The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-20
COUNTRY IS FAST
GOING TO SMASH.
Comrale Lewis Takes Whack at
Big Men. Including
Roosevelt in List.
SOCIALISM WILL HEAL lii
Declares That Real Civilization
Is No Work; the Tramp,
for Instance.

Scoring both the Republican and
the Democratic parties as the mere In
struments of the trusts, and declaring
that the passing of the reign OF capt.
talism is at hand, "Comrade" Lena
Morrow Lewis, in the course of lee
ture delivered last night in Liberty
Hall, painted q convincing picture of
the glorious time when all present
day parties shall fall and socialism
rule.
That Richmond has it's fair share
Of those who are interested i'll the
doctrines of Karl Marx was evidenced
by the attendance at the lecture. The
large hall was over two-thirds filed.
After roasting the old line parties
to beautiful brown, "Comrade'' Lew
is took few hot shots at Colonel
Roosevelt, another few at John D..
Rockefeller and Standard OIL and
brought her remarks to close by
arriving at the optimistic conclusion
nothing-to this thing they call work.
Distributing Wealth.
Incidentally, she took up a collec-
ton, sold some little white books.
some little red books and then some
more little white books, and succeed
ed In putting into practice one of the
doctrines of her creed by effecting
more equal distribution of the wealth
that was present
The speaker defined socialism in its
relation to modern civilization. Capt
| talism is invading every corner of
| the globe" she said. 1T is carrying
its banner into China, Asia and other
| far countries of the East. In few
years these countries will be able to
outdistance US In things In which
we now excel, because they possess
a cheaper class of labor than this
country can ever possess, and the re-
| suit is going to be that the working
classes of America are going 10 be
dragged even deeper into the mire
| than they are at the present time.
For you can say what you please,
she declared ut is the country that
sets the pace in an Industrial way
that fixes the standard of wages"
/ The speaker declared that Roosevelt,
Is on the side of the trusts He has
always been on that side" she said
"and he's bluHing when he tries tc
pose as the friend of the workinSman
Looks Into Future.
Mrs. Lewis advised those present
that they could never get rich by saw
ing their money. IF John d. Rookie
Il Teller had lived when Jesus Christ was
edTIn, ana ildu SdNSi a. Soi'ol 49, :
day since, he would still have some
years to go before he would be a!
rich as he is to-day" she explained
"And yet" she continued, you hea
more about the few pennies old Joht
D. saved when he was boy thar
you do about all the millions he ha
made In the last forty years In Stan
dard OIL
After pointing out that the countr'
is fast on its way to ruin, the speak
er grew more optimistic and de
, scribed the wonders that Will resul
from socialism, when its day finally
arrives Everybody Will have plenty.
!. she said, "all the work Will be don
by machinery, there will be no NOR
: tired men and women, we will live
life of ease What's the matter wit
: the world Is that 1t is suffering fror
e the curse of work. You point TO tn
S tramp as a degenerate, but he is nc
that-he is man who has atta1nc
: success, for he is a man who ha
learned to live without working.
In conclusion. the speaker define
civilization civilization" she salt
i, means just one thing-it means III
|. with as little work as is possible"