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SCOTT COUNTY KICKED Vol. XIV BENTON, MO., APRIL 17. 1915. No. 12. -V' THE ELECTIONS. There is very little significance to the elections in large cities, ex cept as It showH the general un rest nnd the ease by which the masses may be swayed from one capitalist party to Its twin brother. The only significant thing Is the growth of the Social ist vote, and this the capitalist news service either Ignores or twists. In Chicago, two years ago, Hnr rlson, Democrat, was elected mayor by about 80,000. Last week Thompson, Republican, wan elected mayor of Chicago by 140, 000 a change of 220,000 in two years. The fact is, the average old party voter doesn't know what he Is voting for, and uses his pre judices Instead of what might be intelligence If developed. Usually in these large cities the issue is "the lid," or 'a wide open town," or Bonie other nonsense that sets the masses to gabbling, but all of the time the real issue is the con trol or the city by its robber In tercuts behind both old parties. The only opposition to this is the Socialist party, and thiv landed two uldermen In Chicago. , Iu Milwaukee, four years ago, the Socialists won the city In a three-cornered fight. Hut there have been no more three-cornered fights in Milwaukee since. The Republicans and Democrats got together as "non-partisans." and the issue Is clear-cut between Capitalism and Socialism. Last week the Socialist gain In Mil waukee was about 5.C00 and they elected four of the five members of the school board and several city officials. There was no may or to elect. In St. Louis there was no So cialist gain. The Republicans swept the city by about 10,000. Kansas City elected a mayor who Is an advocate of municipal ownership. The Republicans carried nearly all the large cities of the count rj Just as the Democrats carried everything two years ngo. In their blind ignorance the voters just keep on jumping from the frying pan into the fire and back again. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, Thnt there is all the difference in the world in our courts be tween a capitalist and a work ingnmn Is too plain for even the blind not to see. The evidence or It appears almost every day in some section of the contry. A most glaring comparison comes from Wisconsin. A rich man named Pfister got judgment against the Milwaukee Free Press for 15.000 for libel. The paper appealed to the supreme court, and that court held that the rich man's feelings were hurt $15,000 worth and the paper had to pay, John Saradowskl, a working man, was an employe of a big corporation and was killed through carelessness of the com pany. He was not a common la borer, but earned about $100 a month. The Jury awarded his widow with three children $7.5 0. Rut the same supreme court that held $15,000 to be about right for hurting a rich man's feelings, held that $7,500 was "fatally ex cessive" for k illing a working man, and the case was sent back ior re-trlal. When the case was again tried the jury awarded the widow J8, O00. Again the corporation np pcalcd to mamma. Being in Wis consin where the Socialists arc making so much trouble mamma did not dare to again reverse the case and send It back for re-trlal So mamma lopped orf 12,500 or the widow's award and let it go at that. Hut even that is much better than might be expected or most courts. In most cases the widow gets nothing, while in other case she gets a Tew hundred dollars, which leaves very little after the expense is deducted. HOW "THE LAW" WORKS. Cleveland, April 6. The com plete backdown of the authorities of this city to collect taxes from John D. Rockefeller has come v, 1th the discharge by Gov. Willis of John D. Fackler and William Agnew, the deputy tax commit loueri who assessed Rockefello" on $311,000,000 worth or person al property. With the discharge of there men the injunction pro ceedings brought by Rockefeller have been dropped. The above dispatch tells of what happened to two tax col lectors who tried to make a rich man pay his share or the expense or government. They lost their jobs. It Is always so. The rich rule und the sucker who gets a job under a capitalist govern ment gets hfs pay stopped II he hasn't got sense enough to know that there is one law Tor the rich and another tor the poor. The papers have been telling us about this affair for a couple or years. First Rockefeller dodged the tax collectors. When they set out to collect by selling .the property as they do others, an In junction was secured. The outcome is that the tax collectors lost their Jobs and the injunction was dissolved. But we are all equal before the law. Don't forget . CAUGHT ON FIRST. He I'd no Idea you would "ac cept me the first time I proposed. She And did you think I