f the tools of production swept away;
labor's hours shortened to the minimum; the entire population fed,
clothed and sheltered--all through cooperation on a free earth."

This is the kind of "stuff" that is served up to the "learned,"
"scientific Socialists," who place so much confidence in the leaders who
are supposed to be honest and worthy of leading them into the Marxian
Paradise. This is the way they spoke of "Socialism" in Mexico some years
ago, and today they are speaking of it in Russia in much the same way.

Act the Second

Scene--A large photo of Zapata--4 by 6 inches, in "The Call," the
Socialist paper of New York City, April 24, 1919.

Under the photo there is the following inscription:

"General Emiliano Zapata, Mexico's apostle of terrorism, and
recently officially reported to have been killed by Carranza's
troops, was a former plantation stirrup-boy, who, at the zenith of
his rebel power, gained temporary control of Mexico City. Twice
since 1910, when he began his revolt in Morelos, he and his Indian
followers took brief possession of the capital. For nine years he
ravaged southern Mexico, co-operating for a time in 1914 with
Villa. He was the most implacable enemy of peaceful reconstruction
through several regimes. Poor, uneducated, primitive but magnetic,
Zapata was the leader of Mexico's half-savage Indians, in whose
power he planned to place control of the country. Toward the last
he was little more than a hunted renegade, and is reported to have
been killed by strategy of troops operating under General Pablo
Gonzales in Morelos."

The wood-cut of Zapata appears in connection with an article by Jack
Neville, part of which is hereby quoted:

"Cuautla, Mexico, April 23.--The death of Emiliano Zapata removes
Mexico's most ruthless destructionist and implacable enemy of
peaceful regeneration.

"Now, on the wreckage of his empire, where the rebel chief laughed
at civilization and played his huge joke on 100,000 confiding
workers, General Pablo Gonzalez is placing firm underpinning for
freedom and progress.

"Here in the world's richest garden spot, where exploited humanity
has been kept poorest, and where Zapata 'gave' his half-savage
followers the land only to commandeer all crops--here the peon is
for the first time in centuries enjoying the fruits of his toil