The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-26
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MY chief concern as a presidential
candidate is that I will serve we'll the
party, and the class and the cause
the party represents.
The Socialist party is fundamentally
different from all other parties. 1t
came in the process of evolution and
grows with the growth of the forces
which created it. It's spirit is militant
IN political terms the aspirations or the
working class to freedom and to a larg-
&c and fuller life than they have yet
known
The worlds workers have always
been and still are the worlds salVeS.
They have borne all the burdens OF
the race and built al, the monuments
along the track of civilization; they
have produced all the worlds wealth
Snd supported all the worlds govern
ments. They have conquered all things
but their own freedom. They are still
the subject class in every nation on
earth and the chief function of every
government is to keep them at the
mercy of their masters.
Mistakes of the Past.
The workers in the mills and fac
tories, in the mines and on the farms
and railways never had party of
their own until the Socialist party was
organized. They divided their votes
between the parties of their masters.
They did not realize that they were
using their ballots to forge their own
letters.
But the awakening came. 1t was
bound to come. Glass rule became
more and more oppressive and wage
slavery more and more CALLING. The
eyes of the workers began to open.
They began to see the cause of the
misery they had dumbly suffered so
many years. 1t dawned upon them
that society was divided into two
classes, capitalists ard workers, ex-
ploiters and producers; that the CAPT
talists, while comparatively Few, owned
the nation and controlled the govern
ment; that the courts and the soldiers
were at their command, and that the
workers, while in q great majority,
were in slavish subsection.
When they ventured to protest they
were discharged and found themselves
flacklisted: when they went out on
strike they were suppressed by the
soldiers and sent to Jail.
They looked about them and saw a
land of wonderful resources; they saw
the productive machinery made by
their own hands and the vast wealth
produced by their own labor, in the
shadow of which their wives and chill
dren were perishing in the skeleton
alutch of famine.
The very suffering they were forced
to endure quickened their senses. They
began to think. A new light dawned
upon their dark skies. They rubbed
the age-long sleep from their eyes.
They had long felt the brutalizing effect
of class rule; now they saw the cause
of it Slowly but steadily they became
class-conscious. They said I'VE are
brothers, we are c )mrades," and they
saw themselves multiplied by millions.
They caught the prophetic battlecry
of Karl Marx, the worlds greatest
labor leader, the inspired evangel of
working class emancipation-''Wo Workers
of all countries, unre!'
he ME 1f
Socialist movement spreads out over
all the nations of the earth. The worlds
workers are aroused at last. They are
no longer on their knees; their bowed
bodies are now erect Despair has given
way to hope; weakness to strength;
fear to courage. They no longer cringe
and supplicate; they hold up their
heads and command. They have ceased
TO fear their masters and learned to
trust themselves
How 1t Was Born.
And this is how the Socialist party
came to be born. 1t was quickened
into life in the bitter struggle of the
worlds enslaved workers. 1t expresses
their collective determination to break
their letters and emancipate themselves
and the race.
The appeal of the Socialist party is
to all the useful people of the nation
all who work with brain and muscle
to produce the nations wealth and who
promote its progress and conserve its
civilization.
Only they who bear it's burdens may
rightfully enjoy the blessings of civil
lied society.
There are no boundary lines to sep
arate race from race, sex from sex, or
creed from creed to the Socialist party.
The common rights of all are equally
recognized.
The infalhble test of political party
is the private ownership of the sourc-
es OF wealth and the means of life. APP
ply that test to the Republican, DEM
ooratic and Progressive parties and
upon that basic, fundamental issue you
same. They differ according to the con-
same. They differ occording to the con-
fict1ng interests of the privileged class
es, but at bottom they are alike and
stand for capitalist class rule and
working class slavery.
The new Progressive party is party
of progressive capitalist. 1t is Lavish
l. financed and shrewdly advertised
But it stands for the rule of capital
ism all the same.
When the owners of the trusts A.
nance a party to put themselves out of
Business; when they turn over their
wealth to the people from whom they
stole 1T and go to work and make an
honest living it will be time enough to
consider the merits of the Roosevelt
Progressive party.
One question is sufficient to deter
mine the true status of all these parties
Do they want the workers to own the
ec0ls they work with, control their own
Jobs and secure to themselves the
wealth they produce? Certainly not