St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-16
Interesting Lecture on Socialism by DR..
Edward Aveling and Els Wife Be-
fore a Large Audience.
Can the Mutilation of Buckley's Corpse Be
Called an Inquest or Post
Mortem7
A Minister'S Wife Imprisoned In an
Insane Asylum on Account OF Her
Religious opinions.
SERGEANT Freeman Hudson Wins the
Prize An &C i've Zeal Estate
Narket--Various Matters.

socialist and his wife, Mrs. Marx 4 Vei'hg'
daughter of Carl Marx. the famous German
economist. lectured at Turner hall last
night. The building was packed fall, and
the people were of that combination OF
classes as testified to the general public in
terest taken in the social problem. The
larger portion was Workingmen-clean,
thoughtful intelligent men. with quite
number of mercantile and professional men
and sprinkllng of ladies' DR.. AvelIng
and wife occupied the stage. with MT.
Bnsing. of st. Paul, and Evert Nymenover.
The former acted as chairman, ana. aIter
speech that grew little tlreSome, INTRO
duced DR.. Aveling. A rather typical
EugIjshman he is. without the unpleasant
features of English speech. He was
plainly dressed. wore a negli.ee shirt and
carried his watch in an outside coat pocket.
The lecturer began with the expression OF
the doubt that many of his hearers knew
what socialism meant; to explain THIS WAS one
of the objects of the meeting. he proposed
to make the m aiming 50 clear that none coulu
fail to understood it. and understanding IL,
must be with il OF against it. The term Tor
eigners should not be used in connection
with socialism, as it conveyed q wrong eX-
nression Nothing is foreign TO America, IN
the historic sense of tue word, aud IL does
not become Americans TO reject anything as
foreign, for all Americans are really foreign
ers, after all. Those who condemn socialism
as foreign are the first to secure foreign
labor. especially when they can get it cheap
enough Besides, what would Americans
have done but for the foreigners who fought
for them in the great civil war! Ii is true
that socialism is largely German. out
it must become American, for nothing
can be done except by the aid OF
the great English speaking people, and to
them he wished particularly to speak. He
reverted to the fact that papers and people
had singular misconceptions of socialism and
his presentation, and quoted several articles
in relation thereto. In this connection he
admitted that America had its own social
problems and salvations to work out but 1t
might be assisted by suggestions from
Eurone. The Workmen of Minneapolis had
been advised to avoid the socialist advocates
because they owned their own homes and had
money in the savings bank; but this did not
affect the great question. All men have not
their own homes, and those VINO do see o.
them more elegant houses, and they ask the
question: ''How is that my neighbor. who
does no more work than |, owns so much
more elegant homer To answer this was
his mission. Then there is the savings
bank-mark the phrase. The employer OF
laror uses not the savings bank. Tor he needs
not to save.
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Socialism tries to explain why things are as
they are and how they might be better. IL
tries to propose the remedy for the present
upbappy state of society. He dwelt for
time on the lamentabe condition OF society,
and spoke of the possibilities that exist; of
man working out life and dying poor; OF
child 10 years OF age put at work ten hours
day: of q woman driven to street prostitu-
ton. The cause of all this is because our
society is based upon an unpaid condition OF
md
nine out of one hundred of the miseries of
to-day are based on unpaid labor. This was
the whole secret. There were no wild and
reckless assertions to be made, but the secret
was purely scientific. A large part II not
the larger part. of labor to-day is not
paid The paying Of wages is not the
paying of labor, but IS only the
buying of labor. Your employer pays not for
your work but for your body. Wild ap-
plause.l If he paid for your labor be wo ia
give YOU twice as much. and II be PAID Ia tul
he could not build up such colossal fortunes
as YOU see Our position is that when you
go into the shop and work, you are paid for
about ore-haf vN'Ir time and the remainder
goes unremunerated. When an employer
lahors plans or directs. he should be re-
remunerated. But if he does work, he gets
more than his share of the product; and the
trouble is that employers, as rule, do not
work at all He who bosses or works and
MANS with his brain. of course deserves
pay, but such are not great companies
and corporations. DR.. Aveling gave as an
Illustration the man who, in England, invests
81 900 in a Minneapolis mill and, without ever
coming here. draws dividend OF 500 per an
num- get that 500 from the unpaid labor OF
the employees The middle class he main
tanned is constantly being created and dying
out-e.evated by frugalltY from the lower
class. and then rising, in cases TO the highest
class. or being crushed out and sinking back
o1o -
the unpaid labor and the few receive it.
Land, raw material, machinery and human
labor are the means of production and they
ARE IN TIE HANDS OF THE FEW.
WHY is land valuable? Because it gives ca
pacity for obtaining unpaid labor. Land in
Minneapolis is more valuable than land in q
desert only because il is the means of getting
labor, not remunerating it, and getting rent
out of the unpaid labor. 1t is an eternal
falsehood to say you pay for thing because
you want it, because you paw for the human
labor on it. Why do your mill owners grind
wheat? They don't want the -four? No, they
grind II 10 the iabor it, of which they pay
a part and realize on the unpaid portion. In
that fou= are or, stalled human lives. Your
uiiisr ore only with the human labor he
can ret OCT OF the wheat. Great applause |
E. - MAN VINO goes into the mill or shop to-
morrow is owned, literally owned, by the cap
itallsLc class, gloss it over as you
the freedom of the laborer, who must
sell hlms-n 40 live. How did the capitaliStic
class get hold of labor? By force Legal
force, o. course, but still by force. Very re-
5pecttullv give the lie direct 10 the state
ment tnal any man by his own labor makes or
made Il fortune. 1t is physically impossible.
Give eveTybod, all the land he may wish.
Give Ahram Hewitt a continent. if you will,
aud he cannot make cent of himself. But give
him ten or twelve men to work for him and,
ahal he grows wealthy. Applause. What
is the remedy? The ending of the wage
system of te-day-the Unpaid-laEor syS-
tenn 1t will, or, if you like, must come to
an end. l mean it is doomed The death
hour is coming for it and there are plain in
aicationS il is coming to its finish. The signs
Of the times show it. Ultimately private
property, in all these means of production.
will cease to exist. l mean in those partcuia al
things Don't understand me to sa, we favor
abolishing property. for private property
should aud must exist but it will be such
pre- ty as will not exist by the unpaid labor
of others. A hundred years hence such a
thing as private land viii be exploded; the
owning of factory by a man will be imPossi-
bic. You will bring it about by political
means: you will educate and YOU will agitate
and you will organize, and your organization
will be to that erd.
The speaker here alluded to the labor
party as begun in the recent New York
municipal campaign, which he regarded as
merely the bud of a great national party.
pledged to politics. 1t might be baffled and
beaten, sometimes, but on the whole it
would go forward. He referred to the
general postal system of the government as
embodying the social idea. not the ideal
socialistic scheme, perhaps, but still suf-
ficient to show how the plan can be carried
out.
FROM A woMAN's STANDPOINT.
Mrs Aveling was then introo ced. She
Is commanding in figure and striking in
exclamation. Her dark hair and eyes.
clear complexion and large mouth, with
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