The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
ARE YOU PREJUDICED. OR JUST
A FOOL:

Ii you have the aDlllty to lay a
side prejudice-and you want to
| learn what socialism is. and whether
or not it is a power to be reconed
with, read what the prominent men
of the world say of it.
| "Individualism is passing away.
Its place is being taken by social
ism."-Prof. R. NJ. Wenley, Univer-
sity of Michigan 1908.
Socialism is the next great bat
|tle.''-Walter Wellman.
"The most important question is:
Shall the chief and controlling
m cans Of production be owned by a
millionaire four hundred or shall we
in our collective capacity own the
m cans Of production ourselves. -
Prof. Franklin Gddings, Columbia
University.
The republican and democratic
parties will have to look out for that
new party known as socialist. =
Brand Whitlock Democrat.
"Many Of US We're inclined to say
! that socialism would die out. Facts
do not appear to bear out this
assumption''-De State Com
mittee. Oklahoma.
1.-THE issue of the most Importance
is the question of the preservation
of private property Tin means of CO.
operative production} or its destruc-
ton. and the substitution of social
ISM Taft. June, 1910.
The time has arrived when the
relation of national life to wealth
Is the supreme problem. Miles
Poindexter.
Regular republicans and regular
democrats are the samc.''-Pinchot.
"If there is any power in this
country to stem it. 1t should be the
trained minds OF college men. But
four out of five (of these men with
| trained minds) are purely Socialis-
ic"-Leslie NJ. Shaw
The most striking feature of the
present time is the feebleness Of the
| resistance by men Of wealth to so
cialistic measures, which fifty years
ago would have been resisted by
every person who had a to1erablc in
me.''-Thc Nation.
There is scarcely a self-govern-
ing or Notwithstanding country
on earth that has not recently be-
come more or less socialistic.'' -
Mayor Mcclellan, Democrat.
Conservation Il theories in their
last analysis mean government
ownership and, R. A.
Ballinger. September. 1910.
"Today's industeial feudalism will
advance and grow until the people
own and control it."-Chicago
American. August, 1910.
Abraham Lincoln said in speech
which he delivered in Cincinnati,
Feb. IL, 1861:
THE workingmen are the basis Of
| oil governments. for the plain reason
that they are more numerous
(See Complete Workers, owl, D.
676.)
| The Intercollegiate Socialist So
ciety reports as follows:
| Among the colleges where affil-
lated chapters for the study of So
cialiSm exists are: Harvard, Yale,
Columbia. Cornell. Barnard, Welles-
| ley. the City College of New York,
New York University Law School
and the New York school of Dentis-
try the Universities of Penns ylvania
| Mimi esota, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Oklahoma. Stamford University,
Clark College, Kansas State Agri-
cultural College. Marietta College,
Meadville Theological School and
other institutions. The society was
organized i 1905 to promote an in
tclligent interest in socialism among
| college men and women
I George Washington said: ''There
| never was a great man that did not
lay prejudice aside and learn all he
could from everything" Prove all
things hold fast to that which is
! good. Follow these two rules and
you Will become socialist.