The Sunlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 3, 1914 Page: 4 of 4
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Platform of the Socialist Party
of the
United States of America
i :
wealth and to Increase its power of resistance against capitalist oppres-
sion we advocate and pledge ourselves and our elected officers to tlie fol-
lowing program:
Collective Ownership
1 The collective ownership -and democratic management of rail-
Ailoptetl ly National Convention at Indinuapolis In! May 1012 and by
Referendum Vote of the Members of the Socialist Party I
oil August 4th 11)12
The Socialist party declares that the capitalist system has outgrown
Us historical function and has become utterly incapable of meeting the
problems now confronting society We denounce this outgrown system
as Incompetent and corrupt and the source of unspeakable misery to the
whole working class
Under this system the industrial equipment of the nation has passed
into the absolute control of plutocracy which exacts an annual tribute of
hundreds of millions of dollars from the producers Unafraid of any or
ganized resistance it stretches out its greedy hands over the still unde-
veloped resources of the nation — the land the mines the forests and wa-
ter powers of every state in the union
In spite of the multiplication of labor-saving machines and improved
methods in industry which cheapen the cost of production the share of
the producers grows ever less and the prices of all the necessities of life
steadily increase The boastd prosprity of this nation is for th owning
class alone To the rest it means only greater hardship and misery The
high cost of living is felt in every home Millions of wage-workers have
seen the purchasing power of their wages decrease until life has become
a desperate battle for mere existence
Multitudes of unemployed walk the streets of our cities or trudge
from state to state awaiting the will of the masters o move he wheels ot
industry!
' The farmers in every state are plundered by the increasing prices
exacted for tools and machinery and by extortionate rent freight rates
and storage charges
Capitalist concentration is mercilessly crushing the class of small bus-
iness men and driving its members into the ranks of povertyless wage-
workers The overwhelming majority of the people of America are being
forced under a yoke of bondage by this soulless industrial despotism
It is this capitalist system that is responsible for the increasing bur-
den of armament the poverty the slums child labor most of the insan-
ity crime and prostitution and much of the disease that afflicts mankind
Under this system the working class is exposed to poisonous condi-
tions to frightful and needless perils of life and limb is walled’ around
with court decisions injunctions and unjust laws and is preyed upon in-
cessantly for the benefit of the controlling oligarchy of wealth Under
It also the children of the working class are doomed to ignorance drudg-
ing toil and darkened lives
The face of these evils so manifest that all thoughtful observers are
appalled by them the legislative representatives of the Republican and
Democratic parties remain the faithful servants of the oppressors Meas-
ures designed to secure to the wage-earners of this nation as humane and
just treatment as is already enjoyed by the wage earners of all other
civilized nations have' been smothered in committees withotu debate and
'laws ostensibly designed to bring relief to the farmers and general con-
sumers are juggled and transformed into instruments for the exaction of
further tribute The growing unrest under oppression has driven these
two old parties to enactment of a variety of regulative measures none of
which has limited in any appreciable degree the power of the plutocracy
and some of which have been perverted into means for increasing that
roads wire and wireless telegraphs and telephones express services
steamboat lines and all other social means of transportation and com-
munication and of all large-scale industries
2 The Immediate acquirement by the municipalities the states of
the federal government of all grain elevators stock yards storage ware
houses and other distributing agencies in order to reduce the present ex-
tortionate cost of living'
3 The extension of the public domain to include mines quarries
oil wells forests and water power
4 The further conservation and development-of natural resources
for the use and benefit of all the people:
(a) By scientific forestration and timber protection
(b) By the reclamation of arid and swamp tracts
(c) ' By the storage of flood waters and the utilization of water
power
(d) By the stoppage Of the extravagant waste of the soil and of the
products of mines and oil wells?
