The Olack Sheep. 1 tr4or (Continuation of Chapter XL.) As for the letters they couM hardly be called love letters. They had more the character of essays on scientific social, economic, and industrial ques tions. They were entirely devoid of any personal history or of any person al aspirations whatsoever. This puz zled the man of business greatly. He was wont to tell Olive that the boy's letters were as good as a magazine article, but that he wished they would contain more f his personal history. "What I would like to know," he would say, "Is how he makes his living. How he is employ ed. He must have a source of income for even the most saintly among us need money. It is a "necessary evil", but we must have it. I wish you would find out just what his income is, and where from. Tt would help us to get a better insight into his real character than anything else." Instinctively Gus Anderson associat ed character and income, yet he dis cussed it all so reasonably, so impart ially tliat he won his daughter's en tire confidence. She agreed that she would write and ask the boy the de sired questions. This she did just before leaving her native village for the sunny clime of the city at the foot of the rockies. Her uncle, a prosperous farmer and bee keeper, lived a little to the east of the town of Boulder, and it was here, that shortly after her arrival she made the aeqainance of a coup le of young men, students at the Co lorado University School of Mines, wbo were spending their vacation on her uncle's ranch. These young meu were not radicals in the sense that .Tack nnd Collins were radicals. They did however, have advanced ideas concerning labor organizations, and kindred subjects. It was now tbit Olive became busy arguing politics and economies, from her entirely un trained view point and naturally oc cassioially getting the worst of it. but her defeats were only temporary. Every evening before she retired she would write to Jack and tell him of all her problems, and the way the college men stated theirs. And at the other end of the line, Jack was ans wering her many questions with the more than willing co-operation of Ed. Collins. In fact Collins wrote quite as much of the letters as did the boy. In fact he was the more seriously in love with her for he was several years Jack's Senior, and while out wordly rough and unsympathetic he was, inwardly of on affectionate nature. He admired beauty in woman kind, but more than that, did he re vere intellect, and it was becoming ever more evident from Olive's letters, that she possesed intellect in no small degree. Then, Collins admired that peculiar type of intellect that dwells on the problems of social life, and that was pre-eminently hers. So it was, that the big man was often more anxious to hear from the girl ,Tek H lost no op portunity to enclose a little note in the boy's letters when ever he was invited to do so. In these he expressed his personal view of some particularly knotty social problems. These notes were always well word ed, and to point; they could not help but impress the girl, and cause her to form the habit of writing separate notes to him, which finally developed into separate letters. CHAP. XLI. Her first Socialist Meeting. In less then a week after her ar rival at her uncle's ranch, Olive was casting about for a local socialist, from whom she might learn just how the cult operated, and what they hoped to accomplish for the present generation. With all the impetuosity of youth, she sought for any way to make an end of this world's ingrained injustice, by the sheer force of her own idealism. Like every new convert to the faith of the Co operative Com monwealth, she was convenced that she hnd made n great discovery, nnd that all that was, now needed, wai but to go out and tell it to the toiling masses. These she reasoned would not hestitate to receive the word, and go to work at the recon struction of society. Her failure to impress the preacher, and the editor, and her father for ity and devotion had much in it, that was akin to the religious in the most exalted meaning of the variously in terpreted word. He was one of these men who are so filled with a sense of the absolute importance of their ideas that they talk them in season and out of season, to any one who is willing to listen and to many who are not willing to listen, until they are looked upon at best as a harm less nuisance, and at the worse, as a manace to the peace of mind of the community. Such a man was Collin wood. It was said of him that if he had a client befor a jury, he would first try to make socialists out of the twelf goodnien and true, before he would argue the case for his client, iu consequence of which he had to raise bees in order to keep his home tires burning. Consequently he had but few friends and many enemies and near enemies. His friends he loved and his enemies he propagan dised, which they considered as being worse, then if he hated them. That