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truth, and are willing to be governed by it wherever it is found.
 Very respectfully,

| tTuCH, ana are WllllnS to De governed Dy it wherever it is found.
 l Very respectfully, 1 J. G. PATTERSON. Hartford, October 3.
 1 LUCIEN SANIAL REPLIES. 1 Hon. J. G. Patterson, Hartford. Dear Sir:-You ask who I am. I am 1 a Socialist; that is, a man imbued with the most advanced aspirations of the wage-working class. I do not ask who you are; from your address to the Board of Trade
 Know You to Be a PIutocrat in sentiment if in nothing else; that is, a man imbued with all the conservatism of the Capitalist class. For the special purpose of this debate we need no further introduction to each other. Principles, not persons, are here meeting in opposi- tion. In our first encounter you have disappointed me. I expected an argu- mentative reply, buttressed with facts and perhaps with figures;
 You Returned a Flat Denial
 of my statements and a general reas- sertion of your disproved assumptions You were very prompt in doing this. but it will hardly do. Take your time if necessary, and bring out solid arguments if you have any. I am in no hurry. have no fear that any delay in the progress of this discussion may
 Retard the Downfall of Capitalism; nor have I the conceit to believe that anything may say can advance 1t. We are, you and I, mere infinitesimals in opposite currents of thought produced by the economic evolution of society and from the conflict of which must at the proper time emerge a new social state. To the vague generalities and hazard ous conclusion in your Board of Trade paper I opposed concise generalizations, deduced from facts so universally ob- served and admitted that their enumera- tion seemed to me waste of words and of the space courteously granted us by the editor of the Post Your venture some denial compeIs me, however, to- particularize somewhat. In the first place you boldly deny that under our present economic system
 The Sole Purpose of Government
  Capitalist class at the expense of the people. How, then, may ask you, was reared that stupendous fabric of monop oily which, as it hears it's apex, is assum- ing it's final, logical, inevitable form of "trusts?'' Was it not by special legis- lation in favor of those who, having al- ready, as a class, possessed themselves of the means of life through the his toric process so we'll described in Karl Marks Capital proceeded further to possess themselves as a class of all the PuBEfc Franchises and Public Func-
 tionsE Go to your State library, take down from Sts shesveg- all the pnuderuus syoL umes in which are recorded the acts of | any other State. or of the Congress of | the United States, and count the. laws by | which special privileges have been con ferred upon private corporations; public ! given away and subsidies in i various forms granted for the private | benefit of wealthy individuals. On the other hand count the laws tfta1 have
  boring classes, or to prevent their degra- dation, OF to simply protect ths1n in their onfys property-their" labor power. AS against thousands of the former kind, all substantial and effective, you cannot name one of the latter sort that is not Of a truth no such great temple as
  our capitahstic legislation was ever reared i'm antiquity to the Golden Calf. Tn our worship of that idol, human life is deemed of but little account. It has, indeed, cun1e to this point that even the life of a pIutocrat is less sacred! than his property The murderer who assaults a tice, but the railroad striker found, loiter- ing the track is shot down without In times of profound peace that is, in times of complete popular sub- mission to the arbitrary rules of the cap- talist e}ass-
 The Life of a Worker Ist, aff No More
 Value
 -han i'm til1nss of effervescence Over 30,- 100 msn, among the ableste bodied and most serwiceable of the country's sons, are killed or mai1ned every year on our railways This is murder at the rate of L,O ,OOO, 600. IT en in a generatsoni and to this iay Congress dnrst nos interfere, be eause the small clique of idlers who own the rsdiWays-a clique ,en. times bilIonaire and enjoying an annual net revenue. of $40o 000, 900. |; oesii8es the yickings hiddRn in the.E lark account of operating expenses'-S rrlaist 'save' the feve millions which ih would cost to, provide automatic couplers and other lie and limb protecting de vices.