workers in hovels or tramping the
ties; they see the politics of the ruling corporations dripping with
corruption and putridity; they see vice and crime rampant, prostitution
eating like a cancer, and insanity and disease sapping the mental and
physical powers of the body social, and involuntarily they cry out in
horror and protest, THIS IS ENOUGH! THERE MUST BE A CHANGE! And they
turn with loathing and disgust from the Republican and Democratic
parties under whose joint and several maladministration these appalling
conditions have been brought upon the country.

The message of Socialism, which a few years ago was spurned by these
people, falls today upon eager ears and receptive minds. Their prejudice
has melted away. They are now prepared to cast their fortunes with the
only political party that proposes a change of system and the only party
that has a right to appeal to the intelligence of the people.

_First Socialist Congressman._

The political beginning of the Socialist party in this country is now
distinctly recognized by its most implacable enemies. A single Socialist
congressman has been sufficient to arouse the whole nation to the vital
issue of Socialism which confronts it. Victor L. Berger as the first and
until now the only representative of labor, has had the power,
single-handed and alone, to compel the respectful consideration of the
American congress, for the first time in its history, of the rights and
interests of the working class. To be sure the capitalists do not relish
this and so they have consolidated the Republican and Democratic forces
in Berger's district to defeat him, but the rising tide of Socialism
will overwhelm them both and not only triumphantly re-elect Berger but a
score of others to make the next congress resound with the demands of
the working class.

Now is the time for the workers of this nation to develop and assert
their political as well as their economic power, to demonstrate their
unity and solidarity.

Back up the economic victory at Lawrence with an overwhelming victory at
the ballot box! Sweep the minions of the mill-owners from power and fill
every office from the ranks of the workers! Deliver a crushing rebuke to
the hireling-officials of San Diego by a united vote of the workers that
will rescue the city from the rule of the degenerates and place it
forever under a working class administration.

_The Only Democratic Party._

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