Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-19

interests which are in no way MUTUAL.
!, The peasants and workmcn have one
interest, the labor employers and land
owners have others. We Social Demo
Gratis support the. interests OF the
working classes. 1t is our task to try
TO learn the needs OF the people. and
also to learn how they can be fulfilled.
! Exploitation Condemned.
| We Socialists find that in society
! there ought not to exist any exp!oita-
ticn on one part Of the population by
| the other, and that all he means OF
production. such as workshops. facto-
! ries and the land. ought not to belong
! to individuals but to society at large
and should always be under the con-
! troll and management Of the people
Such is our final ideal which means
peace on the face of the earth AMI for
| the peoples thereof All the rest of
our tasks are in strict accordance
! with this ideal. 1t is our leading star
Our present task we consider to be to
! arrange that the exploitation OF the
J wor!lmen by the employers and the in
| habitants in general by the state
| should be as small as possible We
come to the people with our peace
ideals and present them in such a
| manner that they can see their best
interests, and teach them TO find for
| themselves the best means of fighting
for those ideals. Without us there
were strikes accompanied by the
breaking Of machines, and also with
out us there existed disorders. dur!n g
which landlords We're Killed. We try
as much as possible to keep the work
men and peasants from using force.
and to teach them to fight for their
ideals in peaceful way. The trouble
does not come from what we teach the
people, but from the fact that they are
in a totally. different position before
employers. The exploitation is pro
tected by the law. and the fighting
against exploitation is to fight against
the laws. We Socialists do not insist
on the people taking our views. We
only want to tell them the truth. The
means by which we agitate are of a
peaceful character. We express our
l views by means Of the press and by
means of speech. We hate and de-
lspise all kinds of violence We are
certain that to struggle against con.
yiction is useless, as you can fight it
as much as you like, cruelty it. wipe
off the face Of the world its origina-
tors. but it will always arise again,
strcnger than before.
!! Relations to State lndiTfe rent
Cur relations to the state are in re-
| ai!ty Indifferent. if only the people had
the right to talk freely and fight for
their own interests, and We're these
rights not taken away from the Social
I lists. Where the public and declared
! Socialists have that right equally the
| conditions OF the states do not suffer
! from the Socialstic propa sanda, but
there also, OF course. the rich CRY out
against the struggles OF the interior
enemies OF the country
Some fractions OF the German So:
ciaiists so much hate the word 'reyoll-
ton that they try to do away with it,
declaring this conception as a prejl1-
dice OF the events of bygone times.
/ Lucky are the German Socialists.
Is it our fault if we Russian Social
isis are forced to become revolution
lists? All our efforts at peaceful activ-
ity are met with persecution on the
part of the state. There was time in
the nineties when many of the Social
4 lstic fractions abstained from talking
with the Workmen on politics. These
/ We're merly economists and did not
leave the narrow limits of the work
men 's,needs. However, for their work
/ they We're also declared state crimi-
mails.
i Russian Socialists have learned by
1 experience that the right Of speaking
! ones mind freely is not to be had in
1 the Russian empire. Consequently, to-
I gether with their aims the Russian So
1 cia]ists have made it their duty to try
to attain such conditions in the empire
as will make it possible to talk and
write freely in accordance with indi.
i yidual views.
a Right Dear to All.
Such right is not only dear to us
4 Socialists, but also for the whole OF
Russia Even il we Socialists did not
exist the need would nevertheless Sex-
i! lst Social opinion has no adequate
means OF making itself heard in Rus
!, STA. That which the Russian press
:; speaks OF daily cannot be called an ex
preston of Russian Social opinion, be
7, cause only one party can talk freely
/, land 50 freely thatit becomes for intel
l1sent people a joke. OF the Russian
Social opinion one can Judge only by
\ those occurrences where the press is
J. subject to punishment. Social opinion
n yearns for freedom to speak OF those
1 questions which are forbidden to the
J; press. Social opinion speaks eloquent
!; " IN those cases where the news
papers are backened out by the cen
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