THE MISSION OF THE WORKING CLASS

...t h a t it is called upon to raise fhe principle ot i n class to the principle of the entire a&e, to convert its idea into the leading . idea of the whole of society and thus to form this society by impressing upon it its own character...

...President Ubregon i* not elig. ible for a second term, and the pro I gresaive candidate,v Calles, offered to resign rather than precipitate a 'civil war...

...So full of contradictions is our present economic, order that men must go without coats because too much clothing has been produced, and children must go hungry because the production of goods has been overabundant...

...The Mexican Federation of Labosyjthe Masttan Labor Part*, and the various farm organisations are standing solidly behind President Ooregwn...

...all that can ever be done is to add external moral recognition to a revolution which has a l r e a d y entered irtto the actual relations of a community, and to carry it out accordingly...

...M « I • »-•' • A strong...

...In the United States capital has long owned the leading universities by right of purchase, a s it has owned t h e highways, the currency, and the press, and capital has used the universities, in a general way, to develop capitalistic ideas.—Brooks Adams in "The Theory of Social' Revolutions...

...Vou ree, gentlemen, that if the revolution of 1789 was the revolution of the TIERS ETAT, the third class, it is now-the fourth class, which in 1789 was still enfolded within the third class and appeared to be identical with it, which will now raise its principle to l e the dominating principle of the community and cause all its arrangements to n# permeated by it...

...The savings banks In l a r g e part d* pend on this inborn tendency for their right to exist.—Carleton R. Parker InJ^The Casual Babffir.'' Under Socialism, when the woman —whether as wife, mother or worker— will have a claim in her own right to a share in fh« national wealth, ahe will at om-e-emosge into greater freedom.— Heir I Handle...

...First the idea of nobility, or of the possession of land, which forms the ruling principle of the Middle Ages and permeates all its institutions...

...Obregort has given Mexico the best administration it has ever had...

...1 hen the revolutionary generate Admitted their aim t u economic rather tbea political, a*d that<the» are oat to destroy bow Obregon and his reforms...

...As a matter of fact, Ft is probable that Socialists disapprove of nirie projects out of ten calculated to enlarge the sphere of government, which arc brought forward, nevertheless, by some p a r t y or faction.— Richard T. Ely in "Socialism and Social Reform...

...Locomotive Engineers' Journal...

...From the lofty mountain summits of science, gentlemen, the dawn of the new day is teen earlier than beiow in thte turmoil of daily life...

...Those have studied Socialism to little purpose who imagine t h a t the Socialist approves of all activity of government whatsoever, and' that he is ready to indorse a n y plan which will enlarge the functions of government...

...oi.nttidtnl, that our reader* ikouid be ghd to k»*P for future reference, Iteadci* une undid to offer »eleofion» for rwwiderutioM...

...Have you ever witnessed, gentlemen, a sunrise from a lofty mountain...

...bocl , Arm knee joints, h e a d r well uo, hearty sound, courage plentiful;, then ejuts front and quick, march, forward I—Keir Hardle...

...Richard T. Ely in "Socialism and Social Reform.'' * * * Where strife and force are the rule, evolution has not succeeded in raising t h e race much above the level of some of the lower forms of brute life.—Keir Hardie...

...Its interest is In truth the interestyjf the wholes of humanity, its freedom is the freedom c( humanity it: elf J and its domination is th.3 domir.it.'cu of all...

...As the Socialists have said, with some measure of truth, "In civilization jJtrverty is born of plenty...

...Greece has simply changed frwitt an incompetently governed monarchy to a saber-governed military despotism The lot of the common people of Greece will continue to be just M - miserable as it was before...

...A business man is nover rich enough...

...A purple streak colors the extreme verge of the horizon blood red, announcing t h e new light...

...The opposition to him, 1 c e n t e r i n g in the rich oil port of | Vera Cruz, has brought together rea c t i o n a r y militarists and landowners in a last violent a t t a c k upon this prog r e s s i v e governmetft...

...To set about to make a revolution i s ' t h e folly of immature minds which have no notion of the laws of history...

...What an hour is in this spectacle which nature presents to us every day, one or two centuries are in the far more imposing spectacle of a sunrise in the world's history...

...He disbanded [most of the Mexican army, cut .graft out of the government, and aided organized labor and the cooperative movement in every leglil| mate way...

...Nothing is more calculated to impress upon a class a worthy and moral character than the consciousness that it is destined to become a rulinj*^Jaa...

...This fourth clr.es in whose heart therefore" no germ of a new privilege is contained is for this very reason synonymous with the whole human race...

...Thev a r e strangely silent on the Important issues involved, where they are not guilty ef downright misrepresentation...

...I The" occasion for the revolution was the approaching national elec| tion...

...We are all workingmen in so far as we have even the will to make ourselves useful in any way to the community...

...If, however, making more money uses his acquisitive capacities too little, J he may throw this cultivated habit| a c t i v i ty into a c q u i r i n g Van Dykes or bronzes or Greek antiques, or orj a • smaller and lexuMMthetic scale, post1 age stamps, s i g n a t u r e s , or shaving mugs...

...mist and clouds gather, roll themselves in a m a t : , throw themselves against the glow of morning, and succeed in covering its rays for a moment...

...But here, in the domination of the fourth class, comes to light this immense difference, that the fourth class is the lart and the outside of all, the disinterested class of the community, which sets up no further exclusive condition, either legal or actual, neither nobility nor landed possessions nor the possesion of capital, which it could make into a new privilege and force upon the arrangements of society...

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...The so-called revolution is already petering out...

...The so-called Mexican revolution is simply a movement by which landowners alM oil men are endeavoring to overthrow the anti-militarist government of > P r e s i d e n t Obrugon...

...Asylums a r e / f u l l of pjtiful, | economic persons who, lust, to the laws of social life, continue as an ; toniatons to follow an unmodified Instinct in picking up and hoarding ! PJna, leaves, scraps of food, paper...

...N This- period closed with the French revolution, although you will understand that, especially in Germany, where the change was n o t brought about by the people, but by-very gradual and incomplete reforms introduced by the government, numerous and important extensions of that firrt period of history have occurred, which evteh at the present day greatly hamper the progress of the bourgeoisie...

...The Mania of Saving...

...The pneudo revolution in Grade and the abdication of the king and queen do net fill us with enthusiasm for the "Grecian Republic" thus established, for the .new regime is an undisguised, military dictatorship, supported by four thousand officers of the Greek army and navy...

...Friend* of Mexican freedom need not be fearful of tha outcome, for the people of alexia*, having one* enjoyed the light of liberty, will never return aoniplace ntlv to the darkness of the oki serfdom...

...SOME PSEUDO-REVOLUTIONS THE daily papers tell us vf a | revolution in Mexico...

...The Mission of the Working Class By FERDINAND LASSALLE From "The Wv>kiiignian's Program.' WE have now teen, gentlemen, two periods of the world, each of which is dominated by the ruling idea of a particular class of the community which impresses its own principle on all the social arrangements of its time...

...A revolution can never he made...

...But no power in the world can avail to hinder the slow and majestic rising of the sun itself, which an hour later stands in the firmament visible to all, giving light a n d warmth to ali the earth...

...We saw in the ntxt place the period of history which begins at the eighteenth century with the French revolution, which hat for its principle large private property, or capital, and makes this into the privi'ege which pervades all the arrangements of society, and is the condition oi participation in directing the will of the State and .determining its' aims...

...The now* of the author arid the title of the book from which the selection it taken mn*t accompany each contribution...

...Alan, much of the time, acquires for the mere sake of acquiring...