Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-10-18
POPUL|SM IS DEAD.
CANDIDATE DEBS SAYS ITS MS.
SION IS ENDED.
Tho Ethics Of Socialism" Discussed
Before a Large Audience Sunday
Evsning-Aiterno Meeting at
Herington.

>"After this election that element oil
the Peoples party that keeps up
separate existence for the purpose ol
allying itself with the Democratic
party will be dead as q door nail, VI
said Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candi-
date for president, this morning.
"This is the last election in which IT
will cut any figure. The fight is mar
rowing down between capitalism and
socialism and there is no room for a
party that is neither flesh, fish 'or
fowl. 1t is going down ignominious-
ly' each faction charging the other
with corruption. 1t is no more a
national party and it is time for it to
pass away-the sooner the better.
II find very strong Socialist sen.
timent in Kansas; many tell me they
will support the movement. l have
realized all ] expected here. We're
we able to make such q canvass as
the old parties we would poll $4,000
votes"
II the audience that filled the Seelye
theatre to standing room last night
expected to see a whiskered Herr Most
they were disappointed. When j. D.
Haskell presented Candidate Debs
there came forward smooth. .shaven,
tall, slender man with Whilcomb
Riley face and a perfectly at-home
bearing. He looked as though be
would feel better in dress-suit. For
an hour and a half he held the close
attention OF the audience while he
discussed "The Ethics Of Socialism. y
He painted dark picture Of the con.
tion Of the working man and claimed
that the influence Of invention had
lowered the price Of labor. He com.
pared the trust to labor saving ma
chinery as being development Of
conditions come to stay. "To talk Of
dssolving the trusts is to talk OF re-
versing the hands OF commercial de-
velopment. said he. "We have just
emerged from one panic and are on
the verge Of another" He predicted
that in ten years, owing to the effect
Of trusts, there will not be a CONNER
cial traveller in the country. When a
man in the audience called, Take off
the tariff" he replied: "But the ma
chinery would still be here piling up
surplus Of goods"
Socialism means great trust Of
all Of us in the productive capital Of
the nation" He defined it and de.
voted the close Of bis lecture to a pic
ture OF the future under Socialism's
rule with competition abolished and
so an end OF war, which he declared
to be, from the Transvaal to the
Philippines, merely commercial con-
test.
While Mr.. Debs' address was .inter.
esting he failed to give his hearers
feasible plan as how the beauties Of
socialism as he pictured them are to
be secured.
G. G. Clemens followed in a half
hours speech, lauding Debs as a Sec
ond Fremont and arraigning Bryan
and Mckinley as paying more atten-
ton to the Filipinos than the suffer.
ing poor Of America.
Mr.. Debs left at noon for Armour
dale where he makes his closing
speech in Kansas tonight.
DEBs AT HERINGToN.
HERINGToN, Oct. 15.-E. V. Debs
lectured here Sunday afternoon to an
audience nearly filling the opera house
and including many railroad men. A.
5. McAllaster, Rock Island engineer,
presided. Debs' subject was 1.-The
Higher Life," and be talked on intel.
lectual development and the bearing
OF present conditions thereon. "The
trusts" he said, "are preparing the
ground for Socialism and thus will
eventually be benefit. The old system
NJ aooiatv Ia wpariuu itealf out and