would the second time? lieOh, there would have been no second time. Boston Tran script. Read the unmuzzled Kicker. IN BARBAROUS MEXICO. I pay very little attention to the war news, for there is so lit tle truth that arrears. I seldom rend more than tie heacl-llnes. and I guess I am about bb well "posted" bs they who read it nil. Most of the stu'f 's cooked up In the newspaper of'lces here. But the news rrom Mexico has been art'stlcally co'ored of late. I was deceived by It and, some weeks ago, praised Villa to the extent of printing his picture. A local priest was as much deceiv ed as myself, and scolded the the Kicker for It. Like myself, he did not know that Villa had ' made terms" with the Catholic party In Mexico, and that he now had the favor of Wall Street and the administration at Washing ton, D. C. - That Villa Is a great command er and a wonderful mnn there 1 no doubt. That be entered the revolution In good faith will not lte QUeetloned. But he Is human, ambitious and or very little or no education. For the latter he is not io blame. He was born In poverty a peon. In early man hood he killed an army officer who had betrayed bis s'ster, ami was for twenty yean n rugltivc In tho mountain! With a reward on bis bead. v hen the revolution broke out he eagerly Joined it at tho bead of a husky band or mountaineers. When the constltutlonlaeta had won Mexico and driven Heurtr out, they held a convention or generals to establish a provis ional government to serve until an election could be held. Secret Influencei rrom the United states had cunningly provided Villa with a shrewd press agent who was not only to boost Villa 'n the American newspapers, but was also to inriuence him against Car rania, the First Chier. When the convention had selected its pro visional government, vuia re volted, end Is now righting his former allies nnd hns the support of his former enemies. This conspiracy was hatched In the United States. Old Rockefel ler, Gugenheim, Hearst and oth ers who have plundered Mexico and want to continue to rob It. want 'our Interests" protected. That is why, or late, we read so much about ' Two Americans mur dered by Carranza troops," etc.. and explains why so many Car ranza shells and bullets are rail ing on this side or the border. It also explains why we have battle ships in Mexican waters and so many troops on the border. In ens? Villa should prove too weak, the capitalists ol the U. S. want "Watchrul Waiting' to butt In and crush Carranza. And ir thoy can work up public senti ment to stand for It, It will be done. In the Appeal to Reason J. Kenneth Turner, author of Bar barous Mexico, nnd who hns Just returned from withlng the Con stitutionalist ranks, accuses Pres ident Wilson or bad ralth and puts these questions: "Will President Wilson explain why, at one time, he suddenly changed his mind about recogniz ing Carranza, arter the papers had been drawn up, and why, af terwards, through his personal1 agents, he secretly abetted the rebellion or villa against carran za? Will Mr. Wilson deny that it was because ol a set or outra geous demands made upon Car-ran-.a through his personal agent. Edward Bayard Hale, which de mands Carranza turned down? " Will Mr. Wilson deny that among these demands was one for four coaling stations on Mexican territory? "Will Mr. Wilson deny that he secretly abetted Villa in his re bellion against Carranza, and that he is secretly aiding Villa today? "Will Mr. Wilson deny that the original reason why he 'aided Villa was that Villa agreed to meet the demands spurned by Carranza, including lour coaling stations on Mexicin soil? "Will Mr. Wilson deny that the basic reason why he is now on the verge ol a second Mexican invasion is that the Wall Street backers or Villa have beguu to despair oi Villa winning In a rnlr right, and are pressing upon Wil son cither to intervene in favor of Villa or to plant the American flag permanently over all the Mexicans?" Well, at least the convicts at Jeff. City have a job, even 'f the man who tries to be honest hasn't. The British government has just closed a contract for saddle trees with the men who profit from our barbarous prison contract labor system for saddle trees that will keep the prison factories going day and night for some time. After the Job is ott our hands and we have done our best in keeping up the slaughter in Europe, Gov. Major should piously and solemnly proclaln an other day or prayer. But let It be on Sunday. To stop for pray er on a week day would interfere with business. Let the Kicker give you a tip. The railroad rates are going to be raised. There is absolutely no reason for it, except that the railroads want more. And they know how to get It. The only thing In the way is public senti ment, and they are spending