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A bONWWIXN YT.
BY Q. IL. OGihes
Oh. Is thea heaven for me?
Earth has meno room.
frlrendle, from man I nee
Forth to my doem.
(ea God be hard and cold.
Uke those who ptrivo for gold?
Will he refuse to give
Lost ones a home?
Painting with toll. I've borne
Wages forged down.
Work I have sought each morn.,
lacing man's frown.
Now on the street I'm ast:;
Struttgglingr, I sink at last;
Thrown from the slums of earth.
SHelpless. I drown!
God save what man destroys.
Reaching for gala;
God curse what man enjoys.
Bought with such pain.
Worship? It calls for toll.
Justice to those who mollt,
ki ng opprelooa's yoke;
Words are but vain.
The Iae ad Truth
About Milwaukee
(Continued from page one.)
capital is frightemed. coaldeace des
troyed, factories closed sad commer
olts havoc wrought. The fact are
(a) The eommserelat sand lduse
trlal coadltles In Mlllwskee shw a
normal Improement. The total re*
eelpt at the Milwaukee Pst Obes
for 1010 showed a Inerease of $140.
I30.9 which I rather larger than a
normal Increase. The Poet Otce re
eelpts were $175,25 greater. sad the
beak clearligs $*1,911.400 greater
during thee sunM eothe - ftolwing
iedel's election than during the cor
reepolding months of the procedling
year; (b) The value of the years
production of the Milwaukee Indus
tries was $,171,II4 greater this year
than last; the amount of capltal em.
ployed wau $6,183,494 more thbi year
than last. From whlch It can he
clearly seen that there was not very
much capital frightened away. There
was 13,703.318 more paid in wages
thlm year than last; there were 1302
more working people employed this
year than last; and there were 13I
more Industrial plants at work this
year than le. Thewe figure I have
taken from the January 1st, 1911.
ssue of the Milwaukee b aottel's a*
nual Trade Review. pages 1 and 3.
Otto H. palk is the Prooseet of the
Merchant and Manuthoturmr Aeoct.
ton of Milwaukee. This orgasniastlo
to probably the stroegest and most ags
grelve opponent of Uoelalsm Im the
eity. Yet Mr. Palk sayr in a letter to
the Sentlnel, publiehed lI the abhve
Review of January 1t 1911. spewklae
on trade eoadlUiom in Milwaukee:
Some of our indestries outside of Iron
and steel ran not only tfll capacity
durting the eatire year, but at times
strained their capacity in order to
supply the demand for their goods
Many localt meauacturers were fairly
active while their competitors in the
East were depressed. large additios
have been made to a number of man
ufacturint planta and new Industries
have been located In our midst. The
Jobbing and wholesale interests have
done so well as have the same Inter
eats In. other citles. On the whole
they have done more than held their
own, and have extended their terri
tory and made handsome lncrease to
their sales.
The auses which lead to the pecul
larites of the year were not leaaL
The great btlk of our produot goes
to the fear ends of the country, aad
the lndustrial smptoms here are In
dinative of a cenditlon prevailing
throughout the nation."
Mr rank Putney Haight writing at
the same time sys: "kThe omparistn
of the figures of ladustrial oedition.
In 1000 with those of 1010, make it
elearly evident that Milwaukee is sup
perting the phenomenal ganl made Ia
1000 In nearly all lines, and proving
the solidity of growth." Parther on
he sys. "The volume of wholesale
busiasm for the year amounted to
$441,614,011. This shows a gata of
.118 per cent over 1900, and from
every quarter there I. reported the
greatest oonfdio la In a marked in
oresse for 1911."
1. It is oharged that the loclalist
administration in Milwaukee inJures
business The facts in the matter, ae
cordlsg to the report of the Treasurer
of the Chamber of Commerce, pub.
lished In the Evening Wisconsin
(Republican), Is: Thelnorease In
recelpts of 1911 over the correspond
Inrg period of 1010 was $1,3181.46
The record with regard to the new
investments In Milwaukee during 1011
first four months of this year the new
whlch war within $4.600,000 of the
total new Investments of the preceed
lng year. Capital doesn't seem to be
very badly rightened according to
that.
6. It is charged that as epidemic
t semaret tever Io rags.r In the city
of Milwaukee, due to the Incompet.
Pacy and negltet of the oclialist
Health Department. The fats are
there is no epidemic of scarlet ever
In Milwaukee. There were St3 more
oases under Dr. kadlaW's previous ad.
mlsetratlion during the tour months
ending December 31, 1949, than there
were under the correspoading tour
monahs of Dr. Kraft's administration.
