Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-07

Inc ldCt -, lHe DOCldll6t Idrly IL pro-
crossing. If, on the onward march,
there may be some who have grown
weary, their tagging will not affect the
main body, for the work of spreading
our doctrines in many ways has not
been in vain. No narrow sectarianism
has held sway with the Socialist Party
and its executive in the use of proper
means to the desired end. Whenever
an author has written a book which was
educational from broad socialist stand
point, the Party machinery has been
set in motion to give it wide circulation.
Ask the publishers Of Gronlunds "Co.
operative Commonwealth, of prog
ress and Poverty" Of Looking Back
ward" of Marks Capital" and of
numerous other works. This il one
line of agitation. Ask the members of
trades unions what part the socialists
played in the days when that form Of
organization promised fairly for the
workers-in the days when the machine
had not yet made common laborers cut
of skilled mechanics. That was organi.
cation. Aye, and later on, did not the
laborers receive the same attention
How many of the men who held organ.
izers' commissions in the knights Of
Labor in the early days of that great
movement were not socialists Who
were the life and backbone of the great
political movement which rolled up tho
So, 600 votes in New York but a few
years ago? And who, when they saw
the people being deceived, protested in
the ranks of the five thousand, against
the false pretences Of the false
prophet?
No, the men of the Socialist Party
have not earned the name of narrow
minded sectarians in the past, nor will
they at this time earn the name of imbe-
al frp - to inl
ton are not lost upon the ever progress
ing spirit of the Socialist Party, and its
members gave evidence of this when
they voted by an overwhelming major
ty to constitute themselves an indepen-
dent political party.
OF course, there were exceptions.
What victorious army was ever devoid
of stragglers? What CALAMITY fighting
trades union has not had its quota of
'scabs"? What progressive party has
not had its reactonaries, its timid time.
servers?
SO now there are evidently those who
As if that were possible! 1t should be
with pity, more than anger that the
staunch Socialists should view the
frightful bestancy of their weaker
, comrades, who either have not the
courage of their convictions or have
not comprehended the duties of the
hour; who do not seem to know that
the way to emancipation from capital
ism lies not through the now puerile
efforts of extrapolitical organizations
without legal standing or power; or.
| carnations whose constituents are being
gradually degraded by the evolution in
mechanics which, under the continuing
wage system, transfers the powers that
once emanated from the skilled work
mans cunning to the owners of machin-
cry. But these blind comrades will not
be able to confuse those who see and
have passed the Rubicon. Their path
lies before them and they have begun to
tread it. And because they consistently
persist in pressing forward in the line of
action which even Ferdinand Lassale
saw clearly in his day, they are de.
nounced as the enemies of all trade
unionists. The youth who has discarded