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Socialism, and Politics.

Socialism and Politics. :%
The campaign is about ready to
open. There will in all be five can
didates for the greatest office Of honor
the >: American people have In their
power to bestow upon the head OF any
one persons That the game will be
played to the best advantage, of those
who will stoop 50 low as; to vilify the
ones who will oppose them upon the
grounds that their party principles
are SO made up as to conceal the
truth Of the very cause that gives
them life. JILL.
that we as members of the working
class, should longer vote against our
own interests, and yet what will we
do, will We not march in a body to
the poles to vote on the day., that
we are the equal Of any other man.
and will we not commit an, act then
that, we shall condemn ourselves for
doing for the next four years.
The tragedy that will be played
Will be the giving over Of the power
of government to the interests of one
Of the classes, as the interests of these
classes are In direct opposition to one
another, the play will center itself
around the method of best getting
into office. Who should be the star
In play? Who has the best claims to
It? Who could best fill the position?
What would be the requirements Of
the person that should aspire to the
place? "
The person who should have the
best claim to become the star actor,
should be the person who has rem
dered the best service to the greatest
number of people. It should not be
| very hard proposition for the people
to pick out the man, who has rem
dered the most useful service to the
| the people long ito decide who Is the
| man who has. hot looked for power
through the niimber Of dollars he
| could skin some one else out OF their
| hard earned wealth. ,.-
The man who could best fiji thezpo-
| sition would, be the man who has had
the interest95of most people at heart,
the man who. has given the, most
thought to- the. young Of today, for
they are to become on the morrow the
| law makers Of our country. - :.
The man who could best meet. the
requirements Of the person who should
aspire to fill the position would be- the:
! man who was fearless; the man in:
whom the blood Of bravery flowed
through his veins; the man who
| would not grow tired or exhausted un-
til he had 50 aroused the people to
the: great task OF abolishing the:
present system Of graft, robbery,
and the selling into: bondage for flu
ture profits the children that are born
| unto us.
The man who would attack the verv
foundations Of our present system; the
man who will work with all of the
power Of might he possesses, for the
abolition of the present wage system;
the man who would fight for the right
of individual freedom within the COL
lective state.
There is but one man of the five
candidates who has a greater right
than all of the rest, as he stands upon
the platform of class who are them :
selves the producers; who are them.
selves useful toilers; who produce use
full work for society-that mans name
WILL AAFS 4OIA6 tuc u0Wi history lNdC
is soon to be written, and on it's pages
will be recorded many sweet memories
of him, who has suffered so much at
the hands Of the present system-the
man who has plead in the name Of
humanity; the man who has plead in
the name Of our defenceless women,
and the man who has more than plead
the man who has prayed-for the
little children
This mans name u.s. Eugene v. Debs.
the man who was confined in Wood
| stock jail in Cook County, State of
Illinois, in 1894. He being incarcer-
! ated and branded as a felon, because
| he fought one Of the greatest battles
ever fought upon the economic field
| in the interest of labor. He was the
man upon whose shoulders fell the
weight of the notorious injunctions as
first brought out by the man who has
become the loving servant Of a. duti-
| full people and that mans name is
injunction Bill" Taft.
49,. g.. p. G. PHILLIPS.