.alct
and says he made 10. wneG II ls plain be
did not ave don't pro?osa,. ho cD1.
tinued, "tO arrive ut results DO u day or Il
year, but the people uLs. be- educated uN
TO il, and that is what We are dong For
that We print newspapers, circulate iocu-
ments and hold agitation meeting He
Isc.aimcd any intention OF the party 10
make trouble unless they were attacked.
I'll believe" he said, "SocIsi site uprising
in this country woul! be the wors. thing
we could do. II would break u- up Sul,
| think We have .aDt summer before
Us. | mean By not summer trouh'"
between labor and caplts. Labor val
assert It's rights. ! mean TIM. the ru..r al
men and coal miners are going 20 strike
aDd there will be serious trouble
"Will the Socialists sssIst this move
ment?" said the interviewer.
"Only in the way of sympathy We
don't believe in riots. Its only the un-
thinking workingmen who riot. Men
who fully understand their condition
never resort 10 force.
"To bring the matter home, arc you
srming aud drilling IN DetroI,2'
ave never drill, and sre not armed,
nor will we arm except 10 protect our
selves and our meetings
We Must Have Free speech and Free
Hecttngs,
and, if necessary, RIll enforce il oar our
selves. In Chicago during the strike,
the Socianstic meetings were iu.or!ered
with by the police, so they armed to pro.
tect themselves"
HAS any party made overtlres Of ALI
snce with your"
"YeI, the Nationals did short time
since. We sent q committee 10 meet
some Of their big men who invited as 70
do go, but we knew It was 90 use, as our
folks are scary OF outsiders aud 30 20.
want to join hands with any political
party. They did not agree and the mat
ter dropped The trades represented, he
said, were cigar makors, shoe makers,
moulders and musIclanE no lawyers or
ministers.