The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-21
CRANE OUTLINES
VITAL PROBLEMS
Socialist Nominee for Congress
Accepts Honor at ConSid-
cradle Length.
CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION
URGES TOlLERS TO REALlZA-
TON OF CONDITIONS.

Charles Crane has accepted the So
cialist nomination for congress IN pre-
pared statement. as follows:
Comrades of the Committee of the So
cialist Party of Utah:
| have listened with great interest
20 the statement you have just made.
and also TO your notification that have
received the honor OF being unanimous
" nominated for the congress of the
United States by the Socialist party of
Utah in the convention held May %
I'm this city.
Comrades, the great honor which has
been conferred upon me comes TO me
absolutely unsolicited, and it is for
this reason more highly appreciated.
7 recognize the fact that there are
many who can better express them
selves and plead the cause of labor and
the co-operatiVe commonwealth than i,
as there are many who can better
arouse the tOilers to a sense of the dig
nifty of labor. and the use and sacred
ness of the ballot in the hands of free
men; but there are none who seek more
earnestly 10 uplift the struggling
masses 10 a higher plane of comfort. or
whose heart beats in rhythmic unison 10
the aspirations of the sons of toll than
my own.
I therefore accept the nomination 50
generously and unanimously rendered
me by the thousands of Socialists OF
this state, and trust / may not be found
wanting in my efforts TO bring TO the
sons of toll in Utah the glad ttdings OF
the Socialistic commonwealth.
Comrades, the campaign now before
us Is most mOmentOus and is without
doubt more pregnant of results thar
any preceding battle OF the ballots evel
presented 10 the sons of toll, and If we
can succeed In aTousing them TO {
realization of this fact. then will vic
tory perch upon our banner in Novem'
Der.
Problem to Be Solved.
The problem that must be solved b!
those who toll and earn their bread il
the sweat of their brow" is. Shall thos'
who labor and produce all the wealth
of the nation receive the results OF thei
toll, or shall they continue to retain
pittance sufficient only to sustain lif
and pro-create their species for the Ia
Dor market in the years TO come?
This problem. as / have said. mus
ana will be solved at the ballot box
when Lhe Socialist party shall have ed
ucated the working classes TO the sa
credness of the ballot in the hands o
free men.
For this ballot registers the inteli
gence of the individual. 1t indicate
his independence. BY il he speaks hi
mind on economic questions. By il p
expresses his satisfaction with eXistia
conditions, or his desire for a sOcia
and economic change If he is salts
fled with existing conditions he wi
deposit his ballot for one or the othe
of the old parties, but, on the contrary
if he is not SO satisfied and desires
change, he will mark his ballot for tina
party that more nearly represents hi
demands and his desires. and that wi
be the Socialist party.
Comrades of the committee, this mus
be a campaign of education for tn
principles of equity and of econOmi
Justice 1t viii be our duty to teac
the masses that the present condition
of idleness Of over four million Amer
can citizens is the result of the Reput
lican and Democratic policies of III
past We must show them how in a