Evening journal., 1912-09-07

Emil Seidel, presidential can
didate Of the Socialist party and for
mer mayor of Milwaukee. addressed
more than 500 people in Turn Hall
last evening on socialistic doctrines.
The audience contained many women.
Mrs. Margaret Kent and Mrs. N. l..
Rearick occupied seats on the stage
with ex-Mayor Seidel, Norman L.
Rearick. the chairman; John p. Ed
wards and Edward Norton
Two large American flags we're
suspended over the stage, while So
cialist banners, one Of which bore the
/ inscriptions, LET the Nation Own
the Trusts" were posted around the
walls
In introducing the speaker Of the
evening, Mr.. Rearlck referred to the
local fight being waged against the
capitation tax, which he declared was
unjust, and urged those present TO
vote on the question as to whether It
should be collected. Continuing Mr..
Rearick said that while Milwaukee
had been made famous by certain
beverage, the time would come when
this fame would be outshown by the
fame which would come to the city
from having elected Emil Seidel its
Mayor.
As Mr.. Seidel arose he was greeted
with cheers, and It was several min
utes before the applause subsided.
He began his address by saying a
few persons we're in the audience out
OF curiosity, and perhaps they, like
others, were disappointed in not be-
holding a six foot man. But" he
continued. your problem cannot be
solved by any such sized men; II
takes more than that to do 1t.
Mr.. Sedel said he had worked In
the factory from his thirteenth year
and therefore was unable TO address
his audience in the polished language
at the command of an ex-president Of
a college, but he believed that the
salvation of the working class would
come only through the working
class.
Continuing Mr.. Seidel said
Take a lot of men trained in max
ing money, and from such a clasl
there can come no ideas nor ideals
At times we find one who thinks, anC
he is termed a reformer Such w
welcome, but if they think they car
lead us we don't want them. We hav'
tried them and been mislead"
Mr.. Seidel compared conditions o
the past with those of the present
saying that the worker was far wors'
than heretofore. The speaker ad
mitted that wages have advanced q
per cent. but he added that the cos
OF living has gone up 60 per cent.
This means that the standard of liv
ing of the working class has beeI
reduced 25 per cent. In other word
we are getting Just that much les
Of the good things of life and ou
child is getting an inferior education
than formerly. These conditions arr
beginning TO causet he workers to de
mand their own. The cause of thesi
conditions Is the concentration o
wealth." said Mr.. Seidel r ~.
J. Ex-Mayor Seidel then quoted stats
tics showing that the net profits o
the railroads of the country for 1911
were over $50 millions, which means
he said, that each man, woman an,
. child In this city contributed $40 each
"If we had this $4,000 there would b
no need for the capitation tax" h
. added
The several political parties wer
then reviewed. the Progressive part
being described as the Fifth part
and likened 10 the fifth wheel OF
} wagon. The Republican party, MI
Seidel contended, had reached tn
( end Of its rope"
Mr. Seidel said the Democrati
party stood for "any old thing"
needs the jobs itself.
1t arose one morning as a silve
bug party and during the day a con
vention developed it into a gold bu
party"
Mr.. Seidel said the Prohibitionist
were sincere in their ideas. The