The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-15
Eugene " Debs' Grand Speech at the
Fair Grounds.
HIS MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE
The Principle and Promises of Social
ism VividIy Portrayed by the New
Messiah of the Laboring People.
No Dynamite, No Confiscation.

CdIutQdN nISuG eIilt CLLC NSPCH P'NNS
form was thronged with hundreds of
people eager to cast eyes upon the
esteemed and noted labor leader. 1t
was almost impossible for passengers
to alight from the train on account
of the encroaching crowd, and Mr..
Debs being personally known to but
few, almost escaped observation
when he did emerge from the for
ward day coach and lost himself in
the crowd. The committee hastily
picked him up, however, and escorted
him to the Hotel National where he
soon retired to rest from the jour
ney not being in strong health. Mr..
Debs was obliged to postpone his lee
ture at Great Falls Friday night, on
account of heart trouble, and he
looked pale and worn when he APP
peared on the rostrum at the fair
grounds Sunday afternoon and was
not in good voice.
AS predicted by the Bee, fully one
thousand visitors from the surround
ing country came in to hear the So
cialist leader expound the doctrine Of
emancipation, and none were disap-
pointed.
The Kalispell city band discoursed
several selections up town in the
early afternoon and finally drove
down to the fair grounds, Mr.. Debs
and the committee following shortly
after o'clock
Every seat and all standing room in
the grand stand was occupied, and
the crowd extended across the race
track and into the paddock when Mr.
Debs was introduced and arose to
address them. A conservative esti
mate places the audience at 5000 per-
sons, there were probably more
within hearing of the voice of the
orator.
There were a sufficiently great num-
Der of new things in socialism, as eX-
pounded by Mr.. Debs to make the
lecture decidedly interesting. He
harrangued not at capital, nor he who
is responsible for the condition that
Mr. Debs is firmly of the opinion can
be improved upon. On the contrary
a glowing picture of possibilities
with the domination of the creed he
so ardently champions is so well por
trayed as to make his views inviting
to the most skeptical
1t is cooperation that the speaker
laid greatest stress upon as a cure
in a large measure for many existing
evils He said that the capitalist is
one only because he cannot help it
and that there are not many men il
the world but that would be so stu
ated if they could. He also finds
great evil in the system of the wage
scale as is the custom todav. "Fo
my part, would not be a slave unde
the wage SCALE nor would | ask an
other to be for me-" he said. 9TH,
system is vile in that no laborer un
der it secures the full return for tn,
exploitation of his value. Instead
the surplus goes to make up a for
tune that has in the end the enslav
ing of others"
With no equivocal language, MI
Debs predicts the success of the sc
cialistic movement, and for the nea
future. The view he holds of tina
happy time is, when transforme,
with his graceful word painting,
blessed time to look forward to b.
the masses. There will then be n
sweat shops, no slavery of labor, bu
a happy and peaceful existence, whel
every mans chief effort will be d
rected to assisting his fellow being
Mr.. Debs, in his address of tw
hours, presented much food for re
Election:
do you know" he said, during hi
speech, that the rarest thing on thi
planet is a man who really thinks
1t is hard to think and it is very cas-
to take a mental vacation and
applauded So many men think
proxy. You agree with the man VIII
can punish you. | don't ask any ma
to be persuaded by me. Just thinl
You cut loose from the old partie
Say just once, propose to shake o
this bondage and represent mysel
Whichever the old parties win, yo
lose, and when you lose you ougl
not to be pitied-you ought to /
ashamed of yourself"
The world is moving in the rigl
direction. We object in vain and e
ter protests without effect. We thin
resolve and act, but society still live
and conditions remain unchange
That which society says is drea
today becomes a realized fact tomo
row and lives forever,
THE day will come when Il
worker will say: The tools of pr
duct we're made for me and | propo.
to own them.
'Since the day the great shinir
sun flung into space we have bee
ruled by the brutal law of the su
vival of the fittest. Socialism pr
poses that men shall work togethe
It means nothing else. You, wit