Olive Anderson should admire such an individual was a forgone con clnssion. And that Collinwood would tell her all. and more then he knew about socialism was equally certain. For Collingwood was nothine if not well read in the literature of the class struggle and its allied subjects. He also possessed of an extraordinary imagination, which he needlessly em ployed in his recital of the crimes of the rich. For weeks, "The Appeal To Reas on", had carried the announcement that on a certain day, Eugene V. Debs was to speak in Denver, in be half of the imprisoned labor leaders at Boise. And Olive Anderson had eagerly awaited that day. But when she told her aunt and "uncle of her intentions to go to Denver and hear the speaker, they very naturally raised a storm of protest. They went so far as to wire to Olives "mother for instructions in the matter, the result of which might will be imag ined. But their efforts were in vain. Olive had decided to go. And the went. After which her uncle decided to mention the matter no farther, hoping that one political speech would be enough to satisfy her curiosity. . It was on her trip from Boulder to Denver, that she met Peter Collin wood. He wa: at the station giving out "Appeal to Reason ". and an nouncements of the Debs meeting, to passengers boarding the Denver train. He was very thorough in his work, for altho Olive was to all appearances just a slip of a girl in the midst of the giddy age, he did not neglect her but. handed her the paper and hand bill, with a verbal request that she so and hear the speaker while in Denver. Olive was delighted to meet this apostle of discontent. She told him, : . 1 ti .1 . iiiin u was 10 near ueus. mat she was going to Denver. To which Col linwood replied: "two of us, by hookey, two of us!" The train started on its way, Col linwood and Olive occupying the same seat, her cousin, jive year her senior, sat on the opposite side of the train a veritable picture of disapproval. She cordially hated the lawyer for no other reason than that her father hated him. And her father hated bini for the reason that he considered the lawyer a fool but every time he tried to prove him so, Collinwood would have the best of the argument. Now Olive was conversing with this man and using a language which her cousin did not even comprehend. For they spoke of Social evolution, of workingclass supremacy, of industrial solidarity, of capitalistic decadence, with an ease that entirely baffled the middle-class minded girl who was to guard Olive from harm. The trip to Denver was a feast to Olive Anderson. For the lawyer told her much of the life history of America's greatest workingclass ora tor and also much of the inside of the present labor troubles, which worn now culminating in the possible death of three of the leading man in the Western Federation The two hours during which the train made its way from Boulder to Denver passed by almost un noticed, and now they were in Denver. That evening she found herself among the mass crowd that gathered nt the auditorium to hear the great apostle of freedom, but more to voice their protest through him, against the illegal I'Urbiirities of the mine owners of Colorado. It was a wonderful gath ering. The very air seemed to be charged with an electric force. Olive felt as if she were swept along by the love he felt for all mankind. There was mystic music in his voice; it ranged from plaintive calling to thundering command. It called to the deepest springs of human emotion, breathing now low and tenderness, and again storming the ramparts of crime and averice with a deluge of scorn and hate. For hate is but the antith eses of love. Debs loved his people with a divine passion, and hence he assailed their oppressors with a hatred born of love. She listened with a deep religious devotion, to his every word. He con vinced her that socialism was defi nitlv the hope of the ages, and the final goal of all our striving. Toe age old class war was but the path of man's redemption from bondage. The squares of squalor and miles of mi sery with which the fair face of ci vilization was defaced was but the debris on the tide of battle. The battle could not end but in victory for the ever increasing masses of ex propriated toilers. His scientific ex planations were lost to her in the sweeping splendor of his emotional appeal-drunk with the power of Ma 1 The Ex-service Mens International By A. E. General Secretary, Slander, K'utional Union of imagery, she would have done any thing, 'suffered anything, even to a martyre death, if he had but given the command. Such is often the power of the orator when the physical cir cumstances that give rise to his ap peal directly affect the interest of great bodies of people.. Lacking this element the voice of the speaker, no matter how clearly used, is little more brass and a tinkling vmble. "If thev kill these men, they will do it over my bleeding corpse, Debs thundered his tall