thousands of dollars among the newspapers to fix that. But who is to pay this increase? It will fall almost Wholly on the pros perous" farmer. He totes the load. Stick to the unmuzzled Kicker. GOVERNMENT SALOONS. Say, Mr. Reformer, do you know that your Uncle Sam is running 89 saloons In the city or Chicago? And K the government can run a saloon, can't It run a grocery store or butcher shop? Or a fac tory or mill or railroad? Well, your government docs take spells at running all these various Industries, unfortunate ly, however, under capitalism government is not given a fair show nnd do"-i not get into such business until arter their owners have railed. Several railroads are now in the hands ol receivers and are being operated by the gov ernment. But In Chicago a brewery failed and the federal court, for the government took charge. This brewery was operating 80 Joints ln Chicago th.it are now being operated by the government. Of course the .reformer may be shocked at this, 'although his gov ernment has been a partner of the saloons for 50 years. And if you spoke to him about letting the government control the li quor dispensaries Instead of the breweries nnd distillers, ho would be horrified. However, these SSI Chicago sa loons arc the only ones in that city obeying the law. The pres ent management have no Incent ive to break the law. In addition to Obeying ad other laws, the;, arc the only Chicago saluons to close on .Sundays. All of the parties in charge of these saloons are, appointed b Judge Landll, who represents the government, ah get their pay, Whether a saloon sells B quart or a barrel a day. There is no inducement Tor the opera tors to encourage drinking, or kvp open on Sundays, or Other wise violate the law. Yet you can noer get a bone headeu r eformer to see that it is the profit system that is responsi ble for the booze traffic. Change that, and your booze truffle will collapse over night. Who would opon a saloon to eell booze If there was no profit In so doing? And so long as there is profit in it, prohibition laws Will only fill the prisons with boot-leggers for tax-payers to feed. AMONG THE "HONS." Indianapolis, April 6. Mayor Donn M. Roberts, Terre Haute, and the 2d codefendants Iu the Terre Haute election corruption conspiracy trial were today found guilty In the United States District Court. The charge was that they had conspired to corrupt the election Nov. 3, 1914. Judge A. B. An derson will pronounce sentence. Judge Anderson Instructed th? 27 men found guilty today as well as the 89 who had plead guilty to go to their homes and to return to court April 12. when sentences will be pronounced on all. Terre Haute. Ind., April 10. City and county ofrieials convict ed in the United States court at Indianapolis ol election frauds ire oacK at tneir joos anu are ;oing to make a fight to bold them, in spite or their convictions even arter sentence is pronounced upon them next Monday, while their cases are pendlug In the United States circuit court or ap peals. The law is said clearly to provide that the rour convicted men holding elective orrices are automatically removed by con viction, or at least will be auto matically removed when sentence is pronounced upon them. These lour are Mayor' Donn M. Roberts. Circuit Judge Eli Redman, Sherifr Dennis Shea and city Judge Thorn as Smith. Judge Smith says he will not take an appeal. St. Louis, Mo., April 10 A. II Fredericks, who was elected list Tuesday as president or the St. Louis board or aldermen at the first election under the new char ter, has disappeared. Circuit Attorney Harvey will begin an investigation into the startling disclosures of business transactions involving the president-elect ot the board or alder men, with a view or laying the facts before a grand Jury. Mrs. Anna Weinheimer, au aged widow, appeared at the of fice of the recorder of deeds in the city hall and ascertained that a $3,500 deed of trust sold to her by Frederick had been releas ed aud was worthless. She alsu held another deed or trust for $4,000, which she bought from Frederick, and this also is be lieved to be worthless. AMONG THE "CHRISTIANS." Paris, April 10. German trench es so choked with dead the French troops were unuble to oo- cupy them and the woods full of dead and dyiug were described in official dispatches telling of the terrible battles now raging around St. Mlhiel. So frightful has become the loss of life In the savage attacks against the German position be tween St. Mlhiel and Pont a Mou so n and Eta In that military oper ations actually are being ham pered by the piles of dead bodies The battles are being waged with such fury that neither army has had time to go to the aid of its wounded, much less to bury the dead. The sides of the Combres Plateau and the Eparges