The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-08

doctrines of Socialism. He is a more
brilliant orator than Debs. but he seemed
to lack the power of creating the enthusi-
Mr. Debs in Kennedy's hail in the even
ing. Mr.. Simons, in pretty word pic
lures. compared the chattel slavery of
the negroes Of 1851 with the industrial
In the evening there were $500 people
in Kennedy's hall to hear the speech
of Mr. Debs. F. b. Scott. state chair
meeting with a short address. in which
he introduced Mr.. Smons, who made
another short speech asking for contrl-
buttons TO the funds TO carry the Social
south. Then Mr.. Debs was introduced.
In the course of his speech. Mr.. Debs
said:
Horny-Handed Sons of Toll.
The Republicans and Democrats In
their campaign addresses try to flatter
you by calling you the horny handed sons
OF toll. They please you with foolish
flattery until after election; then they
have no use for you for four years more.
They want your votes at the election.
but where are you at the inaugural cere-
monies? If you should try to break in
you would be arrested
Yes. they call you the horny handed
sons of toll and declare that YOU should
be proud of the labor that made your
hands so. If that is the truth, then the
politicians should be ashamed of theirs.
hands. Their horns are sprouting in their
foreheads.
"Yes. you are the horny-handed sons of
toll. You build palaces and live in how
els. You build automobiles and walk.
You make millions for your employers
and starve. You make millions of guns
and are always AT the wrong end. We
are still barbarians. We are still ruled
by force. In feudal times it was force
of physical strength that ruled: today
it is intellectual might that holds the
sceplre Can you tell me just what hst,s dili
sandbagger and the intellectual sand
Dagger?
Evils of Capitalism.
To-day there are 5.OoO90O men out of
work: there are 100000 fallen women in
the United States; in 1857 there We're So
600 divorces; the jails and prisons are
filled; the insane asylums are crowded
all the result of capitalism. There are
thousands that are annually attempting
to escape capitalism through the back
door of suicide.
I'm the south there are 100000 chill
dren putting their lfeblood their vital
ity into the cotton goods that Is on the
market today. In the place OF the red
roses. of health in their cheeks come the
white lilies of death. Those who survive
this awful existence in the dungeon or
industry that saps from the tiny children
their very existence are unfit for the
duties OF life. The little girls snatched
from the cradle to serve their master,
Mammon, are unfit for the duties of Wife
hood and motherhood that should be
theirs.
"Other little girls are forced into the
great department stores. where they are
submitted to a thousand whisperings OF
the tempter daily until. In an unguarded
moment. they slip into the pitfall that
leads out into the broad road of dis
grace and ruin. l want you to go to your
homes and look into those loving blue
eyes of that babe of yours. and If you
want to condemn her to that brothel hell
made possible by capitalism. go to the
polls and vote the Republican or Demo-
cratic ticket"
Mr. Debs left late last night with his
special train for Las Vegas