tate, but they are
also very much at variance with the plan of organization and operation
that Hillquit describes.

Eugene V. Debs, in his "Daily Message from Moundsville Prison,"
published in "The Call," New York, April 21, 1919, tells us what
Socialism is:

"The earth for all the people! That is the demand.

"The machinery of production and distribution for all the people!
That is the demand.

"The collective ownership and control of industry and its
democratic management in the interest of all the people! That is
the demand.

"The elimination of rent, interest and profit and the production of
wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people! That is the demand.

"Co-operative industry in which we all shall work together in
harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization,
a real republic! That is the demand.

"The end of class struggles and class rule, of master and slave, of
ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime--the
birth of freedom, the dawn of brotherhood, the beginning of MAN!
That is the demand.

"This is Socialism!"

In the Preamble to the American Socialist Party Platform, adopted by
national referendum, July 24, 1917, we are told:

"The theory of a democratic government is the greatest good to the
greatest number. The working class far out-numbers the capitalist
class. Here is the natural advantage of the working class. By
uniting solidly in a political party of its own, it can capture the
government and all its powers and use them in its own interests.

"The Socialist Party aims to abolish this class war with all its
evils and to substitute for capitalism a new order of co-operation,
wherein the workers shall own and control all the economic factors
of life. It calls upon all workers to unite, to strike as they vote
and to vote as they strike, all against the master class.

"Only through this combination of our powers can we establish the
co-operative commonwealth, wherein the workers shall own their jobs
and receive the full social value of their product. The necessities
of life will then be produced, not for the profits of the few, but
for the comfort and happiness of all who labor. Instead of
privately owned industries with masters and slaves, there will be
the common ownership of the mean