The daily sentinel., 1905-08-10
CONDEMNED BY HIS own
Respected Woman Takes Up Cudgel
Against Vile Mouth Anarchist and
Ills Kind-A Disgrace to the So
ciaIist Party of City and County

member. one prominent member
told me later that l knew nothing
but Utopian Socialism (Which is not
Socialism at alb and when as a pre-
lude to future question, | tenta-
lively remarked; mo one can say
but that | am a lady the animat-
ed discussion met a painful, unbrok-
en- pause. When man by his silence
substantiates a falsehood, when he
forgets chiyalry toward women, dis
regards a law of his state, ignores
a plank of his political platform
rather than come in conflict with an
agitator seeking new converts, ii in
dicates a fascination that is pernic-
Gus to the individual and disastrous
to society in general. As Walter
Mills of Chicago, one of the leading
Socialists in America said at a meet
ing l attended in St. Louis last win
ter vote for a Socialist every time.
no matter who or what he is Why
I'd vote for the devil himself if he
was on the Socialist ticket"
Partisanship rather than character
will cause harm in the Socialist par
ty just as sure as it has already done
in the older parties. There are Soc
ialists in every state and in Wiscon-
sin, they constitute almost half the
voting population, yet in following
lllt AduHt VI MOnidll >
ment as / have for the past five years
| have never yet known of any social
ist at any time or place doing one
thing to give women the franchise or
industrial equality. In South Amer
lea there is a large district owned
and controlled by Socialists on
Socialistic basis. A single woman
has there equal rights with man.
Upon marriage, however. she is dis
infranchised and her rights to prop
erty or to her own children are as
summarily curtailed as they are in
any capitalstic country.
This general disregard for women
is based on two facts: Socialism is
advocated largely by foreigners, and
where liquor reigns the degradation
of women invariably follows. Soc
ialists believe in the specialization
of the liquor problem" arguing that
unadulterated liquor sold at a cost
price in an unlimited number of sa-
looms must necessarily induce
Temperance. AS Walter Mills said
in st. Louis amid ringing cheers;
wen have bigger breweries and
better beer At a Socialist meet
ing following this speech, ! saw men,
women and children drinking heart
lily until a late hour, girls dishevel
ened and disgusted, remembering the
rigid temperance of my childhood's
Scotch Calvinist home | passed out
into the frosty night to see Social
lists crowding boisterously by scores
into the four saloons occupying the
four street corners near by. When
a woman expects any justice whatso-
ever from any foreigner or any whis-
key-soaked American she is quite
III I
ed. That plank is a dead issue. 1t
was never intended as anything but
a blind. How in reason can a Soc
ialist complain, as he does. of capital
istic injustice when he himself is
quite as unjust. if not more so, in
this as on all other lines?,
That | remain in the Socialist par
ty is because of this; The econom-
ic condition of working people is on
a false basis and their actual hard
ship and lack of development under
that system has and always will be
detrimental to their welfare.
a man or woman with little
schooling beginning to labor in early
youth for ten or twelve hours a day,
with no cessation year after year
cannot be expected to develop reas-
on or calmness, a wider vision or any
of the refinements of life. Society is
being struck with its own boone
rang. The Socialist party is the only
political organization at present that
tends to better the condition of the
poor. Society for its own peace and
stability should tighten this econom-
ic burden, give to every man and
woman the products of their own
toll. when they DO toll, and work
with Socialists to that end Then as
now pruning away with stern hand
the anarchistic. tempestuous tenden-
cies that unchecked will work havoc
with our or any other civilization,
The angry. resisting cry of the work
ing man in our times is needed.
Needed quite as much as culture, the
the refinement of law
abiding. industrious men and women
who then. as now, will be the found
alton stones of our republic.
Lulu MacClure Clarke.
Grand Junction Colo