Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-29

Terre Haute, Ind, Aug. H.-None OF
the presidential candidates in the pres
ent campaign has more pronounce61
views on current affairs than Eugene
V. Debs, who heads the Socialist
ticket. Speaking of socialism as an
antidote for prevailing public prob
lens, Mr.. Debs offers what he con-
siders constructive Socialistic policy.
at is generally admitted that some
thing is wrong said Mr.. Debs yes
terday.
THE depression n industry, the
millions of unemployed, the unequal
distribution of wealth, the discomfort
that prevails and the frequent labor
troubles are few evidences of this
fact, which will hardly be denied by
anyone.
There can be no real remedy un-
der the present order, because:
81. Industry is monarchial in ma
ture, being ruled by the owners of the
machine, and the workers are depend
ents on others for their jobs, and the
means of livelihood.
"2. Industry is now run for profits,
and the captains of industry are in
terested in getting out of it all they
can, while the interest of the workers
is opposed to this, in cutting down
profits and increasing wages. Out Of
this condition grows inevitably a class
struggle, which is inherent in the sys-
TEN and can never be ended until the
system is ended.
49, In order to keep wages to the
point where profit taking will be pos
sible, it is necessary to have an army
of unemployed at all times.
"a. Because of the power of ma
chinery to produce in quantities, and
the inability OF the people who pay a
profit to buy all that can be produced,
there come times when so-called
over production really under-con-
sumption, compels an easing up Of
production and period of depression.
1t is for this reason that the periodi-
cal panic is inevitable under capitalist
production.
"But Socialism has a full complete
and definite remedy for prevailing
public troubleG. 1t consists in over
throwing the capitalist system of pro-
duction for profit, and substituting CO.
| operative production for use. 1t
means to overthrow monarchy in in
dustry and establish instead demo
cracy in industry.
'tThis would at once eliminate the
entire profit system and the enormous
amount of waste that prevails under
industrial monarchy and tyranny. 1t
would make the people owners of the
machinery of production and distribu-
ton and thus make them industrially
| free. because if the workers owned the
tools of production and had access to
the resources of nature, they could
employ themselves and be their own
bosses. If they owned the tools of
production and distribution, which
now include immense and costly ma
chinery, they would get their full pro-
duct, which would give all workers
abundance, and there would be no
over production because the work.
ers, getting all they produced, would
be able to use all they produced;
hence, panics would be at an end.
"There is abundant raw material
there are plenty of men able and will
ing to work there are millions who
would like to have all the good things
that could be produced The trouble
is that individual control of industry
through the ownership of the tools oil
production and distri ,ution, separates
the many from the opportunity to pro
duce what they desire aud need.
Socialism is industrial democracy
1t is a continuation of the movement
begun by the revolutionary fathers fol
political democracy, and is necessary
in order to complete and render thai
movement effective for real freedom
"The remedy for democracy is more
democracy