The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-09-21
SPEAKS FOR SOCIALISM
Mr. Herbert g Jones Presents What
He Believes to he the Principles
of His Party

4 Ocala, Fla. Sept. 20, 1912.
| Editor Star: We note with pleasure
that the good old democratic party,
democratic in name only, intends to
put out a lot Of high class speakers
next month to try to stem the tide of
socialism and TO try to fool the voters
| for a while longer. Ten years ago
some people did not know the differ
ence between a socialist and an anar-
chist and the politicians, press and
pulpit have done their best to keep
| up the deception.
| Working men and women are becom-
ing class conscious; that is, they
realize that there are but two classes
! in this country, the working class.
composed Of the many, and the cap
/ italist class composed of the few and
when a majority of the working peo-
pie vote for their party, which is the
socialist party, they will get what
| they are entitled to and not before.
| They are learning to know that the
means of production, distribution and
exchange should be owned by all the
people for the benefit of all who labor
and not for the idle few.
They say that the capitalist system
| is a skin" game and the capitalist
favors 1t because it benefits him. They
| see that cooperation is better than
competition; that to work with your
! fellow man Is better than working
against your fellow man. They see
/ this government spending s200,000,000
annually on the army and navy, but
refuse to spend a cent to keep men,
| women and children from starving.
That this vast sum would build 100000
homes at $1,000 each, and should be
| used to house, feed and clothe the
| needy.
Socialism is simply this: THAT
things publicly used shall be publicly
owned and things privately used be
| privately owned"
We now own publicly our streets,
schools. jails. postoffce, army and
navy and some other things that there
is no profit in and manage to run
them even though there is no profit.
Then why can we not own those that
there Is an immense profit in. such as
the oil wells, mines. factories. rail-
roads, etc, and use the immense
profits for the benefit of all the people?
Why? Simply because the capitalists
through the politicians and press have
! taught and hammered it into the peo-
| pie that 1t could not be done. They
are very willing TO let the people own
and manage everything that there Is
no profit in but they can take care of
! everything that there is profit in.
| Now, for instance, I want to give
| little example that seven-year-old
child could solve: The railroads Of this
! country netted in 1911 s930,0OO, 900.
This would be $40 for each person in
the United States. If the government
owned the railroads and charged the
same rate for freight and passenger
! service as at present, we the city of
Ocala would have received 100000 as
our part of the profits, which is nearly
three tines the amount that Is paid
into the city treasury for taxes.
Do you wonder that capitalists are
fighting socialism and resorting to
every means to defeat 1t? Would 1t
not be better for the city of Ocala IL
the government owned the railroads
to receive 100000 per year than that
a few capitalists own them and Ocala
get nothing but mighty poor service.
But your democratic speakers will be
here next month and give you the
same old Josh" as usual and lot of
intelligent people will swallow it.
Socialists say, "let the nation own
the trusts"
| Our slogan: "Workers of the world
unite; you have nothing to lose but
your chains; you have everything to
gain"
There is nothing that can stop So
cialism from coming, therefore you
may as well get upon the right side
now and show that the workers as
well as their masters have some in
telligence. Yours truly,
| II. G.. Jones'