figure vibrant with emotion. It was a defiance to the verv strongholds of the estab lished order. There was no one in the audience, but who knew that this was for his convictions and in that hall no idle threat. Debs would have died for his convictions nnd in that hall were hundreds of men and women who at that moment would have considered it glory to follow him. True these words were wild. In calm judgement they would not have been spoken. They were not applauded when they were spoken. The import was to serious. Yet who can say, that these words did not at least have as much affect on the final issue of the trial than Darrow's flaming oration tn tlio inrv. But all this is beside the issue. Debs was willing to give his life as a sacrifice to his cause, ana in this he at least inspired one, to pour out upon the altar of industrial li berty the last full measure of devo- t inn Debs spoke at great length, but Olive was not conscious of time. Sh.i wished that he would go on forever. Tn fact, she was hardly aware that he had begun to speak, when he closed. That nlffht she and her cousin went to a hotel. She jubilant and her cousin disgusted. She wanted to discuss im speaker's soul wispering message witli ma one. and naturally her compan ion was the victim. But when sue asked her cousin, what she thought of the speech Olive was painfully sur prised when she informed her that she had paid no auei iiou iu w low. After which she Tead Olive a lecture on heT unladylike conduct, which she averred was the result, of being raised in a small town. Ana moose is about half the size of Boul der. She gave her to understand that she was not interested in politics or in labor problems. She considered these subjects unladylike and vulgar. Women ought not to take part in man's affairs. Tt was natural for man to govern. You see, the Bible does nnt tell of any ladv Gods! It soon become evident to Olive's mind that it was useless to reason with the unreasonable. Discontinuing the conversation, she went to bed, where in imagination she talked the whole matter over with .Jack, fine was sure that he would have understood all thnt Debs had said, and that he would have sympathized with the great ob ject to be attained. She remembered that ho had told her, that only thru sacrifice could the race be redeemed from bondage. The next morning she and her cousin quarelled with the result that this guardian angel flew back to Boulder, while Olive sought out the socialist headquarters, where to her British Ex-8fervice Men. A conference hall just been held at Geneva which mafe prove to have started one of thelmost significant and one of the mostlimportant move ments of our age. It Wra conference of ex-service me, of ex-service men from Britain, Garinapy, France, Italy, and several other .Countries; a con ference of those Ml tWgh the years of war had been fjgl'-ing each other at the belief of th ir masters and who resolved the ( s.ich a state of things should ot Henri Barbussc Fire ' ' presided. gave the key to tl "Once more we c he said, "we who another in bell." on to declare thafl the ex-soldiers of their first essenti their brotherhoodJ of slaughter, the emerged, looked eyes, and recoi brothers. The governmei war the goven Europe, respondinl the financial inf each other acrossa tionB. The civilij some of the mcai they had for cacl continued. But tl tually engaged, hi of them in every. each other the hi Doe j this seei seem inconsistent' while the governi the civilian peopl never again". thor of "Under opening address 'whole proceedings. ,rtt one another," ive confronted one nt then he went that conference returned "to ief, belief in After five years viving combatants ch other in ihe each other as which made the bureaucracies of the pressure of still glare at intiers of the na- peoples still bear lid futile hate that Iher while the war who are ae- ireds of thousands hid, stretch out to of fellowship. Jtranget Does it ISnrelv not . For ats and most of thought of each other as enemies, whe fighting men, even while fighting! knew no enduring hate. They were all alike in the grip of the war-machine, and each one knew that the "fellow opposite" was as helpless as himself. At home the British peoples cursed the Germans, and the German people cursed the people of this land But in the fighting line British and German troops alike only cursed the war. Now the war is over and the ex soldiers of the world are determined that, if it be within the power of mortal men to do, they will make it impossible for war to come again. They dread the thought of their children having to pans through the hell that they themselves have been dragged through jlujUf thfcvjast f8 years. During the war they cursed the war. But now they realize that that is not enough. They understand that it is too late to damn the swirling, seething torrent when it is rushing headlong to the falls. They recognize that if they would stop war, they must stop it at its