The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-07-25
'SEIDEL DISCUSSED SOCIALISM
Nominee for Vcepresiden Spoke at Auditorium Last Night
Criticism for Old Parties and Moosers

vention, he said, was made up of think
ers who had come together to think
out and plan for social order, and not
individual gain; to think, not fight.
He arraigned "the interest" big
business" predatory wealth" the
jungles" or what they call capital
ism," and said it was just this thing"
that men felt, even if they cannot
name it.
In referring to the Roosevelt party
he said it was dead before 1t was
born He showed how Altgeld fought
and went down before this thing"
How Mayor Johnson fought, failed in
fortune and in health and died. He
said Il am not here to ask you to vote
for me; this is fight for principles,
not men," He said trying to kill or
beat big Business is like hitting a
rubber bag with mallet, the harder
you hit, the worse you get hit"
THE cost of living is going higher
and higher" declared he. Food
is going up; shelter is going up; cloth
ing is going up. The needs of the
family are increasing. The weekly
allowance of the housewife will not
last until the week is up. The pennies
that can be laid aside for rainy day,
are growing fewer and more scarce.
THE cost of living has increased
sixty per cent in the last fifteen years.
That means that the same amount of
goods that cost one dollar years ago,
now cost $1.60 Wages have increased
on an average only twenty per cent
during the same fifteen years. That
means that where a man received one
dollar for a given amount of work fif-
teen years ago, he now received $1.2O
The cost of living has increased three
times as fast as wages have increased
That means that the workingmans
family must get along with twenty-five
per cent less today than it did fifteen
years ago; or better, the standard OF
living has decreased twenty-five pei
cent in fifteen years.
Nor is that all. In every field OF
human endeavor cooperation is rapid
ly displacing competition. Many in
dustries have now reached the point
where competition no longer prevails
The work of concentration is now be
ing carried into the field of the small
merchant and the retail dealers.
"The Mirgan group is reputed tt
control twelve billion dollars, which
is one-eighth of the total wealth of the
nation Can anyone calculate the
tremendous power that can be WELD
ed by this one group? No monarch
has ever had at his disposal sucl
wealth.
1T is reported that in 1911 the Rock
efeller profits have amounted to owe
fifty millions of dollars. Mr.. Rookie
Teller cannot use all of this for him
self. He may use few millions 70
his household; another few millions HI
might in his kindness of heart Civ
towards the building of houses of wor
ship. But the greater portion he, o
rather his agents, invest in new enter
prises. That means more profits, ant
more investment; and again NOR,
profits, and again more investments
ETC., etc.
Already there are growing endles
chains of small enterprises from coas
to coast being controlled by one o
another syndicate. The cigar mel
chant is feeling it; the lunch roor
keeper is feeling it; the haberdashe
is feeling It.; and every year an il
creasing number are feeling it."
In conclusion Mr.. Seidel said tina
the Socialist idea was promulgate
when that prayer was first offered, i
which is said, THY kingdom CONF
thy will be done ON earth as it is /
heaven"
Mr.. Seidel and his associates lei
at 11:15 last night for Shreveport.