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V VOTEFOR THE PAHTY OFYOUR r* '^tUte Hletortce.1 Library MONTANANEWS OWNEDAND PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF MONTANA ABOLISH THE CAP^^ITALIST SYSTEM VOL.VII. HELENA,MONTANA, THURSDAY, DEC. 17,1908. NO.8. SOCIALISMAND THE HOME^BY^MRS. BRUCE GLASIER TheIrony of history can hardly^have asserted Itself more strongly^than when, In this country, In Hrltaln.^the propertied enemies of Socialism^Bought to rouse the prejudices of the^common people against the Socialist^Ideal by raising the cry of ^Socialism^against the home.'' Tobegin with let It he clearly re^^cognized that the word ^home^ Is^csscntlaly the possession of the com^^mon people. ^Home' Sweet Home, Inspite of the fact that the tunc^was horn In Sicily, is more truly the^Hngllsh people's national anthem to^^day than any ^(!o^i Save the King;^^while the wealthy family that posses^^ses many dwelling places may lie, and^practically often Is, us ^homeless^ us^the fuinily that possesses no dwelling^place ut all. Thearistocrat Hyron. In his ^Uoch-^nagar,^ essayed a sneer in his distinc^^tion, ^England, thy beauties are tame^u.*l domestic.^ Hut it is significant^to students of the history of the fam^^ily, as well us of the derivation of the^word ^famel^ (chattel slave), that In-^had to go to the l.atin tongue for his^adjective, anil its prosy ugliness has^no power to hurt the Inner in 11s i e ^ t^the ^home^ country for those who^have heen prlvlleg. d to ban- their^dwelling there. The ^auhl Scotch^K;mK^^ themBi Ives are all athroh to^the thought of ^hame^ and ^mither.^^And was It not Hohert Ixiuls Stevenson^who told of the lad on the emigrant^train, hound for the far west^how in^I^ tan to pipe HM tune of ^Home.^Sweet Homo,^ ^when we all straight-^vv.iv tell upon him for a Imitul assault^upon our i'motions^ Home,^or ^harm-^ -the word^assuredly represents on, of the most^poweiinl emotions (If It be not t* 1 ^^most powerful)^of the English-^speaking world today. And it is this^^home'' that Lord Halfour of Itui-high^n nd his anv-thing-but-merry nu n^wo- ' ; persuade the English peoples^that Socialism si ^ ks t^ di str..v ' Incidentallyhere It is Interesting to^note that when the enemy Is talking^with rich men It is ^property^ that^Socialism is said to assail; with the^worker It is his ^home. Hutwhat do we. and the enemy^alike, mean by ^home'.' Theword has not yet found its place^In scientific sociology, though I am^hopeful that Socialist economists may soonsticcd In enthroning It there. Itis not so old a word as its common^use miKht suggest. Winn can-fully^studied I believe it will lie recognized^as representing the race's inspiration^rather than its complete expi rieno.^^Its goal rather than its origin. For by^^home^ In the alistraet. I am con^^vinced that the common people of^England today mean the influence^alike upon the individual and the com^^munity of the family, of the relation^^ship of father, mother, and child to^each other, with all the various out-^branchinKs ^f that relationship^when^the family has been founded on a love^marriage, and been supported and sus^^tained throughout its upgrnwing by^the mutual service and goodwill of its^various members. Theitalics have been d. slglu dlv^used to draw tin- scorn of the cynic,^for this article has been written In the^belief that in the fullness of time the^woman who still finds the chief de^^light of her leisure In the reading of^honest love stories will be approved^as more scientific In her attitude to^life than the coldest advocate of^eugenics strictly controlled by the^state. Atthe end ol Ins s. coiid cliapt. r on^'The Orluln of the Family,^ Frederick^Kng.ls shows most powerfully how,^with the gradual uprising ol the com^^mon people in the western races (cs-^pecialy In the Protestant countries,^where in large measure the evil In^^fluences of an effete Human civiliza^^tion were throw n off together w ith the^power of the Human Catholic church),^the love match was at last proclaimed^as a human right^a right for tin^woman as well as for the man. Atany rate It cannot be denied^(and herein lies the junto'.cation of^my definition), that the English-^speaking peoples w ho toda.. attai h a^practically religious devotion to the^thought of ^home.