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VV O iSL iv A i r S , .tV J ) V O O A. T 10 WBKMKSADVOCATf. IN orriri Jo KNAi. I If THh SOCIALIS'i iAB0fl PA FlT Y 'TBI. I '!! f." vn:y K t K M vatiiinai csnrim I'MVirrKK ( fi.i i hi i Hll S M-t I On ll li -1 1 irl . Ni m in V i II v. llltl-rc-! ii.' it ''" " 'li ' li'l.ii' u!i i i 1 ;i i 1 n i 1 - ' I 1 1 .t- gull H'C i lew . i - -i "i.l'l -i i I 11, !' I ill I ;a'i i.s : M li-l HUM H'N OlH' 'our ( postage t " Six lllllllths " rAYAIII.I-: IN AHVAM'I. $1 fill ' '" ', MITII t: Til v I ll-l lillil Ks.-TI.e dale ft r Vuiii' i:a iij I v ..: . i .-- ili. l at ttii'ln"! in y- in .,ii ! I- 1 1..- a.ii- ..f i x.ii ;a 'on n( kiiIi-i i-i pi i' -ll 'I tin in. li!' I iii. ,iii-'Ii i in mi'ipi-ili tl.-ii e..lr vat tla- iii'l nt M.iu-ii. lH'il s.-ihI y.'in ,iu' r;.iii'h ni-. 1 1 y . hHv. mi'l iinllfi ii ni imy lauit in ililiiriym I'liuruii our t iirt. -IX I Alls I I. A II 1 1 It r.AKIV. NtTi'iNH. Kxki i tivk riiMn.rrr.it, II J t.iir.T. ii, Swretury, Kitst Kimi-tli street, N. V. 11' i ii ii nr l.mrvAM r.. KitsrT '. hem mih.kii, he.'ri-lHiy, V, fii.vcr Mi.-.-t, Ilnst.iii, Mass. Labhk Nrwn ( n . Pa in t ,Iim I'iiintiiit, 'i't Kant Knurl I. utreet. New Ynrk .Ianpahy Id, LS!tl. GOMPERS. FOSTER, AND THE COLUMBUS CONVENTION. The icply of the Central l.ahor l-'e- deration of New York to Mr. Samuel (JomprrH, tog. l her with t he swiopsi ol j the dehate that preceded its adoption, ; ill t' puhli-lied in Mliother column. They t'onsl itute in theniKt-lveM such an ex haustive revi'-w of the matter in ijin-s tion that any further comment on our part would he HUpcrlliioiis. It may he Slate, are thoroughly iniliued with j Smith, is grow ing to he a potent factor well, however, to give here the text of ' socialistic ideas, I'rohahly, it does not in the further degradation of Northern the resolution on 'Tolitical Act ion" j n-present one tenth id the liuinher nf , lahor. As the dilTcrence in the level of adopted hy the American Federation of ! tho-a- who, in order to hecoine foil con- j skill and in the perfect ion of products Labor at its Coluiulnis convention jn ; vcrls, m-ed Imt Httl-liK't hik! -tu.ura- i hiroiiien less in the two Seclions, the Decemher l.ssii, and to w hich reference j '"' . such as a good daily would all'ord ; dill'ereiice in the condit ion of the work w;is made holh in Comrade Hugo Yogi's under the circumstances constantly ing class decreases also; not, however, f ch and in the afoit said reply. This j developed l.y I he rapid evolut inn of he through u lise in the Southern 1 vol, but H'solutinn reads ns follows: Will Pl.AS, I'nlilical action is n siibj. ct winch has hi the past be.n a pmlilio Koui ce of discussion and t rouble in tin ranks of the w an kiligllieii; but, happil) , the r. volution rccelil Iv w It nessed in the I'leclion coiilesl ol I lie seve'id Stat, s, uotal'ly (he remai liable and extiaoidi flHi-y demnnstiiition made by ihe work- , ingincn ot New ,ork, Milwaukee and ! other cities, shows us t he t line has now arriveil, w hen I lie w oi King people should ileeli i' llltnli t ni lieii'Ksltv ol lilnleil in- i ' ' ' '" tion lis citueiiH at the ballot box, Hide- ' ili inl.'iii i.r ilin ivi.iiiur i ,, ,i , i ;,.,,i i.. . i ? 1 1 ' , WilhltKAS, The necessity of this is j oimilnti.m eipial at least to that of our nppaieiit from Ihe nibjictioii of ' bo j greatest capitalistic organs. The ipies police powers to Hie interesis of col- j potato capital in eiifoicmg upon their tu.n. "lowever. in to roach it and to sub employes conditions repulsive to tree J sis, util j, r(iu.h..,. The initiative labor and liberty, and if the nefarious I work of the I'inkerton Agency is to be stopped, workers must Hecuie a grenlei Hhnre of political power; therefore be it ii.tnm, That this convention urges ii most generous support to 1 ho ilulepeii dent political movement of woihmg men. In the face of this declaration how could Mr. liiimpers' "Special Com mittee", through Mr. (iomporr. "Special Foster," tttato on the Ho;r of tli l'etroit Convention that the American