The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-20
LIKE THE LILIES.
Capitalists Toll Not Says
Socialist Maloney.

This was the valentine of the socialists
to their capitalist brethren in U. v. l..
hall yesterday afternoon, when Joseph
Maloney Of Winchester one of the most
fluent and eloquent of the socialist
speakers replied to Father Burke.
In the course of his remarks Mr..
Maloney paid his respects to the Wor-
cester Independent Political Club, and
said the members would always vote
for capitalists. They are just as indie
pendent in bravado and Boosting as
they are dependent upon capitalists
they vote for.
Among the interested spectators Of
the day was Albert Tuson, the well
known broker, who received an ovation
from the members of the socialist labor
party who were glad to see a capitalist
present.
charles K. Hardy, the nominee for
mayor in the last campaign, presided,
and said that he was satisfied that
socialism was taking root. The state
ment that the socialists are fading
away is SANDER. Conditions have
reached such stage that there is a
grand revolution in the Industrial world
| coming, which will make life as much
aaead OF the life of today as the life
| OF today is ahead of the life of CEN
turtles ago. On the one side Is educated
sophlstry; on the other socialism.
Mr; Maloney in opening said that he
had oeen Ill with the grip, and then for
Two hours held his auditors spellbound
with his torrent Of words. Mr.. Maloney
began by flashing FIR. Burke and kept
| up a fusilade until the socialists We're
the happiest mortals in the city. Mr..
NLdioney SAID 1t was harder to convince
1901 than wise man. He was not
present to attack the cloth nor TO
mallgn religion. Some believed with
Voltalre and Thomas Paine and others
| Win John Knox, and the holy saints
put he hoped no one would be such a
| disgrace to the cloth as to utter such
sentiments as those attributed to Fr
Burke. All movements, said the sneak
er' from the crucif1Xion of Christ TO the
lansing OF John Brown, have always
| peen opposed by demagogues. IT was a
| condition of affairs that needed relief
that made Martin Luther, and now the
SOCIALISTS are here with their mission.
! lhelr principles are founded on human
! lty ana backed up by history.
rather Burke takes the Bible against
socialism, and Mr.. John w. Hall quotes
/ 1t tne other way. Both throw hot and
cold water from the same book. Faith
er burke SAYS that it is an immutable
decree of God that the existing condi-
lions are and shall continue. such
words the preachers in the south Mt
Tered when they said that it was the
| lmmutable law of God that slavery CON
tlnue, and in that day the church
Fought the abolishionists. But the time
VIII yet come when educated knaves
VIII be held accused before the Most
| High. Father Burke says that he has
no animosity against socialism. but in
this case it must come through the
/! back yard of the chulRh.
| Democracy must rise, as it is not amin
Yention, but process of evolution.
| Inc middle class is gradually becom-
ing extinct, the members going into
the working class, and the time is not
far distant when there will be two
| classes the working men and the CAPT
tahsts. Now the middle class. with its
small capital, and the capitalists COM
| pine to squeeze the workingmen The
man who quotes scripture for the JUS
tice of this condition. should read about
Balaam's ass. If he had kept silent we
| might not have known what he was.
but now he has spoken we see what an
ass he is prolonged applause).
Father Burke says the capitalists are
| the friends Of the laboring men. They
are per cent. of the population and
| they enjoy II per cent. of the wealth.
This is friendship. 1t is the same
| capitalistic friend who lowers your
wages, who orders a reduction in paw.
who forces a lockout and connives at
a strike
| When Father Burke tells you that
| the people can own their own homes. he
is an ignoramus, and make up your
| mind that when some one breaches this
| doctrine he is in the service of one who
/ gets more pay than himself.
! Father Burke says we are Missionaries,
| but he believes in millennium. What
| kind of a visionary is he?
| He tells you that these capitalistic
exploters are your friends. He says
! that If the workingman does not work
he shall not eat. This Is what Christian
| churches preach today, and this is
what they have been preaching. but let
me tell you that they have made a poor
mess of it..
The capitalists call you a Spaniard
| II you ask for an increase, and yet FIR.
Burke speaks of the dignity and re-
sponsibility that rest upon the work
ingman. The capitalist has betrayed
the Workingmen, and he will continue
to do it. Let the laboring men of this
country rise in their might let them nv
the peaceful means of the ballot vote
their own men into the state legisla-
tive halls. Let them be done with la
Dor traitors. Years ago one disciple
betrayed his interests for gold. and
| such remorse did he feel that he went
| out and hung himself If at the next
! election your interests are at stake and
you do not vote for representatives of
| your class, go thou and do likewise. -
1T was twenty minutes before the an