The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
TWO SOCIALIST PASTORS,
They Will Publish a Weekly
in Support of Their
Doctrine.
REV. J. E. SCOTT THE EDITOR.
He and Rev. E. J. Dupuy VIII Teach
the Presbytery Marx
Economics.

Revs. J. E. Scott and E. J. Dupuy. both
Presbyterian ministers and members in
GOOD standing of the local presbytery, Will
edit and publish a socialistic weekly In
this City, to be called, in no uncertain
words. The Socialist. This will be news
to the presbytery. The paper will make
its first appearance a week from to-day.
Rev. J. E. Scott will edit and Rev. E. j..
Dupuy will manage the enterprise.
That such paper, advocating the
doctrines of Carl Marx and recognizing
the legitimacy of the sociallstic move
ments of Europe, should be published by a
PRESBYTERIAN minister may surprise many.
DIR. Scott himself realizes the novelty OF
his position, for ne freely discussed 1t
when seen last evening. He was hard at
work on his salutatory editorial.
~ believe" said DR.. Scott, 'I am the
only minister in the world who has aught
to do with paper of this kind. appre-
c1ate the novelty, while realize the entire
reason of my position. There is nothing
in the creed of Presbyterianism which for
bids my being a socialist, Tor there is no
socialistic belief that is not Christian In Its
spirit. Ny brothers of the presbytery thus
far know nothing of my undertaking.
They will all learn it in good time. | an
ticipate no opposition from them. nave
reason to know that some OF the younger
members of the presbytery are sincerely
studying the great problems OF socialism, q !;
But assuming that the presbytery shouid
oppose my views and my venture should
stand by my convictions, for L think they
are true.
1--WE shall meet the issue squarely. We
shall call our paper The Socialist, and not
sugar-coat its purpose by any misleading
title. Under the caption will appear our
motto, Thou shalt love thy nelghbor as
thyself' To my mind, all the real terrors
of socialism are wrapped up in that SEN
tence. We shall expect to be supported
by the socialists of this State. There are
1000 of them. We shall not trouble our
selves editorially or otherwise with Mr..
Rockefeller, or any other gentleman
capitalist. The socialists have about de-
cided not to do more battle with the mo-
nopolists, but will let them fight it out
among themselves. We have something
else TO do"
Rev. E. J. Dupuy came from a hotbed of
socialism-France. He was born in this
City, but received his education in France,
and was ordained a Presbyterian minister
there. He took a leading part in the
French socialistic movement. He is now
pastor of the French Presbyterian Church
Rev. Joseph Z. Scott was for many years
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Menlo Park, and more recently was pastor
of the Woodbridge PresbY terrain Church on
Twentieth and Capp streets. The church
property was lately sold to the Unitarians,
and the congregation is about to build a
new edifice out near the panhandle. Mean
while, Dr. Scott is without pulpit. He
stated last evening that he became a con-
vert to socialism ten years ago, through
reading Bellamy's Utopian fiction, Look
ing Backward" Since then he has occasion
ally preached on socialism, and recently
read paper before the presbytery, in
which he dealt with the church side of the
question.
The Socialist viii be an eight-page
paper. The first number will contain arti-
cles by such prominent socialists as Job
Hartman and James G. Clark of Pasa-
dena.
Just how DR.. SCOTS radical departure
will affect his brothers in the presbytery
remains to be seen. As for DR.. Scott, he is
prepared for any development, and in any
event declares be will be q socialist and
subject to the ordinary vicissitudes of such
ventures-win grapple weekly with the
questions arising from the never-ending
conflict between labor and capital.