Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-06-29
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The social democracy Of America will
be organized as follows: $ t.
Local branches in each state limit
ed to 500 members each.
y State unions, composed of one re-
preventative from each local branch.
3 A national council composed OF
one representative from each state
and territory. @-":&> =
4 An executive board composed Of.
five members. 49,. 81 d. ,
The executive board will annually
elect the offic ers of the general order,
as was the law in the Dissolved Ameri-
can Railway Union. T.
The revenue of the organization will
be derived from an admission fee of Is
cents and monthly dues of Is cents from
each member. 49, =
The headquarters of the Social De.
uOCIdCy WILL UO LII SALN0SO'
The weekly paper to be established
will be sent to each member. 1t will
be called the Social Democrat. The
Railway Times will be discontinued.
State Unions will meet annually in
May and the national union in June.
The Federated Trades Council OF
Milwaukee, representing FIVE or six
thousand workingmen engaged in the
various trades, has decided to join in
the new cooperative commonwealth to
be established by the social democracy
of America, and has invited Mr.. Debs
to visit Milwaukee to address its
members.
Debs has addressed the following
remarkable letter to Rockefeller:
McCoys Hotel, Chicago, June 10,
1S97.-John D. Rockefeller, New York
City-Dear Sir: I take the liberty to
inform you that we have this day Or
ganized the Social Democracy of
America, an organization designed to
rescue the oppressed and suffering of
our land from the grasp of industrial
conditions which they did not create
and which they are powerless to con-
troll or modify.
The purpose of the organization is,
briefly stated, to supplant the present
cruel, immoral and destructive system
by the cooperative commonwealth,
under which millionaires and mendi.
cants, the abnormal civilization, will
disappear together and the brother
hood of man will be ushered in to bless
and beautify the world. -
In this city alone, in which the uni
versity which bears your name stands
monumental of the triumphs of labor
and the fabulous wealth of the country,
5000 families are practically homeless
and $1,000 workingmen are verging on
starvation.
If you think this statement an exag-
geration 1 beg that you will come here
and will arrange to have them as.
sembled en- the lake front, and there.
under the common sky, their great
shelter, their emaciated faces and tat.
tered garments may bear testimony tC
the haggard truth of mans inhuman'
ity to man.
The picture is we'll calculated to ap
peal to men and angels, and, as yOt
are a Christian gentleman and arr
widely known for your benefactioni
perhaps you might deem it proper, ne
less than dutiful: to give your supper
to an organization whose high pur
pose it is, not to feed and humiliat,
these suffering human beings with thu
paltry crumbs of charity, to perpetu
ate conditions which make their live
continuous curse, but to strive for ,
more exalted humanity, a diviner civil
ization, such as the Master tau gh
when he said: ION earth peace, goot
will toward men,
The immediate object will be the, re
lief of the unemployed by colonizing
western state where they may cooper
ate in the application of their labor Il
the resources of nature, to provide TO
themselves and their dependent ones
and to manfully discharge the dutie
of an emanc ipated citizenship.
In this movement there are no elias
distinctions. Rich and poor are equal
ly welcome to aid In dethroning gol
> and exalting humanity. Then til
strong shall help the weak, the wea
shall love the strong and the brother
hood of men shall transform the cart
into vertiable paradise. s'~' =:
To consecrate one,s self to such :,
work is my highest conception: Of dut