h are just as
useful in their way as the speech of the orator that wins the applause
of the people.

Now the Socialist party is the only party in the world that wants to put
an end once and forever to all kinds of child labor and to have it so
that all children, white and black, without a single exception, shall be
allowed to grow up in the free air, with plenty of time for mirth and
play; that they shall all have decent homes to live in, comfortable beds
to sleep in, plenty of good food to eat, plenty of good clothes to wear
and that when they reach the proper age they shall go to school and
college and continue their course until they have obtained a sound and
practical education. Then they will have strong, healthy bodies, trained
minds and skilled hands, and not only enter cheerfully upon the duties
of life, but be certain of making it a success.

If you listen to the old fogies who still belong to the parties their
grandfathers did and who have not moved an inch from their grandfathers'
graves, they will tell you that socialists are foolish people and that
what they propose never can be done. That is what the fogies of every
age have always said. They are the "wise" people who do things in the
same way that their dead grandparents did before them, who never change
their minds, never accept a new idea, never grow, and who are always
dead long before they are buried and forgotten the day after the
funeral. Whatever you may be I beg of you not to be a fogy, nor to
follow a fogy's solemn advice. His brain has ceased to work--if it ever
did work. He is mentally stagnant and moss-covered and votes the same
old ticket with no more idea of what he is voting for than a wooden
Indian.

The Socialist party says there have got to be some changes and has set
about making them, or at least getting ready to make them. It says that
the world is big enough for all the people that are in it, with plenty
of room to spare for groves and parks and playgrounds; that there is
land enough to go around without crowding; that there are farms enough,
or can be easily provided, to raise all we can eat, so that no child in
all the world need to go hungry; that there is plenty of coal and iron,
oil and gas, gold and silver and other minerals and metals, stored in
the earth; that there are forests and mountains and water courses
galore; that there are mills and mines and factories and ships and
railways and telegraphs, and the power supplied