region north of St. Mihlel are strewn with corpses. The solidarity of the laborers at the polls means the success of the cause of the workers. WHEN REUBEN WAKES UP, C. W. Ervln In Milwaukee Leader This Is a story of "patriotism" and "Rubens." It Is a true story, and the characters In it will do most of the telling. The time is Dec. 12, 1913. The place is the house, In Washington. The prin cipal character Is one Callaway, from Texas. It was Friday, and private cal endar day, "Sneering Day" would have been a better title for this particular day. Some private pension bills came up, and much hot air came out. In ract. so much that Gallawuy began to RMer at the "patriotic" bunk that was being ladled out for home consumption. One Towner, from Iowa, In talk Ing on a pr ivate pension bill, was so slushlngly "patriotic" that the man from Texas, seemingly for getful Tor the moment, that he WU! talking for publication, voic ed his disgust in what the writer considered the most remarkable speech ever made on the floor of congress. I he w hole story or how we are bunkd is container! in this short pcech. we wish it might be pos sible to put it in the rront of eve ry history of the United States used iu our public schools. It won't appear there, however, for the same reason that it did not appear in the capitalist press. . Rising in his place, Callaway 'said: Mr. Callaway: "I want to quote a little conversation tha" I had here when the Sherwood pension bill was up, because the members of the house are ever lastingly working off this pat riotic talk about these pension bills when the membere of the house really know that they are put through for the purpose of j purchasing votes." A Member: "Oh, that Is not so." Mr. Callaw ay : "1 heard some one grunt. (Laughter.) I want to repeat a conversation of nn old man who was for the pension bill; a wise old congressman win. had teen in this house it r 17 or 18 years, and a new man who was making a patriotic talk thut sounded very much like the speech made by the gentleman from Iowa, (Mr. Towner). "There were Just W e throe, and I was cussing the Sherwood pen sion bill. This old congressman said to the new man. 'Young man, you are doing a thing there that you ought not to do; that is lying to youreelf.' He said: l learned long ago that a man cat, not airord to do that. It destr oys his clearness or thought. It warps hU Judgment. It will of feet you so that you can not think straight. There is no use In lying to me and Callaway,' be says. 'You know we are not go ing to vote in your district, nnd you can not help this thing by making patriotic appeals to us.' And he said, "Iwant to advise you against lying to yourseir. I have done a great deal or lying in my time; I have always done my ly ing to the other fallow; I have not lied to myself. In order to keep my thinking apparatus working right, nnd I want to ad vise you not to lie to yourself.' (Laughter.! " 'Now,' he says, 'I am going to vote for the Sherwood bill, just as you are, and for the same reason.' And he says, 'Another bill Is coming in here this mill-tla-pay bill and when it. comes I am going to vote Tor that, ami you will, too. I am goin; to vote for this Sherwood pension bill be cause I am an old man and do not want to quit congress, and these old fellows are pretty well organized in my district, and 1 do not think 1 can bo elected without their vote, ami I do not know how to got it without Inly ing it, and I am a poor man ami not able to purchase it with my own money, and this is an oppor tuny to take money out of the federal treasury and buy it, and I am going to do it, and you are going to do that same thing, be cause you are built that way.' I said, "How long is this pur chasing business going to keep up?" He said. "It is going to keep up until Rube wakes up." I said, "Who is Rube?" He said, "He Is the rellow back at home that pays the taxes ami hns not got his hand in the red eral treasury." I said, "What Is the per cent of rubes compared to the other fel lows in this country'.'" He said, ' Oh, about 90 per cent rubes." I said, "Haven't you got more confidence in the 90 per' cent who are rubes than you have iu these interested fellows?" He said, " No, these interested fellows know exactly what they want, and they are organized and are ten times as active iu politics as rube is; and when one man is 10 times as active in politics as nine others that one man carries the election; and these fellows that know exactly what they want in this country, who have got their eye ou the indicator and are working at it in politics, have run the government or this country for 50 years, and I have got to obey their mandates till Rube wakes up, but I am praying that Rube will wake up, but I am not willing to risk my political life trying