The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-12

party has representatives in the. legls-
lature, comes the great test of the
party's future, whether it Will grow
or whether it will die out in the man
ner of many parties whose prospects
at the time of their death were just as
bright as those OF the socialist party
today.
Charles K. Hardy. the candidate for
mayor, was then introduced, ana aIter
the applause had died away he SAID
there appears another star a sign that
human right and human equity has at
last asserted itself, and that justice
is on an advancing wave, sweeping
bigotry, prejudice and tyranny, from
the sea of life forever.
The socialist labor party comes with
a message to those who think, and the
new salvation which it promises to all
mankind is now commanding the at
tention of an entire world. Scientlhc
socialism has proved all its premises.
Mr. Hardy then made an able plea
for the referendum and the initiative
in the political life of today. He said
that the people have a mistaken idea
that they rule, but when they investi-
gate into the situation they realize that
| thew do not. A man is elected, and then
he is beyond the control Of those who
| elected him.
AS a sign of the growing perversity
of legislators, Mr. Hardy cited the case
of the Ellsworth law in New YORK,
where Senator Ellsworth tried to sup
press the liberties of the press. Thls
act. he said was not the fault of the
| man. but the natural result of the pres
ent system, which drives the man to
his move. In place of a government by
representatives, let US have a govern
ment of the people. Our legislators
| should be forbidden TO pass laws. Their
capacity should be merely to introduce
measures, and then they should be re-
! ferred to the body of the people, and
the result can be accepted as we can
| always trust to the general common
sense of the people. With a political
| government of this nature We would
have pure democracy.
| hot Parthian shot was directed to-
wards the street department of the
| CITY of Worcester and the Consolidated
| road Mr. Hardy took his cue from
| the cartoon in The Spy, and in inter-
pretation of its meaning, he SAID that
| the street department and road were
| like two little boys, one throwing out
the snow and the other pitching 1t
/ back. And in the meantime the public
| be id cloud applause). Mr.. Hardy
| said that he would like to know the
! history of the recent legislative enact
ment by which the city is made to work
1 for the Consolidated. The capitalists
must learn, said he, in a prophetic
voice, that they might as well try to
bottle w. the Mediterranean as to bot
/ tie up the free speech of American
workingmen. In closing, he appealed
to the laboring people to continue the
battle. While the capitalists may
think that the present success is tenn
porary. let them know that there is an
ocean of discomfort in the industrial
world of America, and when the storm
burstsAover its surface there will be a
new life, purer and happier existence,
| in which mans inhumanity to man will
be but a bitter memory.
Thomas B. Muldowney Of Providence,
the well known socialist, said that man
had become but a portable, automatic
attachment to a machine. The work
| ingmen of this country were IL the po-
| sition of the mule with the bell at
| tached. Wherever the mule hears the
| bell, he goes. So with the workingmen,
when they hear the noise Of q peliti-
clan. they follow, and continue the
same process of being heeced year af-
ter year However, there is a limit to
the exploiterers further exploitering the
exploited. cloud applause)