The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-05-14


of its own destruction. Such a So
ciety is founded in fundamental in
Justice. There can be no possible
basis for social peace, for individual
freedom, for mental and moral har-
mony, except in the conscious and
complete triumph of The working
class as the only class that has the
right or power to be.
".
The socialis program Is not the
ory imposed upon society for its ac-
ceptance or rejection. 1t Is but the
Interpretation of what Is, sooner or
later, inevitable. Capitalism is al
ready struggling to its destruction.
1t is no longer competent to organize
or administer the work of the world,
or even to preserve itself. The cap
tains of industry are appalled, at their
own inability to control or direct the
rapidly socializing forces of industry.
The so-called trust is but sign and
form of the developing socialism Of
the worlds work. The universal in
crease of the uncertainty of employ
ment, the universal capitalist deter
mination to break down the unity of
labor in the trades unions, the wide
spread apprehensions of impending
change, reveal that the institutions
of capitals society are passing un-
der the power of inhering forces that
will soon destroy them.
Into the midst of the strain and
crisis of civilization, the socialist
movement comes as the only conser-
vative force. If the world is to be
saved from chaos, from universal dis
order and misery, it must be by the
union of the workers of all nations
| in the socialist movement. The So
cialist party comes with the only pro-
position or program for intelligently
and deliberately organizing the ma
tion for the common good of all its
citizens. 1t is the first time that the
mind of man has ever been directed
toward the conscious organization Of
/ society.
! Socialism means that all those
things upon which the people in com
| mon depend shall by the people In
common be owned and administered
1t means that the tools of employ
ment shall belong to their creators
and users; that all production shall
be for the direct use of the produc-
ers; that the making of goods for
profit shall come to an end that VIC
shall all be workers together; and
that all opportunities shall be open
and equal to all men.
V.
To the end that the workers my
seize every possible advantage thai
may strengthen them to gain com
} plete control of the powers of gov
{ ernment, and thereby the sooner es
tabllsh the cooperative common
wealth, the Socialist Party pledges 1t
| self to watch and work, in both thu
) economic and the political struggle
= for each successive immediate inter
r est OF the working class; for short
/ ened days of labor and increase 0
8 wages; for the insurance OF the work
: ers against accident, sickness am
= lack OF employment; for pensions 70
J. aged and exhausted workers; for tn
r public ownership of the means O
= transportation, communication an
: exchange; for the graduated taxatio
t of incomes, inherltances, franchise
It and land values, the proceeds to b
e applied to the public employment an
It improvement OF the conditions of tn
e workers; for the complete educatlo
d of children, and their freedom frol
# the workshop; for he prevention {
It the use OF the military against labC
r in the settlement OF strikes for th
= free administration OF justice; fC
popular government, including ini
@ iative, referendum, proportional rel
,r resentation, equal suffrage of me
n and women, municipal home rul
,f and the recal OF officers by their co.
& stltuents; and for every gain or a.
So vantage for the workers that may
Is wrested from the capitalist systel