In 1909 there were 85 crases during
the four months endlng December 31.
and to 1910, under Dr. Kratt's admin
letratlon, there were only 549 caseu
during the corresponding period. In
every single month there were form
fifty to a hundred lem cases under Dr.
Kraft than under Dr. Bading. And
655 cases of s.arlet fever In four
months In a population of 3751.00
does not constitute an epidemic. No
one thought of charging Mr. Badin's
adminlstratan with having an epidemic
of scarlet fever. It so, much lees then
may the Soilast be charged with
having an epidemic, since there were
340 cases lees than under Dr. Badling.
7. It Is charged that Dr. Kraft
does not believe In milk lnspection
The truth Is that the milk Inspection
as conducted at present the most
efflicient in the hlstory of the Milwau.
kee health department.
-. It Is charged that the health
department has made a rule againi
requiring quarantnle of contagious die.
eases. The truth Is that the rules
governlnu quarantne are made by the
Mate Board of Health, and not by the
city at all. Quarantine was never
more rigdly nor mre carefully obser
ed In Milwaukee than at the present
time..
ANGOTM LIE NAILED
9. It is charged that Dr. Kraft
claims to have diplomas from varl
ous Medical Collegee and that as a
matter of lact he has not The facts
are that Dr. Kraft has diplomas from
the Amerlcan Medcal College of et.
Louis, the Barnes Medical College of
the same city, and Inadditlon a WIs
osonl State License No. 1176. Reglet
Pr .B and also a medical state licenses
from Illinois, Misouri and California.
All of these are on file, properly sign
ed and attested In the office of the
Commlesoner of Public Health nt the
i'ty Hall. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
I UlOMOWS SU VI"T 'IO CIT
t0. It is charged that the Uocalists
have been extravagant in city expend
Itares. The truth is: (a) The S.c
maiet adminlstrUtina saved $30.,N in
street enstrction work within the
first month of their adminlstration.
(b) The purchasing department saved
$183.00 within the first three months
wth a total of $48,.00 In lght as poe
lble saving for the year; (e) TheCity
Attorney's oepartment has won so far
$465,000 worth of cases that were
brought against the city; (d) The City
Clerk's department has saved $3,800;
(e) The Comptroller's department
$1.200 on salaries alone; (f) The
mayor's department $1.000; (g) The
Health department $1,000. The total
savings due to the efficiency of the
loolallet admnisltration already in
sight amoUrts to over $570.000 per
year.
MODEL FRAINCHISE.
11. It is charged that the effort
to draw a model treanchise was the
most ludicrous thing ever attempted
In this country and a complete failure.
The truth is that the franchise is
drawn upoe the basis of freaehhms in
actual operation in other cities In
A~meria and Durope aend simply em
bedies the feature to an up to date
franchiss. Walt Btreet didn't like the
fram.hiM, and rejected it. The water
wind and graft are all knocked out.
NOa WILD and VIMONAyT.
1t. It is charged that the Soc
alit adminisltration I trying to force
on the people of Milwaukee schemes
that are wild and visionary. The
truth In the mater is that the meaU
uers said to be wild and visionary,
and agalinst which most objection is
raised, are measures which former
administrations bad proposed and ad
vocated, as follows; (a) The river
park project, for example, so bitterly
assaled by alli the old party politic
lane was recommended by the Metro
politan lark CommIasson, the presi
dent of which is a prominent Repub
lican politician, who, before the Soc
Ialists came into power, not only re
commended the measure, but strongly
advooated it Practicanlly every news
paper in the city enthusiastically en
dorsed the project until the old party
pollticians made it a political issue.
Now because the Socialists advance it,
it has suddenly become "wild and vis
aoniry." (b) The railway terminal
station project, whleh involved the Is
suing of a million dollars worth of
mortgage oertficates in order to make
it possible, was also a project advo.
cated by former adminitrations and
strongly supported by various corn
mercial clubs and progrelsive Jar
It beomes wild and visionary wli
the Socialltsm take it up. (o) d1'
electrio -lighting plant has beean *
dor.ed by both republican and dem
cratlc parties since 1838. The S.nat
has been four times submitted hi
referendum of the people of this eity.
and every time by overwhelming ly
$oritles approved. The Socialists ar
actuality forcing the issue to eeMo
pletlon. And this is what makes I
widM and visilonary". (d) Homeo Rul
for the city of Milwaukee Is ao-ther
one of the measures of which the SoS
lallets have made a very strong sad
persistent fight. Until at last every
political party in the state is commit
ted to the idea and has promised It
in their platform. Also wild sad
visionary. So as a matter of fact, the
very measure that the capitalistic
press and politicians and grafters and
boodlers are so furiously attacking
now as being wild and visionary, are
measures which their own parties
had heretofore advocated and pre
tended to favor. Now that the Social
Ists are actually putting these me.
seres through, the whole bunch of
capitalsloti politicians are compelled
to show their hands
THI UNEMPLOYED.
