United labor bulletin., 1912-04-04
Socialist Party Department.


of the world and himself has resulted in
a thousand improvements, quickening
human life, and has given deeper un-
derstanding of the laws of life. The re-
suit is call for a better adjustment of
human relations, new conception of
justice, and a scientifically developed
plan known as SOCIALISM.
This Earth of ours produces little
without labor. By work its products are
abundant. Work beyond that needed for
physical development and health is de.
bilitating and irksome. Mankind differ
in talent, taste, power and insight For
many centuries the few who excelled in
economic insight have inhumanly used
and exploited the many, and have taken
over to themselves the numerous prod.
ucts of the skill and labor of the masses,
who lacked the cunning for barter and
trade.
The industrial competitive struggle
naturally led to combinations in
commerce to eliminate the wastefulness
and disastrous results of competition. To
further strengthen their economic power
they have formed corporations and
trusts, and to IeeaIize their acts, they
have managed to control public affairs
by getting their agents into all public
| ofices-legislative administrative, judi
cial. Fortified in this way, they now
have legal possession of the lands, the
natural resources. and the industries.
AS the results Of this system, we have
extremes of wealth and poverty, politi-
cal and social corruption, charity instead
of justice, child labor in place of school
ing, unemployment and disregard of
human life, misery and prostitution, long
hours and low wages, adulteration of
foodstuffs, and wasting disease; in fact,
everything for the private benefit of the
few in control at the expense of the
masses controlled. Surely, no one can
look around without realizing that the
men who own land and capital are the
real masters of the nation. Practically,
then, the entire population is at the
mercy of few who have possession of
property and the sources of wealth.
and who hold these through their COM
mand of the clubs of the police and the
bayonets of the militia.
PRINCIPLES.
The remedy for these evils lies in the
application of the principles of Social
Democracy, or Socialism.
SOCIALISM is NOT Utopian
dream;
I 1t is NOT Communism or Anarchy;
1t is NOT dividing-up of property;
1t is NOT the doing away of private
property;
1t is NOT the destruction of indi-
vidual incentive;
1t does NOT undervalue art, philos-
ophy or religion, but it insists that as a
practical proposition THE MATTER OF
A DECENT LIVING MUST FIRST BE
ATTENDED TO.
SOCIALISM means a scientific re-
adjustment of human society, Industrial
and social.
SOCIALISM is the political expression
of the working class movement, acting
in the closest cooperation with indus
trial organization.
SOCIALISM is the application of the
principles of collective ownership and
control to all such Industries as have
become sufficiently developed to be used
in common.
SOCIALISM distinguishes between
private property and public property;
what the people socially need, the people
should socially own; what the individual
individually needs the individual should
privately own.
SOCIALISM, therefore, means eco
nomic freedom, and consequent political
equality.
SOCIALISM advocates the great basic
truth of human right to live and de-
velop, not that all are to be alike, but
that all are to have equal opportunities.
("Equal rights to all: special privileges
to none")
SOCIALISM insures to the worker
employment and the full product OF his
labor.
The Captist System is breaking up
into a state of disorder; Socialism de-
mands order.
War and class struggle prevail; So
cialism insists on peace and harmony OF
interests, doing away with class struggle
through the abolition OF classes
| Property today becomes more and
more the exclusive right of few; So
ciaIism would make private property ac-
cessble to all.
Present society separates the family;
Socialism, by establishing right social
conditions, will protect family life.
State and society now compete with
each other to nip in the bud the culture
of men, to stunt morally and physically
the enormous majority OF the people
and to corrupt the ruling minority; SO.
ciaIsr insists on equal and the best
possible training for every individual
the practical development of their rae.
ultles, the systematic advance OF art ana