y and famine. Prostitution and the white slave
traffic, fostered and protected under the old order, will be a horror of
the past.

The social conscience and the social spirit will prevail. Society will
have a new birth, and the race a new destiny. There will be work for
all, leisure for all, and the joys of life for all.

Competition there will be, not in the struggle for existence, but to
excel in good work and in social service. Every child will then have an
equal chance to grow up in health and vigor of body and mind and an
equal chance to rise to its full stature and achieve success in life.

_Socialist Ideals._

These are the ideals of the Socialist party and to these ideals it has
consecrated all its energies and all its powers. The members of the
Socialist party _are_ the party and their collective will is the supreme
law. The Socialist party is organized and ruled from the bottom up.
There is no boss and there never can be unless the party deserts its
principles and ceases to be a Socialist party.

The party is supported by a dues-paying membership. It is the only
political party that is so supported. Each member has not only an equal
voice but is urged to take an active part in all the party councils.
Each local meeting place is an educational center. The party relies
wholly upon the power of education, knowledge, and mutual
understanding. It buys no votes and it makes no canvass in the red-light
districts.

The press of the party is the most vital factor in its educational
propaganda and the workers are everywhere being aroused to the necessity
of building up a working class press to champion their cause and to
discuss current issues from their point of view for the enlightenment of
the masses.

_This Is Our Year._

Comrades and friends, the campaign before us gives us our supreme
opportunity to reach the American people. They have but to know the true
meaning of Socialism to accept its philosophy and the true mission of
the Socialist party to give it their support. Let us all unite as we
never have before to place the issue of Socialism squarely before the
masses. For years they have been deceived, misled and betrayed, and they
are now hungering for the true gospel of relief and the true message of
emancipation.

This is our year in the United States! Socialism is in the very air we
breathe. It is the grandest shibboleth that ever inspired men and women
to action in this world. In the horizon