The Washington times., 1910-04-17
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IS A PARTY SLOGAN
Also Advocates One Plate
of Soup Per Day
for Poor.

- Even now he said. speaking Of cur
coffee, the purest Of It ts not free from
adulteration- Why, I have seen peas
that were not 1T to feed 70 cattle
which were absolutely decayed-ground
I'D and sold as coffee"
Next Learns
Wood Carver's Trade.
His next step was 70 learn the craft
Of a wood-carver, and before he was
twenty-one years Of age he was the
secretary and treasurer IS well as
charter member Of the WoOd-CsTvers'
Union.
Those who seek for the ifs" which
influence a mans lie may be interested
10 know that his fathers desire that
one OF his own children should visit
their old grandmother IN POmerania was
responsible, IN an indirect way. for the
environment in which young Seidel i'm
bibed Socialism The lad at nineteen
years OF age had finished his appren-
ticeship as q wood-carver and found
himself IN fran health The doctors sug-
gested he should have a change OF
climate During the two years that he
worked at his trade, still IN feeble
health. there were thoughts Of sending
him to California But at last the
mother-Iove and the Old World instinct
in his father gained the mastery Al
most on the spur sof the moment al
thoughts Of California were dismissed.
and. Just after he had cast his first vote
for the Republican ticket. by the way
young SeideI went 10 Germany, where
he remained six years He had already
amassed a great deal Of undigested IN
formation He had read Max NOTdeaU's
Conventional Lies and had been i'm
pressed BY it-especiaIly by the chapter
on Education"
From the beginning I felt the need
Of an education" he said, and the
lack Of opportunity 70 acquire II made
me bitter. feel something OF that Old
bitterness yet"
The concluding sentence IN Nordeau's
chapter on Education reads IS FOL
lows:
Some viii say that this IS Socialism.
II so, in Gods name. let Us have it
Socialism Hits
At Heart Of Boy.
Il went home 70 the heart Of the boy
who was yearnfng. Ike TautaIus. 70
drink OF a stream which always eluded
him, and brought 10 him his first swak-
ening as 70 the real meaning Of So
ciaIism-
Both here and abroad. as a youth and
as a young man. he had always taken
advantage Of every opportunity 70 read
He devOured FfChte and C0mte. and
more especially Herschel and Newton
Working at his trade IN Germany. he
svaiIed himself Of every opportunity
TO go to night school. To 90 he went
without his supper every night ex-
cept Sunday for six vears-aud even
the Sunday night meal was not ample
enough to make amends for 50 much
abstinence
In Germany he came in contact with
other boys who were also studying
wood carving. designing, etc He saw
the working Of Bismarck's system OF
repression, by which he sought 70
stife socialism 4 comrade Of young
SeideTs, who had been discovered cir
CuIating Socialist literature. was
marked by the government. SeideI
helped to spirit MIN away in ward
robe
The experience through which this
boy passed did much toward sealing
SeideTs own devotion 10 socialism
In 1892 re came back TO America, at
the age Of Lwenty-eiEht- He was
glad 10 get employment more than
once He worked in Chicago and
other cities, and finally settled in Nil
w-aukee, where he married Miss Lucy
GeiSSeL The first child. a boy died at
the age Of six months.
Wants to Teach
Rising Generation.
my vile and 7 were no IonEer
young We were thirty years old. We
didn't know what was the matter with
the boy at the time and that far
away look came into his ewes. with
Just a hint OF tears "but we after
ward learned that he died Of over
feeding. We were ignorant he said.