Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-19
SOCIALISM AND THE FAMILY.
 BIGGERSTAFF ALSO INQUIRIES
(By the Socialist committes.)

ton mas noWnere formulated hn
 ideal as to what kind of an institu- ton the marriage of future society
 will evolve Into. It is safe to say that motherhood, childhood and
 womanhood, will be held more sa- cred than It is to-day. Nursing
 mothers will not be compelled to stand all day at whirring loom. little children will not be made to work 10 hours In dark mines under ground or in front of the fiaying furnaces of the glass factories.
 Young girls will not be forced to
 face the alternative of suicide, or sale of their virtue for paltry ex- istence. With an educated, enlight- ened and economically free mother hood, the coming race will look back on this age, as We look with hor- TOT upon the dark ages.
 They will be amazed that the pro- ducers of all wealth, lived in such little box-like tenements, while they built beautiful mansions for their masters They will wonder why they wore shoes with paper soles. and shoddy clothing. Why they ate poisoned meat at high prices, and all sorts of adulterated food, while the idlers of the time, the men who call ed themselves masters, ransacked the markets of the world for choice 'dain- ties. And more than all will they wonder at the fact that mothers and babies sold their labor power, as well as the fathers, and that true, happy home life was rendered almost impossible by such a factory system.
 We again reiterate that the quota tions from socialistic authorities mentioned by our opponent, while they may be but historical relations In some instances, In others illustra- tions of conditions existing in some countries and peoples. Nowhere has the socialist organization held itself responsible for the writings of these individuals. And in the conventions of the party wherever held, they con- stantly work together, men and wom- en to abolish the causes of the break ing down of the home and family, viz long hours of labor, etc. and in every platform is plank demanding equal civil and political rights for men and women'
 Charlotte Teller, niece of Senator Teller of Colorado, a we'll known writer, in an article on "The Nation al Socialist Convention" has this to say: "And then, here and there, in, the convention, sat the wives, Mrs J. G. Phelps Stokes, Mrs Carl Thomp- son, Mrs Victor Berger, Mrs Sted- man and many others. I thought of that popular concept among ignor- ant ones, of socialism, as menace to American institutions, and par ticularly to the American family; never in any gathering, neither un- der the auspices of the church or state, have l seen so many husbands and wives of one purpose and effort, whose feelings for each other shone so constantly in their eyes, who were together in committee work as well as in the home. And the pride in their children! The children wer. on the floor of the convention and at all the social gatherings. July num- Der Arena Magazine.
 It is to be hoped that our opponent will tegin to see that in treating of i the philosophy of socialism we are not dealing with ingenious schemes, 1 pr inventions, or opinions of any one but with an e:onnmic evolution of societies W sh actun: | historical facts, and with a philiso- phy that explains these facts, and points out the tendencies of the im- social changes. A pniloso- Fay that no longer experiments with | miniature social colonies, as in the I days of Owen, St Simon, Fournier and other Utopians, but directs it's efforts toward the industrial and po- itical organization of the class that will assume the control of economic md political affairs when the time is 'ipe for the change.
 Editor of Democrat:
 In last Thursdays issue of your paper there appeared an article writ .en, but not signed in regard to he fallacies of socialism.
 I would like to ask the writer if lis contention, that socialism is lot constructive and would not tend o eliminate the evils that exist to- lay to which we are all relative.
 If not to be emphatic and declare himself what would be the best solu- ion existing in his mind of this par icular problem as I notice from the remarks he has studied this natter full we'll.
 E. w. BIGGERSTAFF.