^ are the same peo^^ple who have for centuries upheld,^both by Ideal and practice, this same^right ^^f free and natural selection, or^the love-marlaKe. Today, so strong a power does the Word ^home'eXerclse overthe ordinary English Imagination,^that the scientific historian who ven^^tures to trace tin origins of the human^family^who dans to speak of such^bygone things as ^group-marrbjje,^^polygamy, polyandry, or the dread^facta of adultery and prostitution^which still betray the home Ideal In^our midst, is apt to find hi mself to his^bewilderment treated as an unbeliever^In the home, and an enemy of the hu^^man race. Ofcourse, this super-sensitive atti^^tude may also be born of conscious^hyprocrlsy The diseased conditions^of the ^home^ at both ends of the^social scale, under capitalism, as I^Bhall show later, are beoOMlHl patent^Tlie people who uphold capitalism,^While professlnR t^^ believe In the^^home,^ are therefore In the posi^^tion which Carlyle describes In his^i ssay on Martin Luther. They only Inlieve they believe^ For them. then, welcome the Iconoclast! Hut tile great mass of the people ale, I maintain,perfectly sincere In their at^^titude, and as wise as thew are sin^^cere. InEngland, anion*; the common^people, ' ven ^contract^ marriages,^the marriages arranged by the fam^^ilies or parents of the bride and bride^^groom, which still prevail In France,^and to a lesser extent In Germany,^have slowly but surely had to give^way before the assertion of the human^right of freedom In the selection of a^hi. mate Considerations of rank andproperty In questions of marriage^^ though they still under evil economic^conditions obtain, and to the extent^that they obtain, destroy the lib al of^the home) are yet frankly recognized^as Immoral considerations. Itis the rich and powerful In Kng-^land who have largely failed to win^this right^whase marlages are still^governed by reasons of state, family,^or ^cash.^ Kings and dukes, queens^and duchesses may have palaces and^domains. It is the workers who have^homes. For unci^perhaps It has al^^ways been so down in the depths of^things^the best gift of all has come^to the poor people first. And again 1^repeat. It Is this ^home^ which our^enemies sa,v Socialism has come to^destroy! This is the purpose of this^paper^to maintain on the contrary^that It Is precisely this ^home^ that^Socialism has come to establish for all^class, s. for all races and for all time,^as the only finally perfect cradle of^the human race. It Is precisely this^home influence , the law of love as It^is learned in and through the home,^that Socialism has come, not to des^^troy, but to fulfil. Personally,also, although this Is^outside my subject. 1 would like to^express my belief that this ideal of^home is also the christian ideal. Hat^the church, whether It be Catholic or^1'rotestant. that for centuries has^stoop, d to sanctify ^contract^ mar-^i i.il;. s, whether between royal per^^sonages. American heir, sses and de^^cayed dukes, or French peasants^^the church has given its blessing alik.^to war, with its attendant militarism^in times o| p.ace. to competition, and^to tie unearned riches and undeserved^poverty ol capitalism, has failed to^stand for the social conditions in^which alone tin id. al ^home^ can^Moorish throughout society. Thatit die s so stand will, I believe,^lie ri cognized, and at no distant date,^as the supreme glory of Socialism. ItIs an incontestable fact that in^Hritain today the vast majority of So^^cialists have become Socialists becaiisi^they believe in the home. They re^^cognize in Socialism the system of so^^ciety that can be trusted, not only to^pr. serve and redeem such home-life^as we have already won as a race from^its imminent danger of destrmti.ni^under capitalism, but also to extend^and to develop the influence of the^home to the uttermost, and to seem,^its foundations in sncictv as it has^never yet been secured ^ by making all^^homes'^ mutually helpful instead of^mutualy destructive, as they are to^^da V l.etus once more briefly examelne^our Socialist ideal