Arizona republican., 1912-09-08
DEBS TALKS ID
 BIG AUDIENCE
Socialist Candidate for President Spoke at the Coliseum Along the Gen
 eral Lines of His Political and Economic Theories

Eugene V. Debs. socialist candidate for president of the Unlted States was a Phoenix visitor for a few hours yes terday. He arrived at 4:45 in the af- ternoOn and was taken at once to the Coliseum theater where he addressed we'll filled house. He came from Los Angeles where he spoke the day be- fore in the Shrine auditorium to a large crowd, and left last night at 7:3O for Bisbee where he expects to- day to address all three shifts of men employed in the mines. and any others who are interested in hearing him.
 His address yesterday was under the auspices of Local Phoenix of the so- cialist party. It was along broad lines outlining in a general way the growth and spirit of the socialist movement the political ideals of his party, and the differences existing between the socialist movement and the political activities of the older parties. The only local issue touched upon in the speech was woman suffrage, as the matter of paramount interest to be considered by the voters of Arizona at the coming election. In common with all socialists MT. Debs is an enthusias- tic advocate of the enfranChisement of women, and he made a strong plea for the voters of the state to put the ballot in the hands of the women.
 The audience that listened to MT Debs was much larger than could reas- onably have been expected to attend a political meeting at the unusual hour enforced on the candidate by train connections in order that he might ad- dress another meeting at Bisbee this afternoon. It has been said that the socialists are the only political party that can obtain a paid ad-issiOn to their political rallies, and the fact that q thousand Phoenix citizens turned out to hear plain talk by their can didate betOkens the interest that ex- ists concerning the subject presented by the speaker.
 In opening his speech MT. Debs said mo one conversant with present econ omic conditions in the United States can deny that there is a vast unrest existing in the field of politics today. We are entering upon a campaign of most profound interest to the working class and to the country. We social iSlS DcilCNC that W = hIlON llie cause OI that unrest. and that we have the only remedy for it. We believe that the old parties are foredoomed to failure Tn their attempt to cope with that un- rest for the measures that they advo- cate, if it were possible to put them into action in the present system of society, do not reach to the root of the disturbing element. The cause does not lie in a maladministration of present government, but in the very structure of society as at present con- stituted And the remedy must be found in a construction of all ex isting systems"
 MT Debs then made a scholarly re- view of the methods through which great corporate Interests had gradu- ally taken the place of older industrial competition, and the manner in which all of the greater industries have been sOIidifieJ into great corporations as matter of economic necessity, since ama1gamation is a less wasteful meth cd of doing business than the compe- tition of many smaller producers. "1t is as hopeless" said MT. Debs ito at tempt a dissolution of the great cor pOrations, as it would be to make the Mississippi river return to the many little streams that form it's volume"
 The answer to the problem of unrest that confronts the nation, according to the socialist theories advocated by MT. Debs, is to make the great trusts the property of the nation, not in the sense of government ownership In government dominated. by interested capital, but in the truest sense, ad- ministered by the people as whole, exercising their powers through repre- sentatiOn, but ever holding and reserV- ing full powers of direction to the voters at the polls. It seems reason able to the socialists, as expressed by MT. Debs that "if the people can own their own highways, and administer the affairs relating to highways in the interests of all the people, they should also be able to own the steel tracks laid in the city streets, or the railways of a whole nation. which are no more than the magnified highways of the nation" And, following this theorem to it's logical conclusion MT. Debs sees no reason why other national indus tries. "the common necessities Of all the people" could not be owned by all the people anu III NiN same manner.
 MT. Debs traces practically all of the evils existing in society as at present constituted to the fact that all na- tional industries upon which the whole people must depend for the means Of life, are maintained for profit wholly, and not primarily for use. And thls being the case, human life and human service are made subordinate to the greed for profits which animates the owners of the means of production which are the means of life. And the only solution of the problem, Mir Debs maintains, is the total elimina- tion of the profit system from modern society "The time will come" he said, When every man and woman can ride upon the conveyances maintained for the public use, as freely as they now walk upon the streets maintained for public use"
 MT. Debs believes that whenever the people fully understand the true mean ing of the socialist philosophy and the direction of socialist ideals there will be awakened a new social conscience and the social spirit will prevail. So-