Indiana Socialist, Volume 7, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1913 — Page 2

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The "Star" Tuesday morning in an editorial criticising Vice-President Marshall's speech before the National Democratic Clubs cf New York, repeated the threadbare charge that, "Socialists affect to believe that all men, regardless of their ability and deserts should share alike in the products of labor." This hoary old hcax has been repeated sv often that to attempt a serious aliment against it Is to risk being latched at, not only by Socialists but by intelligent mm of every party. We are reminded cf George Bernard Shaw's reply to a request that he write an answer to Eoosevtdth; attacks on the Socialists, published some time ago. Said G. B. S., ott a post card to the editor of Van Norden's Magazine : "To mak(; a serious answer to the Roosevelt articles to which you refer would be to make one's self ridiculous. Europe does not take Mr. Roosevelt seriously. Over here his article are considered as being re

markable only in showing haw little'

an American President may know." So t.U scht ' ..

THINK IT OYER

ISy JUSTIN HARDEST

One of the most remarkable confessions in American politics, as described by the Enquirer of yesterday, Sunday, April 13, 10 la, vas the address of the Vice-President of the United States, Thomas R. Marshall cf this state. It was delivered, as tin Enquirer says, in an undrarnaiie tone with an even voice, evidently the result cf rr-floctiun and thought. He was speaking to the National Democratic Clubs at New York City and here in part is what lie said: "Nothing but a desire to arouse rich men to a sense of their danger would induce rne to suggest this. (He advocated the repeal cf the laws of descent.) What might happen to them here in the great slate of New York. If those who have not should take it into their heads to make common

cause against those who have? "They talk about vested rights and in their talks they assume both an inherent and constitutional right to pass their property down from generation to generation until some reckless descendant shall have dissipated it. Thoy have at their command the finest legal talent in the world. "Supposing a Governor and a General Assembly in the State of New York should repeal the statute of descendants and the statute with referencs to the making of wills on their death, how much vested interest would any relative have in the property which fell from their nerveless hands at the hour of dissolution? "The right to inherit and th? right to devise are neither inherent nor constitutional but on the contrary they are simply privileges given by the State to its citizens. "Let backward looking and inward looking men read the returns of the last election. Let them put. cn rrasks.

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it is only by the sufferance cf State expressed in the form cf that great fortunes are now pa

down from father to son or to duo' ter or wddow. These laws con hi rescinded at the pleasure cf State. Tut, tut: This S'ato favorcentivo and ambition and no law t

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COLLECTIVISM. The Socialists expert, when given political power by the voters, to drop the stockholders and other private owners of public utilities entirely out of the system cf production and distribution as rapidly as possible. The plan is to make public utilities collective property, and to rid our political world of those economic influences able to manipulate the law and its execution for the enrichment of the few and the pauperization cf the producers. Clyde J. Wright, in "The Parmer."

-THE TRUE' KE3IEDT. Emil Seidel, in Socialist Campaign Book. Collective ownership of the trusts would retain the good features and eliminate the bad features. The people would then again be the masters of their own weal and woe. The nation should, through its gov

ernment, take possession at once of the national trusts; the state should own those trusts that are a unit in the state; the counties should own

those trusts that are a unit in the

counties, and the cities should own

those that are a unit m the cities.

OXE CiTT-S FIGURES.

In the last eight years 1.5G0 women, all young, have killed themselves in

Chicago hotels.

Some of them had been drugged or

Intoxicated and ruined. Others had

seen the hopelessness of their life. Nearly 200 a year take their lives. . In

practicall3r every case they were des

titute. No money or valuables being

found on them, they are sent to Pot

ter's Field.

Yet there are those wdio claim that prostitution is not an economic ques

tion.

Chicago is similar .to all other big

cities. New York, Boston, Philadel

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il l- ' t ro,. t, i.uwn as suicides.I.. Y. Lh.ll.

IJow lasry sutecribeo have yea ss rrc.l th;: wcdi?

vvaii street, tne men who make up tae more or less mysterious intangible money power. Unaccountable are the onslaughts that have been made upon this financial citadel. For years the land has echoed with denunciations of it. With the clamor of its enemies and critics has been mingled the de

spairing waHs of Its victims, but no public man holding such an exalted ofhee as Vice-President has calmly and deliberately . after reflection and long observation wrarned Wall street that it virtually may be despoiled if it does not reform. WARNS THE 31 ASTER CLASS. What moves this Lilliputian Vice-

President to make these statements

Quote his own language: "Nothing but a desire to arouse the rich men to a sense of their danger." There

you have if. Marshall was elected

with Wilson supposedly to represent

the people, to protect the people, ,to

give the poor man a chance, to decrease the cost of living and raise the standard of human life and 3et within

sixty days after his inauguration, the

Vice-President goes to the money

powers, the rich of this country, and warns them of the danger that lurks beneath the grind of American poli

tics.