(e) By the development of highway and waterway systems
5 The collective ownership of land wherever practicable and In
cases where such ownership is impracticable the appropriation by taxation
of the annual rental value of all land held for speculation or exploitation
6 The cellective ownership and democratic management of the
banking and -currency system
Unemployment
The immediate government relief -of the unemployed by the extension
of all useful public works All persons employed on such works to be en-
gaged directly by the government under a work day of not more thn
eight hours and at not less than the prevailing wages The government
also to establish employment bureaus to lend money to states and mu-
nicipalities without interest for the purpose of carrying on public works
and to take such other measures within its power as will lessen the wide-
spread misery of the workers caused by the misrule of the capitalist class
Industrial Demands
The conservation of human resources particularly of the lives and
well-being of the workers and their families
1 By shortening the workday in keeping with the increased produc-
tiveness of machinery
2 By securing to every worker a rest period-of not less than a day
and a half In each week
3 By securing a more effective Inspection of workshops factories
and mines
Country Correspondence
I3y Our Rural Writers
Mitchells dreamery '
Aline Okla
Your patronage solicited
Top cash priors paid for
dream Poultry and Eggs
Empire Sejrerators and re-
pairs furnished
W W Mitchell Prop
Threshing machines
headers binders -wagons
buggies plows cultivators
the noted Vanbrunt drills
lig't and heavy harness
mowing machines rakes
washing machines light
and heavy hardware Tiitse
are things carried by the
Aline Hardware Company
Aline Ok ahoma
age
E By forbidding the employment of children under sixteen years of
power Anti-trust laws railroad restrictions and regulations
prosecutions Indictments and investigations based upon such legislation
have proved to be utterly futile and ridiculous j
- Nor has this plutocracy been seriously restrained or even threatened
by any republican or democratic executive It has continued to grow in
power and insolence alike under the administrations of Cleveland Me
Kln’ In adTitionohlsg’islative juggling and this exec utlve co“alva“°
the courts of America -have sanctioned and strenBthened the h°ldet this
Plutocracy as the Dred-Scott and other decisions strengthened the slave
power before the civil war They have been used as instruments for t h -oppression
of the working class and for the suppression of free speech and
free assembly that the longer sufferance of these conditions
vate greed instead of for the welfare of society AN e declare further
vate gre and can be nQ remedy and no sub-
Hal relief except through Socialism under which industry will be car-
ried on for the common good and every worker receive the lull social val-
ue of the wealth he creates - '
Society is divided into warring groups and classes base upo
terial interests Fundamentally this struggle is a conflict between
!wo rnam classes one of which the capitalist class owns the means of
production and the other the working class must use these means
TlcapiUUisPasouglowiiinnbvrSi absolutely controls the
llshed customs w‘h o are forced to work for
a arssx
outnumbers the capitalist class ce Us will Given such class solidar-
1 ty ‘andef fecUve orgsui IzaUon the workers ill have tie power to make all
laws and control all industry ®r£ Economic class interests
All political ietc stLty represent one or another group
AU other f artc“ ‘ Their political conflicts reflect merely su-
thDemocrator Republicans win politically it is the capitalist class that
la victorious ©conomicfl-lly
The Socialist party is the political expression of the economic inter-
ests of the workers Its dfeats have been their defeats and its victories
their victories It Is a party founded on the science and laws of social de-
velopment It proposes that since all social necessities today are socia y
produced' the means of their production and distribution shall be socially
owned and democratically controlled
In the face of the economic and political aggressions of the capitalist
class the only -reliance left the workers is that of their economic organi-
zations and their political power By the intelligent and class-conscious
use of these they may resist successfully the capitalist class break the
fetters of wage slavery and fit' ourselves for the tuture society which is
to displace the capitalist system The Socialist party appreciates the full
significance of class organization and urges the wage earners the work-
ing farmers and all other useful workers everywhere to organize for eco-
nomic and political action and we pledge ourselves to support the toilers
of the field as well as those in the bhops factories and mines of the na-
tion in their struggle for economic justice
In the defeat or victory of the working class party in this new strug-
