The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1912-10-24
A BIG RALLY
WAS HELD BY
SOCIALISTS
Tenets of the Party Explain
ed by r. Van Voorhis, and
the Rev. H. L. Haywood,
Wednesday Night.
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of hours she works, for this determines
her health. The wages she receives
determines whether she shall remain
pure.
"The difference between reformer
and a Socialist is that the former sees
the evil but does not strike at the
root, while the latter sees the root and
wants to change that. Here it is that
we part from the Progressive party.
Socialism has no program regard
ing the church The preacher does
much for the Lord and he does much
to hold his job. Some preachers ex-
pound the word with one eye on the
Bible and the other on the rich men in
their congregations. Christ had a mes
sage only for the poor and not for the
rich.
Socialism is an organized effort of
the working people for justice. The
first step is to unite the proletariate
in one revolutionary body. 1t is
strange that the people who have pro-
duced the wealth have so little of it"
Van Voorhs Speaks.
Van Voorhis rested his speech on
the principle that this is an economic
age Of buying and selling based on
competition with profit the incentive.
The capitalist buys material and labor
and sells what the laborer furnishes
out of the material. A monopoly, he
said, buys only one commodity-labor
for it's owns the mines and forests
from which the raw materials come.
"In the last analysis the capitalist
sells back to us laborers the finished
material for five times what it cost to
manufacture it. The interests of the la
iborer and capitalist are not identical.
If they were, why does the capitalist
resort to the blacklist and lockout, and
the laborer to the strike and boycott?
Why does the capitalist use the lobby,
use courts to interpret laws in his be-
half, why does he use the Injunction,
police and militia to browbeat the Ia
borer, if the interests of the two are
identical?
"The capitalist is free Of the COM
modify he makes, for he can sell or
hold it, but the laborer is a slave Of
his commodity, for he must work, at
the will of the capitalist" Quotations
were then read to show that eminent
American statesmen believed that la
Dor was enslaved and engriped by cap
italism.
Not for All.
"If were to tell you that would
.go to Washington for all, would lie,
for I cannot represent the capitalist
class. Politicians at the capital could
mot work the stunts on me they do on
other congressman, for know the
game. l believe that the Bull Moos-
.ers, Democrats and Republicans are
honest in their convictions, but they
do not understand the fundamental
trouble of the commonwealth"
The speaker then said that he did
not censure Morgan and Rockefeller.
l'They are no more to blame than we
are, for they own the machine and
thence their riches grow. The ma
chine is the slave Of the day
Referring to the initiative and refer.
rendum in other political platforms
Van Voorhis said they were taken from
the Socialists. What of the minimum
wage? What does it matter how much
money l receive SO long as the other
fellow says how much | must pay for
the commodities of life?
Before the war, the slave was put
lon the block and sold to the highest
bidder. Now the job is sold to the low
est bidder The child, woman and hun
CRY man will underbid the man who is
not hungry. The girl sells her labor
for a price that is cheap. Economic
conditions force her to sell something