free by nature to run
them all; that there are millions of men and women ready to do all the
work that may be required to build homes, raise crops, bake bread--and
cake too--weave cloth, make clothes and everything else that is
necessary for everybody, and have time enough besides to build schools
and provide playgrounds for every last one of the children, with plenty
of toys thrown in to make this earth a children's paradise.

Now why should not just these things come to pass and why should not you
children help us speed the day when they _shall_ come to pass?

Everything you can possibly think of to make this earth sweet and
beautiful and to make life a blessed joy for us all is within our reach.
The raw materials are at our feet; the forces to fashion them into forms
of beauty and use are at our finger tips. We have but to put ourselves
in harmony with nature and with one another to spread far and wide the
gospel of life and love and once more hear "the sons of God shout for
joy."

Socialists not only dream of the good day coming when the world shall
know that men are brothers and that women are sisters to each other, but
they are at work with all their hearts and all their heads and hands to
make that dream come true.

If you want to know what the plans of the socialists are in detail read
their platform, attend their lectures and study their literature.

Socialism is the greatest thing in all the world today and the boys and
girls of this generation who will be remembered in the next are those
who are clear-eyed enough to see that socialism is coming and are at the
battle-front fighting bravely to overcome the prejudice against it and
to pave the way for it so that it may come soon and in peace and order.

Many of us who have been long in service will not be here when the bells
peal forth the joyous tidings that socialism has triumphed and that the
people are free, but the children that now are will live to see it and
in the day of their rejoicing they will not forget those who toiled
without recompense that they might live without dread of poverty or fear
of want.

As we look about us today we see that the world is filled with suffering
and despair and when we come to look into the cause of it we find that
it is a reproach to us all. As I write the news comes of the fierce
battle that is being fought between ten thousand hungry miners in West
Virginia and the thugs and ex-convicts and murderers armed by the