us "Socialism strives to remedy what is evil alike in domestic and in economic life."

LIES 22 AND 23.

are that "Socialism of this really advanced and logical type" was tried "in France in 1792, and again under the Commune in 1871.”

It is difficult to believe that Mr. Roosevelt's ignorance of history is so great that he does not know these to be lies.

LIE 27

consists of a flood of billingsgate poured out upon Eugene V. Debs and the Appeal to Reason. Of course a man, who has told the world that in his opinion the finest emotion a human being can experience is the thrill of triumph in the breast of the hunter gloating over a noble animal in its death agony, could not be expected to understand a man like Debs from whose heart pours out a mighty stream of love, not only for all mankind, but for bird and beast and flower as well.

The contrast between Roosevelt and Debs is beautifully expressed in the tribute to grand old Fred Long that Horace Traubel printed in the Conservator for December, 1908:

"Tens of thousands of soldiers in armies march across the earth: they are futile, doomed: they are emissaries of hate.

"A single man lies sick on a bed in a little room in a big city: he is resistless, invincible: he is an emissary of love."

Debs, the emissary of love, may well ignore the vile slanders of Roosevelt, the emissary of hate.

To support

LIES 31, 32 AND 33

which do violence to nearly every known principle of political economy, he tells us that A. T. Stewart and John Wanamaker have succeeded in a store that Hilton, Hughes & Company made a failure of. And from this he draws the moral that it is "Ability" and not Labor that creates wealth.

I have no doubt that Mr. James Stillman of the National City Bank and the Outlook Company could and would procure for Mr. Roosevelt a copy of the Report of the United States Steel Corporation for 1906. By consulting it he will find that the profits of the stockholders of that corporation (commonly known as the Steel Trust) -profits accruing from ownership alone-were nearly nine million dollars more than the total of the wages for Labor and the Salaries for "Ability," and there is no concern in America that pays "ability"

higher, and every particle of "ability" used in the management of its vast business is furnished by salaried employes.

Let us close this painful task by quoting

TRUTH NO. I.

"To choose to live by theft or by charity means in each case degradation, a rapid lowering of self-respect and self-reliance."

This is absolutely true, and every man or woman of wealth, who opposes Socialism, thereby, consciously or unconsciously, chooses "to live by theft or by charity."

New Canaan, Conn., March 31, 1909.

S far back as any of the Cave People could remember, their fathers had used the bones of wild beasts as weapons. I suppose they discovered long before that the marrow inside these bones was very good to eat. Then they hammered them with great stones till the bones split open and after they had eaten the marrow somebody discovered the sharp bones made very formidable weapons. No one had ever found sticks so strong and so sharp as these bone weapons.

By and by all the Cave People possessed great bones,

split at one end, like a sharp sword. Almost every day. the youths and maidens threw bones or sticks to display their skill. And the one whose aim was true and who showed most power in his arm, strutted about and stuck out his chest, in order that all the other Cave People might know how great he was.

One there was whom they called Big Nose. Now in the time of the Cave People it was a marvelous thing for a child to possess a nose that protruded. Generally cave noses were much like the noses of the Tree People, with merely two large nostrils in the centre of the face, slightly extended, preceding the head in order that the owner might catch the smell of danger or of good food. But him the Cave People called Big

Nose because his nose turned down instead of upward, and it extended nearly half an inch beyond his face.

When he was only a slim, brown youth, Big Nose became able to outthrow all the other young folks. He could fling his rough bone javelin many feet further than any of the others and with greater force. At the edge of the woods, he would hurl it far among the trees and clip off, every time, the heads of the small purple flower that grew tall and slim in the forest.

Big Nose grew proud and held his head very high. And he began, after a little while, to wander farther and farther into the woods alone, for he desired greatly to meet the mountain lion or the green snake, in order that he might kill them with his weapon and become still greater in the eyes of the Cave People.

Every one thought he was brave but very foolish, for the youths and maidens rarely wandered about in the forest alone. Too often had their brothers gone out and never returned, and there was fear in their hearts.

But in spite of their warnings, Big Nose continued to hunt and one day, when he had traveled beyond the great rocks, he discovered a large tree lying prone upon the ground. The spring storms had uprooted it and flung it down to die.

Big Nose sped on till he reached the oak tree, when he heard, from its branches, a deep growl and much scratching. Big Nose drew back quickly and sheltered himself behind a great tree, waiting. Aloft he held his bone spear, ready to hurl it upon the enemy.

He waited a long time but nothing came forth from the boughs of the oak tree and gradually he grew bolder and cautiously advanced again. His ears twitched constantly and he drew his lips back from his teeth just as dogs do when they attack the enemy.

Big Nose still heard the low growling but he saw nothing. When he reached the fallen oak, he saw that its branches were flung over a deep hole in the ground. He peered into it carefully and saw a black bear, digging frantically with her paws. Evidently she had blundered through the branches of the tree and had fallen down into the hollow.

When Big Nose found there was no danger, he grew very happy and laughed softly to himself, for the black bear stood upon her hind feet and clawed the air, trying to get out.

And he dropped stones upon her head till she grew wild with rage and staggered about trying to reach him with her paws. Big Nose laughed softly and continued to tease her, till she stood again on her hind feet, exposing her throat in rage. Then he lifted his arms above his head and flung the bone javelin into her breast with all his strength.

The bear dropped to the ground pawing at the bone which protruded from her throat, dripping with blood. Furiously she tore about the pit, beating its sides with her paws. And Big Nose was terrified when he saw his bone weapon fall to the bottom of the hollow, and he ran about hunting for a long stick with which he hoped to poke it out again.

When he returned to the pit, bearing sticks and boughs, he found the bear pressing her paws to her breast and growling with rage.

Very carefully he bent over the hollow and poked his weapon, but the bear discovered his movements and turned quickly upon him. With a