The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-01
Candidate for Congressman
Calls Founders of Govern
ment Lawbreakers.
CLASS STRUGGLES COME
IN FOR DISCUSSION
Socialism Admitted TO Be Hard
to Define and Worse
to Explain.

James A Smith. candidate for con-
gresham on the state Socialist ticket
was the principal speaker at an open-air
Socialist meeting at Liberty park Sunday
afternoon. His subject was THE Class
Struggles of America" Ec was followed
by William Thurston Brown. who dis
cusscd The Victory OF Milwaukee"
Mr.. Smiths address, for the greater
part. was made up of quotations from
Glass Struggles of America" a little
book written by 4. NJ. Simons. He inter
Jectcd a few Socialist pyrotechnics of his
own. however. and took n crack at news
paper men. by saying that some Of these
fellows swinging the goose quill: think
they know it all. but they don't
Following the thought brought out in
Simonss book. Mr.. Smith said: "All of
the wars that have been waged from the
beginning were waScd either for food or
for the feeding places. For centuries
and centuries there has been struggle
OF class against class, The class strug-
giles In America began very early in the
game.
Foreefathers Were eSmugglers.
'Many OF the early colonists TO this
country and even many OF the founders
OF our present form OF government were
lawbreakers. One-f fourth of the signers
OF the Declaration of Independence were
engaged in commerce, which in those
days was pretty much OF contraband
affair. They really belonged to the
smugGler class.
Even Washington. the first prcsiden,
of the United States, was not free from
the sraft and lawlcssness OF the age. 1t
is a recognized fact that while n sur
rcyor lie surveyed lands outside of the
grants from the crown, The struggle OF
class is illustrated again in the Boston
tea party. Here the merchants wanted
to get tea cheaper so they could realize
q greater profit on It.
Socialism Hard to Define.
During those early days OF this ma
tons history it appears that men made
speeches. for and against certain meas.
ures, OF which they must have been
ashamed.
when the movement westward began
II was the Esau who went first but no
sooner had he arrived in his little valley
than on the next stage came little Jacob
with his trunk, ready to do business.
Socialism Is hard TO define and worse
TO explain: but the Droletarian army, the
wage workers. are moving steadily for
ward with the idea OF graspine the reins
of government for their own hands"
Because Judge c: c. Goodwin, In re-
cent editorial in the Evening Telegram.
took occasion to take exceptions TO So
cialist doctrine. he was made the subject
of a bitter attack by Mr., Smith. IT am
surprised that man OF Judge Goodwin's
intelligence would write such Junk as
that said the Socialist candidate for
congress. and then. aludinG to the edl-
torial remarked: "It amt only rotten,
but ii smells bad"
William Thurston Brown told Of the
good things that had come 10 the city Of
Milwaukee since the Socialists got into
power, He said that IL was victory of
great Importance and that the eyes of
the nation were now on that CITY If
the Socialists continue to make good. he
said IL will lend "A great impetus to the
Socialist movement