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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
Overcome Obstacles.

Don't let obstacles or hardships
worry you-a goodly share Of difficult
ties and hardships have the same eff
feet upon the right kind of young man
as blows have upon piece of steel
that is being tempered Setbacks
train you to fight better. The Black
Friday panic of 1873 bankrupted me
just after | had made my first start
in business when twenty-eight, and
| well recall an older man then say
ing to me, by way Of consolation:
Happy and lucky is the man who fails
when he is young. robert Dollar in
the American Magazine.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
TAKE Is BODIES
FROM IOWA FIRE

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 24-The
thirteenth body was taken from the
ruins of the Douglas starch works this
morning. Three hundred employees of
The company were engaged in clearing
away the wTeckage. and it is expected
that the remaining bodies will be un-
covered during the day
The official list o. missing still
stands at thirty-fye Five Of the in
iured are barely alive in the hospitals
today and physicians say they will
die There is small hope tina. any OF
the missing thirty-hye are alive. The
police say the death list will reach
ltty-three.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
ARTILLERY BRIGADE
HEADED FOR NEW YORK

Hoboken, y. J., May pa fine big
surprise package for Illinois is coming
in today on the America. which is due
ut the Hoboken docks late his after.
noon-the entire 5Sth Artillery Brig
ade Of the 33d Division.
Until there came sudden announce
ment yesterday by wireless it was be
lieved that the gunners of the 33d D'
vision had been left in Brest
Regiments Of The brigade are the
Esd and the 12ith Field artilleries.
The America also brings home the
1nSth sanitary trains.
When the America lands there viii
be more than 10000 men of the 33d
Division home,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
WANT NAMES OF
CiTY'S HEROIC DEAD

The committees in charge OF the
Memorial day services at the various
cemeteries on Memorial day, May 80.
are anxious Ia learn the name of any
soldier or sailor who was attached to
any branch or department of Uncle
Sans lighting forces in any war
whose death has occurred during the
past year and whose body is buried
in any Ottawa emetery or in the
cemeteries near Utica. Farm Ridge.
Rutland Dayton Wedron or Waltham
Every effort is being made so that
no soldiers grave shall be overlooked,
but there is no record kept anywhere
which would give the committee the
above information, therefore this ap-
peal to the public. The name should
De sent in not later than Thursday OF
next week.
The following is a list of the names
50 far received After reading il care
fully if you know Of any name which
should be added to the list please tele.
phoue the name to r. b. Farrell. Tel
G4S-W, o send to his Office in the Col
Iege Building:
John Case.
Samuel Raymond.
Guy IloXie.
Peter Boyle.
Thomas White.
William Lanigan.
Harold Anderson.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
CHESS AND CHECKER
TOURNEY PLANNED

A tournament between the Ottawa
Chess players and the La Sale play
ers will be held on next Tuesday
evening, May 9th, at the Ottawa
Boat Club The same players who
took part in the tournament at the
La Sale Commercial club two weeks
ago. will play again next week. a
challange has also been sent LaSalle
by the Ottawa checker enthusiasts
for checker tournament TO take
place at the same time the chess
tournament is being held.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24

the most competent men who could
be secured for trustees and then let
them have full charge and control.
Regrets for their inability to be
present were read from the former
Superintendent Miss Elizabeth AS
seltine, former trustee Edward c..
Swift and Or. Franklin of Spring Val
ley. who had hoped up to the last
moment to be present
After the banquet the splendid
building was thoroughly inspected by
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
Apache Custom.

In order to aScertait the time OF
day, the Apache indians used a gonrd
or which the stars Of heaven were
marked. As tAe constellation rose the
Indian could tell the hour by referring
to the g0urd, and by turning the gourd
round he could tell the order in which
the consultations might be expected
10 appear.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
FUNERAL or LIEUT..
HOFFMAN MONDAY

The funeral service fer Lieut.. Doug
las Hoffman vii be held at Christ
Episcopal Church on Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock, and burial will be
made in the Ottawa Avenue Gene
tetr.
Lieut. Hoffman was the son of Dr.
and Mrs John Hoffman of Chicago
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
Various Alphabets.

