The Irish standard., 1905-07-01

been made; 1t Is to gain over the
lower and middle classes, and lead
them on to the bloodless battle of the
ballot box. Then legislation is to do
the rest; and when the people find
out the result, it will be too late.
AS a matter of fact the American
people do not want Socialism; and
yet it is an equally certain fact that
the Socialists hope to get the people
to vote for their system of social life;
nor is it altogether unlikely that they
will succeed. They sugar-coat the pill
which they are prescribing for the ills
of society. That the voters may swal-
low it willingly they must be made to
believe two things; first, that society
is very sick; and, secondly, that the
pill is perfectly harmless. How is all
this being done? 1t is done with con-
summate skill and no little success.
And first, the many Socialistic pa
pers and orators have spread the no.
tion far and wide that there are i'm
mense poverty and suffering in this
land, while there never was more
prosperity Certainly amidst the vast
population of the United States many
temporary Interruptions of labor must
necessarily occur; and these are
trumpeted all over the land, and ex
aggerated, and their causes are mis-
represented; and not seldom the very
evils so loudly deplored are brought
on by secret agitators, not in the in
terests of the people, but for the pur-
pose of fostering public discomfort.
The World-Herald of Thursday, June
1, speaking editorially of this present
state of our material prosperity,
coupled with almost unprecedented
social unrest, correctly remarks:
THAT the two conditions exist side by
side there can be no denying. It is
doubtful if more general prosperity
ever existed in the history of the
United States than obtains today.
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ness men and laboring men all share
in it, Amid this general prosperity
the Socialists and other agitators
have produced a deep and widespread
unrest among the people; and thus
the impression is produced that the
body polite is very sick; and great
care is taken to make it appear that
this sickness affects chiefly our finan-
cial and economic welfare.
True, the people are very sick, but
religiously and morally, not financial
ly; but Socialists propose no remedy
for the loss of religion and morality;
their pill is of the economic kind, and
it is worse than the disease.
The second plea is that the remedy
they propose will only hurt the trusts
and the monopolies, but not the busi-
ness of the middle classes. This pa
per has shown that the plan of Social
ism, is to take from every one all the
means he has acquired of earning a
livelihood.
From the day Socialism is imposed
upon any community by bare ma
jority of votes, every citizen is re-
duced to the condition of what our
street cleaners are today, with the
addition that he will not even own
his shovel or his broom. This is what
the leaders of that party strive so
hard to hide from the people. They
wrap their principles in such Ian.
guage that not one man in every ten
| understands the real meaning.
For instance, listen to the fourth
paragraph of their Chicago platform
of 1904. 1t says: Socialism means that
all those things upon which the peo
pie in common depend shall by the
people be in common owned and ad
ministered." The people in common
depend upon the farms, dairies, fac
tories, vegetable gardens, cattle and
sheep and wagons and teams, etc.;
all this will be taken from the present
private owners, little and great, and
be ''by the people in common owned
and administered"
Again the platform says: Social
ism means that the making Of goods
for profit shall come to an end; that
all the production shall be for the di
rect use of the producers; that we
shall all be workers together, and that
all the opportunities shall be open and
equal to all men," That sounds harm.
less to most people; but it really
means that no one will have any long
er anything that he can make money
with, all will be controlled by the
community. The only gamers by 1t
will be tramps and the very poor, the
improvident and public paupers; ex.
cept that they shall all be expected to
work, and all of us shall be paupers
and work with them: I'VE shall all be
workers together" says the platform,
and what kind of work we shall be put
at will depend on the bosses, not on
our own choice, of course.
Nan Patterson Quits.
Altoona, Pa.-Discouraged by the
adverse criticism that has greeted her
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