13. It Is charged that there are IS.
o00 to 20,000 men out of work In MM
waukee, a condition due directly to
the Socialist administration. The
faset are, there are no more men eat
of work in the city of Milwaukee than
usual under similar conditions, a
more than usual in cities of this kis
In America. And it is certain that the
Socalist administration is in no way
responsible for thei condition. As a
matter of fact, they are reltveing It.
Mrs VanWick. Oeneral secretary at
the Asociated Charities of Milwaukee.
declares, '"There are not 2S.000 men
out of work in Milwaukee. I doubt
whether there are half that many.
And certalnly the Soclallst administra
tion absolutely has nothing to do with
the condition."
Burt Hull, Secretary of the Child
rean Aid Society says: "I am not a
Socialist, but I desire to be ust, and
I wish to my emphatically that I do
not belive the Socialist administrat
ion is to any degree responsdble for
the rather unusually large number of
unemployed in the city."
Win. J. Fairbaern. Secretary of the
Metal Trades and Foundry Bureau.
says, "Any suggestion that the Soc
ialist administration is to any degree
reepe.mlble for the number of unem
ployed in Milwaukee is nonsense and
preposterous to my mind."
The above quotations are gives by
J. M. Maxwell In his splendid serle
of articles, published in the Indiana
polit Star, obeginnin Sunday April f
to 18.
WORKERS WELL ORi.ANISEDl
t4. It is chimred that the Social
et adminalstration has created a great
tear nt the minds of many people
that labor troubles will arise, strikes
sad disturbances which will Inter
fere with the lpdustrial life of the
city. As a matt*r of ftat, however.
there have biten fewer st ikes and less
labor troubles in the city of Milwau
kee than in any similar ladustrial
center in the country. The working
class are better organised, but d. p,,nd
more upon peaceful, political action
than uon trade union methods alone.
The Garment Workers Strike of last
winter, for example, was settled with
out violence and almost without dis
turbance. There have been no seri
oue strikes or labor troubles in the
city of Milwaukee for years.
11. It is charged that the Socialist
administration was responsible for the
use of cheep fire hose which resulted
In the killing of five Milwaukee fire
man. As a matter of fhat, it was the
root that killed the firemen and not
the hose.
PLTPORM PLEDGES KEPT.
16. It is charged that the Social
ists have not kept their platform
pledges. The fact In the matter is,
that even, according to the critics
themselves, six out of fourteen of the
promises mentioned have been car
rlel. If six out of fourteen platform
pledses are carried out In one year,
and the Socialists are in office two
years, how many would be left at that
rate In the end? However, of the
fourteen mentioned in their list et
least five have either been actually
achieved or advanced to the utmost
limit possible by the Socialists, while
the critics fall entirely to make men
tion of more than a dosen achieve
ments of the administration which
were not promised in the platform.
but which have been carried out.
The man who demands more than
he gives is a thief; the man who takes
less than he gives is a fool; and the
man who gives as much as he receives,
and demands as much as he gives,
is a Socialist.
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Our Needs in
Education
Asas A. MAIEYT.
Education, we are told. is mental
developmeat That Is, education
mrves to make strong, orderly and
efflelest mental equipment, and thin
equipment should enable us to give
more effective direction to our life's
aetivities.
Which is the chief of life's actlv
Itles? That which takes up most of
the time of the' most people-the In
dtstrial activity.
With the advance of time, "the
Mruggle for mere bread has been
replaced with men, but the struggle
for wealth in general-a struggle of
man with men and nation with nation.
ter the plalnay avowed purpose of
aequiring a wealth produced by others
and acquiring it by force and diplo
macy. which latter is only another
word for fraud." (Michael A. Lane,
"Man in Perspective.")
LIfe's chief activity. It seems, has
adopted a predatory method, and as
fah as this method is accepted as
proper by our educators, to-day's edu.
eation tends to mkae us well-trained
thieves.
Into our world of plunder and prey
oemes the young engineer who In shop
and factory so organises and perfects
the mechanical plant that the worker
yellds ever a greater result from his
labor; the mechanism, that the work.
er has neither joy nor benefit from
his Increased productivity, the in.
duWtrial master absorbing everything
down to the limits of the worker'.
miserable existence; the young mln.
itetr who preaches master-clas su.
premacy as God's own dispensation
and the teacher who poisons the Intel.
ual life of oclety at its springs by im.
pressing upon the minds of the younm
the standard sot the master-and-slavn
order of life.
