The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
SOCIAL lists Open
CAMPAIGN SUNDAY
S. M. Reynolds, Candidate
for Governor, Speaks at
Local Theater Sunday.
HAD LARGE AUDIENCE
Tells of the Principles and
Aims of His Party.-Sees
T. RS Election.

At the Murray Theater Sunday af-
ternoon Stephen NJ. Reynolds of Terre
Haute, Socialist candidate for COVER
nor, spoke to quite large sized audi
ence on the aims and principles of the
Socialist party.
He is an eloquent and forcible
speaker and his address was extreme
ly interesting. Following the meeting
Mr.. Reynolds predicted that Theodore
Roosevelt would be elected president
next November, but stated that his ell
ection would mean a victory for Big
Business as the Progressive party was
controlled by the trusts.
Mr.. Reynolds said, in substance and
among other things, during his adj
dress, that when man has ever made
a radical change in his tools, his
means of production and defence, he
has been obliged to readapt his entire
social condition to the new economic
base. Under all conditions he has
done the best he could and has never
brought about profound changes in his
institutions through malice or mere
scheming; each time he has done
what conditions compelled him to do.
In the beginning he was one among
the animals, member of the antho-
poids, but the accidental discovery OF
the use of the club gave him the ad,
vantage over stronger beasts. Thus he
was able to hold his own against the
lions and the tigers who dwelt with
him in primitive jungles.
He Lived In Caves.
+ At this period he lived retired in
caves and dens; he knew not the
meaning or even the existence of 80
ciety." Later on he CHANGED to hit up
on the use of the bow and arrow. That
enabled him to go abroad; in his jour
neys he met other men but took them
for animals and slew them as he did
the wild beasts before his den. He
slew them, and as naturally, ate them
thus his discovery led him to cannibal
ism. The equally accidental discovery
of grain led him at last to see the val
ue of labor so he fell into the habi,
of driving his captives into the fields
instead of throwing them into the pot
Thus slavery arose. AS society develop
ed and new inventions were made
tribes and peoples began to go to war;
then it was that the masters began to
use their slaves as fighting machines
as well as agricultural beasts; thus
was feudalism inaugurated. At last the
steam engine and the spinning-jenny
were invented. The slave class was
then set to tending the machine ant
so modern capitalism at last came t.
be. Through all this evolution it is tc
be observed, he said, that men never
acted out of sheer personal and indi
vidual caprice but did what twas per
fectly natural and instructive for then
to do under the circumstances. That's
what they are doing today, he said
Our present wage-slavery, our indus
trial depression, our poverty, oul
white slave traffic and all the hideous
ills that sicken modern society are mo-
due to the Vaccinations of this indi
vidual or that group of individuals
but to the inevitable evolution of in
dustry and society.
Founding of Capitalism.
When Watt discovered the power Of
expanded water he laid the founda
tons for capitalism and no person OF
earth could have prevented it. There
fore the Socialist, whose philosophy i:
based on a scientific study of history
does not lay at the door of the male
factors of great wealth" the blame fol
things being as they are; he points Out
that as things are these conditions
could not have been avoided, stated
regice runs its cycle of birth, power
and death; the signs all go to show
that it is in it's last stages, Mr.. Reyn
Odds averred Out of itself it is produc
ing the power that will overthrow it
1t is grinding out more and more pow
erty and poverty spells the decay o.
society; it grows so huge and unwieldy
that it is escaping human control; the
machine produces so fast that the wor
kers are obliged every little while t.
stop until consumption catches uI
with production and that means per
iods of panic and depression which in