These are stirring days for living men. The day of crisis is drawing
near and Socialists are exerting all their power to prepare the people
for it.
The old order of society can survive but little longer. Socialism is
next in order. The swelling minority sounds warning of the impending
change. Soon that minority will be the majority and then will come the
co-operative commonwealth.
Every workingman should rally to the standard of his class and hasten
the full-orbed day of freedom.
Every progressive Democrat must find his way in our direction and if he
will but free himself from prejudice and study the principles of
Socialism he will soon be a sturdy supporter of our party.
Every sympathizer with labor, every friend of justice, every lover of
humanity should support the Socialist party as the only party that is
organized to abolish industrial slavery, the prolific source of the
giant evils that afflict the people.
Who with a heart in his breast can look upon Colorado without keenly
feeling the cruelties and crimes of capitalism! Repression will not help
her. Brutality will only brutalize her. Private ownership and
wage-slavery are the curse of Colorado. Only Socialism will save
Colorado and the nation.
The overthrow of capitalism is the object of the Socialist party. It
will not fuse with any other party and it would rather die than
compromise.
The Socialist party comprehends the magnitude of its task and has the
patience of preliminary defeat and the faith of ultimate victory.
The working class must be emancipated by the working class.
Woman must be given her true place in society by the working class.
Child labor must be abolished by the working class.
Society must be reconstructed by the working class.
The working class must be employed by the working class.
The fruits of labor must be enjoyed by the working class.
War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class.
These are the principles and objects of the Socialist party and we
fearlessly proclaim them to our fellowmen.
We know our cause is just and that it must prevail.
With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with
dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism
to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization.