The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

of the people. You will admit that the
public school idea is good one the
school house door swing wide open to
the children of rich and poor alike free
text books, free fuel, free instructors
every thing free for the education of the
children: that's Socialism. what we
Socialists contend for is the extension of
that same highly beneficial principle
right on up through railroads, tele-
phones, telegraphs, mines, factories and
land SO that all OF these public utilities
may serve us all instead of robbing us.
You have been told that Socialists want
the rich to divide up. That's lie. we
Socialists are not the only working peo-
pie who don't want to divide up but
we are the only working people who
know enough to vote against an accursed
private ownership system that forever
forces us to "divide up" Remember
that we are working people ana the
only ones who rightfully ever have any
thing to divide up. Those who have
wealth and have not worked for it are
thieves and have stolen it from the
rightful owners, those who produced it.
we socialists are fighting for the full
social value of the entire product of our
toll. That's what you want too only
you haven't learned how to vote for it.
You have been told that ''under
Socialism you couldn't own anything,
but everything would belong to the
government" That's lie. Everything
that pertains to private life will be
privately owned under Socialism and
your money will buy anything that is in
the market for sale. we stand for abso-
Lutte religious freedom. You have heard
that the majority of Socialists were
atheists, perhaps. That isn't SO. Social
ism has nothing to do with religion and
a Christian and an atheist can be equally
good Socialists but no one can be
Christian and not be Socialist because
the ethics and foundation principle of
both are absolutely Identical the
brotherhood of man" and justice be.
tween men. Perhaps you have heard
that under socialism all churches would
be public property and all preachers
paid by the state. That's mistake.
The churches will belong to the societies
Who use them and the preachers will be
paid by and under full control of the
congregations whom they serve.
we stand for the abolition of all rents,
interest, dividends and profit.
If you are living on unearned incomes
such as the above, you will not be ex-
pected to vote for socialism but if you
pay rent, or interest, or dividends, or
profits and would like to keep your mon
ey for other purposes instead of throw
ing it away thus, you have an opportu-
nifty on Nov. 9Th to vote for the privilege
OF so doing. You have heard that "un-
der socialism there won't he any money
and any sane man knows that wouldn't
work" That's lie. Under socialism,
every person who works will be paid and
what he gets will be money and will be
good anywhere in the world to buy any
thing that is for sale, but the bankers
won't like chat money because it can't
draw interest.
We believe in educating the children
of the working-people as thoroughly as
the children of the parasites. Now, the |
parents are poor. Some of them can
send their children to the public school
at least part of the time and some are so |
hard up that the children must 90 to |
work all of the time as soon as they are
largo enough to do anything and very
few of the working people even can af
ford to give their children college edu-
cations; but under under socialism. the |
parents will all be wealthy if they work |
and the children will all be thoroughly |
educated at public expense, college and |
all. If you'd rather live in world full |
of we'll educated people, vote the social |
ist ticket this fall for the leaders of the
private ownership parties are not in IA /
vor of highly educated working people
Child labor is increasing under repub-
licanism. Working children means ig-
norant children and ignorant children
grow into ignorant men and women usu-
ally. By the way, believe you heard
Socialism would destroy the homes" II
any well-informed person ever told you
that, he lied. Did you ever have a
home? / mean one that was. worthy the
name "home." Most of the working
people don't. They live in shacks and
huts that wouldn't make really good
stables and it's our present social system
called Capitalism that will destroy and
is destroying the homes of most of the
people and most of their home-life. So
cialists aren't, anarchists and socialism
isn't anarchism either. Anarchists
don't believe in any government while
we socialists are contending for the high
est and most perfect form Of govern
ment-a cooperative government based
on absolute justice and equality in op-
portunity. we stand for equal political
rights for women. we believe that
every human being Of age and sound
mind should enjoy the privilege OF
taking part in making the govern
ment and the laws. Isn't that reason
able9 we believe in giving women their
economic liberty also. That means that
good and ABUNDANT employment should
be furnished the girls and women who
want to earn their livings so that they
will not be thrown out Of employment
and frozen and starved into houses Of
prostitution for place to eat and rest.