Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-11
GREAT LABOR LEADER MADE A
MASTERFUL PRESENTATION.
GOV. HOCH MADE A HIT
Brilliant Kansan, in Pleasing Man
ner, Depicted the Glories OF
"Our Country. y

Despite very inclement conditions,
a GOOD audience attended the after
noon session Of the Chautauqua yes
terday. The program opened as an
nounced with music, after which Rev.
C. w. Kerr introduced the speaker,
Eugene V. Debs, the greatest Socialist
and Labor speaker of this country,
Mr.. Deb, though suffering greatly
from an impaired throat, caused by
speaking in damp weather for the
past few weeks, proved himself an
earnest and convincing talker.
He opened his discourse with the
statement that he did not want to
play upon or appeal to any emotion or
feeling of any Of his hearers. but their
reason He followed this by calling
the attention Of his audience to the
fact that the first agitators of whatso-
ever movement against the then-eXlst-
ing conditions. had been ridiculed, per-
secuted. even Tut to death for their
beliefs and teachings. He cited eases
from the time of Christ, through tn
Dark Ages of Maedieval times, to the
Revolution against the British yoke
in our own land. His statements were
all clean cut, his references correct,
and his subject interesting. Mr.. Debs
connected the state of slavery as prac-
ticed in America for 240 years as SIM
liar to the condition of labor to capt.
tal at the present time. He gave fg-
ures and facts in testimony of his
statements and depicted the conditions
that. he asserts. exist in word pictures
of unusual force.
The ~erater portion Of his hour and
half talk was devoted to a statement
of labor conditions. why the" exist.
who is responsible and how they can
be alleviated. The speaker unmerci-
fully upbraided labor as a class for
permitting such alleged conditions to
exist. and blamed none but the labor
ING man himself for the breech that
now divides the so-called capitalists
and working men. Sarcasm OF the
kind that writhes, and bites, and
stings, yet amuses, entertains ana
causes to think characterized the lee
ture to large extent.
Following his account of labor trout
bles, Mr.. nebs, who several times has
been the Socialistic candidate for
president of the United States, turned
gracefully to the subject of Socialism
and briefly outlined the manner IN
which that cult could, if IN power,
alleviate the existing system to such
an extent as to do away with all the
misery in the country. The speaker an
nounced himself as antagonistic to
war of any kind, this being one OF
the Fundamental principles OF Social
ism. Another of these principles to
which he alluded in connection with
his statements to labor was the coop
erative ownership of everything neces-
sary to human life.
The speaker closed with a graceful
acknowledgement to the audience for
their attention. He was Immediately
driven to a train and left the city for
Muskogee. where he addressed large
audience last evening.
One of the things that makes the
talks of Mr. Debs so interesting to
mon of all classes and beliefs is his
evident earnestness, and the fact that
he undoubtedly believes everything he
saws His manner of delineation Is
clear cut, concise and forceful. WIN
unimpaired voice. he is an orator OF
prominence capable to debate with
the hest. He is a scholar, thinker and
man of action. Enthusiastic. 1t Is
true. in his theories and beliefs, yet
ot the same time no man hears him
but what is impressed with the pro-
found truth of many of his utteranees'
The program today will include Bi-
bic study in the morning at lO. AT
1890 the services will be in charge of
the W. C. T. t.. who have as their
sneaker. Mrs. st. John, of Kansas
CITY. In the afternoon the program
will omen at 2:3O with music. after
which the speaker will be Captain
Richard Pearson Hobson, the hero OF
the Merrimac episode in the bay OF
Santiago de Cuba. and soon to assume
a seat in the congress of the United
States from his native state OF Ala
bama. Captain Hobson is an orator
of note. lie has an interesting sub.
ieet. and talks from facts CLEANED
from personal familiarity with his
subject in both the Orient and Occi-
dent. He makes some interesting
statements about the yellow fend,
which will be well worth hearing.
In the evening the program will op-
en- at 1880 with music, followed by a
musical festival.