There IS quite difference in the
number of letters in the alphabets Of
fish language contains 26 letters; the
French, %; the italian, 20; the Span
iSh, - the German, 20; the SIavonic,
y the Russian, II ; the Latin. % the
Greek. "a; the Hebrew, -; the Ara
bic. %; the Persian, %, and the Turk
ish, So.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24

TRY THE FREE TRADERJOHRNAi
WANT-ADS FOR QUICK RESULTS
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24
CHICAGO MARKETS

Chicago market report 'lTnianet TO
ne Free Trader journal by w l..
',tnyre, member of Chicago Board OF
Trade, Moloney building, phone 104I.
Correspondent Lamson Bros. L. Co,
Chicago
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24

Mr.. and Mrs. James Mekeel are Gel
ebrating their silver wedding ami
versary today at their home, 1919 OF
tawa avenue. The day is being OBJ
served in quiet fashion, with a
family reunion of the members of
the family A silver wedding din
ner, will he the only marked celebra-
lion of this memorable occasion.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24

, The Young Woman5 Missionary
Guild of the First congregational
church will meet on Monday even
evening in the parlors of the church
A picnic supper will be served at
$50 after which a mission study
Will he conducted by Miss Bertha
Glover. Mrs. Roy Malo will be the
hostess
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-24

Members Of Santa Maria Court,
Daughters Of Isabella, will hold a
kids party next Tuesday evening
May 81. in the Knights of Columbus
club rooms Great preparations are
being made by the committee in
charge to make this a very successful
event. Mrs. Frank Sinnott is chair
man Of the entertainment committee,
All the guests have been requested to
come dressed in kid" outfits.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

mands" com prised in the social re-
form planks now in the platform of
our party; they are not a compro-
mise with the capitalist state, but
imply a revolutionary struggle
against that state and against cap
ltalism, the conquest of power by
the proletariat through revolution
ary mass action. They imply the
new soviet state of the organized
producers, the dictatorship of the
proletariat; they are preliminary
revolutionary measures for the ex-
preparation of capital and the intro
duction of communist socialism.
That is the Left position But
the Left Wing did not stop with
the issuance of a manifesto. The
leaders of the Left began a sys-
tematic campaign to secure control
of the party, and they went about it
in this fashion.
The Rights accused the Lefts
Of forming "permanent organiza-
ton, organized on branch lines with
delegates to central committee, ex-
ecutlve committee, and an executive
secretary, and that their aim is to
organize in the state, and ultimate
ly in the nation; second, "that
their (the Lefts') aim is to capture
the Socialist party machinery, and
should they fail in that to split the
party; third, "that they haye ap-
pl}cation and membership cards" ,"
and, fourth, that they have a
treasurer and treasury"
The Rights further accused the
Lefts Of ordering their adherents
through the central committee to
"sit on the left" "In all
matters involving Left Wing tactics
vote as unit with the steering
committee" "Do not make
motions, ask for divisions, roll call
and appeals from the chair. The
steering committee will attend to
that"
The Rights say further that the
Left Wing delegates must have
nothing to say, but "must surren-
der their rights to the steering COM
mittee. Who appointed them?
What party authority have they?
No one seems to know. If you are
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

