As he talked he consulted from time to time a sheaf of clippings brought from a pocket.
"A joke," began Dave, "all this socialistic talk.

Get this from their platform: They demand that the country and its wealth be redeemed from the control of private interests and turned over to the people to be administered for the equal benefit of all.

See what they mean?
Going to have a law that a short man can reach as high as a tall man.

Good joke, yes?
Here again: 'The Socialist Party desires the workers of America to take the economic and political power from the capitalistic class.' Going to pull themselves off the ground by their boot straps, yes?
Have a law to make the weak strong and the strong weak.

Reads good, don't it?
And here's the prize joke--one big union: Socialist Party does not interfere in the internal affairs of labour unions, but supports them in all their struggles.