Socialists desire^that society, or tile collective action of^the- people, should provide for every^girl as for every boy the highest pos^^sible education that society knows how^to givi ^including the supreme educa^^tion that conies with the knowledge^that ^to come of age^ means to enter^Into full citizenship, and the necessity,^as vv. ll as the opportunity, of work Bf^social w rvic Socialists claim that^society must secure the riglit to work^abundant wage to every full grown^woman equally with every full grown^man. Socialistsclaim for soci.tv a com^^plete control over the industry of tin^country in order that the highest pos^^sible supply of every family's need of^tod. clothing, and shelter mav be pro^^vided. Socialiststherefore desire to set^every woman, as well as every man,^free from all economic consiib rations^in choosing a life mate: that is, they^d. sir- to universalize the conditions^of natural selection, and the oppor^^tunity of maintaining In comfort the^family that springs from such a selec^^tion^In short, of the ^home.^ Fin^^ally, as Kngels points out. Socialism^seeks to remove every economic con^^sideration that now practically forces^worn, ii to sul.mint to their degradation^at the hand of men. or vice-versa, and^with that degradation to tin ib-sccra^Hon of everything for which the home^stands. HutIt Is when We pass from the^consideration of the relations between^husband and wife to those of father,^mother, and child that our Socialist^position as champion of the ^home '^becomes Impregnable L-tthose who raise the cry ^Social-^Ism against the home^ ask themselves^when tin Socialists have been to^school for their Ideal of a social sys^^tem founded on mutual aid. Wlnr,^did they obtain even tie- thought of^human brotherhood'.' More than all^^and here let some unthinking Social^^ists pause and consider^where are^tiny to obtain the motive forces for^the building of the co-operative com^^monwealth tiny desire to save In those^emotions which have bad their origin^in family life at its highest Allhigher emotions of our life rise^from It, the love that gathers man and^woman Into one organism,^ writes H.^Fielding Hall, in his latest bok on Bur-^mah, ^The Inward Light^ Hut that^one organlzm needs 10 fulfil Its func^^tion In the work of the bearing and^rearing of Its children before that^truth becomes fully manifest In the^race. Thosewho are familiar with the^biological writings of the brothers^KccIijs and of Kropotkln. gathered In^^to a wonderfully suggestive form by^Drumniond In his ^Ascent of Man.^^will recognize the force of the argu^^ment that It has been tin In l|dessness^of little children nunc than any other^Influence that has led us up as a hu^^man race to the possibilities of tin So^^cialist state Pro**the plant world, with Its flow^^er and fruit triumphs, burn of the^struggle for the life of others, through^the Invertebrates to the birds from^slon wilh down torn from the breast of^slon with donw torn from the breast of^mother and father alike, the same^principle of progress Is manifest. Comingto the mammals, the very^name suggests that the upper growth^Is in line with the closeness ot the^relation between mother Hnd child.^Higher qualities constantly manifest^themselves in proportion to the need^of protection In the offspring. ItIs true (and what answer have^here the opponents to women suf^^frage ^) that among the mammals^motherhood OUM Into the world long^before fatherhood; but all along the^line there are evidences that the ca^^pacity of any given species to survive^In the jungle has been In striking re^^lation to the development of the male^parent's sense of duty towards the^mate and her young, and, It may he^added, of his di ty towards his follow^muti s. Hutwhither Ib my argument tend^^ing .' To the suggestion that the^children have been humanity's best^teachers^that the struggle to provide^them with what they need for life has^been the school in which fathers and^mothers have discovered the necessity^ol tin- Socialist state. Kahyape attains his maturity In a^few short months. Haby man, when father and mother^love has had the economic power to^fulfil it-, it. has been declared ^an In^^fant^ during twenty-one years of life.