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The Masses. New York : The Masses Publishing Company. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015093159583 Public Domain http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. Generated on 2015-07-02 19:04 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015093159583 Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd 4 a" \\ “*.. '_ MAGAZI NE“ '1 INTERESTS ING'S\PEOP LE * A?! I m w. 4%? ‘1 “ V ~\ADrawn by Chasu ‘Winter ,5; '1‘"’M; ~_.4. I”. “.22‘ COMPANY Generated on 2015-07-02 19:04 GMT / http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015093159583 Public Domain / http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd M” OUR ENVIRONMENT KEEPS US 1.,v.-s-.-~c,\ BE YOUR OWN AUTHORITY FROM SOARING av BENJAMIN KEECH a BY BENJAMIN KEECII F you experience shrinking sensationwhen some UMANITY is hungry for good—starving for one says “Socialism,” just rememberthat Social better things. The majority are not sinners ism will be what you, I and our awakeningneigh By Cover. Chas.A. Winter. it H becausethey want to be, but becausethey have . .. .. .. 1 bors vote for to be. There are no Socialist very to be, or go under. Myriads who have been Editorials . _. .. .. 2-3 authorities but us, and we surely won’t vote for conditions for ourselves when we become intelli forced to live dishonestly would gladly live honestly Death’sPlaymates. By RobertRobinson. .. 4 bad go on uninterruptedly, as if they could. Thousands of women, who, a few years gent, will we? Affairs will Public School Education. By Samuel Hopkins more safe, sensible, ago, never dreamedof becomingsinners, now live sin Adams. Iosss.s-I opose-ss-s- ause. s-I s -oI uno now, only steadily growing sane. scientific, Socialistic. Socialism will come gradually, fully because sinful conditions forced them into it. Wages . More and ShorterHours . 8 it, no quicker than we want it and are ready for Thousands of men who once managedlegitimate busi and Educationand the Masses. By Victor L. Berger 7 which is well. first, the nation last. Of course, nesses, have been competedout into all sorts of de Cities 'enjoy full blessing until we get it; moralizing schemes. We would all be what we ought HarrisonGray Otis. By Helen L. Sumner. ... 8 we can’t the but every step toward Socialism gives bit of blessing. to be if we had not voted to be our master’sobliging The Comingof the (Jo-OperativeCommonwealth. usa There will be no confusion in it: coming; it willmgently, slaves. “The road that leads to freedom runs past the By Dan Irving. ..._ . .. .. .. merge itself into our already r' government and ballot box." A plant will grow healthfully, blossom Germinal. By Emile Zola. .. .. ..10-11 ‘fused restore harmony. Socialism is safe becausethe aver beautifully and produce splendid fruit when given a Industrial Unionism. By AlgernonLee.. .. 12 age Socialist workingman is The average capi chance. So will human beings. ditto. Historic Philadelphia. By James W. Babeock...12 talist isn’t. 1 T Education and the System. By Rose Johnston13 FREE LOVE, ANARCHY AND SO 1 Law and Order. By B. S. Bourne. .. ... 14 BUT THE EART DID NOT FORTH Hail to the New Profession. By Rufus W. Weeks15 STOP KEECH , av B'ENJAMIN Sensationalism.By NormanTalcott. .. .. 15 freelover, or non-religionist BY BENJAMIN Icas'cn HE worst anarchist Facts and Interpretations..~... .'. .. .._ 18 is the fool, either educatedor uneducated,who HILE it was once stI/‘onglysuspectedby the The Way You Look at It. .. .. 17 T votes for present conditions which breed such more pruo- t-mindtquelement, that the ad to things. He may be a polished “Christian,” but The Doctorsof Local Ills . .. ._. .. 18 vent of Socialism 'Firouldcause the earth - shining and if he puts himself in the same class with white slavers, Political Education of the Working-Class. By stop revolving, the sun to cease grafters and other prostitutes, his principles are cor Dean Langmuir. .. .. 19 seriously interfere with the changes of the moon and is great coming of the seasons—thatchaos and confusion respondingly as dark as crime itself. There the good in everybody,but most of us are so busy being {LU'LUlLU’'U ’'U‘"Q1L\Jl'pl‘LJJLKL'LUlLUlLUlLUlLUlLUlLUlZ would reign—we now see where we made our mis soon good to our bossesthat we have no time to developit. take. “Example’s the best argument,” and very Milwaukee, by No matter how moral, religious, or industrious one we can point to scores of cities like @THE‘MASSES‘PUBLISIHNG‘CO.