Workmen's advocate., 1888-12-01
BOSTON,

1'm v.lD of Prof. ?. jl Gar-jic haz proved ou event of pot,yp -jgmtwluae mdirtho results a'p in proportion to GIr ".uu-urm exhibited at Ohp mrrt- jugs oul ,a, interest taken in rtr pua- i-hnd reports of hj4spr..hc4h4Jbod pro-r. il may bc assumed lIu lUr num-
 h"radh@rcuj- to the gospel of Suciall-m ha7 been considerably augmented The '".rut Saturday cotajuni d column uI"rrlrw "'lb the gentleman. and the matter Jhoycin being somewhat ,lartllng, 1nl 'o."} unique, -bUuuut,d many with
 h" dr-rr to attend ihp merlm.< on
 .uuaA, Hut uu Sunday 1t srcmrI a- if .Ho weather and atmosphere hgt yielded
 .' t.H tWd,ncj ut CNuCrutrHupu and
 'nrlartuu ur -ojidijration Woud ln-
 Hhlalr tat breathing space ui eastern
 Massachusetts. liut uutWUh,tHudinE
 shr oAtr"Mr lNCleWeUry both meetings,
 ouc at Goldman !IaIl in tue aItprnool,
 the other :U Now Era !iaI in the ryp-
 ring, were well attended, many coming
 , i''i' i'IlIl AiN 'Ih''l il'l fi tlli NittV ltl hear the speaker. Prof. targidr's mau- her and personal appearance produced a very favorable impression upon his
 audiences, a" they had already upon the
 members rf the Section at a reception
 meeting the previous Friday evening.
 He K rather talI, with d pleasant sunny
 countenrnce which b"i'ms with enrhi-
 ~;IsuI as. his subject inspires him. and k
 about thirty-iive years old. 1t would
 .ake the entire columns of the ADyO- CAFE to give d full report of the pro-
 ,v~a0T9 lcat'uea, therefore only a sum. mary of the salient points can he pre- sentcd to its readers, The afternoon
 subject wa, "SUcial Economies" that of the evening, "The Advance of Social ism. Prof. GarSlde stgmatized Edward
 Atkinson as the most malignant of the capitalist arologiots and challenged him orsEly, or Walker, or any of the advocates of Iegalizrd stealing, to meet him in pub lie debate. In handling his subject he confined himself great deal to figures. to show that the present system of pro- ductlon and distribution was wrong
 He sad that these three and half millions of men unemployed in the civ lllzed world had on an average two and eght-tenths persons depending on them for support, which aggregated S,00000 of persons in process of staryati0n. He multiplied this by five, and said that the product of 10000, GOO represented that many dollars of surplus value which went yearly into the pockets of some one. lie wanted to know why this sur plus value did not go to the surplus pop ulaton. With that amount, which he claimed the workers had produced, they could employ themselves.
 He said America was governed by worse despotism than that of Russia, which was that of capital. The Ameri- can Constitution was the basis of Social ism. He did not care if man had a hundred thousand or d million dollars, as long as he did not interfere with others happiness. But he denounced him who held the means of employment, and, having the power to say to large masses of men whether they should work or whether they hould starve, as violating the scripturaI injunction of "ThOu shalt not steal. There was high CT right than the right of property or the divine right of kings, and that was human right. Abraham Lincoln was socialist, to the extent that he COnfisCated the prop erty rights of the Southern slave holders in their slaves. This is what the speak CT believed the people should do, through their executive, with the land, machin- cry and raw materials. The workers had produced these two latter things, and had been robbed of the possession by legalized means which would not be much longer tolerated.
 If should tell these reporters, said Professor Garside, to put in their papers that you were slaves, people would say lied. Yet you are controlled by your necessities, and the persons who control the means of supplying your necessities are your masters, and you are their i slaves. He said that twelve men con | trolled the United States, and he hoped | that the Standard Oil Company which | now control the street railways of Bos- ton, and steam railroads, hotels, theatres | and steamboats, would finally control | everything, and the number of men | controlling this country would be finally | reduced to two or one, and then the peo- 1 pie would see that if two men could run ! everything for profit they could, collect lively, take hold and run them for their | benefit and use, and do away with the | present accursed system. We have been | told by the advocates of capitalism that 1 we dare not put our ideas to the proof of l reasoning and logic and figures. |