Denver labor bulletin., 1917-11-24

plunder in the state legislaturei
Heavens, what shock that will be to
everyonei 1t will be a severe strain
on the complacency of whoever it is
that profits from the box office re-
ceipts of the Hippodrome and the Win
ter Garden.
And there will be resolutions for
public ownership of this and that
resolutions that will be as out-of-date
as an overcoat in summer and as stale
and vapid as ginger ale in an Arizona
mining camp.
With national ownership of mines
and railroads rushing at US so fast
that we have scarcely time to prepare
properly for the impact, the feeble
''resolvings" of this handful of Social
lists in Albany and Manhattan will be
ludicrous enough.
With Hoover's standardized nickel
loaf almost on our larder shelves the
Socialists probably will never have a
chance to peep about it, And as for
the stereotyped resolutions about un-
conference.-the Socialists will sadly
regret that there is no such animal
abroad this year.
A Pitiful Isolation.
The Socialist children. isolated from
the world by the nature 0f their hab-
itat while posing as the iirectors-in-
chief Of revolution when IL is upon
them and thus, insteaa Of being rev
olutionists, are in fact reactionaries
Of the most dangerous and maudlin
type. They are so because they are
ignorant. There is n1 more danger
Gus reactionary than the ignorant re-
dictionary who clings 10 old things
blindlv and refuses to open his eyes TO
new things. new ideas. new conditions.
New York knows most Of the newly
elected Socialists quite we'll Their
voices have clamored among US for
many seasons. / know most of them
well-and when think of the spec
tacle that they will make in their
blindness / am amused-and panied a
bit
Most of them are reckless when it
comes to the use of words. They go
on the principle that with the diction-
ary full of words. why should not
those words be used at will? ? Words
exist to be used, they reason. And
so they scatter words with a profit
gacy that would pain and irritate the
good man who put those words so
carefully in the big unabridged edi-
tion.
There are great many words in
the dictionary that sound and resound
under the tongue in the manner that
gave birth TO the street phrase, "a
mouthful." There are words that have
a dramatic sound, words that have a
threatening sound. These the Social
lists use without fear and with utter
abandon.
These dramatic and fearsome
sounds impress the primitive. Stu
dents of the music Of primitive peo-
Piles will understand this.
The Children Of the Shoe will spill
these words all over the assembly and
aldermanic chambers. They will scat
ter their own lingo boldly all over
ears of the other members unremit-
tingly They have had years of prac-
tice. They know how to do this well.
PERSONALLY Irreproachable."
Like Mr.. Hillquit and the kaiser
and Count Won Bernstorff, they are
personally irreproachable" (to quote
Jacob Schiff's Characterization of Mr.
Hillquit during the campaign). but
mentally and politically, the children
of the dead end" Of the social struct-
ure, the muddled mites of ancient
madness.
Now that the Socialist party has got
them it won't know what to do with
them. AS n homely phrase has it.
every time they open their mouth
collectively speakiug) they will put
their foot in it" They have no mis-
sion. they have no modern program,
they have no purpose except to make
noise and block progress.
The world war has turned every
thing upside down. 1t has roughly
bowled over conventions and prac-
tees. 1t has kicked the insides out of
everything that was and put n new
purpose in life. 1t has compelled
Greed, ancient target of the Socialists.
to get off the boardwalk and put all
of society into the way of demanding
and getting that which is for the com
mon good.
And the great war itself. the worlds
most wonderful crusade for freedom
and democracy and humanity. is to-
tally beyond the conception of these
Socialist children. Such movements
are never stopped until they have
come to natural conclusion with
their ends attained. A Socialist dozen
crying aloud for peace in the face of
this cyclonic drive for freedom-that
will be something for the kaiser. in
deedi And the towards and slackers
who sought to buy the safety of their
NANCY hides through Socialist Boil
sheviki success at the polls will de-
light therein.
But the real undoing of the little
group of muddled thinkers" who will
toddle into office on the votes of mis-
taken persons, friends of the kaiser
and foes of freedom, will come for
scious of. thew are so slow to under
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