^Hitherto that full right of protection^and sustenance of their young has only^belonged to the upper end middle^classes, and this has often been greatly^hindered of its ennobling influence by^the evil foundation of the home in a^loveless marriage, and the lack of mu^^tual service engendered by luxury und privilege. Socialismnow steps forward to de^^mand a like opportunity of complete^sustenance and preparation, both of^body and mind, for liife in the^twentieth century of their sons and^daughters for every parent. To prove^that this is possible by principles of^mutual aid, collectively applied to In^^dustry, and only so possible. Is the^chief work of Socialists today. Hut.^ I In ar the anti-Socialists crv^In chorus, ^you Socialists are every-^v^ lii re demanding the maintenance of^the children by the stab ' Tothat 1 have only to reply that^such a demand is necessary today, be^^cause in tens of thousands of instances^capitalism has destroyed the home.^Socialists recognize that if tin- home^^less children of our hind are ever to^become callable of honn-building In^the future, thus. who have known^w hat the Joy of home life means, must^feed and educate them. Hut--andlet the Socialists never^forget this - state inb , icrence w ith the^r. suits ol capitalist ^^^ idualism, al^^though absolutely necessary today,^is not only rmt .^socialism, it is often^not even in line with our Socialist^id. al. In no respect is this distinc^^tion more riecessi.ry than in the much^aliased er.v, state maintenance of^children. Fnderthis head it must be oon-^b ssed that Soc ialism has suffer- I^much at the hands of a f. vv desperate^^ly clev i r peopb^for the most part^childles men and women^who simply^don t know what they are talking^about. Tin v hslVC been too rude to^us mothers to make it necessary forme^to mince words in the matter. For^their saki s and for the sakes of those^vvlioin their detached sentences mav^have misled, I venture to ass. it. with^^out fear of contradiction from any^happy father and mother in the land,^that state maintenance ol children,^as opposed to their home maintenance,^is alien to the whole history, hope and^spirit oi Sim ialism. I'orsee to what u monstrous suppo^^sition the stray supporters of univer^^sal state maintenance of children as^a Socialist ideal would fondly lead us^Tln v suggest that the delight of fath^^ers and mothers in their children, and^their solicitude for their well-being^will grow less strong when love-^matches are the rule, when women are^educated as well as men, and the^children born are ^wanted^ and not^^regrettable accidents.^ To those who^have any experience of tile hoim -life^which has grown out of such condi^^tions, either In our own day or any^other, the suggestion is simply ludi^^crous. Never. I venture to assert, In^the history of the human race has the^sense of possession In, or better, of re^^sponsibility for their children attained^to a flerc. ^^ heat of emotion tliau^.'iinong thus.' fully-developed, hard^working fathers and mothers in our^midst whose parenthood has been of^free choice, conscious and deliberate.^Furthermore (and that is the climax^of my argument). It is this very force^this ne^w In at ot emotion that Is mak^^ing the hideous uncertainties of a^competitive state uf society simply an^Intolerable torture. Therace has evolved its highest^type of fatherhood and motherhood,^and as yet has made no provision for^the satisfaction of its soul. Theanaemic children of the de^^graded father and mother of the slum^mav In aid. to endure the appallingly^stupid and brutally unnecessary, as^well as unjust, pov.rtv of today. Hereanil there u poor, ^breastlesa^mother^^surely the most pathetic^figure of all the ages^the upgrown^cdlldworker who was herself robbed^by i a 11 it 11 is in in her own day of her^mother's care and tenderness, and^now knows not what the mingled Joy^and care of motherhood means^no,^not even so much us the beasts of the^field or the dog that licks her poor^work-hardened hand ^ she, I repeat,^may perchance rejoice in the thought^of complete state maintenance for^her uiivvelcomed children. The satin^may be true of the