Federa tion of Labor was committed against political action of any kind;1 lint Mr. (lumpers and Mr. Foster w ill probably object that w hat they actually said wan that the Federation was com mitted against "partisan politics", und that they did not mean to include under that term any Ixnui lule independent labor movement. If so, then, why wero they so anxious that the Socialist Labor movement should receive no consider ation whatever'!' Are they ready to assert that it is not an "independent political movement of w orkingineuV" They stand convicted by their ow n logomachy. THE QUESTION OF A DAILY. One of our Connecticut suli-erihi rs, whe-se letter is published in another column, olTers to pay $L"i a year for a daily wvy of the Woukmkn's Aivot ati.. This issubstantii'.l evidence of s) input I iy. A few thousiiiid such friends would ipuickly enable us to meet the chief re quireruent of an active socialistic pro pa- gauilism ' y th issue of a daily paper, equal in the respect of m ws t. the be-t equipped of capitalistic sheets, and fat - eujsiior in all other respects. Similar assurances of pecuniary sup ii lit fur tin' -i Vi'i sinti nt' nur littli ' weekly into :i piiiil daily haw lately bl'l 11 lei . i . d lit t his "Ml, e f ' I till ill'iolH I :ul- .if ll..- ! -in, try ; in.'! a- c ili.l ti..i ; i I I ' ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' I 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 ; l , 1 ' 1 1 1 nil I,c U 1 1 1 1 V l.ave I.. ivn.,i r it i I .i 1 a i . ' a : i : i" i l..n. i i.rniii a!. ill i l , I la .-c iin!i idn.d main I I at ion- i . I" mil i e.-t hln,u I l.i- i x i I 'I. ri i'l a wide- pi i ad a i, i ( lit a i,i i a i-i i eiu.g IN Its nr. Til I.I ll III. II I) Ii ! , tin- li - II. i- nl it-. It higl.lv :'ia'iu ihg. ll is Jill inlilltiiiliiil l loof of tiillt . jir.in ing roil liil. licr in tla' s.iciali-tie ' iiinM iMiiit which tlin 1 IJIO0 M.t. h l,it. j i-anl in thi-i Stall- for noci;ili-,t i-atulnla't .-i liinl ii'lraily r.-v inli'il, In tin- (.oral jt-toiiihliiiii'lit of our ' i'-iIit ini'il roii- i i ti-inMiiarii's"; mi'l it may, iinli'i-.l, linalk : fulminate to their still greater kiii .risf j rnails, like many of the cotton milln, coitl into tin-eHlahiishmeiit of h sin-ccMifnl munnitnil iron works of the .South, are iiml powerful "competilor," wild whieli j elm lly owiie.l hy Northern capitiilistH liny hhall have toiei kon in t heir fniu-) lint, with the opening of (oiiiiiiunifii ilulent treiilment of puhlie atfiiirs ami '. lions hy rail immense natural w t alth, the uncial ijiiehtion. formerly woithless, hits hecoine a source hincti the iliscus.sion of this mutter has of enormous revenue to native laml heen iniliateil hy our coire ionilentn, li t owners. For instance, thu total value it now go on. No rash steps sliouM he ! of forest proilucts increascl from less taken. That it daily newspaper Mich an than 47 million dollars in ls() to over they contemplate is a necessity, cannot he (piestioticil. I'.ut that its entalhsh- meiit has actually hecoine a iiossiliility j hlmuld he made apparent hy the nuinl.er ; "f -'"H-sl persons ready to sustain it. j f''"" H' start. l or ohvioiis reasons it is Hafe to sa j lliat the socialist voteuf New 'ork Statu j i la-.l fall did not represent one half of the j actual iiumlier of people who, in tlii.i : conipctitn e I'l to too inimopolihtic s) s ; tcin. j In man;, other States the proportion of Miciali.-tie thought and inclination ' cannot be less than here, while in some j il mii-l even be greater. From till this ; nia(,. i,,1 ,.r) st ai.,l and unci ystallied, I I it would appear i jiriin i that su lllcicnt ' sllliliiil't lllti'hl be obtained to establish ' ' I a true labor daily, with its woekly feature for di-lant poill's, oil a ba .is of ' must tlieretnre ho taken, some ri-ks in curred and, perhaps, some sacrifices made, by those already within the im mediate circle of socialistic influence and mo! ion. Let us know how many of them are ready to come for ard. SOUTHERN INDUSTRY. In u review of Southern industry dur ing the year just ended the Chattanooga Tratli smaii gives some interesting liguies The capitalistic progress of the South m the last ten years surpasses any simi lar phenomenon recorded in the history of ecoiuiuic dMelopiuetit. The chief gain has been, first, in cotton manufac ture, nnd secondly, in pig iron. The follow ing table may convey son e idea of the grow th of the cotton industry dur ing the past drcado : 1SS0 1S00 No, of mills 101 ;!)