WHY WE MOURN
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We socialists mourn lor the slain
president, not only because a cruel
.murder was committed, but because
it might have been prevented!
We, mourn not alone lor Mrs. Me-
Kinlcy, but for the countless other
women made widows unnecessarily.
We are horrified by Czolgosz' deed
and by the murders and suicides that
arc recounted in every morning paper.
We grieve over the terrible anarchist
spirit revealed by the Buffalo tragedy
and by the hysterical capitalist press
and pulpit crying out lor lynch law
and vigilance committees.
We look abroad over the civilized
world and behold one vast graveyard
filled with the victims of this awful
system. McKinley and Czolgosz arc
alike its product.
The most ominous sign of the day
is the obstinate refusal of the capital
ist leaders is to consider causes. The
only talk heard now in all these ora
tions and editorals is of repressive
measures. .It is the quack treatment
of the symptoms instead of the causes
of disease. Such a method is both un
scientific and dangerous. It is un
worthy of reasoning men and will
only nourish fresh disaster. We say,
remove the injustice which underlies
modern society like a modern earth
quake, and you only tell us fiercely,
"Away with you, your teaching is a
stepping stone to anarchy."
Brothers, do you not understand,
can you not understand, will you not
understand, that never yet in the his
tory of our kind, could freedom .of
thought and criticism of injustice be
so suppressed ? We must speak and
we shall speak, on your behalf, and
our own behalf and on behalf of all
the opposed and enslaved of capital
ism.
In these days of universal expres
sion of grief and horror, we socialists
arc bound down as no others can be
because we see so much more than
the unthinking and hysterical mass.
To us modern civilization is one un
ceasing tradgedyy which might ret be
turned, as by a magician's wand, into
one glorious day of peace and plenty.
—Socialist, (Seattle.)
PLATFORM SO- Adod at
Indianapolis
CIALIST PARTY July 31,19.1
The socialist party, in national conven
tion assembled, reaffirms its adherence to
the principles of international socialism, and
declares Its aim to be the organization of
the working class, and those In sympathy
with it. Into a political party, with the object
of conquering the powers of government ami
using them for the purpose of transforming
tho present system of private ownership of
the means of production and distribution
into collective ownership by the entire peo-
P 'Formerly the tools of proeluction were
Formerly the tools of production were
simple and owned by the individual worker.
Today the machine, which Is an improved
mill more developed tool of production, Is
owned by the capitalists and not by the
workers.' This ownership enables the capi
talists to control the product and keep the
workers dependent upon them.
Private ownership of the means of pro
duction and distribution Is responsible for
the ever Increasing uncertainty of liveli
hood and poverty and misery of the work
ing class, and II divides society In two hos
}"],. clas.es tl capitalists and wage
workers Th once powerful middle class
to rapidly disappearing in the mill of compe
tition. 'The struggle >- now between the
capitalist class and the working class. Th*
possession of the means of .livelihood gives
the capitalist the control of th government,
the press, the pulpit, the schools and enables
them to reduce the to a state of
Intellectual, physical and social in tor to
political subservience and virtual sla ~t >•*
1 The economic: Interests of the capita Ist
Class dominate our entire .»s_\£™&^
lives of the working class at. recklessly
sacrificed for profit wars are fomented be
tween nations, Indiscriminate Ulaughterus
encouraged and the '■■''''.„, caultal
raws Is sanctioned in order that the i »| ie»i
Uta may extend ther commercial dominion
aXd 0 enchance their supremacy at
h° Hut the same Domic causes which de
vol,.,' ■ Pitalismiu,
which will aboiish tatb theraplulwtclM.
higher order of society is the working class.
All other classes, despite their apparent or
actual eonflib '"• are alike Interested in the
upholding of th " system of private ownership
of the lostrumt nts '°' wealth production.
The democratic, republican, the bourgeois
public ownership parties, and all other par
ties which do not »tand for the complete
overthrow of the capita ", 8' system of pro
duction, are alike pofifc. wl representatives
of the capitalist class, . -':*'«''■
The workers can most 0,."6011^ 1^' act as
a class in their struggle again*. l tno collec
tive powers of capitalism, by 'OMtituting
themselves into a political party distinct
from and opposed to all parties fdr.me ° "$
the propertied classes.
While we declare that the developm«/ n|;
of economic conditions tend to the overthrow
of the capitalist system, we recognize that
the time and manner of the transition of so
cialism also depend upon the stage of de
velopment reached by the proletariat. We
therefore, consider it of the utmost import
ance for the socialist party to support all ac
tive efforts of the working class to better its
condition and to elect socialists to political
offices, in order to facilitate the attainment
of this end. ,
As such means we advocate:
1. The public ownership of all the
means of transportation and communication
and all other public utilities as well as of all
industries controlled by monopolies, trusts,
and combines. No part of the revenue of
such Industries to be applied to the reduc
tion of taxes on property of the capitalist
class, but to be- applied wholly to the in
crease of wages and shortening of the hours
of labor of the employes, to the Improve
ment of the service and diminishing of the
rates to the consumers.
2. The progressive reduction of the
hours of labor and the increase of wages in
order to decrease the share of the capital
ist and increase the share of the worker in
the product of labor.
3. State or national insurance of work
ing people In case of accidents, lack of em
ployment, sickness and want in old age: the
funds for this purpose to be furnished by the
government and to he administered under
the control of the working class.
4. The Inauguration of a system of pub
lic industries, public credit to' be used for
that purpose in order that to the workers be
secured the full product of their labor.
5. The education of all children up to
the age of 18 years, and state and muni
cipal aid for books, clothing and food.
8. Equal civil and political rights for
men and women.
7. The inltatlve and referendum, pro
portional representation and the right of re
call of representatives by their constituents.
lint in advocating these measures as
steps in the overthrov* of capitalism and the
establishment of the cooperative common
wealth, we warn the working class against
the so-called public ownership movement as
an attempt of the capitalist class to secure
government control of public utilities fortho
purpose of obtaining greater security In the
exploit of other industries and not for
the amelioration of the conditions of the
working class.
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