up-grown neg^^lected son, turned father, who was^left to cry himself sick, uneh-ansed In^his ciadb . and only ktn vv of a father^to fear his approach. He may he^able to tolerate a system of society^which has failed to secure the father's^right to work with a wage sufficient^to maintain his fnmily. Aye, and the^children of the rich Idlers whose mar-^riuges were ^arranged, children who^were abandoned to the care of hire^^lings while their father and mother^^amused^ themselves as tin y pleased^^the.v, too, In their turn may be deaf tothe thought of other fathers' and^mothers agonies, whose bairnies cry^for bread Butby the men and women who^have even In the least measure in^their i hildheood what ^home^ means,^and growing up have been free to^choose in their turn the life-partners^who sh^ ild set still other hearth fires^glowing lor the upbuilding of the race^^by th. se men and women, capital^^ism Is every day being Judged by Its^fruits, bj Its effect upon the ^home^^life of tin land, and Is every day being^more Certainly condemned, Suchnun and women compare^capitalism wltl] feudalism; and they^see that . vil as was the power of the^baron ov. r the serf, y.-t In the v illage^community It was ordained ^that so^soon as a man should come of age und^take to himself ^ w'ife there should^be assign- d unto him the piece of land^on which he might build his house,^make him his garden, and sink him^his well that his right should be^(Continued on page :! FOURTEENAND TWELVE^BY^BEN HANFORD Movrw \ mjvjrciHMra Proci^ dings for the dissolution of^the Injunction against the Montana^Federation of Ijibor and Affiliated^I'liluns, which ^na granted the Pocky^Mountain Hell Telephone Company^will conn before Judge Hunt in the^Federal court In Helena on Thursday OfthiS W eek. Thestrike was settled last May, and^tin iv Is peace between the unions and^the i3eli phone, but the injunction is^still In force. Fromall appearances it seems that^there is no hga' procedure for remov^^ing Injunctions from organized labor^after tin y an- put on at the request of^a corporation. Accordingto the reading of the in^^junction, the unions are still up^against it. While there is no stiike on^and pea ^ ^ prevails, yet if the unions^wa re to advocate a new agreement, or^extend their organization, they would^be violating the injunction and at^present it would lie contempt of court^for the union to declare another strike^as long an the injunction is In force. iIn it thing is government by in^^junctions, very convenient for corpora^^tions: i ven when the strike is won the^slaves must be good. Howeasy it wua for the Hell Tele^^phone i'ompany to secure the Injunc^^tion; they did not have to wait six^months for the court to grant it. How^smoothly the legal machinery works,^high spMded and runs to pertection^(when corporate interests are at^stake i How different when the^union is involved. Seven months after^th ^ sti ike is settled and the legal ma^^chinery slow and rusty is about to^move mil lift an injunction from off^the unions of Montana. Great is gov^^ernment by injunctions. No wonder^T. ddy kicks. Anothersuit of great Interest to^botli'lHbor and capital Is before the^federal court In Helena fiis week, in^which the Hutterick Company of New-^York Is suing the typographical unions^of Hutte and Anaconda for flu,000.(ML TheHutterick Company Is a scab^concern, and publishes the Delineator,^New l)^ sign, und a number of other^dress pattern monthly publications.^Tin' unions have had the Hutterick Co.^on the unfair list for some time and^the unions of Montana have had the^Huttciick Company going some, and^spmaling loud ami long. Apeanut merchant or Borne other^kind of a merchant in Anaconda, who^is full of trust patriotism, got on his^ear because the union men's wives^would not buy tin scab patterns. Not^caring to bring action against the^unions direct ub tin- sale of peanuts^might fall off, the trust patriot mixes^the medicine and gets the Hutterick^Company to give it to tin patient,^which is the union, in a good big legal^dose. TheInvestigation in the court of^chancery brings forth cv id. no vv In n^the Anuconda tin rchant writes long^letters to the Hutterick