Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-09


 less than any other make for rela- tions whose creature he socially re- mains, however much he may sub jectively raise himself above them"
 Now, in closing, we must touch upon the points referred to as having to do with the management Of af- fairs after socialism Is really here.
 Of course, socialists believing as they do. in evolution, realize that all the changes desired must come about gradually, just as they are coming. cooperation everywhere is taking the place of individual competition. The men who have learned to work collectively together in factories will be ready to manage factories col actively To-day foreman or su- perintendent appointed by the trust, finds 1t to his own interest to work entirely for the interest of his capi- talistic employer and exploit the men under him to the highest degree for the lowest possible wage. When the men who build the factories, who make the machines, own the ma chimes together, there would be the same division of labor as exists in all well regulated factories to-day the draughtsman would do his part, the machinery his part, but the foreman or superintendent, elected for pur- poses of administration, by the work ingmen themselves, would have no incentive to exploit the men, their interests would be identical, not con- fiicting as they are to-day. But be- fore this change comes about and strikes occur in factories for better conditions, in places where socialist legislators have been elected, gov ernors, congressman, mayors, sher- ifs. etc, as they are being elected in various parts of the country, the workers will be upheld by the gov ernment, instead of being put in bull pens, stockades and prisons, as they are to-day, for no other crime than for striking against unjust con- ditions, and when the psychological moment arrives for the working class to come into possession of its own if backed up by tremendous political majority representing the will of the people The laws of the country will be used for the ma iority's will expressed at the ballot box. To-day the working man by his numerical majority gives that politi- cal power into the hands of the eco homie masters and all the laws are used by that class to uphold that power. When the workers become l intelligent enough to know what they want they will get what they want. The law of eminent domain now used so glibly by the railroad and the oil trusts to confiscate land, might be used to get back some Of that land the people have been rob bed of. | The writer of Socialism as 1t is and Isn't" like many others, asks for a definite programme, just how we shall regulate our decisions as to the value of ones labor as compared to another's and other such details. It would be quite as impossible for socialists to arrange their pro gramme as to what would take place in A new order of society as it would 1 have been for the makers of the American revolution who rebelled against taxation without representa- tion and other injustice from which they suffered under the tyranny of the form of government called the monarchy of King George, to place before the revolution had taken place exactly how things would be managed under a constitutional gov ernment. They were wise enough and brave enough to bring about the revolution; others came after them who improved, and carried out their ideas; new states have been added to those colonies and great things Of which they never dreamed have been accomplished. In the progress of the i nations growth other men called abolitionists, recognized that there were black men held as chattel slaves in the southern states, that such human slavery was wrong-not be- ing able to accomplish the abolition of slavery, and hold the union of states intact, by peaceful propa- ganda, a bloody war ensued; war that the early abolitionists neither melted or-desired, a war, which has not settled the race problem by any means, and which the grandchildren of the brave soldiers of the civil war now have to solve. The socialists of all nations know that the wage slavery of men, women and little children is unjust, that human slavery as we have 1t before us to- day is absolutely wrong. They have studied the cause of this slavery and believe that the remedy can be brought about by peaceful political revolution, and will strive to bring about such a change-but when the socialist republic takes the place of this form of government there is nc
 doubt the men who will be freed by it; will have clearer brains
 healthier bodies and stronger wills to plan better conditions than even
 the fairest ideals of socialist of to- day. And under socialism no doubt still higher ideals will be evolved land new heights come into view
 worth striving for-evolution, prog.
 ress, growth-for when growth ceases death begins.
 | SOCIALIST COMMITTEE.