Workmen's advocate., 1890-06-14
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oi good; It IS bringing the purpose of
 the labor movement before the country.
 lie concluded by saying there could be
 no harmony between capital and labor:
 iabor must absorb capital in the interest | or the people, and when the capitalist
 class shall be conquered we will have the
 true cooperative commonwealth, Another representative of the labor
 unions added still further testimony to the same effect.
 Mr. Georgi, while compelled to repeat
 many things he had already said, beheved
 no substantial results would be obtained oy the naturalization of the railroads. teiegraphs etc, or in colonization schemes, These, if successful, would
 only delay the progress of the real work
 or standardization by making people
 content with something less than the
 true state. He believed the result we
 are all looking for could only come from
 a class struggle; the signs were more
 evident to-day than ever before. There
 never was an epoch of progress that was
 nov the result of contest between the
 two classes-the oppressed and the op- pressors. There were always a number oi men, idealists, who did not look on merely with the calmness of a Homeric god, ana Tor that reason he thought we Nationallsts and Socialists must arrive at the conclusion to take part in the struggle which the wage-slave class are engaged in to-day. Their object is the emancipation of the great bulk of hu- manity by the emancipation of the work lngmen.
 Mir. Peters inquired if tbe speaker thought the large proportion of the men or the unions were Nationalists in prin- ciple2
 Mir. Georgi thought they were, though they might be able fully to define their views. It was impossible to put forth Nationalist idea in their assemblies with out It's beeing greeted with applause. lie did not think any movement was made by any class of men. The Socialist movement is specialization of ideas formed in the bosom of the working classes. One great fact is the sense of solidarity, not alone among men of the unions, but among all unions. It is true that trade-unions were started for a sordld purpose, the question of more pay and less hours; but as they progress they find that in order to gain their points, It was necessary to abandon and sacrifice some immediate benefits. Ma. tionallsm and Socialism have grown to such an extent that we see the working men of Australia sending $500,OOO to the workingmen of London. If that did not involve one of the vital points of Socialism he did not know what did.
 Mir. Clancy, referring more immedi- ately to the question of the evening, thought that Tn one sense Nationalism was mdde-class movement, inasmuch as it was pushed by those who occupied a middle social station. They were nei- ther the very rich nor the very poor, the very learned nor the very ignorant, the uaco gotd nor the very bad in a moral sense, and they appealed to these extremes with view of getting them to cooperate. But in the sense that Na- tlonalism was class movement for the benefit of Nationalists us such, there was small foundation for the claim.
 Further discussion by Mir Clancy and others was had and the proceedings were concluded with the adoption of the fol- lowing resolutions offered by Mr. Max Georgii.
 ResolUed, That the article of Simon Newcomb, entitled Soap Bubbles of socialism, IS erroneous in statements and fallacious in conclusions; and
 Resoloed, That we therefore challenge Professor Newcomb to general debate in regard to this article aud invite him to call to his aid such persons us he shall designate.
 Resotued, That the secretary be in. 'tructed to communicate these resolu. ions to Professor Newcomb and publish hem in the daily papers.