The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-09-26
!. APOSTLE OF: &. /. !:
!: THE SOCIALIST PARTY.
- Golden -Tongued Gene Ad-
dressed Enormous Audience s
at Lyceum Monday ? "
RESCUE THE PRODUCERS
FROM SLAVERY OF GREED
Made Favorable Impression Even
Upon Those Who Dissented n
From His Views.

The Hon. Eugene v. Debs, the So
cialist candidate for president Of the
United States, spent Monday in :Du-
[luth, and <:spoke to the largest crowd
ever. assembled in the Lyceuna, and
It, is safe to say that as an expression
OF popular homage to political
speaker the Debs demonstration ex-
In Duluth. Every seat in the theater
was filled and several hundred were
unable to gain adnittance.~7 The stage
from which he spoke was crowded to
its utmost capacity Mr.. Debs' audi
ence was most enthusiastic and every
period was marked with vociferous
applause. The following excerpts
will convey some idea of the trend
lot his address,. :"
Socialist an optimist.
THE socialist is by nature an opti-
mist. He is. the only one that has
ever dared to plan a world without
coming to him there will be q big
change in the: manner in" which things
ares being run. w..
You can never hope for anything
good from either the Republicans or
the Democrats: They have had plenty
Of opportunity to benefit the labor
Ing man IT, they had any intention Of
ever doing so. You have stuck by
them year after year, campaign after
campaign, and now you find yourself
worse OF than when you started.
what the laboring men Of this
country must do If: they ever expect
to cleanse the government Of corrup-
ton and get what is honestly due
them lis band together. There are
enough of US to make the capitalists
eat out of our hands If we will only
stand by each other. This we must do.
The Political Flatterer.
THE ward healer rides you to the
polls in a hack :on election day 50
[thet yeuSca4a waak the -other. 3s4 days:
The: political sneaker teils yo,i,s how
proud Ne 1s to be IN your midst and
you swell out Of shape. He tells: you
that the beads of sweat that stand
out on your manly brow are more
precious than all the jewels in a
queens crown. And you swallow it,
too. He insults your intelligence and
you never: tumble,
We: are the Producing people uf
the country. We are the ones that
make things-that do things. All Of
the capitalists in the country could
them. They have control of the tools
with which we work and as long as
they continue in power we can expect
just what we have now.
- King Of the Republicans.
Roosevelt, the king of the Repub-
licans was elected by means Of a.
fund of $4,000 that was given by
the corrupt Insurance companies.
Bryan is now hobnobbing with q man
that he, not long ago, called a train
robber and this same train robber''
he introduced to his wife and chill
|:dren. He is also courting Tammany,
the greatest and filthiest political or
|ganizatton that this or any other
! country has ever known"
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Car
negie and Hartman, came in for a
fine flaying and every time that the
linguistic lash was applied by the
speaker deafening applause followed.
Debs told vividly Of the many little
children that were working hard in
the United States and of the misery
that was entailed by keeping the
children in unsanitary factories when
they should be out on the play
grounds building themselves up, men
tally, physically and spiritually. He
laid particular stress on this point
and asserted that redress could molly
be had under socialistic government.
A Gem from Debs:
|. It does not matter that the Creator
has sown with stars the fields Of ether
| and decked the earth with countless
beauties for mans enjoyment. It does
not matter that air and ocean TEEN
with the wonders Of =. innun erahle
forms Of life to challenge mans ad-
mirati and Investigation. : 1t does
not matter that nature spreads forth
all her scenes Of beauty and gladness
and pours forth the melodies of; her
myriad tongued voices for mans de-
lectatfon: If liberty is ostracized and
exiled, man is a slave and the world
rolls In space and whirls around the
sun gilded prison, doomed dungeon
and, though. painted in ALL the en-
chanting hues Nat infinite art could
command, it must stand forth a blotch
amid the singing, spheres of the side
real heavens, and those who call from
thes vocabularies Of nations, living or
dead. their flashing phrases with
which to, apostrophize liberty are en-
gagged in perpetuating the most stu
renaous delusion the ages have known.
Strike down liberty, no matter by
what :suble or internal art the deed
is done, the spinal :cord Of humanity
is /: sundered,} and the world IL, par
allied by the indescribable crime ~
From the Cleveland Plain oealsn:s Ia.
The ssiIly season makes us fret, s.ss
"a lot of questions vexs 4s; s.,. /. M.
but mo one sasks who will ret ..ss
M. 4. NJ