Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-19
POWER Of SOCIALISTS
Will Soon Rule the World, De-
clares Professor Bushnell, in
Lecture at Washington
INCREASING SOCIALIST VOTE
Unequal Distribution of Wealth and
Poverty the Causes, Says Lecturer.
One. twelfth Of American Wealth
Represented by Steel Trust Directors.

Represented by Steel Trust Directors.
Professor Charles J. Bushnell recent
ly delivered lecture at Washington in
which he said that the time was not
far distant when the Socialists Will
hold the balance Of power in the vari-
GUS governments, If, indeed, they do
not now control in several of them.
THE Improvement Of Industrial
Conditions was the subject Of his lee
ture, and he laid particular stress up
on these propositions, says Wash
ington special to the New York World:
That since the organization OF the trusts
{of which, out OF the 400 largest all but
ten have been started since 1890 there has
been a wonderful increase of trust made
products amounting in many instances TO
two. three, four and even six fold
That the wealth Of the country Is In
creasing at the rate Of S, o00, 100000 year.
That its distribution is becoming In
creasingly disproportionate, causing great
Injustice hardship and suffering.
That the control Of the nations wealth
and through 1t Of the nation itself Is fast
centering in the hands OF few, one
eighth OF the families now owning seven
eighths OF. Its wealth. 1t Is said on GOOD
authority that the control of one-twelfth
of the nations wealth is represented at
the meeting OF the twentyfour directors
of the United States Steel corporation
alone and that the all important railway
systems Of the country are controlled by
lust six men, with only one supremely
dominant.
That. on the other hand, 10. 900, 900, or one
eighth Of the people Of the country. are IN
constant poverty while 100000 are pau
pers.
That through poorly co-ordinated and
selfishly administered Industrial enter
prises nearly 100000 ignorant immigrants
are landed each year and congested IN the
most crowded industrial centers. In the
city Of New York an average of one i'm
migrant arrives every forty-two seconds.
and an arrest occurs every four minutes.
That under the pressure OF these abnor-
NAL conditions drinking, smoking. MUIR
der, suicide. insanity, robbery, graft and
social vice are increasing faster than the
population. causing financial loss that
more than counterbalancea our annual
national gain OF wealth.
"There are many people in this coun-
try" said Professor Bushnell, who
still do not think that any important
changes have lately occurred or are
about to occur in our industrial and
pOilllCuI iilS. IO SOuNlASC SUN SoAs y
they should be more wide awake to the
signs of their times let me present, as
an infexible adherent of no one po-
litical party or creed or tenet, few
evidences that the old order changeth,
yielding place to new
"The modern trust Is the response
|! under individuallstic conditions to the
inevitable demand for more unified
and economical business organization.
And socialism itself, with all its past
faults and failures. is but the further
effort to carry the will of the people
effectively into our industrial as well
as our political life. BY it's demand
that we should own and control col
lectively what we need to use collec-
lively socialism Is a protest against
the theory that all workingman
needs ana wants are a roof, a family
and full dinner pail. 1t is an as
piration for fuller and nobler social
life.
$50 we might point out the same
democratic tendency in every other
great social reform force Of our day.
That many people are coming to be-
lieye in socialism Europeans are much
better aware than are Americans.
"Here is a statement of the increas-
ing Socialist vote of recent years In
the different countries: