Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-24
SOCIALISM'S INTERPRETING POLL
 GEES
GEES

SOclallSm III theory ana Tor prOpagandlSt pun poses is one thing; socialism in practice unde official responsibility is and always will prov to be something a little different. It will tai more or less wildly in theory, and in practic if will talk in moderation and with eyes wid open to actual conditions. This appears rathe strikingly in the prOnouncement made by Victo Berger, a leader of the Milwaukee socialist par ty on behalf of the socialist administration O city affairs which is about to be inaugurated What the Milwaukee socialists propose to do un der official responsibility is thus stated:
 Build and operate a municipal electric
 light and power plant.
 Drive out grafters and contractors
 rings; thorough investigation to be first
 step.
 Push public works, especially in winter,
 to give employment to as many as possible.
 Pay union wages, although the law pro-
 hibits discrimination between union and
 non-union labor.
 Readjust taxes so that their burden will
 fall in less degree upon the poor.
 Require street railway and other public
 utility corporations to give better service
 Drop several hundred superfuous city
 employees from the pay rolls
 II III JoolIlolo HIS ICCllIliCttl ol
 tiic skill with men of that knowledge, even if it be necessary to go outside Milwaukee.
 Name socialists to fill places where ques-
 tons of policy are determined
 There is nothing very terrifying in this pro gram. It is little more than what either one of the regular political parties would promise tc do in seeking the suffrages of the people of 8 city. Practically all of the propositions are ad and the declaration in favor of putting men of technical skill in positions requiring technical knowledge "even if it be necessary to go outside of Milwaukee" to get them, shows an enlightened and aggressive spirit on behalf of honest and efficient public administration.
 Even more reassuring than what the Milwau- kee social administration proposes to do is what it does not intend to do as stated by Mir. Berger:
 Abolish capitalism in Milwaukee,; create state of business uncertainty.
 Employ every man or woman out of work.
 Fill offices with political henchmen.
 Allow loafers to retain office
 Attempt more than the state law author izes; for instance, institute the initiative and referendum, which must wait on state legislation.
 Dignitares and leaders in the Roman Cath Dlic church around Boston have been holding a conference on the social conditions of the day, with particular reference to concerted attack )y the church on socialism. Assuredly the church cannot have any objection to socialism n so far as it aims to find practical expression n the one city of the country which it now con rols in legislative and administrative way. And it will doubtless become clearer and clearer, IS socialist parties may now and then, and here md there succeed at the polls, that socialism" S to reach its ultimate ends through slow and processes and not through revolu- ion or violent disturbance. And this attainment f it's ultimate ends through evoution-and hey must be so attained if they are to have any bidng force-s so far away in the remote fu- ure as to fall outside of present consideration.