New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-14
ATTACKS BULL MOOSE
III You Want Reforms Promised
Don't Vote Ticket Hardie Says
SPEAKS AT CARNEGIE HALL
Labor M. P. Tells Intercol-
legiate Socialists Third
Party Can't Last.

5000 AcSh'
]. Keir Hardie. Laborite member Of the
British Parliament, prophesied a brief
career for the Bull Moose party in ad-
dressing some two thousand persons in
Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon, under
the auspices of the intercollegiate 80
cialist Society. He said It would go the
way Of the half dozen parties in Ameri-
can history which sprang up overnight
and withered away as quickly, because
they were not founded on any true eco
nomic principle.
II don't intend to minimize the value
Of social reform" he declared. Every
reform, like employers liability, like our
great industrial insurance act. makes the
workingman stronger to demand further
reforms. But If you want the reforms
which the Bull Moose platform promises
you, don't vote the Bull Moose ticket
Take the reforms when they come, but
don't vote for them. Vote for socialism,
and then the politicians of whatever party
Is returned to power will see that you get
these reforms in a vain attempt 10 pre-
vent you from getting socialism"
Mr.. Hardie'S argument protested 70
show that the trouble with present day
conditions was capitalism, not capital
lists; that the working class was the only
class which could or should change the
conditions, and that the change should
be brought about through politics, and not
through violence. He said:
After trade unlonism has done Its ut
most with the strike and the fear OF the
strike, II still leaves the workman
hirelinE who has TO 60 out and seek d
master TO let him work for living;
Socialism has determined that there shalI
be no masters.
There are some who argue that the
| Socialist should not 20 TO the polls De
cause the state Is capitallsuc lnstltu-
ton. That Is what passes for thinking
among some Of our self-constituted lead
eTs The state is not a capitalistc insu-
tuton--it Ia what its citizens make It. Al
present 1t supports the interests OF capt.
talism because the workers send the
nominees OF their masters TO govern the
state. Let them get over their roollsn-
ness, lot them send their own men into
become a labor institution
Don't be misled into adopting that So
called short cut 10 socialism, direct
action" That is method which Is hoary
with axe. We passed through that stage
In England In the frst quarter OF the
last century. But now We have united
body Of workingmen, 10000 strong, VINO
have totally cut themselves OF from their
old parties and have seated forty.one o.
their own representatives In Parliament
against the will and In spite OF the oppo-
sition OF the capitalistic classes
Not one Of them has any education be,
yOnd what the public schools give, ana
some of them not even that You talk
of revolution There's the revolution.
When the workers evolve their own
thinkers, their own poets, their own
statesmen. then will they be the masters
and not before. ~,
Moose platform, the Republican platform
and the Democratic platform on there are
any, we're enacted into law, ana sup
pose land this Is a big supposiuon), that
they were all allowed by your law courts
the Iyorkingman would still be a hireling.
IL is necessary for the safety OF the prop
eTtied class that the working class be not
too well educated nor too well OIL IL must
be kept as near the border line or munger
as is consistent with physical efficiency.
IL is here that the Socialist and the
social reformer part company. The re-
former would gid the prison bars, but
allow the system TO continue whlch pro-
duces the evil results. Socialism says,
Tinker with the results II you WILL
will uproot the causes
The speakers whole talk was delivered
I'm a rich Scotch accent, which went al
most as far as his eloquence In winning
the plaudits OF his audience. He was fire.
quently interrupted with prolonged ap-
plause, and the welcome which he re-
ceiyed when he rose TO speak lasted sew
eral minutes Every seat occupied in the
fairly we'll filled house was paid for at
prices ranging from % cents for the bal
cony 10 s. for first tier boxes. Meyer Lon
don a Socialist lawyer. presided, and Miss
Inez MIlholland occupied a seat on the
platform.
In his last speech OF his tour OF the
United States. delivered in the New Palm
Garden in Brownsville last night, Mr..
Hardle implored the two thousand work
ingmen who heard him to forget their
differences and cast their votes for the
Socialist candidate for President.
II came to this country" the speaker
said. mot 10 meet those In high places,
nor TO natter or exploit any one. l am
here 10 study conditions OF the working
men. and I have learned from my OBJ
seryatlons that they are about the same
az those abroad. You are the slaves CT
capitalists. and my hope is that you VIII
unite. as has been done in my country
and in Germany and France.
Take up the great movement az broth
ers Elect a Socialist President Then
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