Title | Socialism summed up |
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Publisher | The H. K. Fly Co. |
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Date | 1913 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 110 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX86.H77 1914 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304545~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 108 |
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File Name | uhlib_2100825_107.jpg |
Transcript | 106 SOCIALISM SUMMED UP York in response to the call and organized the "Intercollegiate Socialist Society." During the short period of its existence, the society has distributed a large quantity of Socialist literature among college students and teachers, and its members have delivered a number of lectures on Socialism before college students. Socialist "study chapters" connected with the Intercollegiate Socialist Society have been organized in more than fifty universities and colleges. The Socialist movement has become fully acclimatized on American soil. According to a recent census, over 71 per cent, of the members of the Socialist Party are native citizens of the United States. The Socialist movement is to-day at least as much "American' as any other social or political movement in the country. And still American Socialism is only in the making. All indications point to a steady development and large growth of the movement within the immediate future. The industries of the country are rapidly concentrating in the hands of an ever-diminishing number of powerful financial concerns. The trusts, monopolies and gigantic industrial combinations are coming to be the ruling factors in the life of the nation, industrial, political and spiritual, and the masses of the people are sinking into a condition of ever greater dependence^ The number of propertyless wage-earners is on the increase; their material existence is growing more precarious, and the spirit of dissatisfaction |