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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

surely that just But in be twisted to
slavery for the who did not like the conditions could
refuse them, just as he now.
But note that other statement Of Mr.. Ingersolrs:
If the Government provide work
worker what he must do,
| Must it? Why?
At the capitalist finds work. but be does
eide what must do, He cannot decide or he would
So when the State found work it would decide what
each man must do.
= You will ask me how 6ociaistc State wond anno+tior
the work ask you how the work apportioaed nowf
You have say lad Of fourteen, and wish put him
to trade You ask him his choice He says he would like
be cabinetmaker You apply at the shops your
and find that trade bad that the allowed number
prentics made up So you get the boy as sng
neer q painter.
That is to say your boy choose his trade subject
demand for labor of certain kinds all the boys wanted to
be engineers they could not all get work at that trade
These conditions would exist under Socialism. The State
or municipality would need certain number Of plummers
and certain number OF painters boys asked to be
painters than the state needed to do it's painting
would have to take other work. Where does the slavery
come in?
Robert Ingersol is considered very able man. and Her
Spencer enjoys the reputation of being great thinker
What have these famous been doing with their eyes
How have they contrved egregous bunder
supposng that have free choice Of occupation now?
How many do you know, John Smith, who working
at the trade of their choice living where and how they
please?
Let return to your boy Of fourteen Suppose instead of
choosing to be cabinet he said want to be
tor !" You would laugh at him. Why?
Because it is absurd for to ask to be
tor. Why?
Because it costs lot of money to become doctor. And,
more, why? Because doctor has great deal learn
and education is dear.
So, though your wishes to be DOCTOR though he
might great talent for the work. he 20
candestck instead for you poor give him
his choice.
But under Socialism, education would be free It would be
free to all Therefore the competition for docorshps would
be equal It would not be what it is close thing
the privileged classes So your boy would have good
chance any other
"Ah," but you will say, under Socialism all the boys
would want to be doctors and artists and wrtes Very
likely And present all the boys want to be gentlemen
very few Of them get their w and many Of them
to be beggars or thieves.
Under Socialism boy who had the industry and talent
might qualify himself to get diploma. OF course when he
had got it, he might not get the appointment
medical men for his town.
But understand that there present good many
doctors with practice.
There greater blunder possible than the blunder Of
supposng that in this country at the present time every
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

The man Who disclaims all belief in
Socialism, yet who nevertheless unites
with his fellowmen in organized effort
to effect his aims, is, far more of So
cialist, though he know it not, than the
man who calls himself Socialist yet
makes no attempt to act in concert with
his fellows, for the belief in the useful
ness and efficiency Of social action is the
principle upon which the doctrine Of
Socialism is founded, and from which
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

pie Of Socialism. Does the city divide
tho books equally among the people :?
Under Socialism we would have public
ownership and private use. That is what
you have under public ownership Of wa
ter works, library, fire department, etc.
Read up on Socialism.-Leon Green
baum.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

may follow the work Of his choics is ridiculous error
To read Mr. Bradaugh Mr.. Ingerso, and Mr. Spencer,
would think that things we'll ordered that all
kinds f work must fall to the best fitted do it,
Writer'S and painters have to write and paint what they
SELL provided they get chance write and paint ALL
Take my Here am after being forty two years
free man. in free country obliged to confess that have
succeeded in doing the kind Of work have wanted
to do.
Turn your eyes trade There carpet factories
town. Another sets up in that trade. What happens?
He may Be good and clever man; and he may
better carpets the other rms very
they will ruin him by selling below cost in order retain
the trade in their hands,
Or suppose there two papers a town and rival pa
per is started. What will happen?
The may be much better paper than the old
ones but unless the proprietor s rich cannot live Why
Because there is such thing boycott The propretors
Of the established papers will send around the
and say, you sell the Comet will take away the agency
for the Fog Horn and If you sell the Comet shall get
fresh agents for the Welsher"
Now suppose the agent is poor agents are and
suppose he selling both those papers and clearing dol
week the sae Is it likely that he will risk the
dollars for the sake of selling good paper which may not
pay him dollar, or may not live month?
Do call that agent free agent? Do you to say
that the woudbe proprietor of the Comet man,
that he can do what work he pleases?
Under present conditions, rascay and money always
overreach honesty and brains
am not talking theory now like that of Robert
1ngerso am telling facts and arguing from experience
Talk about slavery! Freedom of contract! Under your
much gored freedom Of contract how many contracts
freely made? Under your vaunted liberty of the Individual
how individuals have liberty at a At this present
day in this fine country the bulk Of the people slaves
They slaves not to wse bencent and popular govern
men but to ring of greedy graspng oos cotere of rich
would boil down the last nghtengae they
thought bones would to dye yarn who would choke
the last we'll they had place handy which to shoot
their aka DUST and would the rood with
ashee they thought there hope Of grinding the said
ashes with slime to make mortar for peoples houses
Can anyone imagine despotism terrible" than
the regulation Of work by Government? think think
could 6nd it. Bat have need look. See; it here
ready to my hand.
1t is here, in letter. long kept by sample of many
constantly receve:-
Hyou to give devils of silk dyers
any others England get wages
for vea rather situations dare openly
long union strike did last summer, pressure
brought wives and children neary of whom
have work. being dismissed from their situations If
to the Leek Tmeshe best friend had
afraid to sign and if have meeting it has
dead In fact is worth living work
and far the only
shall will be the union wokhouse and many
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

the Socialists, said they. have ISOLATION
for the labor problem. And when he
rises to the point that Socialists have at
tanned in the mastery Of social science
he will be the hardest kind Of fighter
for that principle. That he was an ar
dent supporter Of Hannaism and has SO
soon discovered his error is encouraging.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

Socialists do not believe in dividing
up equally. They never proposed any
thing SO absurd. The public ownership
of waterworks is an example Of Social
ism. Does the city divide the water
equally among each man, woman and
child? The public library is an exam
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

Members of Steam Engineers union
of Denver, have paper on Socialism
read weekly; hence the engineers. are
becoming one Of the most intelligent
body of workers in the ". st.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

Leading writer's I'm France and Italy
admit that every economic and political
tendency is in the direction Of Socialism.
The new movement is being widely dis
cussed in European journals.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

Shaffer, president Of the AmaIgama-
Iron Workers, after paying tribute to
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

that doctrine cannot be separated with
out falling to pieces.-J. r. Cole, in
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full half way word to strengthen the fear
encourage Somebody help u.s. We
ourselves We have been down long that
how to get up.
For Gods sake do mention my name What? It is no
crime to write to pressman and say happy" or
II am pad" 1t is not against the law say We have
no union" man trembles to hear his name given
with his true Statements what becomes the sacred
liberty Of the ndvualf" Is this your liberty thens Is
this the liberty cannot sacrifice for any comfor?" Are
these noble aspirations and glorious ambitions Socialism
would trampe Of ef Is this free Engands free chooe
When free fears to speak his Surely there
some despotism extant.
But Mr. Ingerso says "The human cannot afford to
sell it's liberty for possible comfort have said enough
satisfy you that the human liberty to sell
but don't want you to suppose that Socialism nothing
nober than desire for comfort We better things than
comfort We want freedom and JUSTICE and honor and educa
tion Your ndvualist and utiarian decipes Of
comfort To their comfort and to their luxury all best
and sweetest in the lives the poor sacrificed They mag
inc that long the worker has enough and drink
he has all that he requires The comfort they is the
comfort of the hogan overed stomach bed of straw
close and filthy sty. We socialists ask the people shall
be held something better than hogs We ask that they
shall be treated and women-and and women
comfort is not the fulfllment of fe.
The people need than wages They need They
need culture They need humane and retonal amusement
and aspirations about which critic is eloquent
want to know why the collier and the and the rail-
drudge and the silk dyer should be doomed to dull and
british round of labor will not call it work-snd greasy
stew, and bad beer and Mattress and filthy
want to know why the eng Of the free and easy should
considered recreaon and why the head huntersp $500
should be counted high enough ambition Tell me- why
should the best that aud science and literature and
music and poetry and the drama do be placed the dis
posa humbest workers Why not the fac
tory girl be educated LADY, Why should the collier be
cultured gentleman?
The "Captalsm! The exgencies Of capitalism
grind these people down. rob them Of res Of energy Of
health o. food of meso that they have neither heart
mind opportunity to become aught but drudges Talk
about splendid ambitions and aepratons Such things
are for the fortunate few; them the many
Wonld you not feel delighted to all the trains made
alike in beauty labelled "United States Railway and feel
you owned them much any other citizen? Would
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

One banners displayed during the Labor day parade
in Los Angeles "Strike at the Ballot Box.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-09-26

