The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-22
SOCIALISTS TO HAVE.
GREAT GAINS IN VOTE
Eugene v. Debs Predicts That
Socialist Party Will Poll
Increased Vote. :
Persecution of Organized La
bor by Employers Drives
bor to It's Own Party.

Wallace Idaho. Oct. 2O.-That the
Socialist party is a factor of increas-
ing Importance in the present CAM
paign is becoming more apparent ev-
cry day. Such meetings as the Soci-
alists are holding are not only un-
precedented in third party movements,
but the leaders of the old parties have
become positively alarmed and find
themselves compelled to revise their
calculations and put forth the most
strenuous efforts to resist the en-
croachments Of the Socialist propa-
ganda.
The rapid rise of Socialism is not
surprising the Socialists themselves.
Since the last National campaign an
unceasing propaganda of education has
been carried on in every part of the
country. Millions of leaflets, tracts
and pamphlets translated into every
language spoken by the working class,
have been systematically distributed.
score of Socialist papers, aggregat-
ing 100000 readers, are now pub
l1shed, while hundreds of speakers,
both men and women, are canvassing
the country in the interest Of the So
clalist party and it's candidates.
The accessions this year are accle-
rated largely by the hostile attitude of
the capitalist class toward the trade
union movement. The persecution Of
organized labor in Republican Color
ado and anti-boycott law In Demo-
cratic Alabama, the uniform decisions
of the courts against labor, the use Of
soldiers to protect capitalist property
and crush organized labor, the break
ing of the strikes in the packing
trades, the textile strikes and other in
dustrial strikes, the defiant declara-
Manufacturer Association have all
combined to drive workingmen from
both the old parties with the deter
mination to build party of their own
and meet the capitalists on the poll
tical battlefield where they outnumber
them dozen to one. This is one Of
the principal causes of the exodus to
the Socialist party.
New York is the leading State in
the revolutionary movement of the
working class. The Empire State this
year will poll an enormous increase
and possibly, cast as large a vote as
WAS i eaststn. az States four
years ago. ~ r sz:z z: p IS
Other ihdustrial States will follow
with corresponding increases. Massa-
| chusetts and New Jersey, in the East;
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin
in the Middle West, and California,
Oregon and Washington on the Pacific
coast, Will make a phenomenal show
Ing, while all other States will develop
such an increase over four years ago
that the returns will be a revela ton
! to the whole country. AS to the pivot
ed States it is difficult to fortell in
what manner or to what extent the
results will be affected
The Republican workingman Yields
| as rapidly as the Democratic working
man to the logic of Socialism. 1t is a,
! question Of economic self-interest. and
the working class are driven by the
logic OF events to independent political
action; as capital concentrates labor
| Is forced to organize, and as it's ef-
forts fail on the economic field it rail-
lies on the political field, and thus the
| capitalists themselves are promoting
| the political organization Of the work.
| ing class for the overthrow of the wage
system and the Inauguration of CO.
operative industry as the basis of the
! coming republic.
| In estimating the probable showing
Of the Socialist party we do not ven-
ture to use figures. We leave this to
the leaders of the parties that must
! figure out in advance the apportion-
ment of the spoils. 1t is sufficient to
say that when the smoke of battle
! clears from the political battlefield in
| November the whole world will know
| that there is a national Socialist party
! in the United States.