Denver labor bulletin., 1917-11-24

the shoe because she wanted to. Nav
be, though, the habitation appealed to
her peculiar mentality.
The Socialist party today lives in an
artificial atmosphere because it could
not thrive anywhere else.
And just now the Socialist party in
New York has so many children that
it shortly will not know what to do
with them. Indeed, it probably has
no idea at this moment what it will
do with the newly acquired offspring.
Now They're In for 1t.
These new children are the officials
elected on Nov. 6. Some ten or eleven
assemblymen and some seven or eight
aldermen have been elected by the
/ Socialists of Greater New Work.
The Old Woman is surely in a pre-
dicamentl
II this situation could be detached
from the great world situation which
| involves the life of the nation and the
safety of democracy it would serve as
a harmless diversion, an amusing
spectacle.
Perhaps we can make of it an anus
ing spectacle anyway-if we can
maintain our philosophical poise.
There will be plenty Of amusement to
be had out Of II at any rate. for the
discontinue Of the Old Woman and
the Fledgling Flock is going TO be
rich and rare.
Before the election. promises were
made by the Socialists that would have
done credit 20 the Russian Bolsheyiki.
With them 1t was a case Of nothing
10 do till tomorrow to prom
Use that tomorrow would bring the
millennium. II Socialists were elected
They promised scent bread They
promised peace. They promised the
fullness Of everything to the discon-
tented. Most of all they promised
peace and plenty"
They appealed to the Stacker, to the
ignorant, to the eowardly, to the
greedy.
And they did this at a time when
idealism fills the national heart, when
self-sacrifice ennobles the hearts of
millions, when courage and a passion
for freedom and democracy is the
avowed creed of America In that
base manner did they mar the record
of our rising social spirit.
What Now,
And what now? What will these
children of false prophets do in the
city hall? What will they do in AL
bany?
On the day after election all of the
newly elected Socialists gave out
statements. In these statements they
aimed to tell the people what they
would do. A great many of the new
officials-nearly all of them in fact,
declared it TO be their purpose TO stick
to the staid program of the Socialist
party-a program which concerns it
self with matters that once seemed
new and daring and important, but
that today are mere trifles, out of
date, childish and significant only of
a profound, though noisy, ignorance.
As TO the regulation Socialist pro-
gram of what the Socialist lingo calls
social legislation"-any old platform,
even Bourbon one-could have car
ried practically every social legisla-
ton" proposal of the Socialist plat
form and never batted an eye-the
thing is so out-worn and tattered 1t
has been batted all around the ring
for twenty or thirty years, the same
old spectacle-once n hale and hearty
rallying point for men and women of
vision, now a sorry ghost of an age
that is as dead as the age of the
Bourbon kings.
The Socialist machine has utterly
failed to comprehend the fact that So
ciety has slipped its cables and
plunged ahead since war began. rid
in the short space of a few months.
The Socialist party, once fairly good
forecaster of social evolution, once a
fairly good analyst of historical facts,
has been absolutely unable to compre-
hend the changes wrought by war. has
flunked like a silly schoolboy in the
face of new problem and has proven
its unfitness to have serious part in
the affairs of a society as revolution
ary as is the society of today in the
midst of world war.
Built for revolution. the Socialist
party has gone crazy in the midst of
revolution. The Socialist party is full
of the thoughts of yesterday, full of
and futile in the face of the cyclonic
speed of today!
Why It's an Old Woman.
That's why it is an Old Woman liv-
ing in n metaphorical shoe-and that's
why It will not know what to do with
the flock of children that are now
domicilied in the same piece of the
worlds tattered footgear. Sad chill
dren. Babes from the political land
of Lilliput Waits in an age that has
no time for them and no use for them
One of these fledglings said on the
day after election-a day after" that
was proverbially full of rash sayings
and maudlin interviews-thata "peace
conference would be called for in the
New York assembly chamber! Per-
haps that was the gem of the whole
diadcm of the Socialist sterility of
thought on that morning after"
Some Socialist assemblymen from
Kings or the Bronx will arise solemn
ly in the assembly chamber and pre-
hA