manded their recall. A short
time later group of members of
Local New York, led by "Jim"
Larkin, Eamonn MacAlpine, Louis
Fraina and John Reed, drew up Il
document which they called the
"Manifesto and Programme of the
Left Wing Socialist Party, Local
Greater New York"
Before quoting excerpts from this
"manifesto" it may be we'll to state
some essential facts of this bitter
conflict. According to the Lefts
the Rights, who say they are as
Left as the so-called Lefts, have
always temporized and played with
social reform measures. The
Let's say that the Rights are
content to secure their aims solely
by political means, and that the
Rights, although they use revolu-
tionary terms, do not mean them
literally, but use them for effect.
In short, the grievance of the Left
Wing is that the Right Wing is
too slow. Immediate action" is the
slogan Of the LETS.
Now, in this manifesto nothing
that is startlingly new is proclaimed.
1t is the usual Socialist analysis Of
society. But it contains pro-
gramme that is, to say the least, in
teresting. And in order to compre-
hend the processes of thought
through which the composers of this
"manifesto" arrived at their "pro-
gramme" the excerpts that follow
may prove Illuminating:
"Prior to August, 1914, the ma
tions Of the world lived on volcano.
Violent e7uptions from time to time
gave warning Of the cataclysm to
come, but the diplomats and states
men managed to localize the out
breaks, and the masses, slightly
aroused, sank back into their ac-
customed lethargy with doubts and
misgivings, and the subterranean
fires continued to shoulder"
"Many trusted blndly, some in
their statesmen, some in the cohe-
sive power of Christianity, their COM
mon religion, and some in the grow
ing strength Of the international So
cialist movement. Had not the Ger
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

man Social Democracy exchanged
dramatic kilograms with the French
Socialist party, each pledging itself
not to fight in case their govern
ments declared war on each other?
A general strike of workers led by
these determined Socialists would
quickly bring the governments to
their senses"
But revolutionary socialism was
not destined to lie inert for long.
In Germany, Karl Liebknecht,
Franz Mehring, Rosa Luxembourg
and Otto Ruhle organized the Spar
tacus group. But their voices were
drowned in the roar of the cannon
and the shrieks of the dying and
maimed."
All this is interesting, but what is
far more interesting is the attitude
that the Lefts take on treating
with industrial unrest" Conclud-
ing their historical discussion, the
Lefts finally come down to the
local situation. They deny that
their difference with the Rights
is dissatisfaction with those in con
troll of the Socialist party, but in
tactics. What they object to is that
the Rights will not fan present
social unrest into Irregular" revo-
luton.
They say "this essential task is
being shirked by our party leaders
and officials generally"
An attack on the league Of ma
tions follows the manifesto, assert
ing that it is another form of "cap-
italist imperialism.
"Bourgeois reforms" are objected
to because they may divert the
workers from their Revolutionary
aim" "The capitalist class OF
America is using organized labor
for it's imperialistic purposes. We
may soon expect the capitalist class
in true Bismarckian fashion, tc
grant factory laws, old age pen.
sions, unemployment insurance, sick
benefits and the whole litter OF
bourgeois reforms, so that the
workers may be kept fit to produce
the greatest profits at the greatest
speed"
The manifesto derides purely po-
litical activity and holds that the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

only purpose of the Socialist in
"capitalist parliaments" is to OBJ
ject, and to have nothing to do
with bills and the like. One might
quote more Of these Interesting"
paragraphs, but that would take
many pages, and it may be as
sumed that by now the reader is
we'll acquainted with the thought
processes Of the Lefts. One may
very we'll conclude with the pro-
gramme of the Lefts.
The Programme
1t is the task of revolutionary
Socialist party to direct the strug-
giles of the proletariat and provide
programme for the eliminating
crisis. It's propaganda must be so
directed that when this crisis comes
the workers will be prepared to ac-
cept a programme of the following
character:
(a) The organization of work
mems councils; recognition Of and
propaganda for these mass organiza-
tions of the working class as instru-
ments in the immediate struggle, as
the form of expression of the class
struggle, and as the Instruments for
the seizure of the power of the state
and the basis of the new proletarian
state of the organized producers and
the dictatorship of the proletariat.
(b) Workmen's control of indus
try, to be exercised by the industrial
organizations Industrial unions or
sovets) of the workers and the in
dustrial vote, as against government
ownership or state control of indus
try.
(c) Reputation Of all national
debts-with provisions to safeguard
small investors.
(d) Expropriation of the banks-a
preliminary measure for the complete
appropriation of capital.
(e) appropriation of the railways
and the large (trust) organizations
of capital-no compensation to be
paid, as buying out" the capitalists
would insure continuance of the
exploitation Of the workers; provi-
sion, however, to be made during the
transition period for the protection
of small owners of stock.
% The socialization OF foreign
trade.
These are not the Immediate de-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Communist Party May Develop
From 1nsurgent
Faction

