of labor it shines as a
new-risen sun and it is the hope of all humanity.

Onward, comrades, onward in the struggle, until Triumphant Socialism
proclaims an Emancipated Race and a New World!

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.

Campaign Speech, Pabst Park, Milwaukee, Wis., July 21, 1912.

Friends, Fellow-Socialists and Fellow-Workers: The existing order of
things is breaking down. The great forces underlying society are
steadily at work. The old order has had its day and all the signs point
to an impending change. Society is at once being destroyed and
re-created.

The struggle in which we are engaged today is a struggle of economic
classes. The supremacy is now held by the capitalist class, who are
combined in trusts and control the powers of government. The middle
class is struggling desperately to hold its ground against the inroads
of its trustified and triumphant competitors.

This war between the great capitalists who are organized in trusts and
fortified by the powers of government and the smaller capitalists who
constitute the middle class, is one of extermination. The fittest, that
is to say the most powerful, will survive. This war gives rise to a
variety of issues of which the tariff is the principal one, and these
issues are defined in the platforms of the Republican and Democratic
parties.

With this war between capitalists for supremacy in their own class and
the issues arising from it, the working class have nothing to do, and if
they are foolish enough to allow themselves to be drawn into these
battles of their masters, as they have so often done in the past, they
must continue to suffer the consequences of their folly.

_Parties Express Economic Interests._

Let us clearly recognize the forces that are undermining both of the old
capitalist parties, creating a new issue, and driving the working class
into a party of their own to do battle with their oppressors in the
struggle for existence.

Parties but express in political terms the economic interests of those
who compose them. This is the rule. The Republican party represents the
capitalist class, the Democratic party the middle class and the
Socialist party the working class.

There is no fundamental difference between the Republican and Democratic
parties. Their principles are identical. They are both capitalist
parties and both stand for the capitalist system, and such differences
as there are between them involve no principle but are t