Evening journal., 1910-04-07
MILWAUKEE'S
new MAYOR
Successful Socialist Candidate
Expresses His Views on
City Government
SAYS HIS PARTY MEN
ARE NOT AFTER JOBS

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
MILWAUKEE. Wis. April a. Emil
/ Sedel, pattern maker and Socialist
| mayor elect of Milwaukee has unique
views that will set the professional
! politicians on edge when he assumes
control of the affairs of Wisconsins
metropolis.
Notwithstanding that he is today the
idol and the hope of an American So
cialists, the little man is undismayed
by the responsibilities which confront
him. lie believes he can so construct
and apply his theories as to compel the
respect and admiration OF the unbc-
heving.
Monopoly as it exists today" he
said, lis as crushing as the land feud-
alism Of the middle ages only more
so.
''The over-lord of the middle. ages
gave his subjects bit of land for their
own use. The industrial over-lord of
! today does not allow his workmen TO
own his own tools and appropriates
the profit after paying him "a wage
for his labor SoNthe situationt ~
become just this, the owner docs not
use the tool and the user ldoes mot
own the tooh Now we socialists be
lieve the tool and its profit must he
returned to the user. The way we
think is clear.
Monopoly is here whether we like
IL or not. We can't divide up the tool
piece without destroying it. So we
insist on public monopoly of II in
!. stead OF private monopoly and win be-
gin with those monopolies that most
oppress us all.
III the city takes the part of tho
middle man in slaughterng its meat
his big profit viii be clipped from tho
present prohibitive prices. It's the
same way with ice and other neces.
stiles down TO the cutting of buria
prices when we die
We don't realize campaign none,
through the corporations We tax,
. up a collection after a mass meetini
] and here in Milwaukee we were thu
only bodies of men who could go ava!
from a meeting. even II it were held II
a saloon, without taking a drink.
"Then there is not the job seeking
with us. During the five years Nv
been an alderman, not one conrad
has asked me for anything and the
win not now NE Socialists are afte
,r something better than jobs.
And then the children-that bring
70 me to the biggest thing in good gov
l. ernment-making good citizens of th
n boys and girls.
"As il is now in society a youn
man, dissolute to more or less de
gree, marries carefully brought u
girl. The children are the sufferer
y physically and mentally
. THE reason? Why. what have W
'' as cities done for our children? Par
h. ents are so stupid that in their desir
Il to have their children good give then
Z. anything they want. But the devi
" knows more he gets them by givinl
IS them attractions. He has shown hoy
many he can lure with music and dan
ing and moving pictures and we SO
: cialists believe the same attraction
should be in the schools and othe
social centres. where they can be en-
joyed under the right influence. BE
sides we want parlors we'll conducted
where the girl, who lives in a hall bed
room or home where she can't enter
tain, can have the callers she other
wise meets on the streets.
Up to the age of a. here i'm Mil
waukee we spent about S22 per capt.
on our childrens schooling. then 9
per cent goes into the factories an
ten per cent go to the high schoo
For the ten per cent. we spend IS
more per capita. while the other 80 pc
cent help pay for il. Yet the cit
does nothing for this 30 per cent. an
we Socialists believe the 90 are no
ht to be citizens or bear the burdeI
I'VE intend TO shorten the workin
hours on these children and provid
some means for adding more educa
tion to their toll days.
IF all. that does not explain whs
we mean by Socialism, why here
something shorter" concluded tn
mayor elect. Socialism is a salts
faction in work that melts and blend
women and men together for the GOO
Of all. It's going to make MilwaukC
famous for something better than
has been"
to Mrs Seidel does her own work; bl
~ has time to help her husband with h
n writing for magazines.
IN There IS one child. Viola aged 1
pretty little girl who did not seei
no to bother her father bit by playin
: noisily with her kittens while he talke