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politicians prattle about tariff revision and indulge in silly twaddle
about currency reform and regulation of the trusts.

The Socialist party is absolutely the only party which faces conditions
as they are and declares unhesitatingly that it has a definite and
concrete plan and program for dealing with these conditions.

The Socialist party as the party of the exploited workers in the mills
and mines, on the railways and on the farms, the workers of both sexes
and all races and colors, the working class in a word, constituting a
great majority of the people and in fact THE PEOPLE, demands that the
nation's industries shall be taken over by the nation and that the
nation's workers shall operate them for the benefit of the whole people.

Private ownership and competition have had their day. The Socialist
party stands for social ownership and co-operation. The one is
Capitalism; the other Socialism. The one industrial despotism, the other
industrial democracy.

The Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties all stand for private
ownership and competition. The Socialist party alone stands for social
ownership and co-operation.

The Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties believe in regulating
the trusts; the Socialist party believes in owning them, so that all the
people may get the benefit of them instead of a few being made
plutocrats and the masses impoverished.

The Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties uphold the wage
system; the Socialist party demands its overthrow.

It is under the wage system that the 22,000 operatives in the cotton and
woolen mills at Lawrence, Massachusetts, have been compelled to work, or
slave rather, according to Commissioner Neill, for an average of $8.76
per family. To earn this average wage, according to the commissioner's
official report, requires the combined service of father, mother and
three children. This is slavery with a vengeance. The mill is a
sweat-hole; the hovel a breeding-pen. Home there is none. And there
never will be under the wage system.

What have the Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties to offer to
the wage-slaves of Lawrence, to the wage-slaves of the steel trust, to
the wage-slaves of the mines, to the wage-slaves of the lumber and
turpentine camps of the South, the wage-slaves of the railroads, the
millions of them, male and female, black and white and yellow and brown,
who produce all this nation's wealth, support its g