Would you not feel delighted to all the trains made
alike beauty labelled "Unted States Railway and feel
you owned them much any other citizen? Would
you not feel proud Of them you do Of public build
ugs? think that every citizen should like to that
dtion feel that corporation using the iron high
ways gather millions out Of the public The nation ia
great enough the railroads-Appeal to Reason.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-01

on board the Sausalito when fireman Of
the San Rafael came on deck and said the
boat was sinking. The life boats Of the
two ferry-boats were lowered by this
time. The passengers lowered them I
helped TO lower two. l saw many people
jump into the water when II was stated
that the San Rafael was sinking. /
should judge that eighty people went into
the water. We threw life preservers over
from the Sausalito and lowered lanterns
with ropes.
Two tugs came up to the scene. One
Of them was there before the San Rafael
sank, the second one came up afterward.
/ saw many people brought to the Sausa-
Ito in the small boats. j think about
forty were saved by the life boats. 1 Sup
pose that the two tugs must have picked
some Of the people up. ] should judge
that about forty people were missing
when account was taken on the Sausalitc.
II they were not saved by the tugs they
must have been drowned. The Sausallto
drifted with the ebb tide for fifty minutes
after the collision and people were being
picked up all the time by the life boats.
81 think that the boats were lowered in
good time and that everything was done
by Captain Mckenzie that 1t was possible
to do under the circumstances"
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SCENES OF TERROR
ATTEND COLLISION
..-@<cz-. IN THE HEAVY FOG
For Time Pandemonium Reigned
and Efforts TO Save People in
Water Were Nearly Wasted


NJ A. Jackson tells the following story
Of the disaster -f-
Il had been UP town and intended 10
catch the 5:45 boat. Instead Of that got
the 6:l5, much to my sorrow We were
between Lombard-street wharf and Alca-
traz Island when the reverse bell came
ano i among others went out on deck
We couldn't see the ships length and
wondered what was the matter. In some
direction We could hear bells ringing and
Knew the sound came from English ships
~ the stream. and then we heard two
whistles and thought IL was the Tiburon
making for San Francisco. Then we
heard two blasts from our whistle and
two blasts again, and the San Rafael
stopped and began to go astern Then we
began to wonder what was the matter
and before We could come to our senses
something came along and struck us and
knocked US over till we didn't know what
war the matter.
The next thing knew was that our
ship began 10 settle. / made no hurry
because l thought that the upper works
would keep her afioat. and that while the
bottom might drop out of her we still
would have time enough to get aboa I'd
any boat that came TO our assistance
dent think many people were drowned.
because when j got on deck there were
four ilfeboats out and lifebuoys floating
around enough for man to walk on
between the San Rafael and the Sausalito,
and while there was considerable confu-
sion. / believe few lives were lost.
AS far az the accident is concerned, Il
is one of those unavoidable things that is
bound TO come UP once I'm a lifetime. Cali
fornia has never, IN my experience. seen
such heavy fog as prevailed during this
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last twenty-four hours, and hope to God
/ shall never see another like it."
Charles Bagge, chief officer OF the San
Rafael, said:
The collision came like a thunderbolt
out Of a clear sky, even II IL was a foggy
night I was on the starboard quarter
and keeping a lookout on my own ac-
see anything. Then / heard one whistle
again. Then the next thing / heard was
the old man give two bells; then our ship
began 70 slow up; then there were two
bells more and she began TO go astcrn;
then l knew there was trouble. The next
minute before 1 could turn on my heel
there was a smash. The Sausalito had
struck US forward OF the pilot house. We
heeled over until the starboard paddle
box was clean out Of the water and /
thought we were going down. There were
cries from stem TO stern OF the ship and
for while pandemonium reigned-"
Frank Hyams, foreman Of J. II. keefe,
painter, said:
1--WE were about fifteen minutes out
from the slip when the San Rafael dash
ed into US. II was about $50 / was sit
ting in the saloon playing cards. The Sau-
salito struck and broke right through the
restaurant. I should judge there were
about go people aboard. The crowd was
greater than the ordinary Saturday night
crowd. The crash was great. The panic
that followed was awful to hear. l saved
a friend by the name Of Leonard. a law
yer Of the firm of Leonard G. Hawkins. 1
pulled him out Of the water"
Charles z. Wendt, foreman of Samp-
son & Fisger. sailmakers, tells the follow
ing story:
when the crash came I was in the sa-
loon and I rushed to the upper deck. 1
walked from the San Rafael to the Sau-
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salito. l saw Captain Tribble. l said to
him why don't you lower the boats. Al
this time the Sausalito's boats were not
lowered. He replied everything was all
right. 1 know that a man by the name
of Fay of Corte MADEIRA was on board.
Jack Forbes of Mill Valley and Frank
Mcbride OF San Quentin"
Andrew Westwater. draughtsman, said:
II know that the whistles were blowing
from the time we left the slip and we
were going ahead at a slow but steady
rate. Suddenly from my position on the
upper deck I heard whistle on the star
board bow. Shortly after, less than a
minute. the Sausalito crashed into us a
short distance above the paddle box. She
backed away soon after. It was fully
ten minutes and probably fifteen min
utes before the San Rafael sank. When
the Sausalito backed away the water be-
gan to rush into the gap. / got into one
of the small boats with ten or twelve 9TH
ers. We were swamped and all OF us.
am pretty sure. came up and chung to the
gunwale. There were some women in this
boat. A Miss Bridgman OF Sausalito was
one of them. 1t seemed to me as II we
were clinging TO that boat for full half
hour. All were rescued. In the party
were VIII Shore of San Francisco and a
Mr.. Moore Of Corte MADEIRA"
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the passengers on the San Rafael when
she met with disaster: In speaking OF the
loss Of the ferry-boat ;Varrack said last
night: -, zsss.a s,.-,tss y
II arrived az the ferry slip about e:12
p. m. The boat was to leave at 6:15 p. m,
but she was ten minutes late. i should
judge that between 300 and $50 people
went on the San Rafael when the ferry
gates were opened. / went to the card
room as soon as 1 got on the boat and
was playing whist when the collision took
place. The fog was very dense. in fact
have never seen a thicker fog In the six
years I have lived across the bay. The
San Rafael was going at half speed from
the time we started until the Sausalito
ran. into her.
81 heard whistles blown while we were
playing cards. but did not pay any par
tlcular attention to them. We knew moth
ing of the Sausalito being close to us until
the collision. took place. The Sausalito
struck US on the side opposite to the card
room, where / was. / ran out on deck
and Captain Johnson, the second mate.
told me we were IN no danger. ! got a
life preserver and put 1t on. There was
no difficulty In getting the life preservers.
Every one around had them on.
There was considerable excitement but
no panic. Women were screaming and
the men were trying TO quiet them. When
got around 10 the other side of the boat
the Sausalito was close TO us. She had
backed off after the collision and then
came up head-on and tied up to the San
Rafael. ! helped to get women and chill
dren from the San Rafael TO the Sausalito.
MANY women who were in the upper
saloon were helped through the windows
to the bridge-house, and then from that
point reached the Sausalito.
II think that about 200 people had got
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sMASHES THE CABIN
WINDOWS TO RELEASE
FEAR-STRICKEN WOMEN

