The Green Forest tribune., 1907-06-21
SOCIALIST LECTURE
 AT PARKER,

addressed a large and attentive audience at Parker School house, Monday night (June 10) on the subject of Socialism. An or ganization was effected, and reg ular meetings will be held here- after for the purpose of discussing and disseminationg the doctrine of Socialism.
 He is under the diretion of Dan Hogan, Secretary of the Socialist Party of Arkansas. whose office is at Huntington.
 The speakers remarks were in part as follows:
 1.-The nation today is confront ed by problem that will require the thoughts and cooperation of every loyal citizen to solve. The old days of individualism and in- dependence are all gone. Mon- opoly sets enthroned, and the competition is left only to the poorest and most numerous classes, the wage earners, the farmers, the small merchants. Monopoly has destroyed free government and oligarchy rules the land-Wall street is king, the people slaves.
 The American fireside is vio- lated by capitalism. The child and woman have left the home stead and five million women and two million boys and girls fill the industrial: penitentiaries of the millionaires. That a change from the woods to the factory, from the fields to the slums
 "Your neckties, buttons, shirts, garments, watch cases, etc., all are made by little plundered children and helpless women. What a dismal scene present sits self as the operatives leave the collar factory on a winter even- ing! Poor, wan creatures they are. Youth should have health, beauty, love and joy but see their sallow faces, their dull, tired eyes, their dragging steps. They are victims of our economic sins. They are the sacrifice of your political crimes and mine. They arc our innocent and helpless sisters, and they are waiting for our votes to free them. How can we enjoy our pleasant homes, hear our babies prattle, look up- on our comfortable and happy wives, and bright, laughing girls and boys while the dread horror of this vision is before us? Only socialism will give them homes instead of novels, husbands in- stead of jobs, babies to tend in- stead of machines, and bring roses where now the skeleton finger of death is placing his heretic mark.
 "The wage system is here, the thousands of oxcarts have grown into a single railway, the little shoe shop has grown into the trust, and the formerly free worker is now compelled to sell his time, his life to the masters of production. Arkansas has given her lands to the Goulds, the lands that her people should have had.
 "The condition of the farmers and merchants is now one of helpless dependence on the masters of the market-the own CTS of the trusts.
 "Arkansas exports her wealth at the trusts pricing. She i'm ports her necessities at the pric ing of the plutocrats. She is robbed. The state is being stripped of her forest wealth, her coal, her corn. Her best young men are hirelings. This is wrong. The people should have opportunity to be free workmen, not wage slaves.
 s'I have not come to teach you a new doctrine, but to ask you 10 join hands and hearts to put the old ideas of liberty, equality ,faternity into practice. To make it pos sible for each soul to stand up. light, for each to have the door of opportunity opened for him.