The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-14
LECTURE ON SOCIALISM
GEORGE H. GOEBEL ADDRE10B1
 SMALL AUDIENCE.
Organizer of New Political Party Ussa Trusts and Combinations of
 Capital as His
 Theme.

small crowd heard National Organs iEer George H Goebel, of the Socialist Party of the United States. with a good deal of patience at the County Court House last night.
 Mir Goebel spoke just one hour and half. treating broadly the suh5ects Shall the trusts own the nation. or tho nation the trusts?"
 The speaker naturally concludes that the nation should be the owning party. but endeavored with ardent and exten- sive argument to prove the premises. The syllogisms of the speaker proved that he belongs to the very latest school of Socialists.
 The hearers were not long in learn- ing that a typical, modern Socialist was addressing them. They knew Mir. Goebel as an exponent of the latest complaint. recently gaining remarkable strength. which is born of the oppres- sion of the trusts, It is a resentment of the grinding process of the wealthy. the speaker declared, which is denoma. mated capitalism.
 MT. Goebel said he recently spoke 0 New Haven where a college professor. at the end of the speech, criticised him for his defective English. The speakef said he confessed his poor grammar tc the professor. out condemned the woe- full condition of today and yesterday which drove him at the age of 10 years
 
 amaker to work for $6 a month.
 When capitalism is displaced by So- ciaiism, MT. Goebel declared that 1t will be the undisturbed privelege of chil- dren to go to school until they are Is or IS years old If necessary.
 The Democrats and Republicans were assailed with merciless sarcasm by the organizer They were charged with being manipulated at every turn by the money interests of the country. Bryan and all the trust busters" were ridi- culed by the speaker. His opinion was under the present Constitution.
 The trusts. too. are form of evofu- tion. and were born. Mir Goebei de- clared, to precede Socialism. Trusts have grown up. the speaker said. like two men in death grappie who, when the fall of one Is Imminent, unite in friendship to save the lives of both. The parties to trusts were once forced to competition but combine was the subterfuge.
 The rapid growth of socialism in the United States and the world at large was dwelt upon by the organizer at length. He had plenty of figures at hand which showed that the party. once derided. now is regarded as a formidable economic element in every quarter of the civilized globe. It was claimed that there are s.000.000 Social ists in Europe. If German thinkers were free, MT. Goebel said. the Social fists would today be controlling the Reichstag. The same was claimed of the Chamber of Deputies in France.
 There are seven Socialist members of the Wisconsin Legislature and three members of the Illinois Legislature, according to Mir. Goebel. He said that with a campaign fund of $200 the So- cialists In New Jersey quadrupled their showing in the election previous to 1904.
 The speaker had a fout also for those who would confound socialism with religion. He charged that these were ignoramuses who arc wildly try ing to stop the progress of the Social ists
 Religion is individual with every soul" said the speaker. 'and may be defined as that thing which enters in- to the relationship between the man and the unknown. It makes no differ ence whether this unknown is God, Mohammed. Buddha. tho Sun. or what not"
 It was pointed out that last year there were 65,000 evictions of families boen recorded in Ireland for the past five years.
 These are Tammany figures" said MT. Goebel, "and you know Tammany could not lie if 1t wanted to-"
 We are all slaves" said the speaker. who next described the relations Of employer and employed,
 He said the economic slaves of today are in worse condition than were the negroes before the war. Women were compared to lemons. floating every where which bosses" pick up. squeeze and then throw away without q thought except to figure where a saw ing might be had here and there by dropping a clerk or other employe.
 Mir Goebel outlined the Soeialisttc remedy for the overthrow of capital Ism and the triumph of socialism. It is first, the ballot and the governmen- tai ownership of the things of com- mon use to all the people In this way there would not be laborers struggling everywhere in desperation to beat their fellow beings out of jobs. The jobs would be distributed from com mon point and equitably to everybody.
 MT Goebel came to Montgomery from Atlanta He will leave this morning for Birmingham.