The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-12
SOCIALISTS ARE CRITICISED
Vice Presidential Candidate of Social
Labor Party Talks from Soap Box
and Makes Record for Long Distance
0ratory on Friday Evening"

Kenosha seems to be the happy
hunting ground for vice presid entail
candidates and close on the heels of
the announcement that Governor John
son, the running mate Of Col. Roose-
welt, would speak here on Wednesday,
Arthur GilIhaus, the candidate of the
Social Labor party for vice president
dropped into Kenosha, and spoke to a
big crowd Of people on Friday even
ing. The Gillhaus rally was of the
soap box' variety, but if Governor
johnson can shout any louder or be
any more bitter in his denunciations
OF political opponents than Mr.. Gill
haus he will have to go some.
Glllhaus is the man, who, it will be
remembered, ran for president of the
United States in 1908 on the Socialist
Labor party ticket as proxy for Mar
tin Il. Preston. Preston then as now
was languishing in Nevada jail for
shooting a restaurant proprietor while
on picket duty.
"'The Socialist Labor party de.
clared Gillhaus, "holds in this cam
palgn the unique position Of being the
only party in the field that bears aloft
the banner of Industrial Democracy.
The party ! represent as vice presiden-
tial candidate is the political standard
bearer of the economic and political
movement of the working class which
is moving on to the overthrow of au-
tocratic and irresponsible industrial
administration by corporations, trusts,
private proprietorships or otherwise,
and to the establishment of a respon-
sible, representative industrial admin
istration-an industrial government Of
the workers, for the workers and by
the workers-for what right have non
workers even to NEEDLE in the indus
trial administration, much less to be
the supreme rulers in industry, as are
the capitalists? Socialism means death
2 autocracy, death to parasitism. To
the worker it means effective indus
trial representation and the full prod
uct Of his toll.
1.-THE so-called Socialist party be-
trays both of these principles of So.
cialism. The party stands today COM
mltted, not to a program of industrial
democracy, not to representative in
dustrial government by the workers,
not even to the abolition of parasitism.
1t stands INSTEAD of convictable of be-
ing committed to program of indus
trial administration through an auto
cratic governmental bureaucracy, con-
Quoted in the interests of a parasiticaI
bond holding class. So-called Socialist
party Congressman Berger introduced
In congress a resolution that the govern
ment should take over all the trusts,
and bond the nation with ffty-year in
terest-bearing bonds for them. The
resolution also provided, as summarize
ed by Berger's comrade, Benson in
Pearson's Magazine for July, that a
bureau of industries is hereby created
within the department of commerce
and labor to operate all industrias
owned by the government. In August
number of Pearson's Eugene V. Debs
gives that program his endorsement.
And what does the bureaucratic
autocracy called for by the program of
of the so-called Socialist party mean,
what does it imply with respect to the
workers? 1t means complete control of
industry by a class controlled govern
ment, the same power that today hurls
the injunction and the military against
the working class when they 90 on
strike. It means that, were it in force
today, all the great industries Of this
land would be under the dictatorship
of Hon. Charles Maggie, the official
head of the Department of Commerce
and labor appointed by President Will
liam Howard Taft. Such a program of
fers not a salvation, it is menace to
the working class