The sun., 1908-06-01

Y, was certain that our present industrial
system 10 one Of slavery. II was worse even
than tho old system Of out and out owner.
ship Of slaves. The present system Ia
more profitable because 1t isn't necessary
for tho capitalist to buy hesh and blood.
He merely has to own the tools with which
the labor slaves work. Under the old
system tho master liked to see his slaves
have q good meal because their death or
sickness meant money loss to him.
To-day the slave hustles for his own food
and for the doctor when he is sick.
Mr.. Markham In introducing Debs said
that nine-tenths Of the Christian Socialists
are In complete harmony and sympathy
with the political Socialists movement.
"What's the matter with Debs. yelled
n man In the front row. and there was an
uproar that sounded like political con-
vention. -. .. ....-
Mr. Markham wanted to say that al
though many peroans differed from MIR.
.Debs In their opinions, nobody had ever
impugned the honesty or the purity OF his
motives.
Mr.. Debs declared that a mass meeting
Hike the present one would have been an
impossibilitySa few years ago.
Il am glad said he. that l can take
tssee ministers OF the Gospel. against
whom l confess"I had until recently a
deep seated prejudice. by the hand now
and call them comrades. We will work
together side by side in the greatest cause
that ever appealed to man. You may not
fstter yourselves, however. that you will
escape the penalty of our manliness. You
will know what it Is to be branded undesir-
able citizens. And then | will have an
additional reason for extending to these
real ministers my hearty congratulations"
Mr.. Debs had taken walk up Fifth ave
nue. before he came TO the meeting. He
had faced the tide of dressed up humanity.
no had said to himself that the capitalist
system after all was no true beneiactoP
oven to those who were supposed to enjoy
it's fruits. Then Mr.. Debs thought OF Mott
street. which he had visited earlier in the
aOn the one hand fortunes piling sky
ward and on the other misery, want and
woe And this is what is called civilization.
] deny that there Is any real civilization.
that there can, be any under the capitalist
system. You men and women are but
merchandise in the system, and every day
you live you are bought and sold. not to
the highest but to the lowest bidder
Debs's advice to tho New York working
man--to the member of union Was to
think and act for himself, to disregard the
union solely for the. purpose OF carrying
out Tammany's wishes. Mr.. Debs then
made violent attack on the United States
Senate and the Supreme Court, and not
word of protest was made by these ministers
Of the Gospel.
The Senate, Debe declared, was con-
troled by the trusts. He added:
-The Supreme Court consists exclusively
Of trust attorneys who have proved not
only their general fitness but the capacity
to serve their former masters. When
question between capital and labor comes
before that august tribunal the decision
goes out that labor has no right that capita
Is bound to respect.
The cooperative system when ii comes
will put an end to war. But in the mean
time Debs will he one of those who will
refuse to shoulder a death dealing weapon
at the command of any plutocrat.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes appealed to the
ministers in the audience, OF whom there
pits and teach the truth Of socialism as
they saw it, as Christ would teach it If He
were only on earth now. Christ. accord
ing to Mrs. Stokes. stood for social re-
bellion. II Christ had come to this earth
a few years ago He would have been obliged
to address tine crowds from a soap box
on the street corners because the pulpits.
many of them, would be closed.
The Rt. Rev. Franklin 5. Spalding, Prot
estant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, was to
have presided at the mass meeting. but
he was kept away and sent letter instead.
II he had been present he would, he said,
have had few things to say about the OPP
portunity and duty OF the 'lntellectuais'
or -Parior Socialists" He thought they
could do great deal to keep in the ranks
of labor those who were originally there.
Too many men are ashamed to own they
were once laborers.
The American laborer." says the Bishop,
soeases TO be class conscious on very slight
A small account in the the saw
ings banks and he becomes capitalist.
A very little social recognition and he as
sumes the manners of a plutocrat. Let
the most ardent Socialist in the Western
Federation OF Miners strike it rich in Ne
vada and he urges the Governor to send in
The Rev. Dir. Long Of Brooklyn announced
that Bishop Spalding had been reelected
OF the fellowship, also that sixty
Ave vice-president had consented to serve.
These Independents represent fifteen de-
and come from thirty States.
They are willing to have their names used
before the public as standing for socialism.
Some OF these ministers are:
The Rev Franklin knight. pastor Epiphany
Chapel, New Haven. Conn; the Rev. W. +.
Dickerman. State superintendent Of churches.
New Haven, Conn; the Rev
Hubert Is. Wells, st. Andrews Protestant
Episcopal Church OF Wilmingt on. Del; the Rev.
Alexander Keat. Peoples Church. Washing
ton, d. O.: the Rev. Orville j. Cuptill, pastor
Of the North Street Free Baptist Church,
Bath. Me-; the Rev. ]. j. McCaskill. Presby-
terian. Fort Kent. MeS the Rev. George c.
De Mott. Central Congregational Church.
Bath. Me-: the Rev. Robert Sutolitfe. Pratt
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Rock
land, Me-; the Rev. James l.. Smiley, st. Anne's
Protestant Episcopal Church. Annapolis, Md
The Rev. G. A. Reini. Dickinson Street Church
of Christ. Springfield. Mass; the Rev. DR..
Edgar J. Heiss, Morgan Memorial Methodist
Church, Boston: the Rev. Dr..
Charles l.. Leonard, First Methodist Episcopal
Church. PittsHeid, Mass. the Rev. II. NJ
Dumbell st. James Protestant Episcopal
Church, Great Darlington. Mass: the Rev.
RowiaDd ID. Sawyer, Ward Hill Congrega-
tional Church. Haverhill. Mass.; the Rev.
n. G. Baum Of Weehawken. n. j.: the Rev.
Charles d. Martin, Third Moravian Church.
New York city: the Rev. George +. Miller, =
81. Augustine's Protestant Episcopal Church, |
the Rev. j. H. Sheppard. First !
Baptist Church, Schenectady.
/ The Rev. DIR. Long announced that there
we're 1000 persons preaching Christian |
,ocialism now. He had started out to get |
he names OF a hundred ministers to mani |
'e6to, and in few days ITO names had come |
b and he would make it 900 now.