!! No. of spindles. . . .i4'J,ti4S l.SH.'OI No. of looms ll.slH 40 41.) Hales cotton ISO 971 .'iJa l' ill I loduot JlO.ltati.lSJ fVU'.'iUTt) From these figures it is seen that the industry lias more than tiebled in ma chinery and value of product. The ratio of increase in the consumption of raw material is somewhat less, which i realdy explained by the fact that the South is now goiiitf into the manufacture of liner good-; it ha- already advanced from No. It', and '-'0 to Us huh as No. 40. and is steadily enlarging its tieid o! competition with liorilnrii null-. Its j labor, of com -o. i- not m t as skilled as that of N w la.Uml, hut it i- nuicl. j cheaper an I u..ik- longer. The I ours I of labor are " per week in the South, ag.iai-t no in New Lngl u, I. I As to j ig-n..n, the piodu. imn t.f ei!n Sotill.tin Slates is j i 1 ;i f -i i at 1 bVi.ttllO, show in; tin iiieioase of Jso per cent., as Colllpai ml Willi 1-M. . 1 : 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 Ifllds itu :i j ! 1 u 1 i n t i.I'M'M. I-.' imii, w hieh i "i I)' iiii(ii'l I v tw.. ill her .State-, u. , I ' mi) l .iiii.i : i 1 l Hi i ,. I 'oii"i.i-iit w r U I lie . i . . ( I ' , j it in-ti t of llf '"'I 'ol. ai. 'I iiofi iiaiu.-ti I'-.s. ami as a lii1 til.ii .( iii-,i'i',i no' o it, luu-'i lir lii'ti''! I 1 la na l i a o i ailioiiil hob-age in ll Sioiilh, which ha, mi .ii- ih. in i.iili.-i i tli' I a-t ti'li yeat- and tin total ol u hteh i.-imw lo.-e iiioii V. hot) mil. s, w i li an i.iial kiosm i-iirniiiM nl alioiit. 1') million ilollai's. Almiit one hall' of tin- in-w rail- a)-tli,-i.' Iiav.- Iiirn roiisl i ticti-il ilurin' tin' hi -. lour ycitrn ur in tin- Suit lii'i n Stati As a inatti-r of i-mirsi- tlio-ic Ur! million ilolhirs in I slid. Again, the di-.ciivery of new uses tor natural pro- ducts has turned into wealth much that was formerly wasted. Cottonseed, which had hit le commercial value prior to SS.-j, is now yiei.ling to the cotton planters an annual income of alioiit 2 million dollars. In the meantime the degradation of lahor, black and white, throughout the through a fall in the Northern. To the incriasc of enforced idleness here is added the agency of longer hours, lower w ages ninl meaner ri ipiiremenls of l fe among the compi-titi and uiu rganized worker-of ihe Sou' h. VV ay be greatly mistaken; but it ' seems ti i us t hat this grow ing prosperity of eanitnliin in the South,. rn Slut,- iu l ' ominous of disaster to the laboring class of ihe w hole cnutil rv MR. GOMPERS' COMPANY. It is quite evident that Mr. (lumpers' opposition to the Socialists has not made him the most popular of men among the glass workers of America. Under the caption, "To l'leveiit the Spread of So cialistic Ideas," their official organ, the Stttwmtl Cl nut Itmhji't, published in l'ittsburg, has the following;: "In a cucular ju-tilying the recent removal of the sy ndicat of the Khem i ish-Westphalch, manufacturers, of win dmv glass, some very good reasons for such combinations are set forth. The solicitude for the welfare of the work ingiuen is strongly brought out, and the reasons therefore, too, are plainly ap parent Sa)8 the writer: 'Tlnit tin- liiitiitili's ln itiivM.-'I with asnlkl ( 'ini'liiitiii! .in. I eiiulil il in mit-iirn nn ern ii'.inlirtl viiliie f'T al pr iliiets, ninl (i.rouirli Ml. Ii se an-. I lui-ls ln-i-i nn' i-i ulil il t.i pr .v i.lo st.'iutv . inil.'Miu"'t f..r Hie .n knn u ; ami in lirnvi.le m leiltit'inrirs us. (;ic as p --.ita hit ilns' Insi f liin unl iiiiii'i, tthiiii triule ili-.'iTss mis iilwuys hrlnr 'lili ilu'in-al iii whh never mute m-ivs-nry . r .le-lratn.