The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-06
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in power today would be relegated
from their commanding position as the
barons of the feudal period were rele-
gated. having fulfilled their part of the
worlds social progress. the conditions
affecting the labor classes of America
and the hardships experienced by the
toiIers in the great cities in the strug-
gle for bread were detailed at length.
the lecturer putting the facts of the
case in concise and, for an avowed
socialist, in a fairly conservative way.
There was little ranting and no ap-
peals to high heaven 10 deliver the
heads of all the miluonaires on one
great charger.
There are ten million people in the
United States today who do not get
enough to eat to maintain a proper
laboring standard. And these men are
degenerating and breeding degenerate
children, thus lowering the whole stan
dard of manhood in the United States,
stated London, in describing the labor
conditions due 10 the Capitalization of
capital and the greed for profit on the
part of the employers. Statistics of
wages in the sweat shops, the condi-
tons surrounding child labor in the
textile mills, the conditions of the resi-
dents of the East End of London, all
We're quoted to show that the present
conditions were debasing the Iaborer
and forcing socialism to the front.
Socialists are not drawn from the
ranks of the debased nor the starving.
These We're too wretched to help them
selves To them the capitalist could
go 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 tie
lecturer, which he defied anyone to
answer, d defiance he had made in the
faces of some of the leaders of Wall
street, was why should the lahorer Of |
today, when the means of production |
had been so immensely magnified, have |
to work harder and under less health !
full environments for his daily food |
than the men of the stone age? That |
such was the case he declared true,
citing from his own experience. He !
had, ne said, dwelt with the man of
the stone age, the Malmuts Of Alaska,
and had also lived and toiled with the |
jewellers of the Sums IA New York
city and in London. In The London
slums he had found that in comparison
with the laborers there he was a 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 degenerating.
The Revolution is coming: who can
stop it?' concluded the lecturer, after
quoting Eugene Y. Debs. Ebert Hub
bard and other writers, more as show
ing the trend of the times than as
statements which had the unqualified
support of the speaker. The revolution
can be a bloodless one, the Constitu-
ton of the United States having with
in itself the means of bringing about
IA America all that the socialists de-
but it can be bloody when
violence alone is left the fighters. The
bull pens of Colorado, the deportatio
Of strikers and the other acts COM
nitted by capitalists in defiance of the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution,
these may lead to bloodshed. When
he union man or the socialist finds that
the Constitution cannot protect him in
his rights. then ITO hell with the Con-
This remark, London ex-
planned. had been the means of having
MS books thrown out of Libraries and
lis writings barred from some of the
of the country, but he stated
hat it was not original with him,
having been used on such an occasion
Is described. He further quoted Sher- !
nan Bell, who, when adjutant general
# the Colorado militia, answered the
demand for a writ of habeas corpus by
shouting, ITO hell with the habeas
corpus, Wen give them post mortems.'
You have only. read the accounts of
hose doings as prepared and given out
~ the capitalistic press explained
london. who took occasion several
lines 10 gibe the great newspapers
# America with subseryiency to the
Following the lecture, which was fol-
owed with the greatest interest by
III who heard, a number of pointed
questions were asked. In answer 10
me. as to why the highest expression
# the evident aims of the socialists
# san Francisco had resulted in a.
London said:
Who made schmitz what he is2
Who bribed him, but the capitalists?
yho made the supervisors the bribe-
akers they are but the men who hand
ID out the brides and tempted them?