Workmen's advocate., 1888-12-15

NorIcE TO CoRnEsroNDENrs Write plain; boil down. your letters; make them snort. Write only on one side of the paper Be as good natured as you can be under the circum stances.
 ANOTHER REPORT FROM ALBANY. To he IIorhmen's Adrocate:
 The visit of Professor Garside to the city of Albany has proven an event of great significance, and the result will be felt not alone here. When we an- nounced in the daily papers that Prof. Garside would speak we felt confident that there would be an intelligent audi ence, and we were not disappointed. We arranged for two meetings; the first, on Tuesday, December 2d, was well attended Prof Garsde lectured on the "Demands of Socialists" For two hours and twenty minutes the audi ence sat spell,hound at the eloquent and 1 telling remarks of the speaker. The questions asked of him after the discourse proved the interest taken by the audi ence. To reproduce but the gist of his lecture on paper would do him only in-
 justice; one has to hear him, and to hear Professor Garside means to be con
 vinced that socialism is an eternal truth,
 and eventually will prevail. This much
 l will say that he answered all ques- | tlOns to the satisfaction of every one
 present. and the numerous strangers
 who were present told me that the Pro
 lessor was the best exponent of socialism
 who ever visited Albany. The press of
 this city is no exception to the rule, and
 so their readers had but a garbed re-
 port of his lecture At our second meet
 ing, Monday. Dee. 3d, the subject was
 "MOrahty of Socialism, the meeting
 was held in the headquarters of the
 single land tax men, and there were quite
 number of them present The speaker
 made many convert at this meeting,
 and many expressed desire to soon
 have an opportunity of hearing him
 again. One of the immediate results of his visit here will be the organization of
 an American Section of the $. l.. r, and
 hope that in my next letter can notify
 you of the existence of good live Eng lisl-speaking organization.
 Prof. Garside is of the right material;
 his mode of agitation is excellent and
 my only wish Is that we had a hundred Garsides in the United States. AK. To He Il'0rkmen'S AdrOcdte
 l have read with considerable pleasure
 the answers given to the questions pro- l pounded by the l'olkSzeitmg as set forth
 in the ADVOCATE of Nov 24.
 Some worthy comrades grayely assert , the Socialist Labor Party is party of
 propaganda. We'll, certainly; but they s curiously enough, condemn propaganda at the ballot box. And again, the com
 rade sage urges that the trades unions
 and the K. of l.. locals are the places tC
 agitate.
 Those acquainted with the aggravated \ congomeration of idiosyncrasies repre-
 sented in large trades union know wei
 the utter futility of ordinary propaganda a work in such places. And as member e of a large trade organization (Typo- 70 graphical Union No. @ l honestly be c lieve that an agitation carried on lnde- ,, pendent of the trades unions or k. of l. u assemblies, through the party press, pub r lie meetings in large halls, and the bal - lot box to be a much more practical ant l effective way of bringing the aims 0 - socialism before the public. Also it mus 1T not be forgotten that organized labor |
 but small part of our population; tha }, if organized labor alone, or almost so, | ,f to be appealed to, it may result in keep l. ing away that greater mass-those no Il directly identified with labor combina r tions Another thing that causes m Il some astonishment is the desire of Cer q tain comrades for a general political la q, Dor movement. regardless of the fac . that such a movement at present mus S' be made up of mass of incongruities l. and which would be almost, if not CT t. tirely so, unavoidable from its very il .e ception. because of a lack of cohesion c thought and purpose-simply from tn T. economic ignorance of the vast majorit l. of those whom it is desired to combin J. in one great labor party.
 ,- Let the Socialist Labor Party, withou ., apology, stand upon its glorious pla ~ form of principles first, last and all th |, time, and with such platform it ma S- | nrnntlr do sn VIM II wuEpRX