The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-19
PROMISES OF
THE VICTORS
Continued from Page one.)


today it is equally the duty of the gov.
eminent to protect associated labor; thai
is to say, the whole body of working peo-
pie, in the possession of products of theil
toll.
Divided Into Two Glasses.
1.-THE present system of social production
by individual ownership has produced two
classes-the propertyless class and the
capital class. The middle class, once the
backbone of this great nation, is fast dis
appearing in the mill of competition and
the issue is now between the first two
classes. All attempts to obscure this is
sue or to delay the settlement are futile
for all other issues will be speedily alb
sOrbed by it. Thus it develops that the
battle for human rights has become bat
tie to determine which form of government
we shall have in the future-plutOcracy or
democracy.
Political liberty alone has become in
adequate; it must have both political and
economic liberty. Te secure this is the
aim of the SOcial-DemOcracy.
In city affairs we stand for the public
ownership of municipal utilities. We are
awaSs- however, that Milwaukee does not
enjoy f-government and that, as a rule,
no steps can be taken in that direction
without appeal to the state legislature at
Madison.
In municipal affairs the Social-Democ-
racy stands also for radical changes that
will bring means of production into the
hands of the people. 1t believes in self
government for the city, initiative, the
referendum and the right of recall, in a
just and equitable taxation, in efficient
sanitary inspection of workshops and
houses, and in the public control of the
food supply in the interest of the public
health and in the highest development OF
reasOnal public service. At the proper
time the Social-Democracy will Initiate
these and other things
.fNNp call attention to the fact that the
measures we urge are in no way COM
plete cure for existing evils, nor are they
necessarily sOcialistic measures. They are
to be viewed rather as palliatives, capable
of being carried out even under present
conditions, Under no circumstances should
the working people rest content with mu-
nieipal improvements which are merely
Temporary in their nature and must be en-
tirely inadequate. They should move on
ward to the conquest of all public powers,
to an entire change from the present sys-
tenn for one which shall secure to the peo-
pie, collectively, the means Of production
and distribution.
'sThe handspring of corruption in
municipal affairs is found in the fact
that a few aldermen or officials have
it in their power to give away or sell
franchises to capitalists, who thereby
make millions. The temptation thus Of
fered our public officials to secure
share in the millions thus given away
is too great for the average man TO
withstand. If the city should operate
its public utilities, the motive and the
opportunity for bribery would be gone
even if minor evils and breaches of
trust might continue. owing to the cor
rupting influence of the capitalistic sys-
TEN, which makes money getting the
sole object of life. The Social Democra-
cy. therefore, objects to more compett-
fion in public utilities-more competi-
ton means more corruption.
I'VE stand for the public ownership