Now and again your J. IInware
Moore. your Veblen, your (lddlngs ol
your Lester P. Ward, goes out con
aclously to raise the social ideal, t'
expand the social consciousness. Itn
while John D. Rockefelller pr.seflnt
the Chicago University with $:35.Qo0
HOO. In Internet-bearing socks ann
and bonds, the facullty of that nst Ito
tion will not be likely to unsparinrlgl:
Condemn the system which force'
Ignorant workers to donate' to th
university the annual interets on thee
MSourltles.
Nor do we marvel that the educate
Is a prostitute. Rather do we wonld
at the Interpld few-teachers, milniter
and Journalists who go out in the
teeeh of disaster to assert their hon
est convictions. Woe be unto them!
their bones bleach by the upward
trail.
Our prime need in education is aI
new soil in which to root educational
instituttons-a free economic soiL The
spirit of freedom wit not be found in
our educational institutions until the
fact of freedom has been established
in our bread-getting field. For by
"freedom is meant, under present
bourgeois conditions of production
free selling and buying." And trust
domination has limited even this
"unconscionable free trade" to the
free buying by masters of human
beings-or what comes to the same
thing, their labor power-in the com.
petitive market.
One purpose df industrial concen
tration is to enable those in control to
restrict the output of products and
thus maintain the price of the limited
output. But competition among the
workers cheapens them to the ma.
ters, and those who own no means
of producion are held up and forced
to sell their one commodity, labor
power, on a market which is utterly
denmoralised by the excae of the sup
ply of labor energy over the demand
for it.
We workers are always on the mar
ket and continuously making forced
sales. In this respect the position of
your teacher does not differ essential
ly from that of the common laborer.
Your mechanic cells himself into a
machine shop where he becomes an
attachment to a tool. Your teacher
sells himself as an attachment to a
social Instrument, an institution,
where he must mould young minds
for service according to a master-clams
ideal.
And this makes little difference in
the final result whether Rockefller
and his group own the schools directly
or whether they own the sources
from which school revenues are drawn
The school boards, like other "people's
officials," from poundmaster to presi
dent. are the obedient choreboys of
the masters of the bread.
There will Ib no freedom in edu-t
cation until the opportunity to get
bread is free. Meantime, we must
faithfully support our town press and
such schools as hace been established
for the propagation of the new ideals.
IHut more important than all Is noc.
flls control of school boards. Just
its the workers must own the Indus
trial system of the country before we
shall have an industrial democracy,
s, must they control the school sy's
It'Ii h fore we shall have a people's
.i cation.
Every boy may not be president;
I it .\very boy should have an opport
Iunitil to qualify for the presidency
or any other posltlon to which he may
aspire.
No Individual is great of himself
we are of society and we owe to soc
iety the gifts which it places in our
hands. "He who lives to himself ts
dead, though the ground be not upon
him." The student who regards him.
self as an Individual who must achieve
power and place by clambering pell
melt over the prostrate bodies of his
fellows, has use* of the vton of
that "association in which the free
development of each is the condltlon
for the free development of all.
. WHO THROWS AWAY !I8 VOTE?
By John M. Work.
The man who votes against his own
Interests is the one who throws away
his vote.
If you vote the republican or dem
ocrat ticket, you vote against your
own interest.
The republican and democratic
partles stand for the continuation of
the present capitalls system of In
dustry, which robs you of most of
your earnings. They are run in the
interest of the capitadst class.
If you vote the republican or demo
cratic ticket, you help to strengthen
and perpetuate the rule of your
enemies, so that they can continue to
rob you.
Your ballot is a strong and heavy
club.
If you vote the republican or dem
ocratlc tick t. you hand that club over
to the capitalist clams, saying. "Please
smash me over the head with that:"
And they smash you alright.
If you vote the Socialist ticket,
even if it is not elected, you strength
en and I ulld up the party which is
destined to emancipate you.
The only way you can avoid throw.
Ing away your vote is by voting the
Socialist ticket.
The only way In which you can
make your vote hasten the day of
your deliverance is by voting the Soc.
lalist ticket.
To vote any other ticket is to vote
to make your chains heavier.
John Kenneth Turner begun last
year In the American Magazine a true
story of the horrors of slavery In MAex
i.o today, where men, women and
children are bought and sold. where
they are worked to death or beaten to
death.
These articles told only half the
story. It remained to show that this
slavery is only made possihl, by the
military despotism of Dias. and that
this despotism is kept in power by
the aid of American capitalists and
the United States government.
The whole story, with many vivid
photographs is now offered to the
American people. Extra cloth. $1.50
by mail from the Montana News.