gle for freedom lies the defeat or triumph of the common people of all
economic groups as well as the failure or triumph of popular government
Thus the Socialist party is the party of the present day revolution which
marks the transition from economic individualism to Socialism from
wage slavery to free co-operation from capitalist oligarchy to industrial
democracy
Wol fking Program
As measures calculated to aid and strengthen the working class In
Its fight for the realization of its ultimate aim the co-operative common-
5 By the co-operative organization of the industries in the federal
penitentiaries for the benefit of th© convicts and their dependents
6 By forbidding the interstate transportation of the products of
child labor and all uninspected factories and mines
7 By abolishing the profit system in government work and substi-
tuting either the direct hire of labor or the awarding of contracts to co-
operative groups of workers
8 ' By establishing minimum wage scales' -
9 By abolishing'official charity and substituting a non-contributory
nj ste mof old-age pensions a general system of Insurance by the state of
all its members against unemployment and invalidism and a system of
com- pulsory insurance by employers of their workers without cost to the
latter against industrial diseases accidents and death
Political Demands
1 The absolute freedom of press speech and assemblage
2 The adoption of a graduated income tax the increase of the rates
of the present corporation tax and the exteation of inheritance taxes grad-
uated in proportion to the value of the estate and to nearness of kin the
proceeds of these taxes to be employed in the socialization of industry -
The aboIition of the monopoly ownership of patents and the 'sub-
stitution of collective ownership with direct rewards to inventors by
premiums or royalties '
4 Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women s'
5 The adoption of thp initiative referendum and recall and of
portional representation nationally as well as locally
6 The abolition of the Senate and the veto power of the President
7 The election of the President and the Vice-President by direct
vote of the people
8- The abolition of the power usurped by the Supreme Court of the
Luited States to pass upon th econstitutionality Of the legislation enacted
- y Congress National laws to be repealed only by act of Congress or by
a referendum Vote of the whole people -
9 The abolition of the present restrictions upon the amendment of
the constitution so that that instrument may be made amendable by a
majority vote of the voters of the country -
10 The granting of the right of suffrage in the District of Colum
bia with representation in Congress and a democratic form of municipal
government for purely local affairs -
11 The extention of the democratic government to all United
°tates territory ) j
12 The" enactment of further measures for general education and
particularly’ for vocational education In useful pursuits The Bureau of
Education to be made a department
13 The enactment of further measures for the conservation of
health The creation of an independent bureau of health with such re-
strictions as will secure full liberty to all schools of practice
14 The separation of the present bureau of labor from the depart-
ment of commerce and labor and its elevation to the rank ofa depart-
ment Abolition of all federal district courts and the United States circuit
courts of appeals state courts to have jurisdiction in all cases arising be-
tween citizens of the several states and foreign corporations The election
of all judges for short terms
16 The immediate curbing of the power of the courts "to issue in-
junctions 17 The free administration ef the law
18 The calling of a convention for the revision of the constitution
of the United States
Such measures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism
are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of gov-
ernment in order that they my thereby lay hold of the whole system of
socialized industry an dthus come to their rightful inheritance
I am nov -repaivd to handle all
kiurie of clii-OR sharpening' llieni
cold rioted I also roll and weld
collars in workman like mauufer
The Fix-it Shop Aline Okla
fl R Docuklson
Bayouth’s
Bargain Store carries gents
furnishings ladie’s dress goods
hats cans underwear boots and
shoes a full line of groceries in
fact we carry everyth ng in
general merchandise " -
S H Bayoulh’s
Mr Henderson
of Aline Ok'aliuma
proprietor of the Department
Store just returned from the
cast where lie purchased a full
ineof merchandise The goods
will be orr display in the store in
a few days- Call and see this
great display of al! new goods
' J C Henderson
Let JACK WEBSTER
figure your Plastering and
Cement work
' f He has good cement
Stone Cheap
- (
Prairie Valley
Mrs Bundy of Watonga is the
guesj of Mrs Converao
Rev Kimper'is spending two
