Workmen's advocate., 1889-06-22
BOSTON,.
Socialism Advancing g-Jeckyll Foster
 and Hyde Foster.


 The usual public meeting on the Con- mon was well attended, notwithstand, ing that the best brass band in Boston occupied the music stand and discoursed fine music.
 At the last special meeting of the American Section Comrade Willard read an interesting essay on the Aims of Modern Socialism," Comrade David Taylor was selected to speak in Provj dence on the anniversary of the storm. ing of the Bastille
 Straight out Socialism is preached at the Nationalist Club meetings
 "JECKYLL AND HYDE."
 The following clipping from the Labor Ledder shows that it's editor, Mir. F. K. Foster, feels considerably nettled at the ADVOCATES allusiou to his late unfortu- nate political campaign:
 1t is to be regretted that the edi or of the WORKMEN $ ADVOCATE has absorbed such an amount of bile into his system that he has nothing but evil to say of those who do not burn incense before his particular political joss
 But we hope that whatever condem- nation the ADVOCATE has for Mir. Foster will be reserved for the editor of the Labor Ledder, and that praise instead will be given to the Foster who is secre- tary of the Central Labor Union. For ip haf |, ,I, to this day remain mystery, were it not that in his book, Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde,' Robert Louis Stevens shows that man may be inhabited by two different souls, as far apart as light and darkness, and each in turn reigning su- preme.
 There walks and breathes inside of MT. Fosters clothing a Dr. Jekyll that at certain seasons of the year Is con- pelled to flee his habitation and give way to a MT Hyde whom he surely must scorn and loathe.
 It is Jeky yll-Foster that has for so many years been secretary of the Boston Gen. tral Labor Union and a trades unionist pure and simple. Always an advocate of legislative committees and generally member. It is Jekyll-Foster who is in favor of deputations to the State House expenses, of course, paid-with the necessary belongings of printed postal cards and reams of circulars, petitions, and attidavlts Hyde Foster runs a job printing office. It is Jekyll-Foster who often finds 1t necessary to spur up tn 8 Union in the matter of deputations, by deploring the fact that despite the hun dreds of dollars they have cost, they have generally been quite useless. It IS Jekyll-FOster that with loud voice and much gesticulation so often excoriates the successive legislatures for corrup- tion, inetiiciency, subserviency to cor porations, and general neglect of the interest of the workers, and if carried away by the storm of eloquence, some innocent delegate rises to suggest that If all these charges are but true, 1t Is high time then for the workers to take hand in the formation of legisla- lures, It is still Jekyll-Foster who alone, unmOved amid the whirlwind he has raised, softly insinuates that "this is not a political organization And 1t is Jekyn-Foster who, careless of Govern ors, Legislators, Boards of Aldermen or
  active sleep, only to be awaked again in the Spring.
 But it is Hyde-F Foster who is editor of that bright sheet, the LabOr Ledder, famous for the ponderous weight of its editorials, its careful system of mutilat- ing articles which are not in accordance with its editors views. and its general and entire dearth of local labor news. It is Hyde-Foster who proposes mo- thing that would materially improve the condition of the working people: whe has no platform save the rotten one of eight hours; who, having noth- ing to offer himself, edges carefully around Socialism, ignores the ''single- tax" and spits spitefully at the Knights of Labor and all they propose.
 It is Hyde-Foster who, notwithstand- ing the protestations of Jekyll-Foster, is politician in small way. It IS Hyde-Foster who, last fall, abridged the pleasure of his readers by lessenlng his customary use of "boiler plate" and had actually set up at his own ex pense increased fulsome laudations of Grover Cleveland and his great free trade reform. It is Hyde-t oster who has, stime and time again, stumped the State in the interest of the democracy" and last year in the interest of Grover Cleveland. While impudently advertis. ing himself as Jekyll-Foster, the non- political secretary Ot the Boston Central Labor Union, with the able assistance f Bro. Cherrington, stumped Maine and Indiana, though unfortunately for Cleveland andn free trade generally, with largely increased republican" ma jorities, And, lastly, it was Hyde Foster who, three years ago, emerged from the proper obscurity of his political career, and became candidate of the "democ- racy" for the office of Lieutenant Gov arnpr unop that mt hIa occasion fioIlr-