South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-03
SOCIALIST NOMINATE ].
BERRY FOR CONGRESS
Picnic and Thirteenth District
Convention Held at BatteII
Park-Chicago Attorney on
Program.

AT the 18th district congressional
convention of the socialist party held
Sunday afternoon at Batten park, J.
Wayne Berry Of South Bend was
nominated for congress. rhe
meeting was held in connection with
the annual picnic of the socialist
party. Addresses by prominent So
cialists featured the program. Elbels
band of South Bend rendered a splen-
did musical program and featured
with the French Marsialles. The
meeting was presided over by j. w.
Berry.
Seymour Stedman, a former mem
Der of the state legislature of Illi-
nOis, was the next speaker. He held
the attention of the audience for over
an hour. He is a fluent speaker with
a splendid command of English. At
the outset of his remarks he ridi-
culed the idea OF war and referred to
the crisis in Europe as a stupendous
piece Of ignorant folly, which he
sought to compare with the Industrial
wars which, he said. had disgraced
the names OF West Virginia. Michigan
and California. There were no eco
nOmic or industrial reasons for such
wage wars After illustrating the eff
fects OF war on Industrial centers the
sions Of the socialist party to point
out the remedies for such industrial
problems. After comparing the con-
ditiOns of government employees with
that of the working men and women
outside that sphere, the speaker said
that if all the millionaires of the
country were chloroformed tomorrow
the industrial depression would still
go on. IL wasn't the milliOnaires
personally that the socialists We're
against IL was the system i'm vogue.
What was wanted mostly was public
ownership. He believed in national
izing all public industries. He denied
that socialism was against religion.
Some preachers had the wrong def
milton OF the word. He refuted many
Of the popular arguments against the
party to which he belonged. and set
the capitalists up as examples of what
~ icing produced under the present
system. One of the speakers points
was that socialists had never con-
tended that all salaries should be
equal.
Rev. l. s. Garrison. a Methodist
minister Of Montpelier, Ind, was the
first speaker of the afternoon and ad-
dressed the meeting on general social
ism He said that life was a job of
living and not one OF dying and that
God was not the God Of death but the
God OF the living. In speaking Of
brOtherly interest he said that we
should use mental. moral and intel
leCtual efforts to help others as much
as possible In speaking of intelli-
gence he said that the dumb animal
had more real intelligence than the
American people. He brought out
that no animal, a dog or COW, could
be fooled with painted food on a can
vas, but that the american people
were being fooled with the great cry
of the capitalist that today we have
prosperity ard that even greater pros
perity is coming.
In speaking of the fighting reserves
of America, he said that at the time
the United States soldiers were max
ing the invasion at Vera Cruz. gull
men were pouring shot and shell into
defenSelesS men. women and children
i'm the Colorado mining districts.
Troops in America. he said. are not
for protecting the honor of the Gag.
but for the oppression Of the labOring
man