The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-19
A HoId-up the Governor viii
Probably Enjoy.
SAYS NOT BEEN TRIED.
Therefore Couldn't Be a Failure
as HOch Suggests.
Calls on Governor to Explain
His Statements.


position in regard to some matter at
issue in Kansas he may not take a fling
at the Socialists as he did in regard to
the oil refinery measure passed last
winter. Walter Thomas Mills, one Of
the worlds foremost opponents of
/ socialism, and the principal of the IN
ternational School of Social Economy
| of Chicago, uncorked the walls of his
wrath on Mister Hook" as he pro-
nounces and says it, in a speech on
Socialism and the Russian Revolu-
ton" before about 500 people at the
Auditorium last night. Every time Mr..
Mills fred a broadside into the COVER
nor the audience cheered itself hoarse.
The Socialists of Kansas evidently have
good memories.
Il should like to see Governor Hoch
take a day off, said Mr.. Mills, land
show the people. the people Of Kansas
and the world, why they do not have
right to own the railroads, the factories
the mines and the markets together
which they have built up together. The
next time that he says anything in his
message to the legislature, or in a news
paper interview. I wish some one would
ask him to say which things in his judg-
nent should be collectively and private
ly owned. I certainly should like to see
his list Socialism has not been tried
yet, has not been used, is still morgan
ised, but still this great governor of
Kansas announces that it has been
failure all along the line. He has seen
it work direful results, he declares. 1
would like to have the governor of Kan
sas show us some of the parallels, and
tell us about their evolution. of some Of
the great mechanical things which we
have in this world today. l wish he
would tell US about the relations OF the
boss and the hired man. ] tell you right
now that all the governors of all the
states in all the world will have to
recognize the force of Socialism and
among them will be Governor Aoch OF
Kansas. He don't know what it is. How
can he attack it when it is still some
thing that is to come. The other day a
little girl got on the street car on which
I was riding. How far, little girl? some
one asked her. 7 don't know, was the
| reply. I made up my mind right there
that she had been reading some of
Hoch's speeches. We have not yet ar
rived at the period of Socialism. It Is
I something that we do not have yet gu
cannot tell how far you are going until
you know where you are going TO. ana
( this I say for the benefit OF the governor
Mr.. Mills is finished orator.
/ scholar and student of political ana
/ economic affairs On the ZIP OF ms
| tongue he has information that an
/ ordinary library cannot contain, and
what is more he knows how and
when to use it. But above everything,
he is a finished orator. He had the
audience with him every inch OF the
wav last night Every few minutes
as his speech progressed he was in
terrupted with the kind of sponta-
neOus applause which shows his au-
dience to be with him in sympathy.
I Ind
draws spontaneous reclamation.
He devoted the major share of his
speech to socialism, per Sc. A paral-
/ lei between capitalism and socialism,
their differences and points OF oppo-
sitiOn was part of his theme. He
touched up the Democratic party and
the Republican party, bidding any OF
either faith in the audience to take
long, last lingering farewells OF their
creeds. The conditions in Russia
were also taken up. He called the
victims of Siberia. and of all Slav mar
tial law the brothers of the Amer
lean socialist.
After the lecture was finished he
gave the audience the opportunity to
ask him questions. Plenty we're asked,
most of them pertaining directly to
the doctrine of socialism itself, con-
corning particular workings of it.
There are two great contending
forces in this world" said Mr.. Mills,
is more rational and scientific
method of holding and using railways.
factories mines and markets and
cease turning out paupers and mil
lionaires as capitalism does. Both
have three points. No stool can stand
unless it has three legs. Socialism has
three legs. Capitalism has three legs.
The socialist does not want to destroy
the stool, but wants TO make the stool
stronger. The three legs OF capitalism
are akSOi11fp1W 0enaOnp0T 1nOn. one
another. Here they are: Capitalism
is private ownership by a part of the
people of the things which all of the
people must collectively produce for
the means of life; second, capitalism
is a private consumption by a part of
the people of the things which all of
the people produce; third, capitalism
is the private appropriation by a part
of the people Of the wealth accumu-
lated and earned by all of the people.
in contra distinction, socialism has
three legs and they ere these: So
cialism believes IN using together
what all the people earn together;
second, socialism believes that those
who do the work together ought to
manage the work together; third, so
people produce together they should
all own together.
Senator Hanna was right when he
declared that one of the great COM
bats to come will be a Dat,le between
the Republicans and the Socialists
He came within one of telling the
truth. and that is nearer than poll
ticians usually come. The only party
or persons that socialism can harm
are the private robbers.
Jim Johnson's queer Conduct.
Representative Adamson of Georgia
while going to Washington one day not
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