The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-06
RESEARCHERS
HEAR LONDON
Continued nrOm Pase oneo

preston of opinion that the capitalists
In power today would he relegate>:
frorn their commanding position as the
earons Of the fepdsl period were rsle-
gated. having ful6lled their part Of the
worlds social progress. the conditions
affecting the labor classes Of America
and the har6Ships experienced by the
toilsrS in the great cities in the ssrus-
sie for bread were detailed at length.
the lecturer putting the facts Of the
case in concise and. for an ayowed
socialist. in = fairly CONSERVATIVES way.
There was little rantins and no APP
ps2ls 70 high heaven 10 deliver the
heads Of sn the millionaires on one
great charger.
There are ten million people in the
United States today who do not set
enough TO eat 10 maintain proper
l2borins standard. And these men are
degensrating and breeding degenerate
children. thus lowering the whole STAN
dari Of manhood in the United States,
stated London. in describing the labor
conditions due to the Capitalization OF
capital and the greed for profit on the
part OF the employers. Statistics Of
wages in the sweat shops. the condi-
tious surrounding child labor in the
textile mills, the conditions Of the resi-
dents Of the East End of London, all
were quoted to show that the present
conditions were debasing the laborer
and forcing socialism 10 the front.
Socialists are not drawn from the
ranks of the debased nor the starving.
These were too wretched to help them
selves. To them the capitalist could
so with dollar and secure their votes
against the socialists. 1t is done ev
erywhere." remarked the speaker.
aside. You do it here in the Islands
AT election times
The one great question asked by the
lecturer, which he deIiei anyone 10
answer, defiance he had made in the
faces OF some of the leaders of Wall
street, was why should the laborsr OF
today, when the means Of production
had been 50 immensely magnified. have
10 work harder and under less health
fuI environments for his daily food
than the men OF the stone age? That
such was the case he declared true,
u
had, he said, dwell with the man of
the stone age, the MalmuIs of Alaska,
and had also lived and toilei with the
jewellers of the Sums in New York
city and in London. In the London
Slums he had found that in comparison
with the Iaborers there he was large
man. while in California the majority
OF the men he met were considerably
larger, citing this as an illustration
Of his statement that the lower labor
ing classes were dsgenerating.
The Revolution is coming; who can
stop it," concluded the lecturer, after
bard and other writers, more as show
ing the trend of the times than as
statements which had The unqualified
support CT the speaker. The revolution
can De q blOOdIesS one, the Constitu-
ton of the United States having with
in itself the means OF bringing about
in America all that the socialists de-
manded, but it can be bloody when
violence alone is left the fighters The
bull pens OF Colorado, the deportation
OF strikers and the other acts COM
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rights guaranteed by the Constitution,
these may lead TO bloodshed- When
the union man or the socialist finds that
the Constitution cannot protect him in
his rights, then ITO he'll with the Con-
sutution." This remark, London ex-
planned had been the means of having
his books thrown out OF libraries and
his writings barred from some of the
OF the country, but he stated
that II was not original with him,
having been used on such an occasion
as described He further quoted Sher-
man Bell, who, when adjutant general
Of the Colorado militia, answered the
demand for writ of habeas corpus by
shouting, ITO hell with the habeas
corpus, we'll give them post mortems"
You have only read the accounts of
those doings as prepared and given out
oy the capitalistic press" explained
London, who took occasion several
times 10 gibe the great newspapers
Of America with subserviency TO the
Following the lecture, which was fol-
lowed with the greatest interest by
all who heard. number of pointed
questions were asked. In answer TO
one, as 10 why the highest expression
Of the evident aims of the socialists
Of San Francisco had resulted in a /
Schmitz, London said:
Who made Schmitz what he is?
Who bribed him, but the capitalists?
Who made the supervisors the bribe-
takers they are but the men who hand
ed out the brides and tempted them?
What are our politics2 We have rule
by bosses in the United States, where
the whole political strength of some
Of the states is carried about in one
mans pocket. First this came about
by the strength of one man, who gain
ed his power through his ability to
rule. Then he was bought; then the
capitalists found that it was better to
own the bosses and have their goods
delivered as they wanted them than
TO have TO buy the goods as delivered
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