nionism the spectacle of local unions in the same crafts pitted against
each other to their mutual destruction would not be presented to us in
the City of Chicago, and the capitalist newspaper trust would not now
have its heel upon the neck of the union pressmen. For this lamentable
state of affairs the craft union and William Randolph Hearst, its chief
patron and promoter, are entirely responsible.

The Socialist party presents the farm workers as well as the industrial
workers with a platform and program which must appeal to their
intelligence and command their support. It points out to them clearly
why their situation is hopeless under capitalism, how they are robbed
and exploited, and why they are bound to make common cause with the
industrial workers in the mills and factories of the cities, along the
railways and in the mines in the struggle for emancipation.

The education, organization and co-operation of the workers, the entire
body of them, is the conscious aim and the self-imposed task of the
Socialist party. Persistently, unceasingly and enthusiastically this
great work is being accomplished. It is the working class coming into
consciousness of itself, and no power on earth can prevail against it in
the hour of its complete awakening.

_Socialism Is Inevitable._

The laws of evolution have decreed the downfall of the capitalist
system. The handwriting is upon the wall in letters of fire. The trusts
are transforming industry and next will come the transformation of the
trusts by the people. Socialism is inevitable. Capitalism is breaking
down and the new order evolving from it is clearly the Socialist
commonwealth.

The present evolution can only culminate in industrial and social
democracy, and in alliance therewith and preparing the way for the
peaceable reception of the new order, is the Socialist movement,
arousing the workers and educating and fitting them to take possession
of their own when at last the struggle of the centuries has been crowned
with triumph.

In the coming social order, based upon the social ownership of the means
of life and the production of wealth for the use of all instead of the
private profit of the few, for which the Socialist party stands in this
and every other campaign, peace will prevail and plenty for all will
abound in the land. The brute struggle for existence will have ended,
and the millions of exploited poor will be rescued from the skeleton
clutches of povert