Workmen's advocate., 1890-06-07
SPREAD THE LIGHT CLUB.
The Socialist Problem.-Heat hadiatiht Workmen and Misery.-kadiating
 Capitalists.

The Socialist Problem-Heat hadiatihs
 Workmen and Misery ry.--Radiating
 Capitalists. At meeting of the Spread the Light Club May 26, 46 Ten Eyck street Com rade Schaeler read the following cllp' ping from the previous Sundays New York Herald
 From the Paris edition of the ierhd9 Many ingenious inventions based upon the discovery that heat IS mode oi mo, tion, and that both can be converted into force, have been made. The latest and most ingenious of all IS the lnven tion by which the heat radiatlng rom the human body is made to drive an engine. The heat given out by man in ordinary health varies as the square of his radiatory surface, and It's amount can always be increased by feeding hlm on heat-producing food. It has been proved by actual experiment that large German socialist weighing 24O pounds radates, when hungry, an amount ot heat equivalent to two and hall horse power, and that this amount can be nearly doubled by filling hlm up to hlS utmost capacity with sausaBes' Here IS the final solution of the socialist prob lem. Let them be used to drive machi- nery, All they need to do IS to sit near the machinery and radiate heat The labor would be merely nominal and the more they might heat themselves by denouncing capitalists the more useful they would be. It would be just the sort of employment that would suit the pro- fessional agitator.
 Upon this Comrade Sch9fer then commented as follows: "ln so far as the capitalist press is concerned, there are three phases regarding the socialist movement. The first is the phase of "dead silence" when the proprietors of the papers or their hireIings, knowing full we'll the tremendous power hidden in Socialism, carefully abstain from mentioning it for fear of advancing the movement. This phase has passed away here in the United States because So cialism has penetrated the labor move ment 10 such an extent that it can nc longer be ignored. The second phase i' that of attempted ridicule, and this, II turn Is fast passing away. The aDoV' silly item is fair sample of the capitalis contortionists in their efforts to be conf cal. The third phase, that of ''clas hatred," is the phase of persecution. Nc lie is base enough; no measure Is to' barbaric; and crime itself IS turned lnt' heroism if it can serve the purpose 0 crushing Socialism Even this thir' phase in coming to an end in Germany What will follow? Socialism. To com back to the Herald item. MT. Jame Gordon Bennett should by all mean use in his establishment this wondertt machine he knows so much about. Bu Isuggest that instead of feeding peopl with literary sausages made ot route lies and doubtful wit he might generat the same amount of heat or even nor by feeding them with facts and argl ments. He might tell them what h principles are if he has any; why II advocated slavery, for instance; why h is a democrat one day and republica the next, and which pays best; how h got his wealth, and if the whole of 1t
 not an accumulation of the unpal wages of his employees; whether tl trouble between him and the neWsde' lers some time ago was not the outcon of his stupid avarice; why his paper
 the town,crier of gamblers, prostitute stockjobbers, swinders and other orn ments of society. After scoring u HeraH in this humorous vein for te minutes or more to the great amusemei of the audience, Comrade Schaefer co cluded with n view of the progress
 the socialist movement.