The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-12
DEBS RAILING At
ROOSEVELT
LEADING CHICAGO SOCIALIST
TAKES FLING AT EX-PRESI.
DENTS ARTICLES ON SOCIAL
ISNIN THE OUTLOOK.

to the hot and bitter words of de-
feated American presidential candi-
date directed at his late and success
full adversary:
Theodore Roosevelt's attack on
socialism, his first contribution to
Outlook, was silly and his state
ments were palpably false. His ar
gument is the same old, threadbare
objection that has been parroted by
capitalist apologists and retainers
for 20 years. He shows that he
knows nothing of the subject. His
charge that socialism approves free
love is wantonly malicious. He con-
dennis a great party because one
member of it divorced his wife and
married another woman. Mr.. Roose-
velt's principal political preceptor, an
eminent republican, at the very time
that Roosevelt sat at his feet, was
carrying on a liasOn which culminat-
ed in a public scandal. How is it, Mr.
Roosevelt, that your virtuOus indig-
nation was not outraged by this eX-
hibition of moral leprosy in your own
personal and political household"
Eugene v Debs. a resident of
this city. has much more than this
70 in
former presidents blast against So
cialism. He answers Roosevelt
categoricalIy. Here are some of his
points:
The man whose misfortune Roose-
welt seized upon to fix immortality
upon a party with half million fol-
lowers in the United States, was mar
ried while a boy and later realized
to his unspeakable sorrow that he did
not love the woman. He did what
thousands of republicans have done.
Prostitution is never so vile as when
practiced within the marriage rela-
| ton
THE charge that advanced social
lists oppose private property and are
hostile to religion and morality is
false. Socialists are not opposed to
| private property except in the
means of life Capitalism, which
Roosevelt defends. makes private
property impossible to the masses by
confiscating their products. 1t is
capitalism that defies religion and de-
stroys morality.
Roosevelt writes vicious and
damnable lie when he says that the
leaders of our party uphold the po-
sition of instituting free love for
married life He gives no word OF
proof to support this wanton insult.
and I throw the foul calumny back
into his teeth
Socialism. Mr. Roosevelt, means
industrial democracy, self-rule and
all the forces of evolution are work
ing to that end. We are going to fit
ourselves by education to take con-
troll of industry.
Roosevelt says our party would
iisband if we, the leaders, should
attempt to force our followers to adj
nit to equality all negroes and China
men. He has never read our plat
form or he would never make such
show of himself We today admit to
membership men and women of all
races and nationalities.
IF the charges Roosevelt makes
against me could be supported
should be in the penitentiary. He
has not forgotten that | offered
$4,000 reward for any one who could
disproye my statement that he was
connected with the Alton steal, IN
which Hartman. ROosevelt's whilom
friend. swindled the stock and bond
holders of the Chicago & Alton out
of s63,OOO,OOO. I have not the dis
tinction of having invented spiked
policeman's club, of having thrown
gray-haired mother out of my DOM
icile, entertaining prizefighters, thugs
and gun toters. shooting a fellow
man in the back, charging up San
Juan hill by proxy. of having settled
a coal strike on terms which opera
tors want made perpetual, denounc-
ing a man as a scoundrel and taking
his campaign contribution after
writing we are practical men, or OF
publicly condemning men. in the
shadow of the gallows, who are later
declared innocent"
howled at by Debs, who asks: VINO
ing that his articles were written
from the standpoint of wage earn
ers ana farmers. He says that Roose-
volt sent troonS TO CrOtOn dam TO