The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-09
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for the working class by raising the
valuation on property and so increas-
ing the taxes.
The Socialist success in Milwaukee
resulted in great contracts being pIac-
ed in other cities by such firms as
the Allis Chalmers Company, who are
now building their engines in the
East. There is a greater number of
unemployed in Milwaukee now than
ever before, save In panicky years.
You know that while I was IN
Wisconsin the 'hoboes' held their con-
Mayor Seidel, Atty. Hoan and other
Socialist officials who notified these
self elected delegates that we Social
lists have no remedy for the tramp
question save Socialism,
Il told the Milwaukeeans that in
stead of waiting for the hats, shoes,
trousers and bread promised in the
millennium to come, an imm ediate re-
lief might have been offered their 'ho-
bo' brothers by using the money now
paid to sociological experimenters to
clean the dirty streets 1 saw in Bay
View. 4,
The Socialists gained power by
criticism of the Rose administration.
which no doubt was bad enough. The
Socialists are now on the defensive.
They declared that Rose ought to
have stayed at home and attended to
his official duties instead of travelling
through the country lecturing against
prohibition. But last month Alder
man Carney, Democrat, presented a
resolution which the Socialists were
forced to adopt, compelling Mayor
SeldePS right hand man, City Clerk
Thompson, to stay at home and at
tend to his official duties instead of
travelling about to lecture on Social
ism.
1.-THE Socialists charged that the
city employees were coerced under the
Rose administration into paying trib-
ute to him by saving to join the
Rose Democracy. The Socialists have
a better scheme. The Social-Demo-
crat Herald, the official organ, IS
sent to the city employees and the col
lector follows for the dollar.
MY friend Mr.. Lehman was ask
ed by one employe what to do, refuse
the paper he did not want or pay for
it. My friend replied: You had bet
ter pay your money than give up your
job
"A great hue and cry went through
out the country that the working class
One of the pianks in the Socialist
platform, to be carried at once into
effect, was that washerwome and
widows were exempted from water
rates. The first three months bills
came DUE
Zone lone widow applied to be ex-
empted. She was requested to make
an affidavit stating that she was un-
able to pay, then to deposit, the Is
cents, the amount of her tax, and the
city council would consider the mat
ter and no doubt would refund the
money.
THE upshot was that she refused
to make a declared pauper of herself
for rs cents. But the Socialist press
proclaims the glorious protection CIV
en- the poor of 'Seidelberg.'
1.-THE civil service? Why, COM
radeship outweighs the requirements
of the law. Seven eligible candi-
dates were on the library civil service
list. They made the list vacant and,
taking advantage of the emersv..cy
appointment cIaqse in t. :aw. i'm
ported William H. Leiserson from the
New York Socialist headquarters for
municipal librarian.
Democracy in Milwaukee? Why,
Democracy regards the rights of the
minority. but in Milwaukee the mi
nority have no rights which the So
cialists are bound to respect. The
Socialist city officials meet in their
party headquarters and decide what
the law shall be and then they go up
to City Hall and make their scheme
official. 1t is probable that no such
high-handed proceedings would be
tolerated in any otner American city
the time L devoted to my formal lee
ture, / spent an hour or more each
night answering questions sent up
from the audience. The questions
were interesting, and showed plainly
the amount of study that has been
given the question.
while many were purely idle, per-
sonal and vicious, there were enough
in several cities to give me an op-
pOrtunity to bring out the best that
I have on the economic and philoso-
plic phases of the Socialist move
ment
II told them that my challenge of
1903 still held good on these points:
Resolved, that Atheism is the doc
trine upon which Socialism is found
ed; that free love is an integral part
of Socialism; that Socialism would
destroy the state; that the principles
and tactics of the Socialist party arc
anita gonistic to the American Fe1-
Grafton of Labor
'It is interesting as I think of 1t.
for these challenges were addressed
to James F. Carey and others, and
they have not as yet been accepted
for I see on my return that Carey
is now sending out challenges HIM
self.
81 hope you will say that shall be
very glad to accept them
Mr.. Goidstein quit the Socialist par :
ty hen the convention in 1903 woIlid
not pass resolutions repudiating lead
ers who attacked religion, advocated
violence, and preached 8ree love.