Valdez daily prospector., 1914-10-15
SOCIALISTS REPLY
 ID W|CKERSHAM
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 ening after his speech. 1t takes more
 than reckless oratory and liquid re-
 treatments to budge the Socialist vote. Where was his constructive
 program for the future? Has he full
 filled all of Alaskas needs? If ever
 Alaska and the country at large need
 ed specific and intelligent program
 of future action, it is now. And it
 is just here that q great difference l between Wickersham and the Social
 ist party lies. Wickersham is an in-
 dependent individual, following his l own whims, whereas the Socialist Party candidates have carefully
 reasoned, scientific program, reaching l into the future, and to which they
 are bound.
 Wickersham charges that Socialists
 are a white chip in the political game.
 That they have no chance of winning simple as to suppose that no minority party counts? Has he never assimi
 lated the truth that "a vote for prin- | ciple is never lost?" If the Socialist
 vote doesn't count, why does he deem Tit necessary to devote considerable portion of his speech to an attempt
 Ito win it?
 l Wickersham admonishes Socialists
 to be Americans first and Socialists
 afterward, and this of an organiza- tion 71 per cent. of whose members
 are American born. If the German
 people had been, in majority, Social
 ists fi1st and Germans afterwards,
 this tragic war would not be raging
 today with it's untold waste and suf |fering. The judge should know that I've are men before We are Ameri-
 cans, and that Socialism is working
 over, regardless or national boundar ies. Socialism is bigger thing than
 any one nation or race. It is q world
 wide movement of the workers for
 recognition through political power of
 their rights as human beings and pro-
 ducers of the worlds goods. They
 seek through peaceful political means
 to control the machinery of necessary industries, that the means of life may be produced and distributed for the benefit of all rather than the powerful few. The workers of all countries have common cause in this movement, 1 which the powers that be are trying
 to check by setting nation against na- ltion and arousing a false and nar- | row patriotism. American working l conditions can improve only when
 European conditions become good
 enough to check the flood of immigra- ! tion which reduces the standard of living and wages here. Thus it is more than national problem. But of Socialism in it's broader as- poets Wickersham has not the least Understanding, otherwise he could not
 say, except willfully, that the de-
 mands of Socialism are accomplished. and behind the times. The fact is, Socialism has been the voice in the ! wilderness for the last half century,
 the guiding star towards which our political and industrial organization ] is slowly tending To consign Social ists to outer darkness and consider himself at the head of the procession. in the glare and blare of the torches
 and trumpets, shows an ignorance of historical and present fact, in our del egate, which is pathetic.
 But he will doubtless stand on what
 he considers his final virtue-that he is a fighting man. Alaskans undoubt- edly like fighting man, but they also like fair fighting, even though 1t be against the Socialists, and when Wick ersham, with their platform in his hand, poses as their champion. to- gether with Roosevelt, the seeker of antidotes for Socialism, and declares Ethat Socialist demands are already ac. complished, he is hitting below the
 belt. No, MT. Wickersham, you will not get the vote of a single Social ist
 CHAS. G. CAVITY. IT ryYrUED