{"product_id":"2940012132222","title":"Political Appeal to American Workers","description":"This ebook edition has been proofed, corrected and compiled to be read with without errors!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePuppets of the Ruling Class.\u003cbr\u003eTwin Agencies of Wall Street.\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Political Forces?\u003cbr\u003eCorrupt Capitalist Politics.\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Power.\u003cbr\u003eThere Is But One issue.\u003cbr\u003eThe National Convention.\u003cbr\u003eFighting Labor's Battles.\u003cbr\u003ePersecution of Loyal Leaders.\u003cbr\u003eThe Campaign Now Opening.\u003cbr\u003eFirst Socialist Congressman.\u003cbr\u003eThe Only Democratic Party.\u003cbr\u003eWages and Cost of Living.\u003cbr\u003eIndustrial Unity.\u003cbr\u003eSocialism Is Inevitable.\u003cbr\u003eSocialist Ideals.\u003cbr\u003eThis Is Our Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile there is a lower class I am in it; \u003cbr\u003eWhile there is a criminal class I am of it;\u003cbr\u003eWhile there is a soul in prison I am not free. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I must be exceedingly careful, prudent, as to what I say, and even more careful and prudent as to how I say it. I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean excerpt from the beginning:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA June 16, 1912 speech at the opening of the National Campaign in Riverview Park, Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriends, Comrades and Fellow-Workers: We are today entering upon a national campaign of the profoundest interest to the working class and the country. In this campaign there are but two parties and but one issue. There is no longer even the pretense of difference between the so-called Republican and Democratic parties. They are substantially one in what they stand for. They are opposed to each other on no question of principle but purely in a contest for the spoils of office.\u003cbr\u003eTo the workers of the country these two parties in name are one in fact. They, or rather, it stands for capitalism, for the private ownership of the means of subsistence, for the exploitation of the workers, and for wage-slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth of these old capitalist class machines are going to pieces. Having outlived their time they have become corrupt and worse than useless and now present a spectacle of political degeneracy never before witnessed in this or any other country. Both are torn by dissension and rife with disintegration. The evolution of the forces underlying them is tearing them from their foundations and sweeping them to inevitable destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe have before us in this city at this hour an exhibition of capitalist machine politics which lays bare the true inwardness of the situation in the capitalist camp. Nothing that any Socialist has ever charged in the way of corruption is to be compared with what Taft and Roosevelt have charged and proven upon one another. They are both good Republicans, just as Harmon and Bryan are both good Democrats and they are all agreed that Socialism would be the ruination of the country.","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073312637168,"sku":"2940012132222","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012132222_p0.jpg?v=1763552441","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012132222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}