® The may be, if poor, he has to suffer quite as keenly as the 150NASSAU STREET. NEW YORK CITY way of argument, thus saving time and words. is is to be toughest crook, because of present conditions. The i5??? 6. dawn nicely breaking; Socialism getting satisfy purest Christian religion does not save him from SUBSCRIPTION RATES popular. Nothing but the best will ever us when and h0w we can get It. economictroubles—ninetenths of our w0rries are per Yearly, $1.00 Half Yearly, 50 Cents we onceknow what Wewant see longs to see our government fectly needless—unlesshe puts hisprayers into prac Therefore, no person who Bundle Rates to join our ranks and‘ votes right that he may not.suffer wr0ng. managedcorrectly, need hesitate tice and ComradesorLocals................................. 6c. a 50or morePaidIn Advance.................. Sc help manage it. The SocialiSt Party is, primarily, 5 or more Advance,peryear,_, Paidin 4c. working-class party, organized to emancipatethe wage EVENT most of our AN IleORTANT Registeredassecond-classmailmatter,December27, slave ,and abolish poverty, the cause of canvassa 1910.atthepostofficeofNewYor: City.under woes.’$LEt everyone in sympathywith the class which E had occiision a few weeks ago to theactofMarch3,1879 they all and gets nothing join the Socialist Army number of radical professors as to what Advertising Rates 20centsper agateline. creates capitalism. This is the ‘l considered the most important recent event. 4 columnsto page. and help fight the monster, up0n and quickest way to realize your longings—-to They agreed almost unanimously the P. Vlag, Business Mgr. surest longing and go to fighting, scientifically. German Reichstag election, which resulted in break quit ing the Kaiser’s conservativebloc, by giving amajority to the former minority group, consisting of the Na - tional Liberals, the Radicals and the Socialists. EASY MONEY Before the bloc can resume its operations they will ‘x‘ . ESLIE M. SHAW, who once had a Good have to buy, steel, or befuddle one of these factions, Job with Uncle Sam and who is now exploiting and it surely will, not be the Socialist faction with its ‘ ' I convict labor, is responsible for the following no representative's. , WANDERING THINKLETS good one: ,, The Socialists polled over four million votes, or a w a a a is hoaestly. is He says man-can make million majority of the total number of votes cast. When per'son disliked, he either very bad or very good. bad, hated by hypocritical good. Leslie is right. There are several ways of doing it. We wonder if the Kaiser still HAS to go to war If he is the a - Almost anybody can get a job at one dollar fifty with England. There will be trouble if he does, .if If good, by the filankly bad. ' day; If yen don’t marry you can readily save twenty not before surely after the war. I , There.is somethingwrong, somewhere; In the year a five cents’worth of this, or a dollar and a half week. .the writer’discovered that .the best saintj,has to IQII Do this for seven hundred thousand weeks and there suffer as keenly as the worst sinner, if not more so. you are. STATE MILITI'A, ‘ Why? Not because any personal fault, because of i but is a Though a better way to be born genius. Then PROPOS of the Lawrence situation, we were of brutal economic conditional“, ‘ ._ I Ia i-‘ you can invent something worth a million dollarsto asked whether or not we believed‘ina State a".;_ ., . humanity and collect your bill. Cinch! . controlled,militia. 4 _ .. - A a Or you might buy telescopeand wait around until To which we replied in the affirmative and you got a new planet and sell it to the governmentfor added that in our opinion for the next few‘ genera— ' ’ Things You Never Read a million'dollars. Why not? tions the only free people could or would be an armed Or you might get a job in a mint. you worked in people. , ~.. If a a mint you easily a could make million dollars hon Armament means force. Militia means collective Yesterday afternoon at special audience the estly. force. We consider State militia desirable becausewe Pope'int'estcd MichaelO’Flaherty with the high Of course, you couldn’t keep the million. ‘intend to capture the State. est order of pontifical knighthood. Mr. O’Fla is But, then, Leslie a great joker and he never said We agree that guns are made to kill and that it is harty was thus honored fer his'oggressive fight capital you could. wrong to kill. But that does not stop the.cpntrolling against in behalf of the striking button class from using guns against us, and as you and I are hole._makers whom he organized from a timid, practical we like to be on the right side of the gun.