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 18 lined to you. It is from the fact that always another class has owned the things that the workers must have in order to live—the land, the tools, the machines, the railroads, the factories, the mines—in fact everything needful to the production and distribution of life's necessities. It is plain then to everyone that these things must be owned collectively in order that the workers may be able to use the full product of all that they produce.

So, the workers, ever watchful for an opportunity to benefit their: own class, agitate, organize, and educate their fellow men and women for the coming change from Capitalism to Socialism. And never before in the world's history has such a movement been created, for whereover Capitalism has obtained a foothold, there the organization of wage workers into economic and political parties follows as surely as day succeeds the night; until now there are branches of the Socialist party in almost every country on the globe.

The perplexing thing about the whole matter to the Capitalist politicians is the steady growth in the membership of the Socialist party. So frightened are they at this awakening of the working class that they try to deceive themselves and each other into thinking that Socialist political activity is dying out instead of rapdlyrapidly [sic] increasing.

Instance the repeated statements in the capitalist press after any national elections to the effect that the Socialists have met a severe de-