The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-23
RISKY NE hoDs.
50 Denielewicz Thinks Of the
san Francisco Anti-Chi-
nese Convention.
he, Comes to His Own De1ense
Against the Attacks ef
"a Delegate 2
Socialist Who Includes the Op-
pressed Of All Lands in His ssIn-
ternational Brotherhood"
Editor Labor ENQUIRER.

Editor Labor ENQUIRER.
SAN FRANc1sco, Jan. TO- Considering
your lafe appeal to contributors to "boil
down" their articles, it is not a very
pleasant task ] am undertaking to-day,
for Ibeg for space to reply to lengthy
communication which appeared in the
latest issue of your journal over the nom
de plume Of "a Delegate to the Conven-
ton" and lam some What fearful that
my reply will of Necessity be equally !
lengthy.
"a Delegate to the Convention" in
criticising my denial Of the assumption
by the capitalistic press that the late
labor convention had gone Socialistic,
asserts that Socialism, simply means a
'speople's government" This, in my
estimation is &gross mistake. If / un-
derstand the principles of Socialism cor
rectly, they do neithNr consist in one
nor in fifty million tyraHt's government,
but in Justice. And neither A Dele
gate to the Convention nor any other
honest and humane. person can denYI
that it is a great injustice to drive thou-
sands of human beings off spot of
earth, that as human beings belongs to
them as well as to the would-be drivers,
and to which if they agree to and do
perform useful services for society they
have natural right, especially when
nature is so bounteous that under sys-
tenn OF correct labor valuation millions
more could live in luxury.
AS intlmated above, the fact Of 50,-
100000 of people, which, ] suppose, "a
Delegate to the Conventlonp means by
the term of "a peoples government"
committing or attempting to commit
such an outrage upon fellow beings,
does by no means justify it, $4,000, 900
wrongs will never constitute one right
any more than one wrong will.
That our friends definition of Social
ism isimperfect may be illustrated by
the very fact of our comrades in Europe
having adopted the term, Social Demo
Gratis" Democracy simply means an
administration of the people for all pro-
gress, evil as we'll as good. Social De-
mocracy means an administration of the
people for the purpose of good only, for
Justice. . t-.
To prove that my protest against the
consideration by the capitalistic press of
the action Of the convention as Socialis-
tic was not lacking the moral support of
prominent comrades l beg to point out
the fact that the verv comrade, who l
am persuaded to think was the origin
ator of the anti Chinese resolutions as
passed by the convention, when noticing
neutrality-suspicious. of the capitalistic
press and becoming conscious of and
alarmed at tie injury done thereby to
the cause of Socialism, himself suggested
to me the vindication of our principles
and even without my invitation wrote
out for me the "appen dage" in question
which, being perfectly in harmony with
my views, l copied verbatim with the
slight change ofthe words, "the whole
people" in place of the words, "the gov
ernment." e.. (.
"A Delegate to the Convention" has
simply erred as other mortals have be-
fore him and many more will after him.
He meant to take advantage of the anti
Chinese craze in order to further the
cause of Socialism. But his method was
a dangerous one. Expediency is GER
tainly necessary feature of every re-
form movement. But when expediency
is placed above principle by the adop-
ton of methods which interfere with
the principle itself then 1t is irrational
because it defeats the very end for the
attainment of which it was intended to
be applied. Maneverings of this kind,
too, degrade one to the level of the COM
monality of politicians !" they are un-'
worthy of true Socialists. .. -.
In conclusion, beg to state that my
opposition to the anti-Chinese policy
was well Known to our comrades before
we went into the convention; that l
declared the same in session of the CEN
trail committee of the l. w. A., before /
was elected delegate to the conven-
ton and that the comrades even sug-
gested and agreed themselves that L
should place my views on the Chinese
question from Socialistic standpoint
before the convention. therefore only
performed my duty as the comrades
under the ~circu instances should have
expected of me. Why, therefore, the
raising of that much "dust ?" i'll could
afford to have them sit by quietly when
/ was being bulldozed upon the floor of
the convention in the attempt of express
sing my views and defining my position,
if /, after the injury which, as keenly
felt, the cause was receiving by their
actions kept silent for the sake of inter-
nal peace and harmony, being convinced
that it was on their part simply an error
of the mind and not of the heart, and
that time would prove my position to be
the correct one why should they now
make display in print and amuse our
enemies by exposing our incensisten-
cies? Fraternally,
SIGIsMUND DAsIRItEwIcz.