to wake him up.' " The women claim four million voters in the United States. That is pushing the cave people aside some. There are not many people who will do without the Kicker. PEOPLE FEAR CHANGE. Did you ever have a bad tooth that gave you pnln nlmost con stantly? If so, you know how long it took to make up your mind to seek relief. You were afraid of the dentist. You suffer ed the almost Intolerable pnln ami would try all sorts of quack remedies rather than do the Intel llgeut thing. I had such a tooth and sufrered ror rive years. When I would bite any 'solid substance with It. the pain was fearrul. But I put up with It, hoping against all reason that the thing would cure Itseir. I feared the dentist. One day I decided to have the tooth pulled, the dentist examin ed It and advised against pulling In about 15 minuted he killed the nerve nnd there was no pain Compared to what I had sufrered. The tooth has not hurt since. And the people are just as big fools about changing the indus trial and political system that is hurting them as I was about that tooth. At a single election they could overthrow the whole tvnH 0f a great nation i i tiie n barbarous system, but they rear j n(j. an"ed day of elvllltatlon, a change. How a change could I Th's Is not Impossible -t i possihly be for the worse 1 leave it visionary, it for them to explain. 1 cant. The nation ha! unlimited re They will suffer on and on. hop- sources. ing against all reason that their j ;iys the Encyclopedia Br I oppressors will tot ofl their Inlca, 'If the natura resources of backs. But they w ill not get off i th American continent w until thrown off. iy developed, it Would afford pu The maeees are afraid of Social-1 tenance to 8,600,000,000 inl l Ism liecuuso the press and pulpit I jtunts." or the ruling class thunder if this vast number were nil against it. Th:' masses do not placed In the state of Texas there understand that these retainers would be but -i to the acre, or capitalism do this to hold their I if Wo cut these figures In I o Jobs. It is an important part of I n the middle, they would stll the performance. Let any so-j make America capable of support called Christian minister' get up nz 1.800,000.000, which i- aOO, in his pulpit and plead the cause 000,000 more than the presi of the poor and oppressed as population of th" v or' 4 Christ did, and his overfed bish- t), no'.ution or the ..rohlt 'ii of op gives him his walking papers, unemployment lies In applying the Let an editor do it and ho is up j i,p0 people to the development of against tho boycot or tho ' better I class Therefore the eventual thing is more education among tire musi es. Th e Ignorance among the workers concerning industrial and government affairs in appall ing. Even they who hae what passes for a fairly good educa tion are as ignorant of such mat ters as they who cannot read at all. This does not so hapicn by accident, but is pur posely design ed. The ruling class controls our education. The Kicker is the only paper in Southeast Missouri that is barred from the library or the Cape Girardeau Normal school! Somebody ought to aek Prof. Dearmont why? For many years the Kicker had been a regular visitor at the Cape Normal, as were also all other rural papers. Every year three dollars are appropriated tor advertising and one dollar for subscription to these paper s. But last year the Kicker was cut out. Why? Can it be that student saw things in the Kicker and asked questions that embarrassed the raculty because they could give no Intelligent answer without en dangering their Jobs? So far as the loss of the pat ronage of the Normal Is concern ed. I care nothing about that. 1 only refer to the matter to show how carefully the ruling class guards the education of the peo ple. WE PRAY FOR PEACE ANT) DRILL FOR MURDER. Chicago. April 6. On receipt to day or a protest from the Wo men's Peace party or Ohio, direct ed against the legal enforcement in that state of military drill training in tho use of modem arms in the public school!, the Chicago branch voiced a vigor ous denunciation of such practice and prepared to nuht the propo- sal of any similar legislation in Illinois. ' The Women's Peace party her o would put fourth every possible I efiort," said Mrs. Alice P. Norton, secretary of tne organization, today, "to block enforcement of . military training ror the public school boys. Our' aim i to direct impetus toward the other arts more constructive and useful than martial exercises. MMitary drill or any kind tends to instill thoughts of war into the young mind, and this j just what must bo avoided and guarded against. The desire for' heroism on the part of the com ing generation should be turned into peace-provoking channels. Even from the standpoint of de- fenilve preparations, military practice Tor boys tends to inter rupt tho trend of peace." WHERE THE WOMEN ARE Woman'! place may be the home but judging .from reee it statistics, ho seems to have deliberately ig nored that fact, Tor there are: 230,077 stenographers. 