Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-29

young women to the lust of the em- ploying class, because they must
 live.
 Would any true follower of Christ dare to call this the twentieth cen-
 tury of Christianity when a system is in existence that forces strong
 men to the highways to seek for the
 right to work, drives the mothers
 to the mills, and grinds the chil- dren into profits, breaking up homes as ruthlessly as the trusts break the
 laws of God and man.
 Socialism will help to bring in the Christ. The same Jesus who cast the money changers out of the tenn
 pie said; 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these
 my children, ye have done it unto me-"
 Is 1t in force to-day? In the coal
 dark mines under ground, in the whirr of the cotton mills, the. sweat shops and the street?
 That the remedy for present con- ditions lies in the hands of the
 workers themselves through politi- cal action, is suggested by the writ CT of the General Survey" This is patent truth, the producers are in the majority politically and will be free just as soon as they vote for principles that will bring about their own redemption, and not for men who are sworn adherents of the master class, the class that be- lieves in and maintains by all the powers of governmental force the militia, the bull pen and the iniunc- tions, the perpetuation of abject wage slavery of the working class.
 When the workers stand together for their own class interests, at the ballot box, and cease to be the tools of either capitalist party, then there will be no need of threading more bloody revolutions. No more terror of anarchy brought on by oppression and tyranny of those who now hold the political and economic power.
 Ignorance and superstition of the masses will some day give way to sane reason and a calm intelligent survey of things as they are, not what the masters and their satel- lites would have them believe.
 Political economic power goes hand in hand. The workers in America have abjectly surrendered their franchise as we'll as their la Dor power to their masters, all ex- cept 100000 socialist voters. Tn other countries the workers are awake to their own interests. In France, Germany, England. Austria Italy and even benighted Russia, dominated by czardom and super stition, as it is, millions of workers belong to the largest political party in the world to-day, the internation- al socialist party.
 In America the socialist party of- fers definite remedies for present conditions. Unlike Taft, who, when asked what the great mass of un- employed workmen must do in crises like that of the present time answers: God knows" Or Bry- an when confronted with the same problem says: Tt takes a long time to think 1t over'
 The platform of the socialist party has the following general demands" in addition to pro- gramme of industrial and political demands"
 . l. The immediate government relief for the unemployed workers by building schools, by reforesting of cutover and waste lands, by re- clamation of arid tracts and the building of canals. and by extend ing all other useful public works. All persons employed on such works shall be employed directly by the government under an eight hour workday and at the prevailing union wages. The government shall also loan money to states and municipal ities without interest for the pur- pose of carrying on public works. It shall contribute to the funds of labor organizations for the purpose of assisting their unemployed mem bers, and shall take such other measures within it's power as will lessen the widespread misery of the workers caused by the misrule of the capitalist class.
 2. The collective ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones. | steamship lines and all other means of social transportation and con- munication. of all land.
 $. The collective ownership of all industries which are organized on a national scale and in which competition has virtually ceased to exist.
 I. The extension of the public domain 10 include mines. ouarries. | oil wells. forests and water power. !
 3. The scientific reforesting of timber lands and the reclamation l or swamp lands. The land so re- forested or reclaimed to be per manently retained as a part of the | public domain.
 6. The absolute freedom of press, speech and assemblage.
 A campaign of education is car ried on al every election. and con- 1 tinually throughout the year by lectures and literature. Outside of I the socialist organizations great forces are at work in line with the |, evolutionary philosophy of social ! ism. Every periodical has brilliant stories and articles On socialist 1 N-aSHSAt' anu dCboHlHlleumeHt- ID | the more scientific fields of litera- ture men like Professor Hugo ! Franke of Harvard university. Pro 1. lessor Seligman of Columbia uni Tersity. Professor Lenblin of Chi cago university. and others have written volumes on the subject Of the materialist conception of his- 1 tory or economic determinism. the | theory on which socialism is based | vii. that mans economic environ ! ment shapes his action. That the . history of nations has been deter ! mined hN tha raarr hr rhfch +hn