The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-04-29
FRED w. WARREN.
His Discourse in the Opera House
Sunday Afternoon.


duced to an audience of about four
hundred of his friends including
many ladies, as the fighting editor
of the Appeal to Reason. He was
greeted with tumultuOus applause.
The manner of The speaker is pleas
ing and somewhat original, while
his words were expressed with all
the fervor and impulse of his be-
liefs. He announced himself as be-
ing Socialist and believed the old
parties, Republicans and Democrats,
responsible for the conditions which
prevail in the United States. His
anecdotes were striking, especially
his story of the mule and the farm
er. The mule is the motive power
which is supplied with all the corn
he can eat but he has no share III
the products of the farm, which
have been created by his pulling the
pIOw, except what it is fed to make
it strong and active in the work
necessary to cultivation. This face
tious allusiOn to the mule he ap-
piled to the wage Garner whose bil
enriched the privileged few, Gre
ated monopolies and combines
which are oppressive and grinding,
while the wage Garner, like the
mule, had to be satisfied with his
provender, but had no share in the
profit of the products of his labor.
We could not in this reference to
Mr.. Warren's address, which must
necessarily be brief as our space is
too limited to allude to all he
said, but we may venture the as
sertion that with some exceptions
the Caucasian has covered in its
editorials from time to time all that
which Mr.. Warren has advanced in
his address, which was pleasing to
his auditors, as it should have been,
but was in no sense new to the Cau-
casian.
While disclaiming against the old
parties, and specifically the Demo-
cratic, Mr.. Warren's purpose was
| evidently to strengthen himself
with his audience, but we would re-
mind him that there is little differ
ence in the doctrines of the Social
lists which is worth while, that is
not clearly emphasized in the plat
form of the Democracy of today, of
which President Wilson is the
leader.
For illustration, utterances by
President Wilson:
I'VE purpose to prevent private
monopoly by law"
Our purpose is the restoration Of
freedom"
1--WE purpose to prevent private
monopoly by law, to see to 1t that
the methods by which monopoli, 9
have been built up are legally made
impossible"
1--WE design that the limitations
on present enterprise shall be re-
moved so that the next generation
of youngsters as they come along
will not have to become proteges OF
benevolent trusts, but will be free
to go about making their own lives
what they will; so that we shall
taste again the full cup, not of
charity, but of liberty-the only
wine that ever refreshed and re-
newed the spirit Of people"
"Private monopoly is indefensiblc
and intolerable."
| Instead of criticising the Democ-
racy, Mr.. Warren should have de-
nounced in unmeasured terms the
Republican party, it's leaders and its
allies, who are responsible for the
conditions existing in the UniteC
States through system of prOtec-
ion, which has made possible Tho
trusts and the monopolies, the con-
centratiOn of wealth in the contro
of the few and which have kept the
wage earners at almost starvatio!
wages in the mintes and the facto'
ries and the industries operated il
the Northern States of this Union
And we may add, in no sense of re-
Election, that the strenuous expert
ence Of Mr.. Warren in his fight fOl
labor, his arrest and his in
generation in the Federal prisol
[ should be credited to the Re
| publican system of misgovernmenl
as it applies to the masses. A politi
5 cal party which has been in su
D preme control of the national gov
ernment in all its branches TO
twenty years, and which alone
accountable for and must be hel
responsible for the condi' ions whic
+: are oppressive to labor and to tn
Y masses of the people who are de
: pendent on their toll, being in Office