327,635 teacher's and professers. 481,159 in various trades. 770,055 engaged In agricultural pursuits. 7,355 physicians and surgeons. 7,35)6 clergy "men." 1,037 designers, draftsmen and architects. 1,010 lawyers. 420,407 women In various pro fessions. Baltimore Sun. POOR WOMAN. "She's a nervous wreck because her husband talks in his sleep so much." "You mean the loss of sleep has injured her health?" "It isn't the loss of sleep that is sending her to a sanitarium, but the fact that her husband mumbles and she can't understand what he says. Age Herald. WVNT JUSTICE, NOT CHARITY From the Ixw Angeles Citlr.en. Unemployment Is the extremity ! of Inequality. An ant's nest nnd the summit or Mt. Bnldy are not ns far apart as the man "willing to work and unnble to rind work." and the capitalist drawing dividends rrom ' a thriving industry. Tho strength of a nation do- j ponds on the number or people atlsfactorlly employed. To the Atent that unemploy ment exists, to that extent Is na tional weakness. It is through the medium of em- plo.vment that the masses beeoffl ' possessed of the means of life and i advancement. if employment is withheld, then the means of lite and advance- j ment are withheld. charity cannot be considered. It is not only ut'er'y inade URte but an insu't to humanity. What the unemployed went is work work that will bring t'1 n not only a lore exii( P but the means oi o'.is:;n r as i come-, en i the idle natural resources. We have the people. We have j tho resources. But Weil, we haven t learned as B nation, the true purpos of gov ernment. THE WAR AND SOCIALISM From the Milwaukee lender. The war that was to wipe out Socialism h is driven the bellig erent nation! further on the road to Socialism than Socialist propa ganda in peace could have at tained in p dozen years. Driven to the need of straining every resource the most anti-So-oiallet of go ernments are com pelled to restrict the work or ro bery to extend the work of l re duction. They find that the only way to do ths is to follow the road marked out by the Socialist At first only su''h steps were taken as were compelled by the need of using all the power! of si ciety. The thing! that were done were only a part of State Soc ial ism. Then, as the first insanity of nationalism passed over the wor kers, the force of a rebellious working class gave spur to the movement toward Socialism. Capitalism is at its last extrem ity. It is choking in its own blood. That nation which moves most swiftly toward Socialism will remain longest at the top. But such a nation will not come out a capitalist nation. It musl have behind all the things for whlob its rulers are righting. Th's is the paradox of the war. Th ruler! who would win must surrender rulership. This is not as evident now at it will be Within a Tew w eeks, when the movement toward Bocialsm has proceeded somewhat further Then this paradox will be the most powerful force working for peace. There is not a govern Ir : class in Europe tint doosirt hate and roar its own subjects more than it hates and fears the rulers or any other nation. There is not one that would irot rather1 be de feated by the enemy over the bolder than surrender to its eiti- zens at home. The Socialists ol all the war ring nations are now working ac tively for peace. But their direct notions to that end will bo loss effective than the threat or a re volting working class In each na tion directed against its own rul ers. A RECRUITING AGENT, From tho Milwaukee Leader. The P8YCOL03ICAL depression, which Mr. Wilson has exorcised at successive internals, has proved an exceedingly effective recruit ing ngont. It has recruited the army of the unemployed in the United states. It has increased crime. it has niied the Jails, The poor houses are overflow ing! Organized char ity and the pub lic agencies or relier have been taxed rar beyond their ability to coie with the demands made upon them. With millions of men unemploy ed, recruits may be had ror any enterprise. Men who are starving are bound by no law save the law or selN preservation. ROARING ALL THE WAY. Hazel was the pet ol the class, pretty as a picture and as stu pid In lessons as she was attrac tive in appearance. "Hazel," said the teacher, "we had a lesson on the earth's axis Friday. Now, what is tho earth s axis?" "The axis or the earth," replied Hazel, "is a menagerie lion, run ning from the north pole to the south pole once in every 24 hours Sunday Magazine. IT l'AYS TO RULE Lost week the Kicker published I synopsis ol what was found in th