Ah, Thomas P.., you serve your mas

ter well. You lick the hand that

feeds you. You fawn and cringe at

the feet of the money powers that

made you. And like the faithful clog

that you are, and this is a figure of

speech, upon the least scent of danger

you rush barking into your master's

presence and inform him that an enemy is without. You do not see fit to return to Indianapolis and talk to the poor of this city and' say to them, I warn you against the rich in Wall

street. But you go to the Barons cf Wall Street, the financial grafters, the legal prostitutes, the commercial stranglers, and warn them of approaching danger. Danger from whom? Are common peoplo afraid of themselves? Are you warning the common people against an enemy or are you warning an enemy against the common people? "Why should you be so rash and so impetuous as to warn this class whom you say have at their command the finest legal talent in the world? The answer is palpable. You are afraid the leaders of the fmanc'al world will go down in wreck and ruin and to utter destruction at the hands of the much aroused and much abused people. You discern the times. You can ro".d the meaning cf the stars. You

things do clip out opportunity and

ambition, then it is due to the oapi

istic system and not to Socialism. SOCIALISM. The Vice-President deprecatedspread of the doctrines of Karl M The Enquirer said opposition strong to Socialism, but Wall St: Marshall said, re-enforced by tho less wealth away from New York, fomenting a Socialistic spirit . menaced the underlying princ i this government. To check this unrest, which Marshall solemnly declared growing. Wall Street and its a til tions should heed the call of Pident Wilson, sounded on the uay his inauguration six weeks aeo, tl store the people's government to ancient purity. THE SCHOOL TEACHER 1)!SC E.RS SOMETHING. It is violating no confidence, says Enquirer, to say that the Vice-Pr dent has received intimations Will LEAD HIM TO SUSPECT TE THERE IS AN INTRIGUE AG AH THE NEW ADMIN I STRATI ON IIGH FINANCIAL CIRCLES. lit !rehends that men of more than unary acumen and even gr wealth are covertly scheming to L confusion upon tf Wilson regime i' 'ss" "it restricts itself to a rhov program of legislation and reft He thinks they may be con; . ' make the country rnistrn rrcsident and the Democratic to discredit them before they at ly launched upon their experim.. running -the government upon 1 in accordance with theories and p

ciples designed to result IN A M;'KK GENERAL DIFFUSION OP 1nr-

PRODUCTS OF INDIVIDUAL FORT. COMMENT. We prophesied a month ago the President either would or w not listen to the lords of finance, mci said that if he did net listen he wtid

be discredited before the country, UK1 Wall Street would bring down a p;nie

like which we have never suffered te"

fore. We prophesy that still, XiVon

has thrown down the gauntlet or u fi vidaalism. Wall Street has taker. lt up and a bitter fight is on. Wil?OT1 even now comments upon cons; ira" cies and intrigues. Pray, my lord, who is intriguinS

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Not v. hat we are nor what vc stand for but what we can make has come to be the measure cf governmental duty and individual conduct. "And yet despite this theory of life, Karl Marx and hunger and a longing for happiness are abroad in the land. They arc sitting as unknown gu-'sts at every frugal meal. They are perrbing the waking hours and color-

5 th'. dreams of millions of Aureri- j ns Vvho in' fact all have the right say what shall or shall not be. "Swollen fortunes and the aecumu- j don cf great wealth through go-; nmental privilege had much, to do j th this discontent. Along with gen-; al prosperity has come a marvelousling up of colossal private fortunes, j this add a general diffuon. knowledge, and in consvr' rge bodies of men arc restive. j

'THE DESIRE OF THE PEOPl-E 1 FOE GREATER EQUALITY OF PPORTUN1TY AND ENJOYMENT.

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against the governnient? Who is e m spiring against the public welfare? Mr. Wilson said the other day nctu"

ing was more absurd than to that there were classes in ; j'd.S in society, and now he ru h. print, through his Vice-Pr-,. . tells us that the financial iuv . the country are conspirin ' s government and are cc: against the efforts of the D pari v to bring about a : ,jxo , diffusion of the products of i' "

effort. Is this not a self-con f - I meat that individual efTd't , " faro w ith the powers of i the capitalistic class? 3 f t' of finance and the owner, i 1 j

ual effort are one and th why do they not hob' v

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legislation and demand- t relief? Why can't they - 1. 1 harmonic program? Alt ' clety, their Interests, ;,:s t Mr. Wilson. Then wh" c Street undertake to pr t a general diffusion of th . 1 individual effort? Catch the point, Mr. F the inconsistency of ti - ih statement? Now, notice' "l'r son and Mr. Marshall - i1 financial powers are t:, t credit the Democratic ' the Democratic party U t- . - t dttce a iuoto general UFi products cf Individual 1 one of two things 1 3 tri -: , til 3 cnpitalijtic syitcrrt . that life under tho capF .

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IALISM WILL OPI3N UP AND UARANTEE THIS EQlhA'LITT.. "If I were the possessor of a. v.t id growing fortune an?, had r.uii' Up lU UjlHU ' til OLt taC few KU,i ehculd centiriuo to h dp r:. r.Vike it ; grow, or if I were a S: -a!!-t. J would!

frown, down upon tlie t durational system 0! America." COMMENT. What we can not make, says Marshall, is the standard of individual conduct, and yet he says that poverty and Karl Marx and a longing for hapincss are abroad in the land; tha they sit at every frugal meal as unknown guests; that they disturb the waking and the dreaming hours cf millions of Americans and admits that it is these millions who after all have the right to say what shall or shall not be. Why should there exist under capitalism hunger and a longing for happiness, Mr. Marshall? Why thould i drink a glass cf cold wate;- to w,idi down my meal, and John D. IWtfcdFr drink the most expensive tkam-

pnenes tne world produces? Wt. should thousands of miners in West j Virginia starve an! go hungry while I the men who own the mines live like ! the Raman patricians of ancient! t. i ! ti e s ? Wh. y s h o u 1 d p r o s p e rity a n d . poverty abide side by side? Wh ;

should people freeze within a stone's throw of the palaces of th rich un

der this svsdera? Why should crnr.e I tao (! i on attendant of the ptorj ru 1 luMi.tj the reality of the r;ch?'j

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