weeks al Guthrie
Mrs Goff Marten and Stone
were Cherokee visitors Tuesday- ‘
' Ladies Aid will meet at the'
oburch Wednesday
Hungers machine burned 23
acres of Garringers wheat
' Stonesaper who was killed at
Cherokee was taken to Ransom
III for burial
What might have been a ser-
ious accident was avertpd by the
quick actim of Mrs Goff when
Raymond Iierean’s' team became
frighten d and ran off Mrs Goff
stopped them as they came by her
house 1 he boy who was riding
the cultivator was badly shaken
up but not nurt v
Thrashing id in full blast
Wheat is making 20 to 25 bu
Socialists you should get into the movement right Get In and do
your little part in helping to free yourself and your class from wage slav-
ery Monthly dues are 15 cents If you want to become a member If you
want to do your part If you want to become identified with the most
powerful political organization the world has ever known fill out the
blank below
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIALIST PARTS'
J the undersigned recognizing the class struggle between the cap-
italist class and the working class and the necessity of the working class
constituting Itself into a political party distinct from and opposed to all
parties formed by the capitalist class hereby declare that I have severed
my relations with all other parties and I endorse the platform and con-
stitution of the Socialist Party Including the principle of political action
and hereby apply for admission to the said party
Name
Street address - City
County
irm Wepresentatlve of the rep--f
irnHy and the sight of it should
-cu1 e mtfie in the hearts of all patri--Mc
Americans: for as he unwinds
is IruCus coils you will observe
hat v hlla hiz had and neck are
’'a the body down to the tip of the
:1 is mnrlc-'d with thirteen alternate
j'res of red and white giving this
nvckius creature the appearance of
-i-ip wrapped in that glorious cm-I-’m
of liberty w-hic-li waves over
is l-’ud of the brave and the home
i the free’ Merritt stops then
lrciing out his chest and sticking
3 1 and Into the bosom of his coat
0 sit ft r tVie customary applause
mi th" gallery to subside but in-
tend of trie usual glad hands he was
1 e'ed p ith a roar cf laughter and
vt-cnlis and v-hen he turned to look
t the snake box there was 'Old
Uorv’ crawling out looking ashamed
f hluwt’f for he was as white as
no day he w as horn”
'What happened?” arked the pro--ulrtor
as the press agent sighed
“Well Merritt always had presence
of mind "and as the sport gathered
an our hard earned eheckels he grab-
bed o’" by the arm and hurried me
firm the building He knew that a
’owerv audience was apt to follow
cat-calls with antique eggs and vege-
al Ics of last season’s vintage and
five minutes later we were trying to
drown our sorrow
“ 'fim' says Merritt ‘I made a big
mini alto tor 1 should have tattooed
him His beauty was only skin deep
ind the blame snake shed his skin’”
Fairview Gleanings
Mrs Charity Barrows and cbil-
dren and Winnie Duel spent Mon
dav night at O Smiths
Mark Shockley ppent Tuesday
ight with Frank Taylor
Etta Nauce is working fo' Mrs
Stead this week '
M rs Barrows visited Tuesday
with Duels
Mrs Benefield spent Tiusduy
with her daughter Airs' Jeffries
Cal and' Ehsl - Jeffrie Mr
Knight and daughter Verna Etta
Nauce Mr Shockley and wife
iid son Mart Sundryed at 15 d
Taylors
Mr Nance wife aud daughter
Gladys spent Sunday in Caimen
Mr Knight and Verna returned
to their homa in Stroud the first
of the week
O C Taylors wife and children
spent Tuesday at Duels
Lola Johnson has purchased a
kodak —
George Duels are he’ptn’g Art
Alla Her thrash
Mae Nance is working at Dan
Potts
HEALTHFUL
Perfection
7 Loaf 25c
Baked by
City Bakery
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Phone 35
Cu men Olr'a
Mrs Matt Vfn eli of 15 ’! is
‘ pending the 4th willi her parents
at Angus' a
Virgil Booth of Oklahoma City
came in Thursday to visit friends
W Said wife and daughter
will leave soon for a vacation in
Kansas -
This platform In leaflet form 4 pages each page Cxll:
30 for 10c 100 for 50c postpaid
10 for 5c
ALINE ENCAMPMENT
The following is a partial Ii?t of subjects for the Soc-
ialist' Encampment to be held in Big Timber Park on July
3031 fnd Aug 1
Thursday July 30th
R D rt Oakford ‘ Society the Real Criminal”
Paul Oikford “The children of the next Century”
Friday July 31st -
W F Rico “Objections to Socialism answered
Caroline A Lowe “The Socialist movement’
Saturday August 1st
Kate R O’ flare “Law and the 'White Slaver”
Frank P O’Hare’ "Stcreoptican Lecture”
II H Stallard “The Democratic Tariff Banking and Trust
Legislation Explained”
For stand Privileges and concessions see Ed Winter burg Carmen
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Strasbaugh, Howard. The Sunlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 3, 1914, newspaper, July 3, 1914; Carmen, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1918170/m1/4/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.