f 1908 National
Convention of the Socialist Party," page 185.)

Delegate Victor Berger of Wisconsin: "We cannot have Socialism in
this country, if we don't get the farmers in some way. If you try
to take away the farms of twelve millions of farmers of this
country, you will have a big job on your hands. You might as well
try to reach down the moon.... You remember how much effort and how
many men it cost England to conquer 30,000 farmers, Boers--Boers,
mind you--and now try to take the farms from these 12,000,000
American farmers and you will have about a million times harder
job. Besides, they don't need to fight. All they have to do is to
stop bringing food to Chicago for six weeks, and Comrade Morgan and
the rest of Chicago would be knocked out." ("Proceedings of the
1910 National Congress of the Socialist Party," page 230.)

Delegate Simmons of Illinois: "There is just one thing on earth
that I will toady to and that is a fact. And when I meet a fact so
big as the farmer question in America, a fact that has in it the
future of 12,000,000 of people of the producing classes, without
whom we stand no more chance of a Socialist victory in this country
than we do of changing the orbit of a comet, and when I face a fact
as big as that, I don't try to stand in front of it, and howl empty
phrases, in the hope that the fact will get out of the way."
("Proceedings of the 1910 National Congress of the Socialist
Party," page 231.)

Since the revolutionists, to win votes, frequently point to the reforms
they have proposed or in some cases accomplished, we should all be on
our guard lest, being allured by these reforms, we be led into the
Socialist camp, and later on suffer the dreadful evils that have been
shown would result from the adoption of the Marxian system of
government.

Those who vote the Socialist ticket insist on calling the attention of
non-Socialists to the immediate demands enumerated in their party
platform, many of which are excellent. Workingmen, however, should
remember, first, that many of them are only meant for the time our
present Government is still in power; moreover, that a crime-ridden,
anarchical and bankrupt state could not grant them, and, furthermore,
that there is no reason why our Government, in its present form, could
not grant all the Marxian demands that are really advantageou