CLINTON Mason, resident of Sausalito,
was passenger on the Inflated steamer
San Rafael For a while ne was on the
lower deck, but because of the heavy.
penetrating fog he sought the upper
cabin. When the crash came Mr.. MaaGn
was seated well aft in the cabin. fSe
only means of escape for the penned-in
passengers was through the door, quite a
distance forward of his position.
The many women In the cabin were for
the moment panic-stricken and seemingly
unable to help themselves. As the
steamer settled lower and lower In the
water the excited and half-crazen ladies
crowded toward the stern OF the boat.
Realizing that something must be done.
and quickly, too, to avert general panic
In the cabin. Mr.. Mason commenced to
break the windows and tear away their
sashes that mode OF egress might be OBJ
tanned.
AS soon as place was cleared the
women crowded about. and 1t was with
some effort that Mr.. Mason uuieted their
fears and satisfied them that there was no
danger II they kept cool One by one the
women were passed through the open
space. In the meantime some Of the pas
sengers had taken advantage OF the for
ward door Several women were cut and
scratched by small pieces left in the
broken sashes and Mason's hands were
badly cut In breaking the windows.
Once out of the cabin the women
climbed into a lifeboat that hung from the
davits Of the Sausalito,
AS they crowded in the bottom fell Bht
some of the women reached the deck OF
tho Sausalito. The others were forced
back to the sinking steamer. but even
tually they were transferred without fur
ther mishar
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was accompanied by his brother-in-law.
E. c. Counter. an electrician. who was
also saved He said:
81 was standing by the engine-room
smoking when / heard a scraping noise.
which I instantly knew was a collision. I
yelled to my brother-ln-law TO get life
preserver and he rushed aft while / ran
forward. I ran on deck and scrambled on
board the Sausalito. Ny only thought
was to save my life, but when I reached
a place Of safety helped others.
The passengers seemed to have a pre-
monition Of impending danger. They were
highly nervous because of the dense fog.
Every one seemed to be talking about the
danger of collision and was half ex-
pecting an accident. When the shock
came heard groaniLg and feel certain
that the cook was pinioned by falling
timbers. II any lives were lost they were
children, as the elder people had ample
time to escape from the sinking steamer"