Winning a World.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 18

Winning a World.

The Socialist movement is as wide as the world and its mission is to wiai the world, the Avhole AA-orld, from animalism, and consecrate it to humanity. What a tremendous task I And what a royal privilege to share in it. To Avin a world is WORTHY OF A RACE OF GODS. .And in winning, men-develop god-like attributes, since all men are potential gods. What a madhouse the earth would seem to-day in the frenzied of capitalism but for the light the Socialistic philosophy sheds upon it! What Alpine peaks of wealth and what desert wastes of poverty, despair and death! What man, unless his heart be adamant, can contemplate this awful scene and be content? What man, unless his brain be atrophied and his vision blinded, can fail to see the impending crisis ? In the presence of this vast and terrible phenomenon, how satisfying to be enlisted in the Socialist movement, to understand its doubt-dispelling social philosophy, and to interpret passing events in the clear light of its science. The productive mechanism in modern history, vast, complex, marvellous beyond expression, SPURNS THE IMPOTENT TOUCH of the individual hand, but leaps as if in joy to its task when caressed by the myriad-fingered collective son of modern toil. The mute message of the machine! Colild but the worker understand, and Avould he but heed it. Child of his brain, the machine has come to free, and not to enslaA^e; to save, and not to destroy the author of its being. Potent and imperious as the command of the industrious Jehovah, the machine compels the grand army of toil to rally to its standard, to recognise its power, to surrender body-breaking and soul-devouring tasks, to join hands in sacred fellowship, to subdivide labor, to equalise burdens, to demand joy and leisure for all, and, emancipated from the. fetters of the flesh, to rise to the sublimest heights of intellectual, moral, and spiritual exaltation. To realise this great social ideal is a work of education and organisation. The working-classes must be aroused.

EUGENE V. DEBS,

They must be made to hear the trum-pet-call iof solidarity. ECONOMIC SOLIDARITY AND POLITICAL SOLIDARITY 1 One Great All-embracing Trades Union and One Great, All-embracing Political Party, and revolutionary to the coretwo hearts with but a single soul. The modem tool of production must belong to those who make use of it — •whoso freedom,, yea. whose very lives depend upon it. A hundred years ago, the collective ownership of the individual tool would have been absurd;_ to day the private ownership of the collective tool is a crime. This crime is at the foundation of every other that disfigures society, and from its sub-cellars exude the festering stenches of our sweat-shop civilisation. Educate the -working-class. Spread Socialist journals, pamphlets, tracts, and leaflets among the people. The middk-olass see' their doom in capitalism, and must soon turn to Socialism. The handwriting is on all the hoardings of the universe. •The worst in Socialism will be better than the best in 'Capitalism. The historic mission of Capitalism has been to EXPLOIT THE FORCES OF NATURE, place thorn at the service of man, augnientii>.g his productive capacity a thousandfold, to turn, as if by magic, the shallow, sluggish streams into rushing, roaring' Niagaras of wealth, leaving to the toilers who produced it but greater poverty, insecurity and anguish than before. The mission of Socialism is to release these imprisoned productive forces from the vandal hordes that have seized them, that they may be operated, not spasmodically and in the interest of a favoured class, as at present, but freely and in the common interest of all. Then, the world-—the world the Socialist movement is to win from Capitalism—will be filled .with wealth for all to have and to enjoy in its abundance. W-hoii enough have become Socialists —and ■ca-eh day is'augmenting the number aitd making them more staunch and resolute —they will sweep the country on. the only vital issue befoxe the nation. A new power will be in control • —the people. For the first time in a.U history man at last; will be free.