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evils of government may be enabled to advance to something higher and better through voting ourselves free from the chains that bind us to the dead past. There is much suffering now. Millions are living lfves of semi starvation; cold and hunger are com mon. - The granaries may be opened and kept open, so that the people may not need to storm the bastlle nor em ploy Dr. Guillotine. ' My faith grows large in him who Said: Give us 'this day our daily bread, and that the day is drawing near when He qn earth shall reap pear. I. N. Albright, 2348 W. Har rison St ORGANIZATION. A writer in The Forum resurrected the old story of the boy who saved up so much money and bought a house, etc. One would have thought that we had at least developed above that silly stage of repeating the old fables of the' past I am a Sociaist because, in the words of an illustrious fellow coun tryman of miner Oscar Wilde: "So cialism will relieve us from that sor did necessity of living for others which so harshly presses on us to day." Today, whether we relish the idea or not, we are mere slaves at the will and -behest of another. So great is that power of some one. else that we have not got the ordinary right to work. We live today in a system that deprives us of the right to work", in a system where the people- who do NOT work haye all the -good things of.life, and the people who DO work have very little of the good things. We live in a system under which, by the way, in the midst of "prosperity" children die in slums like flies. Un der a system in which one out of every ten of the working class is bur ied in a pauper's grave. We live in a system where every year your "redlight districts" claim more and more victims. We live to-' day in a system where men are al lowed to store up food just so they can raise the price, and as a result people are dying from starvatibn..i This is done because, the workers doTJ not do their own thinking. (A word to you, Mr. Editor: Bishop Fallows, informs us that last year over a quar- , ter of a million people were killed in industry. . f This goes on no matter what party is ,in power, whether it be the Demo-., crats or the Republicans. The rea-3 son is because the tools by whiclC the worker earns his living belong to i the capitalist, and as a result the) capitalists claim the product of his, labor. Of every dollar of wealthy that is created by the workers of America only 28 cents is paid back to the workers, and as a result we havef the evils "that I have mentioned! above. If the workers desire to be free and abolish the evjls of today,, then they must organize both Indus-, trially and politically as a CLASS. ! So long as they give their attention to "bogus" parties, like the Demo-e craUc party when I say bogus I re-., fer to them as bogus champions of1 labor- so long-will they be misled.. Ihe cure is WORKING CLASS OR-, GANIZATION, both on the industrial and political field, with the aim of obtaining control of industry. In, other words, apply democracy to In-" dustry. Jack Carney. LIBERTY. Just like Walsh, want all the liberty I canget," but" that is limited. The maximum off" liberty is limited by the liberty of my" ellowmen. Majority rule does not . secure equal freedom to men It se- cures the right of the majority toti rule' the rest of us; that is all. The" minority has no liberty in reality It is a subject class. A Read carefully, what I write and, you will realize, Mr. Walsh, that never advocate "liberty" for the inr vader, which you seem to cvall "un restrained individual liberty."' Such , "unrestrained liberty" is not free-