tration of capital. and third, the
class war.
The first doctrine, according to
Marx, is proved by the constant
change in society as testified to by
a perusal of history. By change he
means revolution. The whole move
ment of history is viewed by him as
necessary, as the effect of material
causes operating upon human be-
ings. He does not SO much advocate
the Socialist revolution as predict it.
In the second doctrine Marx pre-
dicted the concentration Of competi-
tive businesses into trusts, which
he said would make more glaring
the evils of present-day society; and
the third doctrine, that as time went
on there would be a separation of
society into two classes-that Of the
proletariat and the bourgeoisie and
that when the proletariat learns
how to combine internationally it
will take over the control of society
and abolish all classes.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Both Want Change

Now, that is the present situation
generally in the American Socialist
movement. The Right Wing be-
lieves in general change, the Left
Wing insists on immediate change.
And by change both factions frank
~ say they mean the overt,rning of
the present social order.
Socialism as a power began with
Karl Marx. Marx was born in 1918
at Treves, in the Rhine Provinces,
his father being a legal official, a
Jew who had nominally accepted
Christianity. Marx led a very active
life after he graduated from several
German universities, being constant
ly expelled from various European
countries for his revolutionary writ
ings. In l847 he was asked bv the
German Communist League to draw
up for them manifesto, which
appeared In January, 1s4s. This Is
the famous Communist Manifesto,'
in which for the first time a CO.
herent system Of socialism was set
forth.
This Communist Manifestor
must be explained If the controversy
in the Socialist party is to be un.
derstood. The most essential ot
Marks doctrines may be reduced K
three - first, what is called tn,
materialistic Interpretation Of his
tory; second, the law Of the concen
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
Force Viii Yin

The manifesto ends with an ap-
peal to the workers of the world
to rise on behalf of communism.
"The Communists disdain to conceal
their views and aims. They openly
declare that their ends can be at
tanned only by the forcible over
throw of all existing social condi-
tions. Let the ruling classes tremble
at a Communistic revolution. The
proletarians have nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world
to win. Working1nen of all coun-
tries, unite!"
Both factions of the Socialist
party agree that the second Inter
rationale has failed. The recog-
nized leader of the Right Wing,
Morris Hillquit, in an article
recently published in "The New
York Call" makes that admission.
This is important, because Hillquit
is the international secretary of the
Socialist party in America.
But what the Let's and Rights
do not agree upon is what the third
Internationale is to be. Hillquit
says in this article that "the task of
organizing the third 1nternationa
is still before us" while the Lefts
say that the 1nternationale must
be the one called by Nicholas Leniae
at Moscow.
While the Socialist party has had
Left movements in the past, none
has equalled the present movement
in seriousness. The split came about
twelve months ago in New York
City, when the Socialist delegation
Of seven in the Board of Aldermen
headed by Algernon Lee, voted in
favor of the fourth Liberty Loan.
This act brought about the "break'
which had threatened the regular
Socialist pavty for some time, for
prior to the entry Of the United
States into the late war the So
cialists in convention at St. Louis
passed a series of resolutions in
which the Socialists placed them
selves on record as opposing war
And although many Socialists Of ma
tional Importance left the Socialis,
movement because when the way
came it would not relinquish its po.
sition, the Socialist party stood
firm in its decision to oppose the
war.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
By Louis kantor

