The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-08-06
SOCIALIST CANDIDATE,

Frank Leitner San Antonio Texas
Lampasas Texas July as.--Dear Comrade: Yours of
July 20, notifying OF my nomination Tor governor Of
Texas by the socialist labor party, received.
In accepting viii say that the issue before the
American people the Trusts not creatures of
inc law and can not be regulated to any great by
legislation Trusts the inevitable result of the Dryo
ownership OF the Indispensable Of making living
the land and the wonderful inventions and scientific dcov
cries unhousht of by the founders OF our government an
Piled to the machinery Of production and distribution and
can be remeded only by the adoption OF constitutional
amendments be necessary abolish the present sy
TEN of private ownership and the with its tim
Der grazing agricultural and mineral resources and the ma
collective body Private ownership enables the owning
through profits to appropriate ali the
produced by the dsposessed class leaving thai class in
condition of involuntary servitude To system Of private
ownership he plainly traced the existence OF prv
legged class the corruption of by class the
alienation OF public property public franchises and pubc
functions and the abect dependence the mghest of ma
tons upon thar class.
Labor robbed OF the wealth which it alone produces m
denied the means of sell employment and by compulsory
neeessaFies OF NE Human power and natural forces are
thus wasted that the puocracy may Ignorance and
misery WIN all their eoncomitant evils perpetuatcd that
the people may be kept IN bondage Science invention
are diverted from their humane purposes the ensavcmen
of women and children
Independence is based the opportunity Of making
living without asking the conse, OF another While land
was easily obtained and machinery was simple this cond
tion prevailed and impossible To establish an, No.
liberal form OF government Since the land has hee,
nopolEcd by private ownership and machinery has heco
costly and complex an economic revolution has bccn b
about which completely changes earlier conditions When
the democrats and republican put their heads to-
geher and enact an effective antitrust law they will demon
strae their alleged faacy of socialism The employment
OF thousands OF and children factories and other
uncongeniai occupations calculated cripple the moral
physical and intellectual development OF race can nor he
prevented by law This has just been clearly proven in N
Jersey -" W"
he old slave holder interested in the proper deveon
ment and care Of his slaves because he had property inter
est III heir welfare Under the present system man has be-
come less valuable and less cared for than domestic animals
me capitalist class gets all OF the benefits OF his labor
without the burdens Of the slave holder in caring for bs
slaves century James Madison said I'VE are TO-DAY
substantially free but the day will come when our rcnuh
viii be an imposshty because wealth will he ,crr,i
IN the hands OF few Then rely upon the wisdom
OF the nest elements to readust the affairs the nation 10
ferred 10. ' N''9's re
The days of both the democratic and republican ,,;
are numbered The American woringman must choose he
tween the course pointed out by the political reormer aud
labor leader which leads barbsrsm and decay or ,b m
ea labor party which leads TO the socialist renublc 49,
higher system OF civilization than has ever vet been resS
G.. H. Royu