The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-16
COUNTRY Is ALL RIGHT,
DECLARED SPEAKER
But The System is Wrong, and His
Would Substitute Socialism as
The Remedy For The ms.

George II. (ioebel, New York com
nercial traveller and a warm advocate
Of Socialism, gave an interesting talk
on Socialism at Miles hall Saturday
evening before large audience, Atr.
Goebe took as a title for his lecture
"Shall the trusts own the nation or
the nation own the trustsY' and the
manner in which he handled the sub
ject showed thorough knowledge Of it
aud he expressed his thoughts n tact
ful yet forcible manner.
While witty in the extreme. Mr.
fioebel's address was free from bitter
ness and was warmly applauded. The
speaker spoke Of the founders of So
calisn aud its great growth ia the
world and IN the Emitted States in par
ticular and its bearing on the economic
questions Of the day.
He stated that the time was rapidly
Ia preaching when the most important
matter in the country was bound 70 be
the battle between capital and labor
and that Socialism WAS the remedy for
the rapidly approaching condition
The speaker declared tnat the coun-
try is an right God has certainly done
blessed with greater natural resources
or greater opportunities. 1t II the sys-
tenn which Is wrong. 1t has reached a
point where the laboring man is al
lowed to just about break even. He
can get Just enough to support him so
ne can continue work. II the cost of
living is high in one section Of the
country wages are high to correspond
and the carpenter in san Francisco get
ting S. day for exactly the same Kind
of work done in Pennsylvania for $3.50
is getting ahead no faster Gonccntra
tion Of wealth IN the hands Of a few
leaves the working man Just enough for
existence.
We'd ALI Be Millionaires--n We Could.
I'm not here to throw mud at the
nillionairesn said the speaker WED
al be in their places if we could When
the system means skin or be skinned
we're all made Of mud and we all want |
the knife ia our hands. II you're not
willing to do what you can to stop this |
skinning system sit up straight and
take your medicine. If ! fnd bed |
bug Keeping steady company with me
some night I'm not going 10 blame the
bug what find fault with Is the way /
he gets his living lie thought that
when one man j. allowed 200 millions
more than 80 million others haze not /
together there il something decidedly I
wrong with the system. He argued tnat I
kjgh tariff, low tariff or tariff cut /
shape down the back mas nothing 70
10 with the system Ii il not the
gold standard or free silver, III fact,
none Of tie causes that are given by
Ehe old political parties but the fact
Ilat the producing class i allowed SO
small share of the product.
Mr.. Goebel declared that government
ownership would be fruitelss unless tho
working class II IN control. He would
rot say that neither Of the old par
les mad ever done anything worth
shile. They had been formed to meet
! particular issue and had done their
sork wisely and we'll Conditions have
hanged and new methods and new re-
siedies are necessary ami the old par
les. formed for other purposes bound
~ traditions and policies cannot meet
ne new crisis A new party has been
ormed 70 meet this as we're the old
ne and this is Socialism.