THE SOCIALIST PRESS,
G. JL HENRY, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
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Saturday. Feb. 27.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Tr.o Municipal Election is drawing near, and from
the talk we hear around town it would seam that many
persons who voted at the last election have regretted all
the year that they did not elect at any rate one Socialist
if for nothing else, “just to see what he would do.
Believe one who has attended some of their meet
ings, that there were several occasions during the past
year, when had there been e ven a lone Socialist in the coun
oil, he would have been heard in no uncertain language.
Had there been a lone Socialist in the Council at
the time the District Attorney ordered the row closed, at
least there would have been some attempt to meet tae e
mergency other than frightened caucuses and furtive vis
its to the district attorney. So far as we could see there
was only one public attempt at a solu tion, that of Ban Cal
lanan for another location. No one can assert that the
present state of affairs is satisfactory eitner to the public
or the former denizens ol the row.
Had there been a lone Socialist on the council a few
weeks ago it would not have been necessary tor an outsid
der to point out the unrighteousness of giving away of a
valuable franchise for nothing.
While there is no doubt that a lone Socialist would,
have embarrassed his colleagues by “wanting to know”
many things, but the public would have known as much
as he did. Among ether things the public would have
mown why some warrants for wages were good at the
be Bank but warrants for school wages were not, even
.hough they bore interest.
Thy way to abolish war is for the men in the tren-j
,’i€S to take possession of their various governments. They
, right have small standing armies of emperors, kings and
o-and dukes and let them fight enchother aceasionally.
The delicate sense of honor we find in high places is
illustrated by the fact that Wilson is scheming for a second
term having been elected on a one term platform. It is
true, Mr. Bryan who looks on the democratic party as an
old sweetheart of hizzen wrote tne plank with an eye to
the future but that doesn’t let Wilson out.
You may have noticed that none of the statesmen
who want to increase the size of tho American army are
crazy enough to suggest that it bo done by
pay of the privates.
raising the
Stirling Days For
Living Men.
JBy Eugensi V. Debs
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1 hcse are stirring clays for liv
mg' men. The clay of crisis is
drawing near and the Socialists
are exerting all their power (o
prepare the people for it.
The old order of society can
survive but little longer. Social
ism is next in order. The swell
ing minority sounds warning of
the impending change. Soon
that minority wi'l become the
majori y and then will come the
cooperative commonweal h.
Every working man should
rally to the standard of his class
and hasten the full orbed day of
1 freedom.
Every sympathizer with labor,
every friend of justice, every lo
j ver of humanity, thould suppori
: the Socialist party as the onh
party that is organized to abol
ish industrial slavery, the proli
fic source of the frightful evils,
that afflict the peop’e.
Classes and class rule anc
their attendant progress and po
verty, money and misery, tur
moil and stn'fe, aie inherent in
the capitalist system. Why'.
Simply, because one set of mer
own the tools with which wealth
is produced while another set
uses them, and there is an irre
prcssible conflict over the divi
sion of the product.
1 he capitalist owns the tools
he does not use; the worker user
the tools he does notown. 1 he
principle tools of production anc ;
distribution in tlu* United Stater
are mammoth machines, com- j
P'ex social instruments, made j
and used cooperatively by nn - ]
lions of working men, their ven 1
lives, their wives and babes be
ing dependent up >.1 thorn an.
the property of a fe.v hundreu
capitalists, and are operated
purely to make profits for those
capitalists, regardless of the pov
erty and wretchedness that en
sue to the masses.
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The Pcor Man’s Valentine,
By M.argurite Head.
Oh, my Ioyg is a dear, little, sweet, 1 tile girl,
But the secret is stored in my heart;
For although she is charming and pure as a pea,rl
My secret 1 cannot impart.
—GOO—
•L'y the light that illumines the beautiful skies,
My love is unflinching and true;
And I read the return of my love in her eves
But en dollars a week won’t do.
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Shall I ask for her hand when r can’t meet the rea-i*
And I-know her hair will grow gray,
With the burden of worry and discontent
She must carry along the way?
— OQO —
No, I’ll wait hut -IT- fight for the Socialist cause
The hope of the ten-dollar clerk —
And our dreams will come true with a new set of
laws
In a commonwea tli won by work
Are You One Of The
Socialists who Says
'Y.
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[am a socialist—been one for many years—always vote
to the organization.” If you are
The only Socialists ll at
he ticket—byt I do not belon
th;vt class, you should get out ol it
count are the ones that pay their j
little 25 cent dues per month, and
a:d in tlie work of the party oigani
: ition. These are the fellows that
ire making tiie Socialist Party the
reat force for the common good in
vmeiici. The capitalist class won’t
inanoeour party and wo don t
v them to. Its the twenty-five j
cuius per uioiun num ud»uku.mu.«w
of real Socialists that keep the
wheels of the organization go: ig.
Conte on in and find out how wo
run things. You will have iust as
much to say as another. We ha\e
made it easy for you to take the
first step—below is a coupon wl.ich
you should
Oat Out, Tear Off A nd Mail iccay
J'o X. T. King, Fairbanks, or L. \V estenvik,
Cl -as Cilv. ^
[ , ,! e. nvir ced that I should bo anaember oE the organiz vtioi^ you re
pri-sjat. l’icasesenl some one to take my spjdicatsop;
Name
1 w;S be at home