The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-07
HIS ADDRESS WAS ENTERTAiN-
ING AND WELL RE-
CEiVED.
EXPLAINED EDMEANINGOF SOCIALISM
Number of Theories Advanced
Conditions Stated but No
Relief Offered.

Eugene v. Debs was greeted by q
large and representative audience at
the auditorium Monday night and
spoke most entertainingly on Social
ism.
Mr.. c. E. Meyers, of Indian Springs.
presided over the meeting and intro
duced the speakers.
Prior to the address of Mr.. Debs.
a short talk was made by Mr.. Geo. D.
Brewer, of the editorial staff of the
Appeal to Reason" Mr.. Brewer is
travelling with Mr.. Debs. Concluding
his remarks, Mr.. Brewer offered for
sale book containing addresses OF
Frederick D. Ward, editor of the "Ap-
peal to Reason" and held Mr. Ward
up as martyr.
Speech of Mr.. Debs.
Mr.. Debs started his speech by re-
viewing industrial and political condi-
tions during the early days of the
! country and comparing those condi-
tions with the present.
| He declared the country now in the
hands of Rockefeller and other pluto
Gratis who are expressing the people.
making the poor poorer and the rich
richer" Mr.. Debs told his hearers
that conditions would never change
for the better, but that the people win
continue to be oppressed as long as
they vote as they do The Socialist
party was held up as the ideal party,
aud he said 1t is becoming the largest
and most powerful political organiza-
tion in the world.
Speaking of the principles of Social
: ism, Mr.. Debs, said in part, as fol-
lows: a
These are stirring days for living
men, The day of crisis is drawing
near and Socialists are exerting all
their power to prepare the people for
it.
"The old order of society can sur
vive but little longer. Socialism is
next in order. The swelling minority
sounds warning of the impending
change. Soon that minority will be-
come the majority and then will come
the Cooperative Commonwealth.
Every workman should rally "a ltixe
standard of his class and hasten =
full-orbed day of freedom.
Every sympathizer with 1a11
every friend of justice, every ior&r
humanity, should support the Socl6
party as the only party that a o.
ized to abolish Industrial Slavery.
prolific source of the frighuful o1I
that aftiict the people.
Glasses and class rule and. e.
attendant progress and povertx. m01
and misery, turmoil and striae, arS
herent in the capitalist system VIII
Simply because one set of In6mu q IS
the tools with which wealth Is -
duced, while another set use1 q ~,
and there is an irrepressibie con et
over the division of the product
"The capitalist owns the ta1,1 e
does not use; the workera use& d 2
/ tool he does not own.
''The principal tools of produc<1b In
I and distribution in the United Sf1&es
) mammoth machines, com p1ezs 606t tal
instruments, made and used coo1G Va
) lively by millions of worLin sue8. I'll sir
} very lives, their wives an6 tolze8 be-
| ing dependent upon them-art IN t3ri-
) vate property of few hunNrea obi
. talists, and are operated purely to
4 make profits for these capit1if1( re-
e gardless of the poverty and V<4<eIied-
l. ness that ensue to the assee
e "The capitalist system is no longer
adapted to the, needs of modern So
: ciety. 1t is outgrown and fetters the
l. forces of progress. Industrial and
g commercial competition are largely of
n the past. The handwriting blazes on
n the wall Capitalization and combina-
& tion are the modern forces in indus
r trial and commercial life. Competi-
tion is breaking down and cooperation
p is supplanting it.
n Steadily the number of class-con-
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