source. The Ex-Service Men's International was not intended to consist only of labor and socialist organizations. Yet every national body of ex-service men which sent delegates to Geneva, sent them with the same thoughts to ex press. Capitalism, they all agreed, is the ultimate cause of all modern war. The roots of war, they said, are to be found in the capitalist system, and the only way to end war is to tear it up by its roots, to abolish capital ism the wide world over. The first act of the congress was therefore to pledge the ex-service men who were represented there British, German, French, Austrian. Russian, Italian, Belgian, Rumanian, Swiss to pledge them all to work together to abolish the capitalist and compe titive system, and to strive to estab lish a world-wide cooperative form of society. But then arose some difference of opinion. The Italians and some of the French delegates expressed the view that the matter should be left there. "Let us concentrate upon this one thing," they said; "let us consider only how we ex-Service men may help to destroy the capitalist system." The British and some German de legates were of a different mind. Al though they held that the only way to abolish war was to abolish capi talism, and although they were al ready pledged to do their utmost to accomplish this, yet they urged that it was possible, even while capitalism continued, to render the making of wars more difficult, to diminish the chances of war They declared that they must do something immediately; that they could not afford to wait until capitalism was abolished in every country in the world, without taking some precautionary measures in the meantime. Eventually the conference accepted "this view, though the Italians insisted that, for them at any rate, it would mean waste of time and effort. "The Revolution", they said, "is so near at hand in Italy that we can con sider nothing else." The British delegates submitted that the ex-service men should help to abolish secret diplomacy (and espe cially the power of the foreign of fices to commit the peoples to po tential war behind their backs and without their knowledge); work for the abolition of armaments every where; to spread anti-war propaganda amongst the civilian people, and especially amongst the children; and endeavor to bring about the general use of au international language, Esperanto. The conference passed unanimously a resolution of the British delegates condemning the League of Nations as "a league of capitalist governments of the conquerors." Skygac's Column American Legion to be the sole judge of what is and what is not "sound principles". Lincoln did not use such qualifying phraBes. He said "t. nation can not exist half -slave and half free". RUMINATIONS OF A REBEL By Tom Clifford. Democracy as she is mocked was well exemlified at the Repubocrat con vention. Yox Populi, THE people, were allowed to play at selecting the popular choice, then Big Biz steps in and tells them who is who and what is what, and the dark horse cometb out. Now comes the popular farce of manufacturing popularity for the nom inees of big business. The man on the porch sounds all fine and dandy, but there must be fine lines running from that front porch to wall street, or the man on the porch would not have a chance to pose as the people's choice. Paul La Fargue the witty French man, described a similar situation in the following words: "Now comes the politicians with tears in their eyes and gold in their voices, and the longeared populace shout in frenzied ehtrarns, 'Hooray, Hooray', than will start the great farce, the theft of a nation's goods." Why did the A. F. of L. hold its convention in Canada T The best guess is that it was held in Canada so the delegates could have the privelege of freedom of speech so they might ex press their honest opinions without interference from the U. S. department of (ln)justice. IIS The A. F. of L. wants government ownership of railroads "democratical ly managed" but don't want soviet ism. Reminds me of the man who was hungry but did not want to cat. If some one should suddenly ask the A. F. of L what-the-ell it DID want, wouldn 't thev hear a lot of stuttering and stammering? Trotsky has again been murdered for the eigth or eighteenth time. That fellow has more lives than is accredi ted to a torn cat. The bolsheviks have but a shadow of an army says the W. G. N. Beati) all tho how strong some shadows are! Bolshevism has failed, says the cur rent magazines. Why didn't they print all tho sentence t Bolshevism has failed to frighten the common people! People are like dough; if they have the yeast in them they will rise. But even dough has to have a favorable environment or it will not let the yeast work. Now cometh Hearst with a renewal of the yellow peril, telling us that the white race is doomed that the yellow race will win in the struggle for supremacy. If it does it will be be cause Capitalism has sapped the