ass of the nation and the world.

The Socialist party enters this campaign under conditions that could
scarcely be more favorable to the cause it represents. For the first
time every state in the union is now organized and represented in the
national party, and every state will have a full ticket in the field;
and for the first time the Socialists of the United States have a party
which takes its rightful place in the great revolutionary working class
movement of the world.

Four years ago with a membership of scarcely forty thousand we succeeded
in polling nearly half a million votes; this year when the campaign is
fairly opened we shall have a hundred and fifty thousand dues-paying
members and an organization in all regards incalculably superior to that
we had in the last campaign.

We are united, militant, aggressive, enthusiastic as never before. From
the Eastern coast to the Pacific shore and from the Canadian line to the
Mexican gulf the red banner of the proletarian revolution floats
unchallenged and the exultant shouts of the advancing hosts of labor are
borne on all the breezes.

_There Is But One Issue._

There is but one issue that appeals to this conquering army--the
unconditional surrender of the capitalist class. To be sure this cannot
be achieved in a day and in the meantime the party enforces to the
extent of its power its immediate demands and presses steadily onward
toward the goal. It has its constructive program by means of which it
develops its power and its capacity, step by step, seizing upon every
bit of vantage to advance and strengthen its position, but never for a
moment mistaking reform for revolution and never losing sight of the
ultimate goal.

Socialist reform must not be confounded with so-called capitalist
reform. The latter is shrewdly designed to buttress capitalism; the
former to overthrow it. Socialist reform vitalizes and promotes the
social revolution.

_The National Convention._

The national convention of the Socialist party recently held at
Indianapolis was in all respects the greatest gathering of
representative Socialists ever held in the United States. The delegates
there assembled demonstrated their ability to deal efficiently with all
the vital problems which confront the party. The convention was
permeated in every fiber with the class-conscious, revolutionary spirit
and was thoroughly representative of the working class. Every question
that came before that