- tlnoi Hi pri'.-i'nl. N..I only Ins a . e It U lifiieli.-iiil t.. tin- iiiaiiuiseliirers- mi'l tin- nal i. nnl vm-a t,i Inive li'lusliy ( . r I er, lint nlsn he aun'. as a nins anil spo. tally at ttiis tune, ihe pmpa ration nt nn ha' N'.'l 'l Mi.' tliennes, umler taken t'v. n l.y ai'aili'tnii- tt-ai ln r , u h . ure en.li Ui-ring the tna es hs ti.-t their em 1 -t'.s, a si t il l.v uiiMTiniiiiini' HsrttHtnrs, ami in w nf ilepu'stn u llir.'a i-niiii; nur ma -tri, ia e n s of i he work' rs. atnl the runs. 'iju. ill iHiv.-ity lennliliii; t Hie working cUss must be pr. veiitinl.' "Now, that at least is frank and honest. Provide the workmen with lots of hard work; keep him from idleness-hold his head down on his task, and keep his nose on the grindstone, so that his lit tit thinker can't get time to work and thus prevent the spread of Socialistic fleas. "The teacher of the academy above, the agitator in the noddle. ,iud l ho toiler lalow, are giving the tine gentlemen in all finds a ut-al of trouble. "Mr. (iotiipeismight to take heart. He ha- company. He is imt the only one w ho-e npi iiiiinit) has been di-turu d by t he h.ili .1 Socialists. THE SINGLE TAX PLUCKED. The Antl Pov. i iy cic!) is repot led to be up m arms gain-t ncrt a-i d taxes Olllt.il i stale, and to be prcpalH.g to . "tll.ti l.c-t the iT--.-t . t su. Ii o,ci e.i-. d and Hil l i .i-i:-g l.ixi'.'.on. The Anti- Loverly Society was wh.il might be called the b it wing ol the now del'uncl fniii'd Labor Par:, the ril.t win.- of w he'll as h. I I by (l. orgo ami hi-, crew. Il.i'b w ings w. .. ih-n, ;o d claim )el to be, Sn,,. 'J j i,, ,.r. ,,, , iM theory that tax.- in . al . ale weie al t-.gelhi r too b..il. ,,,i' h.iiild be in- ! creased and concciii r,it . 1 1 upon find .ml). 'he wing, that headed by (ieorge, ha--nine lime ago wallo-d oil' lulolin- Free Trade Ciimp, whence, avowedly, an in creased rent was to accrue to the hated 1 iii'lbir.l. Now Ihe other wing sets its f'.ce ngaihMl the very thing il had all along hen striving fur, and kicks at an increased taxat ion of find. Li lt w ithout a single w ing on which to tlutter, the Single Tax w ill henceforth have to craw l. OUR RAILROADS. The length of new track laid during 1W!IH in the United States reached about li Out) miles, as ugalnst 5,095 in fsNil, l!,li7!J in isss, ami l'i.liliT in ls7. While the considerable decrease of activity in railway construction during the past three years, as compared with 1SS7, must have had the elTect of throwing out of employment Large numbers of unskilled laborers, it is claimed that the constantly increasing railway mileage in opeiation and the improvement of old lines have greatly enlarged the Held of steady occupation for skilled labor in the railroad industry. This i.s true to a certain extent; not, however, in pro portion to the increased mileage and slid less in proportion to die increassd population. There is no other industry in which capital bears so great a pro portion to the number of people em ployed. And this ratio isstcadily grow ing. At the present time, the capital engaged in the railways of the Umited Suites is ten thousand millions of dol lars, or one (ju trier of the to al capital of the country; w hereas the number of people to whom it gives employment is less (bat S()(l .uoo, or about one thirtieth of oar total laboring force, As the net income of I hat capital is earned by the labor which it employs, it follows, arithmetically, that the magnates who own our avenues of communication, while fn qiient ly complaining' of the small returns they gei. on their invest ments, are actually taxing labor to an extent seven times greater than does any other class of capitalists. COMMUNICATION. Fifteen Dollars for a Daily, Fditar Woukmkx's Advocate: In the struggle for freedom and at the close of my fifty-fourth year I am with you in the grand march to true civilization. When ipiite a youth 1 read in one of my school morning lessons this sentence: "All that came before me were thieves robbers." And for the benefit of hypo crites and pharisees that worship him who said this it may lie observed that all his predictions were to the elTect that no end would come to the misery of the world until the age and order oTthings known as competitive had also come to an end. From his day to ours yve may indeed look vainly for anything like the equality of man thai he proclaimed, hut we may tind everywhere the same robber systems that he denounced. 