The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-18

| price TO the care and prevention oil tu-
berculosis, TO getting rid of dust in stone
sheds, and wood turning shops, TO pre-
vent the industrial accidents, 80 per cent
of which are avoidable. We should thus
save enough lives per year TO equal an
annual death rate of the loss in Civil
war. Suppose at the same time the cost
of armies was turned into old age pen
sions and care of the unfit. These things
and many Others seem TO the Socialist
OF greater Importance than the tarlfi.
"Utopian dream, impossible" are the ar
guments advanced against MS. But
thinking people know it is not impos'
sible, and human brains can evolve TINS,
as we'll as the wonders of material
things
The day when Vermont can hold alool
from this advance is gone. We are not
superior to it. Our laws are pititully
| Inadequate along social welfare lines.
William Wood of Lawrence and Amer
lean Wooden fame, testities he wishes
he could put his mills on wheels and
draw them over into Vermont. knowing
the existing conditions under Massachu-
setts laws which too much hamper his
individuality, what can we think OF our
own slater Our very inadequate factory
inspection act came hard, and social well
fare bills die young in Montpelier or
come through so emasculated that they
are useless.
The Socialists are in the field in YER
mont to demand greater things We are
not worrying along old party lines. Our
campaign is not hot air and brass bands.
1t is a propaganda on every day OF every
year of education and conversion. From
few thousands few years since to
million votes in the United States in
/ 1912 is not meaningless to powers that
be-" Doubling every four years is pretty
solid work. We demand in Vermont
equal suffrage, temperance legislation
| that will hit, workmen's compensation
act,' state insurance, just taxation, pri'
mary, referendum, initiative and recall.
These are no new things in Socialist
platforms. We demand the greatest
working example of Socialism, the pub
lie school system, shall be improved by
state ownership of copyright OF text
books, uniformity of grade work, mimi
mum wage for teachers, We demand
that this system shall be crowned by a
| real sJdJc university SiNihS tASI 1890"
to yermonters, under control OF state !
that funds for agricultural instruction
shall be used for county schools and
state college; and that no substituting
OF private institutions for political rea-
sons shall be done. We demand legisla-
ton to cope with growing social impur-
ity and resulting diseases and care of
those unfortunates now without chance
for care and cure.
Comrades, | know your ability, 10y
Ialty and your sacrifice for the cause.
Let us 90 forth together, filled with the
spirit Of brotherhood, to bring in bet
ter day. Let us labor to convince the
farmers who toll long and get but a
Traction of the value of the product that
Ian workers Of the world" must unite
and. that at the ballot box. Let us la
Dor for those whose only buIwark against
the cruelty of the system is the labor
union. When West Virginia and Mich
igan and still worse, Colorado, were the
seats of horrors unbelievable, it is to be
recalled the Socialists were ready with
all their power to defend them in these
struggles.
To all who feel the wrongs OF the
present, who desire to have peace and
prosperity. to give children chance to
grow and develop as they should, to have
Ian work and to have leisure as well
as to develop their special gifts and Of
mind and not have their ambition killed
BY poverty and excessive toll, to have
culture and pleasure within reach OF all
instead OF the few, to have disease from
unhealthful conditions cease, we say,
come with us. We may not win offices,
but all elections are Socialist victories,
for each sees the advance in education
and number of votes. We are members
of movement that includes every racial
division. 1t has taught the world that
people of many lands could unite and
work in harmony when filed with devo-
ton to humanity. The clasped hands
indeed reach across seas OF the earth
land vast CULTS of social differences. Let
ms rise in this brotherhood in Vermont;
land as good must ever triumph over evil,
we shall one day see the workers Of the
world get the production; and the vic
tory of righteousness over mammonism
will be won.
Most fraternally,
w. r. Rowland.
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