Company^about the tyranny of the unions, und^advis.s that company to bring BCtiOH^against the unions and s. nils evidence^to show that tin violators of Injunc^^tions against tie It. il Ti Ii pliom I 'oni-^panv got three months in jail. TheHutterick Company Is to bring^suit and the Anaconda merchant is^to be the decoy. He don't want to^injure his business by coming out^bold, but the Hutterick Company can^bring the suit against the unions,^subpoena the peanut merchant and he^will tell all. in this way he wont la^^in any dange- of losing the trad. ,,t^the working people of Anaconda as he^is under oath ami dare not commit^perjury. However, the scabby, gl'eedv, But- terlckCompany that is trying to work^its employes long hours at short^wages, has not much honor and in^order to g.t a half of flO.OOO of the^unions, produces In court the corre^^spondence it received from the Ana^^conda merchant and lays hare tin^plot ami intrigues. WhileAnaconda produces the stuff^that makes millionaires gabue. v.t^Amuonda has no millionaires. The^climatic conditions around Anaconda^are not congenial for millionaires. Too^much dirt and unpleasantness to suit^the blue bloods. AnacondaIs a working peoples^town. It Is owned body, soul and^breeches by the copper trust and^stands In Montana about the same as^Pullman used to stand In Illinois, anil^It Is surprising how any business man^who makes his living off the working^people should be so short sighted as^to turn around and try to kill the^goost that lays the golden egg. Littlethanks, if any. w ill the peanut^merchant receive from the scabby^Hutterick Company, and it the union^people of Anaconda will to themselves^be true they will in vi r darken the^door of the pi anut merchant. Let^the trust patriot live on peanuts^^shells Included, for In c. ltalnlv went^against s shell ganu when he Joined^hands with the Hutterick Company. Latestreport of the Socialist vote^ill West Virginia is 1,111 as against^1,572 inl904. Fivehundred thousand Socialist^voters In the Piled States. Five^hundred thousand other Socialists ids-^franchlsed by capitalist election laws.^And a million other men who believe^In Socialism, but have not yet reached^the point where they will vote its tick^^et. Two millions of men In the I'nited^States who accept the Soslalist phil^^osophy. And the women Halfa million Socialist votes^only;^What a disappointment. We Social^^ists rightly face the future. Hut a^glance at the near past will do us no^harm. Four years ago more than^400,000 votes. How about eight years^i-ga*. A little more than 100,000.^And twelve years ago^ What an im^^mense Socialist vote was cast in the^United States twelve years ago. That^was 1896. A look at the almanac glV^ the Socialist Vote of the whole FnitedStates at the . lection of 1N96^aa 34,000. Hook back a few years^before lstoi and you will need a dct^ c-^tlve to find und a spy glass to see the^Socialist vote of the Fnited States. In1896 ::4.000 votes and in 190s^only .100,000 votes, or more than four^^teen times as many. Too bad. Mul^^tiplying the vote by fourteen In twelve^years Is slow work. Isn't it, comrudc^^If vim don't think so. ask the boss^whut he thinks. H ^ thinks so, too^^if he's a fool. Any many bosses an-^fools, I am phased to state. Fools^in everything but the art of getting^money. And fools for that. Fourteenas many Socialist votes in the I'nited States DUW | i there Were twelv.years ago. What a long, long^time is twelv.- years^to those who^have nothing to hope for, to those who^are not Socialists. I have been In the^Socialist movement fifteen years.^What an old, old Socialist am I!^Waited till I was thirty- three years^old before I found the Socialist move^^ment^or it found me. Hec.