vital ity from the great majority of the white race. The ercat menace is in the in dustrial relationship, not in racial de velopment. The moulder of public opinion wields a greater influence than the maker of much money, yet allow much money to control the forces which mould public opinion that is a part of our 100Americanism. Palmer has hushed the voice of the' leaders, now he must listen to the voice of the pack! The K. C. paper printed a picture of Stedman kissing Debs at the At lanta Pen. A correspondent writes that the picture reminded him of an other famous kiss in the Garden of Gesthemane where one Judas kissed (and betrayed) his Friend. s The pulpit pounders make much of a "strong moral and religious sense." For mine, I'll take just common or dinary common sense. There is not the slightest danger$ganization of patriotic societies receive that the railway corporations will re ject the wage award of the Railroad Labor Board, for the moderate id crease granted the workers is prac tically of no concern to the employers, since the earnings are guaranteed by 1 the covernment. :ind the increased delight she met Peter Collinwood and . f or.el.ation .; iml be 11 - 1 T 1111 M maaH int. a. "I :X n , Tr who to the public, of which the rail about twenty minutes of his busy time in conversation with her, after which she was introduced to the sec retary of local Denver who enrolled her in the Socialist Party, and gave her the little red card, she treasured to her dying day. that matter, she nscribed to the fa-t 1 tujs, .r mystic power. Then that they were not strictly workers. ( was a stillness in the grent hall that as Jack had defined workers. It wis to their interest to oppose anything that worked against their customary source of income, ner failure to im press the few working people she had talked to, she attributed to the fact that she bad not read enough copies of "The Appeal To Reason." But now all would be different. She had read not only papers but books as well, and what she had not under stood, Jack and Collins had made clear. All that was needed now was to got busy in an organized way. and the citadels of evil would fall, and the temples of Justice arise, at the onward march of the victorious Pro k-tnriat She asked one of the students who was vacationing with her uncle, if he happened to know an honest to God socialist in that neighborhood, nnd he informed her, that there was one in town, who was "plum dippy" on the subject. The man in question was PttM 1 idlingwooil, who oscilntcd bi ck and fortli hetween the practice of Law, and bis hives of bees, in the struggle for existence, but who was hIwmv f irmly anchored in his political faith. It is almost sacrilege to call this man's faith in the ultimate triumph Of the lowly, political, for his aincer eoi'ld only be likened to the stillness that sometimes precedes a storm. Thrre were the usual tiresome preliminaries which one has to en dure at all socialist meetings. They are the usual cause of a small attendance, nt many meetings, but when Debs is to speak, anvthing can be endured, for he is in this respect an all com , tnus jogo more outgoing than in nensanng power, .-nui mis wh.i wine first meeting and all of this prelimi nary work which usually is the fin More Going than Coming Figures just compiled by the Im migration officials at Ellis Island show that 334,254 aliens hnve left this country through the Port of Now York in the year ending June 3011. The number of incoming aliens in the same period was 314,468. There were Dr. Freye at a Methodist camp meeting classed the Republican party platform with the ten commandmonts and the American constitution. Here is the way he was quoted in the P. P.; "There are only three great doc uments in the world today, and they are the decalogue, the constitution of the U. S. and the platform of the Republican party." But then I told you at the start that he was a minister! ' The same brilliant mind informs an p.nxiously awaiting world that, "if Cox is elected in November, Hinky Dink will run the country." , A stevedore told me the other day that "the company was damn careful of the trucks and if the company was as careful to see that men did not get broke as they were about the trucks it would be a greaaat world." Henriettta informed me the other day that the landlord observed that nenry was working overtime and straightaway raised the rent, and one of Henrietta's sisters told me their rent was raised immediately after her Henry had bought himself a new suit. My what is the world coming tot From the amount of propaganda put out by the master-class against bol shevism one would almost infer that the world was coming to its senses. '" Bela Kuhn of the former worker's republic of Hungary is reported to have escaped to Russia. This is doing well as the Vy P. had him dead and buried a year ago. Now he is much alive, and to quote the P. P. "un punished for bis crimes and atro cities". Capitalism commits