1 do not believe all that has been written eon 'erning this eminent Jew; but 1 learned to love him w ho sacrificed his life in the defense of human brother hood, lie would not own where so many were disow ned. Like our brothers who were murdered by hypocrites he angered the thieves that stole the poor widow's mite, and he was the friend of the unfortunate. Mankind are waiting and hoping, for the age of etpiity w hich he said must come. I love the Wohkmen's Advocate for the fearlessness it displays in the cause of true Socialism. A certain kind of sovereignity or rule must exist as long as a school for civilization is needed. And if 1 know what Socialism is, this sovereignity or rale must obtain not through violence but through education over enough of mankind to organize a new system of co-oeratiin, that will overthrow and supersede all other sys tems. I would hasten the day by pledging my support to a daily paper. 1 see that this subject is now taken up by some of your readi rs. Step to the front, then, ye liberty lovers. I will give tiftetn ilolins a year for a daily copy of the Woukmkn's Apvocatk sent to my addn ss. (U'otoiK L. Hakt. I I'MONVil 1.' , Conn. l'.c. l-:.l. j Dm. n out by Money l'ower. I '.. ,'nr Wi iiKMl s A i. ih a IT: I ( have lbs. Ol.' limed Ihe p'l . I. Cation of the s7..-i(niiif A. aw ;,',, ; turn .-ii - i 1 i port K tt in ,l..i.;;iry 1 t x, t et t.. issue ' another weekly in Fell licck.e, Ti-nn. M -ill. while piease m nd me ymir exci f I. 'in paper f,,r I can not. wed Mo wiiiioiir it. The wage sj Mem and th- llloney power are the l,i; guard, ot oppii s-ioii and any gov. i inn. 'hi Inal upledd- lliem can hut be a tyranny, .1 M. I i.AiiKi:. Sie-I w ood, Ti'llll.. 1 1 c The Iteer Ibijcnlt and Hi.' I'a-aii' I I'iiihV A-senilih. NA ft' VA I, I Nt in ol' mi-: I'MI'I n I'lll'W 1 I: V 'A' iCKMI.V til' ' hi. I . - .'iio, V.ii:kmi.n s Ai.i'.ti:: Tlu-iugh ii ennui; i, , of ni'i- ,,, ,d Chi .li No a i and also by a notice ,-niii. m 1 In- Pater.-' ill even I n LT paper Tin i i itiU'duiit I ot December ','T, 1-1ID, I have been iu formoil that the Pa-saic County Trades' A-sembly has at its session before I he last, raised the special boycott placed upon A. Fink iV Son's pool beer of New York some tune ago and after the agent of Fink bad held a conference wiihthe National Secretary at New Yoik. A large quantity of this beer i.s sold at Paterson, N. J. I desire to stigmatise this statement of the committee, together with lha! ol a certain -Mr. Rudolph made to the Se cretary of our Local Union, No. 53 as a deliberate untruth. A protest against tins traitorous action has been lodged with the President of the American Federation of Labor, to w hich the Passaic Count) Trades' As sembly is attached, and it is expected that the whole matter w ill be settled to our satisfaction if the Passaic County 'frades' Assembly desires to retain its afliliation with the American Federation of Lahor. Personally I deem it my duty to pub licly declare that tin action of Rudolph and Co., who are known officially as l he "C iiiiinittee on Drew-cries, ' is identical wil,h that of Aichibald & Co., of New York, who schemed to raise the boycott on all pool beer. Fraternally, FUN'nT K I'll.K.N KN AUK, National Secretary, New York, Jan. 5, fs'Jl, Third American Sccli.ni ol South Drunk 1 n. A well attended meeting of the Third American Section of South Hrooklyn was held on Friday evening, January !i. Comrade Kielizle presided. I' wo new members were admitted. The linancial report wats sulnnittteil and accepted, A mass meeting: of the Section was arranged to be held at Ked Hook on January 11, when the routine business wits disposed of a lively dehate took place on the second article of "Social I (eman.ls" in the platform of ho S, L. P. The subject of donate lor the nexv meet ing is "Wouid it bo benelieial to the. Socialist Labor cause if labor strikes were losl V A. Kl.