The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-10
SOCIALIST LEADER
SCORES ROOSEVELT
Says President Is Working
to Hoodwlnk the
Toilers

In his address to the Public Ownership
Socialist party in Metropolitan hall yes
terday Il. P. OHare declared that So
cialism is bound TO triumph because OF
the lessons taught by labor saving ma
chinery. and that with the million or more
votes that will be polled for Eugene V.
Debs for president. in the present cam
paign .'the masters will be taught that
the slaves have awakened from their long
dream. and the politicians will realize that
they have Young giant with which TO
contend.
Look about you and note the conditions
under which the worker exists, said the
speaker You see the man compelled
to ask for the privilege of working. If
he does not like the place that he has he
possesses the right. it is true. to hunt for
another boss that will not kick him about
so hard. And it lis not merely the me
chanic who is kicked about 1t is the
private secretary, the stenographer and
other employees on the inside of the par
titiOn.
Under existing conditions the work
ingman is supposed to be highly pleased
if he is allowed enough to feed and clothe
himself and family, but under Socialism
all profits would go to the workers.
Ballot Box Reforms
There is but one way in which to ac-
complish the reforms for which We are
striving, and that is through the ballot
box. And the time is COMMISSIONING
fast. The great labor unions have proved
the school from which have been gradu-
ated the highest Socialistic thought, and
their growth and prosperity means that 1t
is but a question of time until there is
an awaking to realization that indus
trial freedom cannot be achieved through
either the Republican or Democratic par
ties.
This is being brought home to those
members OF unions who are being sold out
by their officers. This is notably true in
the Pennsylvania coal fields. where the
workmen have been victimized by frailde
ulent arbitration board. Believe or not
it is true that George F. Baer, the coal
magnatc, and theodore Roosevelt are
working hand in hand to hoodwiniz the
toilers and by subterfuge keep them from
the ballot boxes.
Time Ripe for UpheaVai !
"The time is ripe for political up
heaYal. The people are listening to and
discussing the principles of Socialism as
never before. For this condition we have
the labor saving machinery and the huge
BEGINNING to realize that it Will be far bet
ter for the government to own the trusts
than it is for the trusts to own the gov
eminent. For that is the condition of
America today.
This country is called democracy
republican form of government. 1t Is
formed the government intended to es-
ia bliSh a free country but the power has
been seized by a few. who have grown to
that extent that with a stroke of the pen
one man can throw thousands of men out
of employment.
why not declare against such condi-
lions
Look at the saloons!
Nearly every one of them with brew
er's name over the door in token that
they are owned by trust Under So
cialism the liquor traffic would be wiped
out, for there would be taken from it the
possibility of gain, and with this removed
men would not be drawn to lose their
self-respect and sink to degradation by
constantly sticking their noses into ajlser
tankaTd." h,=s