The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-07
SOCIALIST
CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR ADDRESSES
SMALL CROWD AT COURT !.
HousE-LocAL ORDER
ORGANIZED

John Collins, Socialist candidate
fer governor Of Illinois, spoke at the
coarl house last night, before small
crowd.
Before the speaker began local or
der was organized, composed Of nine
m.n, Mr. Collins acting as chairman.
directed the election of officers. Mn
Sombert, of St Louis, was chosen
secretary OF the meeting; Mr.. J. B.
Stewart of 6l3 3lth street, was made
financial secretary. and Chas. Terrell
elected to the office Of local organizer.
Mr.. Collins explained the Socialist or
ganization in a clear and simple man
ner. and gave short history of So
cialism. After dwelling for some time
on the object, aims and beliefs of the
Socialist Party he began his talk on
1.-THE Development of Social Stand
ing" In part, he said:
"The great mass of the people do
not understand that there are really
bnt two classes of people today, the
working man and the millionaire.
What is the cause of all this? We
find that at. one time there was no
such thing as trade unions, no such
thing as trusts. ! walked down the
street just this afternoon and saw
men. women and children, both white
and black. some nearly naked, some
with ragged clothes and bare feet.
yet there are plenty Of clothes and
shoes in the world It's the same way
with food There is a cause for all
this There are three classes in 50.
ciety and three political parties. Ac-
cording to the Socialist belief there
are two classes of society and two
political parties.
There are the two classes. the
middle class and the millionaire. the
two political parties. the Socialist and
the Republican. The Republican
and Democratic parties are classed as
one by the Socialist"
MIR. Collins here took the knife as
an illustration of the profits Of the
capitalist, and then Illustrating the
profits made by the owners Of giant
shoe factories and other large estah.
llshmenis. The workingmau does the
work. produces the finished knife OF
shoe for extremely small sums. The
owner OF the factory does no work.
performs no labor. yet he must make
his profit. The wholesale dealer. the
great retail dealer. and smaller mer-
chants perform none Of III labor nee
essary 10 produce the article. yet they
receive a larger profit than the work
ingman who produced IT,
To Illustrate how the manufacture
of machinery has affected the work
ingman. Take for instance, the limo
type machine, It.fs Introduces into
some priB;lgs house. throwing four
typesetsers ont Of employment Some
pee pfe. Saw there Is no loss 10 the
worlsfnE man by the introduction n
machinery. Where these men are
thrown ont of jobs. by labor-savine
machinery thOe men are employed il
making those machines 4 frst-class
machine viii last ten years. Perhaps
Il might take these four men one
year 10 make snch a machine. II 80
thers arr those four men ont Of en-
ployment for nine years. yet the So
ciaiists are in favor Of lahor-saving
machinery.
Nj. Collins reviewed the rise II
trusts and corporations and dwelt for
some time upon the influence Of com
petition in al lines upon the Ameri-
can people He remarked that there
was not a plank in either the Demo
cratic or Republican platform this
year that vii IN any way aid the
workinemeu. or middle class.
The differences between the prin-
cipiez Of the Democratic and RepubIi-
can parties conirasfed with the So