The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-14
DEBS OUTLINES PRINCIPLES OF SOCIALISTS
Of your own means of life.

VI your own means OF Ire.
in every age CT this worlds history
there have been a few men and a few
women who had an idea opposed to the
established order OF things, and whC
had the courage to stand erect and tC
face g9insaying world! and they are
ell IN history. As q rule they were
misunderstood and nisrepresented
velified traduced and Imprisoned, ahC
their bones broken upon the wheel
burned At the stake and their ashes
scattered to the four winds By the
hands Of hate But they are all re-
membered. Pathetic to think of that
they who serve humanity must always
be regarded as humanity's enemies
and pay the penalty from which there
is 70 escape for simply being in adj
vance of their time and seeking to
pave the way to better conditions for
mankind. In time the world catches
up to where they stood and fought;
and then it pauses long enough to
weave gaIlands for their graves and
erect monuments where they sleep.
Socrates, the ancient philosopher,
sought ID teach some new truths TO
the youth Of his time; and a council
OF state, representing the established
order, solemnly found him guilty and
he was made to drink the fatal hem
lock
Less than twenty centuries ago it
was the Man of Galilee. the carpenter,
the simple workman, who in His pow
erty was born in stable and Graded
in a manger, and when He grew up
had no where to lay His head. He
espOused the cause OF the suffering,
struggling poor, the class III which He
was born. He not only preached to
them, but He fed them; and they
heard Him gladly 1t was He who
said: "Let him who is greatest among
you be the servant of all the rest"
believe in that with all my heart. If
you have greater power than your
fellOw-man, whether it be intellectual
OF moral or spiritual, and use that
power to exploit him, isnpOverish and
degrade him-you may profess to be
j Christian, but you're betraying the
cause for which He the carpenter,
was nailed to the Cross of Calvary.
How very soon the eminently respect
able people made the discovery that
this working man in His Simple garb
and sandalled feet, was preaching a
false religion and stirring UP the peo-
pie; that He was q menace to society.
1t was they-the usur1ls, the money
changers, the bankers, the lawyers,
the judges, the high priests, the Gem
iently respectable" people of tina.
time; the ruling class, in a word-that
had Him arraigned, tiled, convicted,
condemned. They had His quivering
hcsh nailed to the cross. This has
been the penalty of the men and wo-
men all along the track of the centuT-
les, who have consecrated themselves
to the service of mankind.
This has been notably true Of the
country in which we live. Thomas
paine-and l always pronounce his
name with evcrance-Thomas Paine,
the very first to propose independence,
was denounced as a traitor Thomas
Paine was the first to write teh words
The United States OF America. He
was the first to attack chattel slavery.
Had Thomas Paines advice been TAX
en-, the Civil War had never been ne
cessary in this country. Let me say
for the benefit of the women as
5embled here-I do not say ladies';