er in name only and are one in fact is
demonstrated beyond cavil whenever and wherever the Socialist party
constitutes a menace to their misrule. Milwaukee is a case in point and
there are many others. Confronted by the Socialists these long pretended
foes are forced to drop their masks and fly into each other's arms.

_Twin Agencies of Wall Street._

The baseness, hypocrisy and corruption of these twin political agencies
of Wall Street and the ruling class cannot be expressed in words. The
imagination is taxed in contemplating their crimes. There is no depth of
dishonor to which they have not descended--no depth of depravity they
have not sounded.

To the extent that they control elections the franchise is corrupted and
the electorate debauched, and when they succeed in power it is but to
execute the will of the Wall Street interests which finance and control
them. The police, the militia, the regular army, the courts and all the
powers lodged in class government are all freely at the service of the
ruling class, especially in suppressing discontent among the slaves of
the factories, mills and mines, and keeping them safely in subjugation
to their masters.

How can any intelligent, self-respecting wage-worker give his support to
either of these corrupt capitalist parties? The emblem of a capitalist
party on a working man is the badge of his ignorance, his servility and
shame.

Marshalled in battle array, against these corrupt capitalist parties is
the young, virile, revolutionary Socialist party, the party of the
awakening working class, whose red banners, inscribed with the inspiring
shibboleth of class-conscious solidarity, proclaim the coming triumph of
international Socialism and the emancipation of the workers of the
world.

_The Two Political Forces._

Contrast these two political forces and the parties through which these
forces find concrete expression! On the one side are the trusts, the
corporations, the banks, the railroads, the plutocrats, the politicians,
the bribe-givers, the ballot-box stuffers, the repeaters, the parasites,
retainers and job-hunters of all descriptions; the corruption funds, the
filth, slime and debauchery of ruling class politics; the press and
pulpit and college, all wearing capitalism's collar, and all in concert
applauding its "patriotism" and glorifying in its plundering and
profligate regime.

On the other side are the workers and producers of the nation coming
into