-ritly 1^got three little cards from a \oung^married couple^both members of the^Socialist party. It was twins^both^boys, one named Victor and the other^Eugene. Those boys won't have to^wait till they are thirty-three years old^before, for the first time, they hear of^Socialism In the Fnited States. Hcully.multiplying the Socialist^vote by fourteen in twelve years looks^pretty good to me. Hut can we keep it^up^ You bit we can! It is batter^than a sure thing. Sethe difficulties under which our^past progress has been made. Social^^ists the country over driven from pil^^lar to post^but Socialism grew. Mi n^fired out of their Jobs for being So^^cialists^but Socialism grew. Men^sociaKy ostracized for being Socialists^^but Socialism gn w. Men arrested^for talking Socialism^but Socialism^grew. Everything u fool capitalist^mind could devise opposed to Social^^ism^but Socialism grew. And it will^contlnm to grow. If tin masters^can't stop capitalism, th. v ^ an t stop^Socialism. Wer. ally cannot appreciate the^services rendered the Socialist move^^ment by its enemi. b. The persecution^of Socialists has been bitter and pain^^ful to them. Hut it has been a splen^^did thing for the cause. Every time^the boss fired a man from one place^for being a Socialist he simply sent a^Socialist propagandist to another place^^where he was needed more. As I^said before, save for his money wis^^dom, the boss is a fool. Timewas when a blacklisted So^^cialist looking for a job would go a^long journey before he met a man^who culled him ^comrade,^ Now, it^matters not where you go, to crowded^city, rolling prairi. . mill, mine or sea,^you ure sure to meet a ^comrade.^'^This is because that man ^put on tin-^road^ by a boss who fired him for be^^ing a Socialist Scattered the seed of Socialismalong every highway he^travi lied. And when he finally got^^located^ In some place he immediate^^ly started a ^local.^ Perhaps his new^boss also fired him. Very well. Cood^More seed sow n along other highways.^Also another ^local.^ Now there are^locals by the thousands. Think of It.^THOUSAND! at Socialists ill the^Fnited States. And Socialists just^everywhere. All around and all^about. In the cities, in the country,^in the mini's, in the woods, in the^ships at sea. In the churches; even In^the pulpits of some churches, in tin^mountains, in every inhabited part of^the Fnited States, and in every terrl-^tor, there ure Socialists. Two mil-^Mons of them^five hundred thou^^sand of them voters^fairly evenly^distributed throughout the country^in such a way as to cover the most^territory and do the most good, and^no effort to In. wasted. Thanks to^the bosses who made these early So^^cialists scatter to get a living. As I^believe I remurked before, the dobs^Is a fool^when he fights Socialism. TheSocialist vote multiplied by^fourteen In the last twelve years. Can^do it again In the next twelve years^Wi can do much more than that. We^can't help doing mure than that if we^try. And won't we try^ Now we^have something to work with, and a^base to work from. And we are going^to work. Once more. Think of It,^comrade. Thousands of locals. I did^not say thousands of people In the^Fnited States. I did not say thou^^sands of Socialists in the Fnited Stat. b. HutTHOUSAND! of socialist part) organizationin the Fnited States^THOUSAND! ov,i TWO THOU^^SAND THHIl KUNDRBD of them,^the national secretary reports. Will^the Socialist movement grow^ How^can It help growing^ We couldn't^stop It If we wanted to. Hesldes,we shall have help. The^fool boss will be busy. He may not^fire and blacklist as many Socialists^aa he did formerly, but lie will use^other methoilB equally foolish. Some^^where In this letter I want to say that^the boss Is a fool^and fools m v. r^learn. Having himself fulled to stop thegrowth of Socialism, the boss will^now take some of his good money^^next to his life, to him the) most^pr. clous thing in the world, and hire^others to fight Socialism and Social^^ists. Hewill hire otheis to lb- about you,^comrade. He will hire preachers to^curse you. Hi will hire college pro-^lessors to befuddle you. He will hir.^soldiers to shoot you. He will hire^policemen to club you. He will hire^spies to watch you. He will hire trait^^ors to betray you. lb will hir.- Judges^to jail you. Andyou will lick him and his w hole^bunch. For by being a capitalist he^digs his own grave, and by fighting So^^cialism he hastens his own funeral.