Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-15
PERTINENT ANSWER TO
 PERTINENT INQUIRIES
lBy Socialist Committee.)

 ness Is just as vital as in the days of our forefathers and when the right to work is denied to thousands be- cause of the glut in the labor market 1t means just as surely that the right to live Is taken away. Now we come to another distinction. We urge our opponent to remember that under socialism there will be no cap italist. Socialism itself implies the complete overthrow of the present capitalist system--a system where men called capitalists amass their wealth by the labor of others, and that wealth accumulates without the labor of the men who receive the dividends for which they never give the equivalent-getting something for nothing is the very keynote of this system and will be the cause of It's fall. The tremendous over-capi- talization, the exploitation of great schemes by which the capitalist who in the first instance becomes pos sessed of his wealth by the labor of others than himself, amasses mil lions more of capital which gives him power to exploit more labor, to buy legislatures, congress, the supreme court and power in the seats of the mighty in the judgment hall, the press, the pulpit and the educational institutions. This wealth, or power to receive dividends for which no equivalent Is given makes capital ist, and when these men are asso- ciated together to protect their own material interests, it is called capi- talist class. Glass distinctions in America exist only by these class as- sociations, or groups of men with identical interests, as, for instance, the National Manufacturers associa- tion, a tremendous organization of employers, associated to protect and further their individual and class interests. They employ vast amount of that commodity called labor, so it Is to their material inter- est to get that labor power just as cheap and with as few good condi- tions as possible. They therefore op- pose with their united class strength any organization of working men as- sociated together to promote their class and individual interests.
 The workingmen who must sell their labor power (brain or muscle) to these manufacturers desire for their material interests to get as high price as possible for the commodity they have to sell, and immediately a conflict of interests arises. The man who buys the labor on one side and the man who sells on the other. This clash of interests causes the class struggle, and just so long as the present system exists there will be a class struggle, neither side to blame for struggling, but both sides to blame for not abolishing completely system that makes class struggle possible by voting for and upholding a system where every man shall be a producer of wealth, where only one class in society shall be tolerated, and that useful, prosperous and in l telligent working class. Our terms are clear and not to be twisted or misconstrued by working class. We always mean that class that contrib utes to the production of wealth, either by brain or muscle, and when society takes over the ownership and management of the means of produc- tion-its industries, we feel sure it will know how to distribute the workers, just as 1t knows how to-day that machinists will be employed on machines and all workmen be as- signed as to their several and par ticular ability and capacity--the com pensation can be and will be ar ranged just as satisfactorily and it Is very plain that when all industries and railroads are owned by the na- tion they won't be able to graft upon the nationalized postofice, highway rights etc.-as they do to-day and they also will be better managed than they are to-day.
 Again our opponent tries to draw the committee into discussion on | the relation of socialism to the church, and seems to draw distinct line between christian socialism and scientific socialism. There is but one kind of true socialism and that Is scientific socialism Socialism is a science that has been and can be again demonstrated just as any other science as remedy for exist ing evils, but there are as many kinds of people and as many na- l tionalities represented as in the Catholic church and they are united on one point, the overthrow of cap. italism In America the church as a body has never opposed socialism
 politically and therefore it has not
 become necessary for the political
 party of socialism to fight the church but in Italy, Germany and France
 the church, as an organization has gone into politics, with clerical par. ties," always standing on the side of | capitalists interests, and not like
 their master Jesus, the carpenter
 with the working class. In France when the fight between church and state became bitter the socialists, as
 we'll as many other powerful polit
 ical powers united in contending that 1t was unjust to continue system oi | taxation where men who worpship | ped God as Jews or Protestant
 should contribute, by state compul
 sion, to the support of the Catholic
 church. In Germany where ths socialist party has 3,500,O00 vote'
 the church was opposed its politica
 growth because as in many other in
 stances the church is intrenched 1T
 the existing form of government ant Is opposed to progress. While tht