The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-27
ADDRESSES
SOCIALISTS
Walter ]. Millard, of Cincin-
natl, the Speaker.
PRINCTPLESOF The PARTY
Outlined in a Quite Lengthy
Discourse.
Meeting was Held in the Deutscher
Bund Hall Which was Quite well
Filled Last Evening.

Walter J. Miifara, of Cincinnati,
one of the foremost Socialists Of the
younger generation in the state, ad-
dressed the local members of the par
ty and large number of interested
friends in the Deutcher Bund hall
last evening, on THE soul Of Social
ism" He offered some converse argu-
ments well calculated to arrest the
attention of the logician and thinker
Contrary to the popular conception of
the word, Socialist" in commune
ties where it does not abound, there
was no dynamite, no Internal ma
chimes, not even a red flag, the only
red in sight being the membership
card of the party exhibited by Mr..
Millard who prepared his audience
against suspicion by stating its real
import before bringing 1t to notice The
only bombs thrown by the speaker
were a few of the intellectual sort
destined to rouse the laborer to
realization of his possibilities.
"As member from Ohio of the ma
tional committee for the relief OF the
unemployed" stated Mr.. Millard in
opening, 81 am in a position to tell
you there are four and half million
of men out of jobs in this country to-
day; there are ten thousand empty
houses in OHIO right now, and there
is more idle gold in the banks of the
country than ever before in its his
tory. II it is true that we constitute
the most intelligent group of work.
ingmen in the world this should be
condition of hope.
THE question confronting every
intelligent citizen of the world today
is, why are panics?" History tells us
the first panic mace It's appearance
upon the horizon about 1925, so you
see they are not spring chickens. In
vestigation by Frenchman develop |
ed the fact that the panic was not
due to lack of necessities but sur
felt of them, so he called it a panic |
OF plenty, declaring the reason there
were no houses being built was be-
cause there was too much building
the reason the children
were without snoes was that there
were too many shoes TO clog the mar
ket.
When the depression struck us
two years ago, Roosevelt essayed
cure something like this; IF the
workingmen will take their money
out of the family stocking where they
have been hording 1t this condition
will cease, Let go OF what you have
and there will be plenty" Then Mr..
Van Cleve, president OF the manufac-,
turers' association came forth with a |
little Christian Science cure. THE
reason three is a panic is that you
think there is one. Be optimistic |
Smile. Say things are going great
and they Will" Needless to say Van
Cleye didn't have any hungry child
rem at home. Then election came
along and the Republicans said,
Roosevelt is all right, but he's 100
Lets get a nice conser
vative Republican" SO we whooped |
her up for TAFT, and now when we
ask for full dinner pail, they tell lis
they are revising the tariff and after
that is done prosperity will be in our
midst. This seems to me a solution
too shortsighted to catch the most
obtuse, since the present cry of the
is not confined to Ma
rion, or Ohio or the United States,
but is an International chorus, sound
ed in Germany in England, Japan,
France, and wherever civilization has
A national incident is
not cure for an international sick
ness.
why is panic7 The Republi-