^No flowers. The boss is a fool^if^he does not know enough to ^make^^money. Tlnre are, however, two important^things we must attend to ourselves,^comrade. The boss will not do tin in^for us. We must get the Socialist^voters to become members of the So^^cialist party. And we must maintain^the Socialist press by getting sub^^scribers to the Socialist papers. HlgHill Haywood knows tin-^Ileast Capitalism, and he always kocs^armed. He caries two guns^one in^each hip pocket. One is a card of^membership in his trade union, and^the other is his card of membership^in the Socialist party. Those are the^proper weapons for a working man.^Hut it is not enough for you and I to^have those weapons, comrade. \\v^want the whole working . lass to in^^armed likewise. We must carry a^little extra ammunition for our arms.^So be sure j on always haw in your^pocket a few application blanks to^pri sent to those Socialist vm. rs who^have not V^( joined the parti'. We^need them and their service and their^comradeship. Also be sur.- that you^never overlook an opportunity to get^a subscriber to a Socialist paper.^The Socialist presa and the Socialist^organization^they nr. tin- forces^that are going to bring it to pass that^we shall have ^Socialism in our time. Andth. boss will help. As I said,^the boss is a fool. More povv. r to his^crooked elbow. MmBOLD FRIEND! Youcan't change human nature. Oh.yes you can. Human nature,^like i very oth.-r product, is the result^of its environment. As the environ^^ment has changed through all the ages^human nature has changed. Change^to a better environment and you'll^have a better human nature Socialismwill break up the^home. Ifbroki n honu s show that a sys^^tem should be repudiated it is time^that the present one should be repudi^^ated and Socialism given a trial. Socialismwill abolish religion.^^Science is the only thing that can^abolish religion, and that began long^ago. while Socialicm is not yet. Socialismmeans that the worthy^man shall divide up his wealth with^the lazy and thriftless.^^a la Koogc-^Velt. Thatis exactly the program now;^the useful worker divides all he pro^^duces with the rich loafer. Fnder^Socialism the loafer would never get^the product In the first place. He^would do his share of work or starve. Socialismwould destroy private^, prop, rty. OnlyIn the means of production^^the enormous gnat machines. It^would esiitldish and prov Ide private^propi rty for everyone w ho produced^It^In the things needed for the com^^fort and pleasure of life. FnderSocialism we would own all^things In common. Notyour tooth brush or your gloves^or your hat or your violin, or anything^that filled a pb asure or a in cessity by^its personal nature. The gnat In^^dustries to be sure would 1wned In commonthat all might be benefited^by their use. Allindividuality would be des^^troyed. Allindividuality is destroyed today^for the mass. See how much alike^the farmers are, or the factory work^^ers^in fact, the great mass af work^^ers cv crywherc. They have never hud^u chance to develop their individual^faculties. Socialism by systematizing^industry would give leisure for all to^develop their Individual abilities to^the utmost. Socialismbelieves In free love. Nolove that Is bonded ami enslaved^is a lit blossom of the human heart.^Fnder economic freedom you could^never be anything else but free and^spontaneous, but that does not mean to be loose. It is the free lust Of capitalismthat fills th.- soul with hor^^ror. Motherswill not have charge of^their own children. Intortiinately that is tin condition^that prevails in capitalist society to^^day. Mothers are forced to go to^work and leave their children to be^brought up by strangers; or they are^overworked in their homes and the^children run the streets. The women^of wealth and fashion leave their^I children to the care of others entirely^while they pass their lives In the guy^whirl of display. Fnder Socialism^motherhood would have a chance to^perform its natural functions. l\Solomon, state secretary of New^York, reports J. J. Conway, business^ugent of the Brotherhood of Pulnb-rs^of Troy, and until recently organizer^of Local Troy, expelled for violation of^his party pledge and electioneering^and voting ofr candidates of the demo^^cratic party. Theofficial report of the Socialist^vote In New Mexico for member of^congress shows 1,156 as against l$2^in 1904. i