Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-06

1t has given us organization. But be-
yond that it has failed. 1t has done
its work. 1t is time for it to give way
before the Revolution"
Without any of the rapidness that
often characterizes the utterances of
Socialist speakers London arraigned
the capitalist class, bringing charges
against it which he defied any one to
refute. He drew attention to the fact
that the ordinary man of today is not
SO we'll off as the cave man. The lat
ter, he said, might starve at times, but
never for long periods. He was never
ironically hungry. Yet in spite of the
fact the circumstances are infinitely
more favorable today than they were
in the days of the cave man, and that
mans efficiency has increased thou
sand fold since prehistoric days. There
are ten million people in the United
States who do not have enough to eat.
They are not, he said, people who are
dying today, or who will be dead to-
morrow or next year or the year after
but they are people who starve
chronically; who exist and bring chill
dren into the world who are of
lower standard even than themselves.
Taking England as an illustration
London said that he had lived on the
East Side Of London, and that there,
although In California he himself was
counted small man, yet on the East
Side only about one man in twenty
was as large as himself. The English
race, he said, is slowly dying. And
the, United States, to the extent of ten
million people. These ten million peo-
pie are degenerating and breeding de-
generate children, thus slowly lower
ing the standard of manhood in the
United States. And the reason of this
is the Capitalization and the greed OF
profit on the part of the capitalist
Glass;
London painted picture of child
labor condition In the South which
appealed even to his opponents as a
condition which must be remedied, and
this condition he charged to the greed
and selfishness of capital. why,
asked the lecturer, should the laboreI
of today, when the bread getting eff
cheney of man has been increased d
thousand fold, have to work harder
for his daily food than the cave man?
London spoke for considerably more
than an hour, but in manner that
failed to weary any of his hearers AL
the conclusion of his lecture he in
vited his audience to ask him an.
questions they pleased. They took
him up at once and fired a volley Oh
interrogations at him that showed the
interest he had aroused. His answers
showed that he was master of his
subject He was never for a minute
at loss for an answer. Doubtless
the same questions had been asked
him many times before. He spoke
with all the vigor and nervous energy
that characterizes his writing, pro-
polling himself out of his chair each
time as if making bodily charge
upon an attacking force. The connec-
ton between labor unions and Social
ism was one of the matters which hi
audience most wanted explained
When a labor unionist hurls bricl
bat at a scab, do you think that i!
right?' some one asked.
Eyes, l do" said London. II be-
lieve that the striking union man who
throws brick at a strike breaker's
head and calls him scab, barring q
few degenerates, such as may b,
found among any class OF men, thinks
he is performing just as right an &C
ton as did the Massachusetts farmers
who from behind fences and rocks shot
the British redcoats in the back al
they were retreating from Lexington.
London vigorously defended the
right of the unionists to protect theiI
own interests by such methods as they
could. THE individual counts fol
nothing now" he said. There is ne
such thing as indivdualism today.
Men are no longer pitted against one
another as individuals but as groups
But London explained that he die
not believe that the labor unions could
solve the problem. Il look upon un.
ions" he said, as only a great waste
of time and energy. They will never
bring about the conditions for which |
they strive. In the end they will dis
cover that unionism fails to accom-
plish its object, and then the union
men will turn to Socialism and help
many strikes have been smashed with
in the last few months. Now you
watch the result of the next elections