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WBKMKSADVOCATf.
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mi'ipi-ili tl.-ii e..lr vat tla- iii'l nt M.iu-ii.
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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.
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'I i t ,i -o r Hill al S.ii nma I ist
i lull Nn. a,
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la v'.s iiu'i'i hi.; of No innal
I I i-i.-l I '. I,' oil di ill, led
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fill." Tie Ject ii i . i' .,, ina ,1
-'alnl t be .- Ol'loj, i ; ,e J)!,' m
bill clear i liouhi,- u , re
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S:ii,
that
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to under
of that
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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.