- tN, St.iy. An Open Letter to l'rulessor Walker. Professor Walker In the last issue of the Woukmkn's Advocatk attention is called to your recent address before the "American Kconomic Association." You '.nore undertook to call Nationalism pseudo socialism; you referred to Us phe nomenal grow th; ami with innate mo desty you attempted to prophesy that its devoted disciples would sooner or later perceive their error and retrace their steps into your "economic army"! Are you the same Walker, the Profes sor, w ho some ten months ago prophe sied "professed'', I presume I should say because of your title that he could scatter Nationalism and its dreamy doc trines to the winds; and tried to do it, and who now tacitly admits the thing has grown beyond his reach? If you are the same, do you not think that you tit t" spoiled for a prophet and had better try your hand at some other work than prophesying or "professing"';1 As to your opinion that Nationalists are such because liny have not yet learned hy "a careful study of history, and of the material conditions of human existence" within what limits the exer tions for the amelioration of mankind must beconlined, you only give further evidence of your incapacity tor "profes sing." It is just because pfople, "by a careful study of history, and of the material conditions of human existence", have come to perceive that the pillaging of their birth rights, the continual expropiiation of the product of the "sweat of their brows' is the work of your masters and your protects, and be cause they have further perceived "with in what lunitsexertions for the ameliora tion of mankind luu-t nece.-sarily be confined" under the intellectual guidance of hirelings of the exploiting class such as you, that they are walking away in such large number from the "economic armies" of pseudo-professors and gt inline humbugs, into the "economic ur.mes" of what you please to call "p.-eudo-socialism." Dut. by the way. Professor, when did you commence to admire the idea of drawing the people up m armies. Mr. Dellamy's "industrial army" was very obnoxious to you. t Mi! hut this is an "01011011110" ai my. It is the adjective that pokes y.uii e -i-e me. H.l;tiV Clvn. The Miners' Convention a; Altomia, Pa.. ropr si't'.ng Id. mm miners, has adopted a rt sointi. i; that aft. r January 1 the price t-f lniiiit.g o.il -),;,, 1 ,",(',-. per net ton, the present price Uing 50c. per gro-s. THE FARMERS. Hani. I In l i'im lii.rn.-i .l (In I -nl, 'I i t ,i -o r Hill al S.ii nma I ist i lull Nn. a, A' l i-t Sim, i-t i 'iu'i N... .". la v'.s iiu'i'i hi.; of No innal I I i-i.-l I '. I,' oil di ill, led ! the I ;! n,, -' A I ialiee fill." Tie Ject ii i . i' .,, ina ,1 -'alnl t be .- Ol'loj, i ; ,e J)!,' m bill clear i liouhi,- u , re an , S:ii, that ill-' In i i . ipl. llisl, hlioss ,, li a - i 1 1 ) to under of that -,ny - if ie nil' I llll.'lll 'l III in- litioal economy and tleir '!eVi-o;,inelit, To lid- ,-lld he eiie elated the la-v of exchange value, or value proper; t he dill'ereni iat ion of ono a mi in e i il y out of flic ma s of com modities as Ihe standard of the values of ah; the gradii .1 development of that dllei enl iiiti'd connnodil v inlo money; and I he gradual dev. lop n lent of nmney, in the process of exchange, into the only means of pay incut, in lieu of pay ment in kind. At this point the lecturer read tho pas-age from "Capital" whete the down fall of the exemplary agriciiltuie of Japan was prophesied through the intro duction of the European system of money pa) incuts; and he proceeded to review the present condition of the farmers. The lecturer showed the farmer to be mortgaged up to the handle; living no longer in an age where he could cancel his debts by pay ment in kind, but where money was the only means to do so; and so circum stanced, by his