no crimes! Politicians tell us l,hat the workers are poor because they don't use their heads. When they do use their heads the workers arc jailed on a conspiracy charge. - --- . - T" Free open air movies for a whole week in our town. Who paid the bill! Why the fellows that expected to BENEFIT from the performance of course. The master-class fathered the scheme and paid the bills. The work ing class learned (or had a chance to learn) that Abraham Lincoln was a great man who started in life "poor but honest" and was against tho workingclass and FOR property. Poor honest old Abe! What crimes and atrocities are committed in his name. Well its all off. From the advor- "LIK A MIGHTY ARMY' ' We glean the following from "Cur- i. a.. : j ) t T..1 . . . . : -1. : li rem wiiiiiiuu lur wuiy, iiiiiimiiu m i ,. . , rood enough to pass along. Tt at least I I8 8 K? fe l1! Affltf uncial part of the enterprise, inter sled her, only as part of the battle tactics of a grent cause. That a noted speaker should lie preceded by a book auction was to her an unheard of proceeding, but she could understand Hint the purpose was to get the lite rature before the public, which of course wns a wise and necessary part of the great struggle. At last the speaker enmc upon the stage, nnd then pandimonium broke louse. Such I'hceri Dfl and applauding Olive never heard. Involuntarily she took part, clapping her hands and stanmpiiiK lur feet, and even giving vocal vent U her emotions, to the positive disgust of her cousin, wh wai pB.ving attention to nothing but Olive, while Olive was paying atten tlon to everything but her cousin. After an ovation that lasted several minutes silence was again restored and Debs began his speech. As- he stood there, tall, slender, sllghtlv bont as If with the sorrow of a world coming aliens during the year. Reports reaching here from the So viet Ukraluia tell of the opening of a Soviet Congress at which the dole gates reaffirmed their loyalty to the Soviet ideal and took pains to cm phasir.p the fact that Soviet Ukraini.i was aiding Soviet Russia in fighting back the Invading Poles. C. Rakovsky, chnirman of the Council of People's Commissioners of the Ukraine, in re porting on the activities of what body, said that 14,000,000 hectares (about M,000,000 acres) of farming land had been taken away from the agrarians and turned over to tho piasants for use. Hi also reported that the miners of the Donct Basin had produced a remarkably large amount of coal de- way workers constitute a part. This is frankly allowed by both the Labor Board and the capitalist press. The cost will be covered by increased freight rates and the "bnck" will be passed down the line to the consum ers, which means another increase in the cost of living. Could anything be more vicious or idiotic than such a program t It mnst be patent ,to the most superficial thinker that no ma terial relief to the working class as a wholo is involved in this award, f( wbntever benefits accrue to the rail way workers must be paid for by the remainder of the working class. The Labor Board could hnve manifested still greater generosity without inter fering in the cost with the interests of the transportation 'mangnates, but that would have entailed an augmen tation of the burden to be borne by the public, which might precipitate a revolt. Robbing Petor to pay Paul and keeping tho workers ignorant of I take the bit in their teeth. Confronted the chicanery is now. the only recourse by grim necessity no other course will left to the bourgeoisie to postpono tho I be tenable. but passing notice from the masses, who are now only concerned about their material prospects. There is a prevalent expectancy of the break down of industry in the near future, and a feeling of uncertainty is grip ping the masses and compelling serious thought. They can give no reason other than that they "feel it com ing". Tho capitalist press is scrup ulously refraining from giving pub licity to events transpiring in indust ry which arc portcntious of an ap proaching industrial depression that will divorce millions of workers from their jobs nnd in turn rock capital ism to its very foundations. Already multitudes of workers have been given "vacations" through partial shut downs in industry, information of which can only be gleaned from the sufferinc workers themselves. This widespread pessimism is purely psy chological at present owing to the ab sence of positive knowledge, but when the facts become public property the workers will be compelled to reeognuo their desperate condition nnd take drastic action. Whether such action will be governed by intelligence or merely resolve into a riot of despera tion remains to be seen. At any rate thev will have to face the music and shows one sky pilot who got his eyes open about war. Who knows he may next get his eyes open to the church? Current Opinon's comment is as follows. "It will be a lone time be fore the poison of monarch ism