"HE birth Of new party is
very near. It's unhappy and
exceedingly unwilling father
is the respectable American
Socialist party. This undesired child,
at present "crudely" referred to as
the Left Wing, will be named,
most probably, its fond godparents
say. after All uncle in Hungary
the Communist party.
The above is briefly the situation
in which the American Socialist
party finds itself.
What is it all about, asks the
average American citizen. The an
swer is not easy. One must first be
familiar with the philosophy of So
cialism to comprehend the whole af-
fair, and principally the "tactics"
that the Socialist party in America
as well as in Europe has employed
in its efforts to attain it's entire
philosophical programme. The pres
ent article will first concern itself
briefly with the Socialist pro-
gramme.
Socialism, most of its protagonists
will agree, is the advocacy of COM
munal ownership of land and capt.
tai. Communal ownership, says one
writer, may mean ownership by a
democratic state but cannot be held
to include ownership by any state
that is not democratic. Needless to
state, this, of course, is not the only
definition of socialism.
"Some Socialists writes Ber-
trand Russell, the famous English
author, in a recent book, "expect
communal ownership to arrive sud-
denly and completely by a catas-
trophic revolution, while others ex-
pect it to come gradually, first in
one industry, then in another. Some
insist upon the necessity of COM
pleteness in the acquisition of land
and capital by the public, while
others would be content to see lin
gering islands of private owner
ship, provided they were not too ex-
tensive or powerful. What all
forms have in common is democracy
and the abolition, virtual or COM
plete, Of the present capitalistic sys-
tenn"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

which are operated by the labor
of the rest of the people and which
are necessary to the life Of society.
This system necessarily involves
class division and class rule and
the exploitation of the work.
ing class by the capitalists.
The purpose of the Socialist move
ment is to substitute social owner
ship and control of all that is neces-
sary to the peoples life so that all
the people shall be just owners and
all shall be comrade workers This
means a far more radical trans
formation of society than any which
has taken place in the past
How will this change be ef-
fected?" he was asked.
Socialists" answered Mr.. Lee,
"do not conceive that such great
change as this can be brought about
by the action of a few. We know
that it must be accomplished
through the conscious and purpose
full action of an effective majority
of the people in all the principal
countries of the world. 1t is to this
end that we carry on our year
long work of propaganda and edu
cation and have done so through
two generations of patient labor, re-
warded by the evidence which
every year brings forth that our
work is not in vain.
'If it depended only upon us the
task would be still more difficult.
But the Morgans and the Rookie
fellers, the Roots and the Over
mans, the Wilson's and The Clemen-
ceaus are always unconsciously
helping to SOW the seeds of dis
content and to furnish object les
sons which help to clinch the les
sons which we teach with tongue
and pen."
How does the Right stand on
the dictatorship of the proletariat'
question:" Mr.. Lee was further
questioned.
Il am not quite sure what the
phrase dictatorship of the pro,e-
tariat' means in the mouths of our
Left Wing AS Marx used it, it
meant the triumph of an awakened
selt-conscious Workinb class and ia
that sense oil Socialists expect IL
and seek to hasten its adrent."
During the month of May the
national executive committee of the
Socialist party met, and the result
of its meeting was the suspension of
all the Left Wing branches they
could possibly reach. The Lefts be-
came sore. Said they: Here the
Rights have been yelling that we are
trying to split the party and they
come right along and split it them
selves. Seven foreign language
federatlons were suspended and the
charter of the party in the State Of
Michigan was revoked.
In this condition the fight between
the Lefts and Rights logged along
the Lefts setting date for three.
day conference in New York CITY
beginning June 81. The Journalistic
warfare was kept up until severa'
weeks ago, when the Russian Soviet
Government Bureau was raided bS
agents of the Lusk Committee
headed by Archibald Stevenson. see
retary of the Union League Clui
and associate counsel of the Lusl
Committee.
SO the Lusk committee ma,
decide the wrangle that the Left
. and the Rights have been having al
to themselves, and set the "Lefts
right. But all this aside, the pres
ent indications presage the birt.
Of new party-a Communist party
, as it is called in Hungary, and
Bolshevist party, as it is known il
| Russia.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
The Storm. Breaks

So that when, on April 9, 1918,
the aldermanic delegation voted in
favor of the fourth Liberty Loan,
the storm broke loose. The seven
members were vehemently con-
demned on all sides and individual
members of the Socialist party de-