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It is well stated, "that civilization is at present rudimentary, and
that it is to develop indefinitely."

Now, in view of the fact that the crops this year (1914) are the most
abundant ever produced, that there is no market for the almost sixteen
million bales of cotton lying in the warehouses, while at the same time
there are millions of unemployed in the land who are without food and
without clothing and who, with their wives and children, are doomed to
indescribable suffering; in view of this solemn and indisputable fact it
would seem that there could be but one opinion among students and
thinkers as to the one great, vital and essential thing to do for the
relief of our common humanity and for the promotion of the world's
progress and civilization, and that that one thing is the one to be
emphasized with all the power at our command.

A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based
upon warring classes cannot stand.

Such a world is a world of strife and hate and such a society can exist
only by means of militarism and physical force.

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The education of the people, not the few alone, but the entire mass in
the principles of industrial democracy and along the lines of social
development is the task of the people to be emphasized and that
task--let it be impressed upon them--can be performed only by
themselves.

The cultured few can never educate the uncultured many. All history
attests the fact that all the few have ever done for the many is to keep
them in ignorance and servitude and live out of their labor.

To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set
them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of
mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to
render real service to the cause of humanity.

To quote Herron once more:

"Socialism is a deliberate proposal to lay the will of man upon the
unfolding processes and ends of nature and history. It invokes the faith
that shall be equal to the acceptance of its proposal--of its supreme
challenge to the universe."

A MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN.

Campaign Leaflet, National Campaign, 1912.

The Socialist party is the only party that has the children at heart;
the only party that takes them into its confidence; the only party that
has a message for them in a campaign year.

In my travels ab