The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-09-16
DEBS MAKES
A TALK
CANDIDATE FOR PRES
IDENT SPEAKS TO SEVERAL
HUNDRED PEOPLE AT STATION.

Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate
for president, was in town this morn
ing. Owing to the fact that his train
was late he did not go to the place
where he was advertised to speak,
but, mounting a box on the shady
side of the depot restaurant he pro-
ceeded to pound out the principles of
government according to his idea of
it.
The "red special upon which he
travels is not red at all, the only red
noticeable is large sign painted in
red and few red streamers hanging
from the sides of the car.
In his speech, Debs took up the old
question of capital and labor, told Of
the rich man crowding out the poor
man, the department store crowding
out the small merchant, the big far
mer absorbing the small farmer.
He accused the commission mer-
chants of taking all the money which
should go to the farmer and the fruit
grower.
He stated that there can be no
ioverproduction when the workers
have not enough.
Said he:
Through the private ownership of
production and distribution, the capt.
talists are given the power to levy
tribute upon those who must use
| them. This tribute is known as profit.
Trusts and monopolies- are only ac-
cumulated profits wrung from the
! toilers by this method. The trust evil
does not lie in the fact that there are
trusts, but in the fact that the trust
is more efficient in accomplishing
what all businesses were primarily
organized to accomplish, namely: to
separate the worker from his product
and then to retain possession of as
much of that product as possible.
, Vote to Own Your Own job.
, Prosperity for the capitalists de-
ponds upon how much of the wealth
which labor creates they can extract
from the laborers who created it;
while prosperity for the workers de-
ipends upon how much of the wealth
which they create they can prevent
the capitalists from extracting; and
1.-THE zenith of workingmen's prosperity
will be reached when they can retain
tall the produce Socialism will ena.
BILE them to do this. Be man; vote
, for it. Vote for what is now right
fully yours.
, Vote for the full product of YOU
, toll. Remember the number of do!
lars you receive in wages do not nee
essarily 1T The standard "f your 'iv
ling. Oh, those friends of labor!
+ How long will t. take the workers t.
p learn that Ike ou.y friends the work
: ers have are the workers themselves
q ri.at the irte ests of all others lie Il
discovering the most successful meth
I DDS of exploiting the workers. HOY
: Hong will it take the workers to lear
THAT the Cd ipaign flattery-bee'
whiskey and cigaIs-are costing ther
r four-fifths of what they producer"
n Following is the personnel of tn
J. Red Special:
d Eugene v. Debs, locomotive fire
o man and socialist candidate for pres
s. dent
o Theodore Debs, his brother an
secretary.
Stephen NJ. Reynolds, Terre Haut'
n Ind, lawyer and socilist speaker.
e A. H. Floaten, Denver, run out {
Q Telluride because he gave credit
s. striking miners at his general stor
e w. w. Buchanan, in charge OF tn
7 literature, Texas, veteran of the civ
d war and an early abolitionist agitt
II tor.
/. Charles Lapworth, London. repre-
= senting British and continent;
l. newspapers.
}, Harry C. Parker. Philadelphi;
o union cigar maker and manager {
S the train.
a Harry NJ. Mckee, San Diego, 81
+ cialist lecturer.
: Prof Christian Sorenson, De-
i mark. leader of the Red Special ban'
5. composed of musicians from fftee
e states.
e. George F. Boomer, socialist cand
J: date for governor of Washington.
=, The socialist national campaig
train left Chicago August 81, an