The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-12-07
bound to follow them"
"PuIi Down; Don't Build Up.

'Now I have one quarrel to make
with the comrades and it is this. In
The e fiFst place i very seldom find them
giving anybody credits for trying to
do good hut themselves They talk
great deal but I don't know of them
having done anything. don't know
Of any ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS built or of
any shelter they have put up. l see
a lot of institutions they are trying to
pull down. If they are trying to DO
something / don't know Of anythings
that they have done. Build up l say;
build up something worth having
build up character. Comrades IN an
other thing I find fault, and that IS
that they will not allow anybody 10
fell them they are wrong; ana iho"
can Won correct yourself If you don
know You cannot spend half your
lie anologizinz for the other half. l
have travelled from the HUDSON ~
ttie Yukon. from the Statue OF Liberty
io.4he Golden Gate down at San IRAN
cisco: / have bought everywhere eo-
cialist papers and have found 'he''i
often making terrible charges against
,,s+i+ntions. firms and establishments
and I have been at great pains 10 III
,vestigate the matters. l have asked
these firms to let me see their DOCKS
an. M ihaye been ready to take up t''e
Socialist side, but l have never iou''o
tho Socialist to state his case correct
:ly am very sorry to say 1t put Una
;a tho truth. They ought to be very
particular about. their state''le''s'
they should remember that staelse'.s
are very. responsible things to take III
:, na,a and unless they are sure that
thew are stating the truth they siiou.u
,.ava them alone. This damages thelr
,a.e verv much, and as one VINO heeus
Socialism and loves SOCIALISTS =
should like to see them very nlooAA
more particular in reference 10 INC.
'h;rotber. who are not Socialists anu
II Il should like also to see them s'Se
credit to some people, who 90 ho'
,..,,. in socialism. wanting social re-
s1sn, T make these statements anu
r make them before the cor'taues'
am delighted to meet them. Anu l
as,- them as brothers to look ana sec
90 tbev are dealing fairly and squareV
with those who are not SOCIALISTS wv
rho arc demanding social REFORM
tcheerso 1t does not do to portray
49,, +orr;ble trials by which our sweat
81 brothers and sisters are pun sumo
,,fo ana then say that Socialism IS the
s,,. ,e,ncav. Yet this is not only
,.,,a. III. Socialists think but say. ana
anyone who dis'srees with Mn
,,o,,. unon him as a bac knumber'
Vic "ouarrel" With Socialism.
., quarrel, with Socialism both as All
economic and as an ethlcal SYSTEM
.es.oin,,sts ,m,ould have us soclaize ali
instruments of production ana us
tr,hntion of wealth, SO that all class
distinctions might be swept away ana
that every man. woman ana chl'u
should be born in full citizenship anu
should have the means Of hVenhoou
at hand. 1t sounds very great, grand
and generous but in the first place
want to know how it is going 10 DC
done. and Who is going to work such
q system. I find today on both SIDES
Of the Atlantic that corporations ma
that it takes up all their time TO carry
mt their city improvements. Ihey
are 50 overwhelming in New York to-
dav that millions upon millions are
mt into the hands Of officials VINO
perhaps may not be the most capable
Int manipulating them to their al
vantage, and anyway the puoilc are
not always satisfied. I want to know
how YOU are going to manage the So
rfa,ization of all the methods OF pro-
di,ction and distribution of wealth IN
= country where the population is ris-
ing to a hundred million, a population
eyer, shifting. a population ever chang
Ing. a population made up of fifty or
sixty different .nationalities. 1t Is
very gigantic enterprise and nobody
but comrades would dare even dream
of in their widest dreams.
.."But suppose such q specialization
was effected. want to know how
you are going to distribute the ofh-
Gals, and how you are going to get
the satisfactory officials without any
graft, because in Socialism there must
be no graft. u.aughter.) II we are
all to live the life of Socialists we
could do without Socialism at all. l
want to know what my job Is to be
under the regime of Socialism. Per-
haaps they will want to make me a
city scavenger, or perhaps they might
ask me to conduct an orchestra, or