to the
account, to their regular posts in the main cabin and warned by their
captain not to get into the way of the escaping passengers. James
Humphries, as quartermaster and eye witness said, "throughout the first
hour of confusion and terror these lads sat quietly on their benches.
Not one of them attempted to enter a lifeboat. Not one of them was
saved."

Can you read this without being moved to tears? Brave, noble little
lads! I almost feel as if it had been a privilege to go down with these
great little souls to their watery grave.

The little boys who perished here were poor boys, many of them without
fathers, and others obliged to support widowed mothers and little
brothers and sisters younger than themselves.

What a lesson this touching, deeply pathetic incident teaches and what a
world of meaning there is in the sad circumstances of their tragic
death!

Had they not been poor children, little waifs, they would not have been
locked in the cabin to perish like rats. They would not, in fact, have
been there at all, and had it not been for the pride and pomp, the greed
and luxury that paraded the upper deck, the Titanic never would have
gone to the bottom of the sea.

And now, my children, I must come to a close. I have taken up much of
your time, but I have only been able to trace in barest outline what the
Socialist party is organized for, what it aims to do, and will do, and
why the children, above all, should vie with each other in helping it
to grow and speeding the happy day of its success.

When that day comes the rejoicing people will realize that the kingdom
of heaven, so long prayed for, has been set up here on earth in the
social brotherhood of all mankind.

SOCIAL REFORM.

While there is a lower class I am in it;
While there is a criminal class I am of it;
While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

DANGER AHEAD.

International Socialist Review, January, 1911.

The large increase in the Socialist vote in the late national and state
elections is quite naturally hailed with elation and rejoicing by party
members, but I feel prompted to remark, in the light of some personal
observations made during the campaign, that it is not entirely a matter
of jubilation. I am not given to pessimism, or captious criticism, and
yet I cannot but feel that some of the votes placed to our credit this
year were obtained by methods not consistent with the principles of a
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