The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-08
GREAT PROBLEM
FACING NATION
Pastor w. T. Brown Says There
May Be Another Civil
War.
MINISTER BELIEVES FOREIGN
MARKET WILL DISAPPEAR
Contends Cost of Living Will
Eventually Eliminate the
Middle Man.

William Thurston Brown. former pastor
OF the Unitarian church in this city, and
the principal speaker at u Socialist meet
ing In Liberty park Sunday afternoon
declared that this country was racing a
great crisis. II the struggle between the
capitalists and the wage slaves is not
settled peaceably. said he, it will mean
another civil war.
During the course OF his address Mr.
Brown quoted extensively from Abraha m
I,incoln's writings in an attempt 10
show that the great emancipator senSSc
the Importance of the conflict between
capital and labor. Mr. Brown SAID III
part: -, ,.,
try which must be solved. As labor Is
the creator of all wealth 1t is entitled
TO all that II creates, declares SociaIiSt
Socialists In Salt Lake City the capitalist
papers would take UP the matter ana
make fun OF the statement Lincoln was
aware of the evil influences of capital
during the first year OF the civil war
This is evident from one OF his messages,
He saw that the popular institutions
never were so at stake There was an
attempt at that time by tho capitalist
class 10 liold up the government on con-
tracts for supplies to be furnished the
army.
An Irrepressible Conflict.
''There is an irrepressible conflict on
al the present time. Such u conflict was
on prior TO the French revolution. While
there were n few brave spirits making
speeches and writing articles against
slavery as early as 1885. no one al that
coming. You would hardly think II pos
sibIe that people could live during those
days and not see that one OF the great
est crises OF history was impending. LIN
coin declared that no nation can per-
manently endure half slave and half free
Society today is facing the same ire
prcssibIe conflict that was faced seventy
FIVE or hundred years ago. The wage
slave today ia just as much n slave as
ever the colored man in the south was.
he Is no more master OF his rate than
"All the instruments of production and
distribution are being ccntered under
the single control and ownership of the
capitalist class, and just this far. that
IL indicates that on the other side you
have n class Of slaves. The only people
that are aware of the great crisis that
have acquainted themselves with condi..
tions. How many of our lawyers and
politicians are aware that wage slavery
eXists2
Problem of Children.
Another problem that confronts the
country is that Of child labor. This Is
opc OF the things that must be solved.
The conflict that is on never can be set
tied until there is an emancipation OF tho
wage slaves.
.'Bye and bye. there will be no foreign
market Foreign countries are mauufac-
turing the goods we used 10 send TO
them. The curtatlng of our foreign mar
ket will result in panlcs becoming more
common and frequent in the future than
they have been In the past, 1t
means another civil war unless we can
affect a pcaceable solution Of this ques
tion.
"Organized labor will never cease to
make demands for higher wages and
shorter hours until IL gets the full prod
net nf
cause the elimination OF the middle man
in the near future, and then there will
be the most tremendous uprising against
capitalism that we have ever had. The
only thing for workingmen to do is to
unite with other workingmcn, both
economically and politically. The only
party open 10 them is the Socialist party.
There will be no ceasing OF the struggle
until the government of the capitalists.
by the capitalists. and for the capitalists,
is done away with and is superseded by
the government OF the worSingmcn. by
the workingmen and for the working
mem