wants, that he could not purchase that money commodity with out a sacrifice of his product at the elevator placed handily near by by the capitalist combinations, So circum stanced but not jet imbued with the spirit of economic jus'ice, the farmer was making a supreme effort to save himself. The result of his t (Tun was the Sub-Treasury bill. Tho lecturer then proceeded to give the del a ils of the bill and showed it was ,-ui attempt to re introduce payment in kind, and there fore reactionary. As lo the chalices of success of such a movement, the lecturer believed they wert'slini. Some sham hill, very dill'er ont from the present one, and w hose ell'eot wouid be to leave the farmer class in exactly the same condition, might become a law; hm he did nt think it likely that, giddy with its present power, capitalism was likely to let go mid give the farmer class a new lea-e of life such as il would gain were the present lull to be put through, Ihe lecturer closed with Ihe con sideration of the attitude that Nation, idisls and Socialists should adopt in silit of such a movement, lie believed that the railroad and other anti monop oly planks of the fallners should not. blind the social reformers. Those planks did not propose nat ionaliz ition in the sense that Nat finalists w ant it. Thoso planks made no provision for the em ployers and did not contemplate either an increase of their wages, nor a decrease- of their hours of loll, but simply a transfer of the wealth, now derived from transportation by tho monopoly magnates, into tho pockets of the farmer. The course of Nationalist and Socialists should, therefore, be to utilize the movement by showing its abberation and pointing out its one sidedness; to bring out the fact of its being a class movement in the worst sense of the word, that is, a movement intended to benefit one class of societ y and i xcluding other classea from similar privileges a circumstance that was ap parent from the fact thatti.e advantage of realizing money on his prod nets as mum as wanted wan to be given to the raiser of farm products only. The course that Nationalists and Socialists should pur sue was one of steady, independent political action, never losing sight of i heir programme, or of the universal justice of their aim. The principal critic wa-i Charles Sotheran, w ho claimed that the fanner was moving on Nationalist lines; that not the Sub Treasury bill but the nation alization of the rdlroads etc. was the principal farmer demand; and that the tanner did look to the wot king people because he welcomed them to his ranks. In answering, the lecturer quoted the St. Louis and the Oeala platforms. He show ed that while at St. Lmiis in De cember 'S'J, the farmer had spoken of the nationalization of the tailmad -, at Ocaln, in December ls'iiO, he had changed his language into 'a control and 'super vision", and the lecturer insisted that the two things were different. Further more, he showed that the onlv pledge demanded by the farmer from the candidates at the recent elections was loyalty to the Sub Treasury bill, and that not a word yvas said atxmt state owner-hip (,f railroads. Fmady, that the fact of the farmer's "wel coming" labor whs not Milliei.nt ground on which to predicate Ins good will for labor: all the plutocratic patties did that; Republicans and Democrats, Protectionists and Free Traders alike; on tho contnry, however, at a recent meeting of fanners when the question was brought it. about reducing i he hours of l ib r of the farm hands a hubbub aro-e and the proposition was hooted .low n. The lecturer clo-ed, however, with an expression of the hope that, m view of our present -tat" nt cnj izMion, the farm, r tiny evoluie rapidly, and that, oieeoli the wa.path ag,in-l the oppres' sion a'ld povertv which he fe. :t. m;,y le-ir i what indeed it is that produ.-ei bum-in misery, and ri-e to the height . f en .e.ivorii.g toUHii, n p.-nnai e;,!iy .,r ai!. Iti-'ea 1 of temp, rat iy ,,r , ,,,.. ,f ace-: hi other word-, j , In h.uid- m, tin- Nati.-nao-l- :uid S v i ii..-t.s.