MILLIONAIRE AS A SOCIALIST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81856, 3 October 1906, Page 4

MILLIONAIRE AS A SOCIALIST.

SEQUEL TO MARRIAGE WITH A GIRL CIGAR-MAKER. Mr Phelps Stokes, the young millionaire whose marriage with Miss Rose Pastor, a former cigar-maker, cieated widespread interest last year, has caused a sensation by announcing himself a convert to Socialism. He has written to the secretary of the Independent League, New York, with which he has hitherto associated himself, announcing that he has decided to sever his connection, with that organisation because its objects were not sufficiently radical, and stat in« 'hat he intended offering his services to the Socialist Party. In the letter he denounces the present capitalistic system, the unjust treatment of men and women workers, and the monopolisation of land Krtd the whole machinery of production for the purpose of private gain and the maintenance of the idle and luxurious. Socialism, he as-e r ts, is the only remedy for existing evils. Although he i- a millionaire several times over, and has large business i,i frcsts, Mr Stokes, since his marriage, has liyed in one of the slums ~f New York, working among the poor, conducting extensive charities, and devoting his entire weal h to the benefit of the masses. In this he has the enthusiastic support of his wife, who ientirely self-educated, and was before lier marriage a well-known writer on topics connected with the betttermeni I of the poor.