New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-28
HASlDEAL GOVERNMENT
Lecture Friday Evening of Rare
Excellence.
Epigrams and Word Paintings De.
light Audience.
Conditions Fast Tending Toward
Socia1istic Beliefs.

The most remarkable address that
has ever been delivered in this city
was that delivered by Eugene v. Debs
at Turner hall Friday evening. Not
only from the point of view in which
he looks at social problems but in the
masterful portray al of truths that must
appeal to all who love the truth for
itself.
The great thought that carried itself
through the entire discourse was that
the laboring men of this country as
we'll as Of the world have lost control
of the tools with which to do the work
of the day and instead of being masters
of their own vocation they are slaves
to the owners of the tools and have to
compete in the markets of the world
for an opportunity to sell their labor.
This idea and his manner of pre-
senting it is new and is perhaps as
simple a proposition as could be put
"
days when the implements that men
use in the production of the necessities
of life were SO simple that they we're
able individually to make and control
them, people were uniformly rich or
poor and the distribution of the bless
ings of life were more equal but as
soon as the manufacture of improved
machinery and the employment of
labor took place the independence of
man passed from him and he became a
slave to the owner of the tool with
which he worked.
To get control once more of the tools
Of labor appeared to be the idea pre-
scented in his address and the method
he proposes using is that advanced in
the doctrines of the Socialist in all
parts of the world. Instead of the
corporations Of trusts and the trust of
corporations those owning the right
to enslave the laborer-he would have
a trust of all the people, a corporation
y.
interested equally in the welfare of
each other and owning by the laws of
the government an interest in all the
machinery with which the products of
the world are created.
His exposition of the theory of
socialism is ideal. There is no ques-
ton but that he has made thorough
study Of the question in all it's varied
detail and to hear him talk of it makes
one wish the time were at hand when
all men might meet in this sphere of
equality and be blessed by the bene-
fcence of government such as he
holds out.
Destroy competition and you de-
stroy the incentive to war, he says.
All wars of modern time are waged,
not for conquest, as they were in the
days Of old, but for the markets of the
world, for place in which the owners
of the tools and the purchasers of
labor may dispose of that which the
there is no question but that he is
right.
He has mastery of his subject and
a manner of address that carries with
him his audience in breathless interest
and when he stepped upon the plat
form without introduction and an
.nouncingno subject started his address
with the simple statement, "There is
no darkness but ignorance" the audi
ence knew that It was TO listen to a
man who knows men and is able to
present truths that would invite the
consideration of all.
1t is evident that the people of this
city had imagined they would be com
PEELED to listen to TRADE on socialism
by man who was prepared to{advance
theories but not demonstrate principles
and so stayed away from the lecture.
It is their loss for more beautiful
word painter has scarcely occupied a
place on the platform than Mr.. Debs
and his epigrams were something that
would have interested the most
scholarly.
It was noticeable that there were
present from Sleepy Eye almost as
many as there were from this city and
they appeared to be we'll paid for the
time and expense. They were all full
of the highest praise for the speaker
and he made friends with all of them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daye Evans of Tracy
were also among those who were
present remaining until the next morn
ing before going to their homes.
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