militarism has been squczed out of tho hymnbook. The world has thought so long' in the brutal terms of tho past that it will be hard to get over it. The Reverend J. H. Hopkinson of England recently said; "We have learned that war is not a matter of fluttering banners nnd clashing swords and beating drums, but merely a sickening and dirty butchery of lads m water logged or flyinfested trench es. "We shall be less ready than we were to compare the movement of the church to that of a victorius army, nynms that we could sing unthinking ly before the war have become a lying blnsphemy. Who could now sing, "Like a Mighty Armv Moves the Church of Go.lt" ' Of Bolsheviki Russin is a nation of fanatical drenmers and wild-eyed theorists, but they hnve compulsory labor and compulsory education and with those two compulsions in force it will not be long until the whole world will have to hustle to catch up to backward Russia. Press reports that U. S. is now to allow trade with Russin. We won't inevitable breakdowr of the capitalist system. It is tho on y method of pro cedure left them, aid its continuance is limited to tho t me it takes the masses to get nn iniolligent grasp v the situation. Then there will be something doing. j In the face of acjita economic cod ditions, constantly growing worse, the hysteria of tho war iperiod is rapidly disappearing in spite of the efforts of the bourgeoisie to kop" it alive. When confronted by the basic problem of living emotional ' I patriot ism" is bent as tr with lae sorrow or a worm. - - , She felt thaa mankind only echoedl,Pl,,' the l'cu1tiei due to the war. forced into the background. The or that unless the Christian Soviet better known as the Tnterchurch World move ment was supported, the world would go to the demonition bow-wows and "the bolsheviks would get us" sure, and now tho papers report the flat and complete failure of that T. W. M. drive. Skygac was an interested onlooker at the third party convention. It wns the largest aggregation of nuts he ever saw all under one cover. Ono could not help but notice how closely the convention resembled an S. P. convention of ten years ago. Did you know that we produced one new millionaire for every, three American boys killed in France during the war period Did you know that See More (see more what?) Stedman had been com missioned by the S. P. to render his services as a practicing attorney in the capitalist courts to get possession of the Detroit House of the Masses awny from the educational club which owns it and turn it over to tho re actionary S. P.t Did you know that the dictatorship of the capitalist will continue until it is sot aside by a stronger dictator ship the dictatorship of tho prolot A lot of intellectuals of the Politico- recognize them politically but we will ' anarchist-socialist variety are just recognize them industrially. Now who wukhik up m me incr inai ineir pnr said political action wns superior to industrial action? Franklin D'Olier, National Corn mnniler of the American legion in bis Fourth of July messnge, as pub lished on the cover of the Legion Weakly says, " that the flag shall . 1 11 1 ni in In f" Iv fivnr n nntmn Hint !u lation? Manifestly one of watching and i,iroti, fr0P to n men of sound prin' wniting while the revolutionary forces . eiples". Yon sec, why it is not "in gather with a view to directing them ' d I" "free to all men" but free to all men OK SOI'Mi PRI NCI PL MS. And what will be the duty of com munist forces in that hour of tribu- with the National Commander and the gather with a view tn directing into peaceful chnnnels, if possible. Those who hnve hitherto paid no hoed to our economic predictions will then turn to us for inspiration because thev ism goes on the rocks. We will have will have no other port in the storm. 1 to take control of the wreck, and out Wo should hasten to marshal our forces of the chaos that for a tlmo will lortradicalism fitteth nowhere in the scheme of things which the logic of economic evolution is bringing in, Emma Goldman did not like tho dic tatorship of the bourgeoisie here and over in Russia she is reported to like the dictatorship of the proletairo cvon less. If she goes to heaven she faces the prospect of the dictatorship of tho benvonly king and if she goes to boll there is the autocrat of tho horns and ipparhcnd tnil. Boohoo. Ain't it a eold and cruel world f Emma isn't alone in her dilemna. for the great work that is before us. We are tho only section of society that can offer a rational and scientif ic method of procedure when capital ensue build up an industrial republic, 'ihe task will be a stupendous one, for wc will have to handle millions of workers and reshape their currents of thought and conceptions of life. We must be equal to tho task, howovor arduous, for tho preservation of so ciety will depend upon the wisdom we manifest during the period of so cial transition. Will wc be equal to the occssion. 1 think we will.