The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-12
DEBS INDUCES
IN HOT ROASIS
SOCIALIsTIC NOMINEE FOR PRIEST.
DENT PLAYS NO FAvoRITEs.
Denounces Violently All Other Political
Parties and Their Leaders, Including
Bryan - Money Masters Crushing
II Labor Into Slavery - Ignorance
Alone in the Way of Socialistic Sue
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Eugene V: Debs. labor leader and
nominee of the, socialist party for presi-
dent, addressed a crowded house at the
international auditorium last evening in
spite of the fact that an admission
price was charged.
Carl D. Thompson of Lincoln, Neb..
was the first speaker and introduced
party candidate for pe0Ai may owners MP
Rogers announced his position as 2. can
didate and concluded by introducing the
"Working Mems Quartet''; and after
a couple of vocal selections, Mr.. Debs
was introduced and, received with much
applause. -
Mr.. Debs' address was a bitter de-
nunciation of alleged existing condi.
tons. He asserted that all the par
ties except the socialist are in the
hands of the money masters, who are
crushing the laboring class into
slavery; that the only hope for the
W ?s9r gEinh W was as to join the social
would right all existing evils. But the
socialists are going to do it.
Mr.. Debs asserted that capital not
only now demands the shaving labor of
men and women, but has now compelled
little children to enter economic
slavery-evidently forgetting that in
Minnesota report just issued by the
state labor bureau asserts that child
labor is less today than in many wears
past.
most barbarous fact iS il ali na dhr rs the
dom. "They who buy and sell in the
labor market,' he said, "are alike de.
humanized by the inhuman traffic in
the brains and blood and bones of hu.
man beings.'
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in the present national campaign, and
| all other political parties to keep. the
attention, Of the masses from the real
question before them. Such differences
as exist, he explained, between the re.
publican and democratic parties Of to-
DAY are onl y such as "relate to spoils
| and not to principles'' Ignorance
alone; he said, stands in the way of
socialist success; shat the capitalist
their resources to prevent workers from
seeing the light. The divided vote of
labor is the abuse of the ballot and
the penalty is slavery and DEATH;
lie denounced Theodore Roosevelt
and Charles W. Fairbanks because they
couldn't see that a terrible class
struggle is now being enacted. Grover
Said Mr.. Debs, "When ex-President
Grover Cleveland violated the consti
tuition and outraged justice by Selling
the state of Illinois by the throat and
Handwriting her civil administration at
the behest of the crime stained corpor
| at1ons, Theodore Roosevelt was among
his most ardent admirers and enthusias
tic supporters. How impressive to see
the rough rider embrace the smooth
statesman. Oyster Bay and Buzzard :
Bay. 1.-TWO souls with but a single
| thought, two hearts that beat as one. -
| Mr.: Debs made some reference to Viii
liam j: Bryan, and a ripple of applause
| came, from the audience at mention OF
the name. This incensed the speaker
civilian Jennings Bryan,' said Mr.
Debs, denounced Judge Parker as q
tool of Wall street before he was nomi
mated, and declared that no self-respect
ing democrat could vote for him, and
after his nomination he charged that it
had been dictated by the trusts
In the general outline of his address
Mr.: Debs drew an analogy between the
political, struggle which resulted in the
declaration of independence and that
which was now on. Then, he said, il
was a struggle for political equality
now it is one for economic equality.
MIR. Debs found so many evils extan1
that he hardly had time in his two hours
of talking barely to refer to the ma
| iOritY of them