The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-24

of nations is growing relatively greater, the
scale of wages is diminishing, In every coun-
try OF the world wages are on the down grade
and the conditions of labor are growing
harder. 1t is daily becoming more difficult for
man to make his living and at the same time
maintain his independence. Every day sees
nearer approach to the slavery of laborers.
We have the right to nsk what is producing
these results. Wherever you find competi-
tive industrial system you find underpay at
one end and overpay at the other.
He denied that temperance, free trade or
protection were the causes of the evils of
which he complained, and continued:
Land should be as tree as air, and should not
be owned by individuals, but by the commu-
nifty as whole. In like manner individual
enterprises should be held in the same way.
The worker and the capitalist should be made
to work alike and each be made to earn his
share of the combined produce of labor and
capital This is socialism.
Socialism is reported to mean red-riOtfng and
red-ruin and the dividing up of all property
equally among all men. This is the cry of
those who wish to injure our. cause. These
grisy phantoms of socialism arc held up by
those opposed to our views in order to scare
off its possible adherents.
We are told that if the worker is too urgent
in his demands the capitalist will take away
his capital to other lands. Land, machinery,
railroads and houses are capital. i imagine
one OF your landlords carrying off tract of
land to some other country; imagine MT;
tracks trailing after him and speeding off to
some more quiet nook; imagine Mr.. Pullman
with car under each arm heading after Mr..
Huntington.
But can they take off the bone and sinew and
origin of all capital and wealth-the laborer?
How can socialism be brought about? This
is a question very frequently put. The plan
is to propagate the principle of socialism and
leave it to each one to apply it himself.
Here he advised thorough course OF
reading on political economy, and more
particularly of works on socialism, OF
which he gave comprehensive list. He
continued:
of the poverty of the people; not as the result
of the oppression of the people, but as the re-
suit of the intelligence and education OF the
people.
Trade unions exist as foundation of social
ism, and every man who works at trade
should ally himself with the union. All good
that has come to the worker has come through
the trade unions AS the trade unions grow in
power SO does the power of the capitalist grow.
Trade unions should be supported by the Gov
eminent and should not be discouraged and
destroyed whenever 1t comes In CONNECT With
labor.
He charged that religion and politics
were used to keep workingmen apart.
The workingmen of San Francisco should
organize party of their own, run it with their
own money and use it for their own benefit.
Trouble is they will not work together. What
right have we to expect help from the pulpit
or the press If we do not help ourselves?
If the church to-day were doing its duty
there could be neither poverty on one hand
nor millionaires on the other. 1t is true Chris
tianity should be properly applied.
There is feeling of unrest among the down.
trodden laborer that is growing and that gives
me dread. The education that has been and
is going on among the working people will
make them in the future demand more leisure,
more comforts, and it is this growing feeling
for justice that is causing the unrest
He referred to the growing power of the
socialist movement in all the great coun-
tries OF Europe, anu added that it was now
time for the United. States, the country of
greatest liberty, to take her place in the
van of this movement.
Mr.. Hardic and his colleague in the cause
of socialism have been in the country but
four weeks. and in their use OF American
idioms and slang expressions and their
reference to conditions in the United
States show that they have been close
readers of the newspapers OF the United
States and close observers of the people
and their habits.
During the evening it was announced
that Mr.. Hardie would appear as follows
in this city:
At the entertainment of the Jewish section
of the Socialist Labor party on October 8, at the
Temple, III Turk street; the entertainment of
the San Francisco section of the Socialist Labor
party, at the same place, on October %; this
evening at a joint meeting of the Society OF
teal Progress, at the Builders Exchange, 16
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