aiidit of the drainage district. Th s showed that the county rev enue fund has boon "milked" of more than 116,000, This was duo to '.he county advancing funds on drainage projects that should ha e loon returned. In some cases the districts w ere organised and the money should ha e been returned from money co. looted. Iu other cases the pro jects led through and the money shou d have been returned by DOlldSinen. Hut neither was done O. cour se tho bondsmen were the l..g Land Owners. ilut, Mr. Small Iand Owner, su, pose it had been YOU I BUp 1s. you had signed a bond to s. .uie ihe payment of something and it foil to you to pa.N- Or, sup- loi you hud signed a bond to k o,i a irieud or relative out of Ja.i until court, und the accused skipped. Do you suppose the so thoritiea wourd forgot it? WHAT SOCIALISM IS EJOCialUm .s tire oppo-i ie o cap italism ou. present iorm of n-du-t y and government And Capitalism ie guilt) o about all the i.oo o the Socialist The capitalists the enemies of Socialism .o that oc ulism will Oe-t uy the homes Whsu as u m.itter of fact capita:i-:u has al teady destroyed the homes of uea ly, e cu tenths o the A nie ican people. Socialism will not .e-t oy Uo es b it v .11 ns ole those w ho a e willing to work th ec or our ho r.- i daj to ha i e a eal home a home wor thy that sac.ed name not a rented shack The capitalists say thi.l Joe al Urn is ugu.ast relfglou. Lei us sec You know lull, well the so cialists a e not in power ihiough out .his country at present Yet 1 saw a staterue.it ma l! by a Memphis minister the other day thai at least -o pe eS.it o. the labo ers do not attend church. It would seem .loin that state ment that capitalism is fast de st oyi.is religion but Socialism will not destroy refiglOQ In .act. Socialism i.as no mo e to do with religion than any otner pol.tleal party Soci alism uocs r.ot deal With the lu tu e u man, bJt w :th i.i- i resent state o: condition. U dues not seeK to obtain for ru in a hoaie beyond the stare, but a home tl-bt here and now.. Again, the enemies of Socialism tell you that Sociali-in Will de st oy he incentive to w ork Say, M . Day-Laborer or Tenant Far me what is your incentive to day. Either one of you v.e only a ba e ID ing for the most exces sive toil. You work long hours each day in the year, and at the close of each year when you bal ance .turn books, you l.ae uoih thing multlpl.ed by two For all your toil yoj are permitted to IDe In a rented shuck and have your board ai.d clothes pi o . ided, Of course, you don't eat and wear too much, and what you do get is of the very cheapest, in other words, you get about one-!ourtb Of what you pioiuce now the other three-fourth go to the idle el.. ss Uuuei Socialiim you win not get one-fourth of wliat you p.oduce, but ALL you produce. Now Mi'. Laborer', which de stroys the incentive to work capitalism by letting you take one-. ou. tu ol w hat you produce, ' oi Socialism by letting y ou tuks ,it all? Uur critics nay Socialism will reuuee the laborer to a mere ma chinea cog in a g.eat machine. What aie you now bu;. a cog in the capitalist machine ol p. educ tion? in a (..uai muny i u es y ou hue lost you. ...e..iit. y our name ami a:e Known ouly by nuuibei . You must go at r;-c nee anu cad o. your bos 1.j must be the e when the whistle b.ows o: another cog will tuse your place. The enemies of Socialism say it will destroy individuality iiow about the Individuality oi the worker unuer oapitalUmV What chance bus the faotory uand, the section hand or the tenant turm- ,r to show his Individuality to uee.op the best there Is la him? ' toil ior the buret existence, lie recei es enough lor one days work to buy food to ti e him strength to work the uei uay und uo more. And, above all, w hat chance have the Utile boys and girls iu the factories to de eiop themselves? Tbej i e re duced to machines coined into dollars to mi the colters uf the faotory owners. But, uuuer so cialism, when he who wo. ks will get all he produces, then each iu dividual can develop the very best the. e is iu him. The enemies of Socialism often say that Socialism is anarchy. It Is generally knowu that the rich and powerful ride, rough-shod, over every law iu their way. Is that not anarchism? Hut Social ism is the direct opposite to an archism. Two things could not be more unlike They dlifer as heaven does from hades. Social ism will enact Just laws and bring about obedience to them. Will usher in the co-operative commonwealth the Hi other hood of man and the Fatherhood or God. Today we have a government of the rich, by the rich und for the rich. Under Socialism we will have a government of the people, by the people aud lo: the i t ople. There ia anmathl i - - bbwwmhm ca v fault with the cbaructci . . it can be permanently Injured by truth.