New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
WOMEN LAUGH At FEAST
Socialists Resent Being ClasSed
Among Bourgeolsle.
EPlTHETS PINNED ON TIMES
r. C. Howe Calls Sherman Law
as Effective as Fly on Back
of Rhinoceros.

n there is one thing that irks an inter
collegiate socialist more than another it Is
10 be called member OF the American
middle class. Each time Abraham Cahan,
who IS editor of the Jewish "Forwarts'
referred to his hearers as representatives OF
the bourgeoisle in his speech TO the inter
collegiate socialists last night at the Broad
way Central Hotel the silence was broken
bv the derisive laugh of some women al
a centre table What they really did ENJOY,
however were the fancy epithets when
Professor Charles \. Beard, of Columbia
pinned on THE New York Times"
Professor Beard. who acted as toast
master for these middle class protest
ants. teaches politics at Columbia. lie
has been picked to form one of the faculty
Of ihe School OF Journalism when II opens
i'm the fall. II was apropos or Inc bos-
ton transcripts" request that professor
Vida u Scuddcr resign from the Wellesley
faculty because OF her recent speech to the
La awrence strikers that tho professor re-
marked:
"'rhev must have a paper In Boston
worse than The New York Times. | didn't
think il possible to have in any city a
greater Conglomeration Of obfuscation thah
We have at 42d street
Miss Mary r. Sanford, who went to vas
sar. had read the speech Of Miss Scudder
in full. and after Professor Beard had re-
lieved himself all the sterling middle class
men and women present rose and resolved
10 condemn The Boston Transcript. Then
they voted TO approve Miss Scudder's 5
speech. Then they listened TO speech
from Frederick G. Howe. on What Shall
We Do with the Trusts" Mr., Howe point
cd ont with clarity just what they should
do
He started out by calling the Sherman
anti-trust law about as effective as a ny
on the back OF a rhinoceros.' But he fol-
lowed this with the assertion that all
trusts and monopolies We're inefficient.
"Why." said he, the inefficient city OF
New York is more efficient than almost any
trust or monopoly in the United States
The efficiency in the steel business stopped
with the formation Of the steel trust Big
business is less efficient by far than poll
tics"
The tariff, patent laws. franchises and
Land monopoies" were the specific causes
of the industrial oppression under Whlch
this country staggered, in his eyes. sweep
the tariff away and substitute direct taxa
ton; abolish patents, introduce municipal
state and national ownership OF pubic
utilities and tax the land so eNerlasuhSy
that no man should derive any "unearned
increment" were some of his remedies.
Gilbert Il. Rie. the next speaker, used TO
he a law partner OF Senator La Toilette 5.
But Mr. Roe had no trust solution or his
own. and admitted il. while the diners
stittered at such naivete. He did mention
few of the solutions put forth by others
however. IN this order:
The Roosevelt solution-"Divide them into
good and bad trusts
The Taft solution-"IIe doesn't know and
only God knows
The Brandels soution-"Find out the
physical valuation of their properties
Christ's solutiOn-"Giye all unto the poor
and follow me-
The Taft solution" said Mr.. Roe, lays
IL over the Roosevelt method, I think. in
frankness. anyway. Christs idea was That
so long as mans idea was the mere get
ting OF money he would take unfair means
10 gain his end, no matter what reSuic-
tjons were imposed. You will note TINS
significance in Ills advice to the rich man
to give all he had to the poor-He didn't
saw. Give it to the Church. Build library
with it He said only. Give 1t TO the poor.
Won see. He wasn't afraid OF unOrganizcd