The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
SOCIALIST POLITICS
Discussed by Mrs. Martha Moore Avery
 Gold Bugs and Silver Heelers Scored.

Gold Bugs and Silver Heelers Scored. At Aurora hall last evening a large audience composed of working people | listened to an address In the interests of the socialist labor party by Mrs. Martha Moore Avery of Boston. Mrs. | Avery said that socialists knew years ago that the present crisis in financial | and political affairs was coming and reasoned 1t out, as does chemist who l puts together certain chemicals to get l a specific result. She said that there was now no party of the people as the populist party has practically gone over hook and line to the democratic party. Capitalists force money out of 1 its true sphere and make it a com modity to be bought and sold in the markets. Bankers and brokers are gold men because it is their business to control the currency. and put in their | pockets the money ground from the lower classes by manipulating the cur- rency.
 "There is," said she, mot gold l enough in the wide world to redeem American notes and so the republican 1 party is audacious to declare to the 1 people that the standard we now have will save the country. They don't reckon on the awakening that is felt among the working people throughout
 the country. But on the other hand I the gold standard will allow us to pur- chase more goods with $10 than we would be able to purchase with an in- Hated currency, as in case of the latter wages will not increase in proportion
 to the increase in prices of colnmodi- 1 ties. Some workingmen throw up their hats for Bryan, but if they vote for him and he is elected they will have no more purchasing power to buy new
 hats with. I do not say that repudia- | ton will cause this. Repudiation is now the law of commercial life, the idea is to get something for nothing, really confscation Every time a new l invention is made confiscation takes 1 place.
 The capitalists always win and
 they have been winning in every War l fare in which they have ever been en- | gagged. That class is bound to wiring
 the necks of workingmen, but they
 need not do so, as workingmen wiring each others necks. Capitalists com
 bined long ago and the fierceness of l the competitive struggle is now among
 the lower classes Wage earners have become slaves, they sell themselves and I wonder that they have done it so long without thinking. The time is not far distant when the democratic party and l the republican party will see that pop ulists and socialists are of one party and class politics will replace party
 politics. The classes will be arranged Eagainst each other. Working people have become instead of citizens, sub- jects.
 No one pretends that our political machine is working for the betterment
 of government or of social conditions. There is no real political issue now be- l fore the American people; the issue
 turns on finance, which interests the commercial realm and the world of fi- nance, but the working classes have 1 not yet evolved from the industrial world the wealth of which the commer- clal class takes and rnanipulates It is in the light of the wage question that all political questions before the coun- try must be considered"
 Mrs. Avery then proceeded to at
 tempt to show that the proper thing for laboring men to do was to combine and after gaining political power to al- l ter the economic basis of government and society. This could be gained, she said, by all workingmen voting for the socialist candidates for president and vice president At the conclusion of her address three feeble cheers were given for these candidates, Charles H. Matchett and Matthew Mcguire | Earnest Oatley of this city presided at the meeting and announced that l Mrs. Avery would speak this evening at Central hall on Grand avenue, next I Wednesday evening at Schadee & Pohl- mans hall on Dixwell avenue and next Friday evening at Masonic hall in i Westville.