Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-09
HER GREAT AMBITION.
Mrs. Heron Would Have All
the World Ruled by Love.
SOCIALISM IS HER PANAoEA.

fstic-Most Marriages Are the Re-
suit OF Accident, She CIaims-Her
Enthusiasm BoundIess.
Miss Carrie Rand. who recently mar
ried Professor George ID. Heron, the
soeialistic leader, spoke as follows OF
| their plans in an interview with La
| yinia Hart I'm the New York World:
Don't talk personalities" said Mrs
Heron to me the other day. II have
had too much of them. Talk OF our
| plans and prospects, IL you like, of So
cialism, which L love, and of its splen-
did possibilities in truth and freedom
and love and equality. / can be of lit
tie interest to a public who will not
understand me aud whom 1 hope to
reach and benefit only through the ST.
lent mediumship of my husband"
Mrs. Heron was as shy OF the public.
which had criticised her. as a bruised
bird is of the fractions boy.
Does it hurt, Mrs. Heron, what the
world says"
She smiled very bravely.
Nothing hurts" she replied, except
doing less than your talents demand
and closing your eyes to the truth.
What has the world TO do with ones
heart or ones conscience? And what
does it know of ones innermost mo-
| tives?'
Then can it be blamed il it judges
us wrong?"
"Need it to judge? 1 don't. But IL
1 did should hardly judge by the so
called conventional standards. What
| do they amount to? What have they
done for mankind so far? Made him
miserable mostly"
NO scheme could result in every
body's happiness"
Socialism could. That's what It's
for
''The present conventions have stood
a long time"
"Stood how? The conventions have
stood, but how about the human souls
that have been crushed beneath them?
Is anybody who is sacrificing the truth
within him for the sake of convention
satisfied or happy? Is there any polit-
zeal satisfaction except To the monarchs
who have II all in their own hands or
the capitalists who have it all their
own way? Is there any religious salts
faction except to the high priests who
occupy big pulpits and dole out reli-
tations which will not offend the CAPT.
talists in the flock. who form the
church monopoly? Is there any salts
faction in social condition which sti-
fles love and truth and generous i'm
pulse in peoples hearts and sacrifices
these on the altar of conventional laws
which result in lies and Hypocrisy"
Mrs. Heron was radiantly pretty
when earnestness spread color in her
cheeks.
Don't you realize what a dangerous
thing too much freedom is to people
whose ideals are not so pure as yoursf"
"No." very seriously, "but L realize
what n dangerous thing restriction is
to such people. II bread were free as
air and sunshine, as God intended it
should be. would there be strikes and
bloodshed among the laborers? If re-
ligion were what Christ intended 1T
should be priceless. free, without
creed except the creed of equality and
Iove-would there be the dissatisfac-
ton and wrangling and the dissension
which exist nowY
what would you haveT"
"I would have all the world ruled by
love and freedom on a great co-opera-
tive plan. That is Mr.. Herron's ambi-
ton, and our ambitions are one, as we
are one in all things. We are going to
work together for the fulhllment of the
socialistic plan"
do you fancy you will gain large
following hereT"
81 do. L believe the world is ready
for socialism. 1 believe many people
are really socialists and don't know
II. and many are socialists at heart,
but they haven't the courage to voice
their convictions. Mr.. Heron is not
so sanguine as 1 am. I am more OPP
timistic, however. 1 believe the awak
ening is coming sooner than he thinks.
Every sign of the times is for social
ism. Its precepts are so beautiful, the
freedom IL offers so wholesome, people
must come to see in IL the ideal they
are looking for. 1 know that I shall
see it realized"
Mrs. Herron's enthusiasm is bound
less.
~ love humanity" she continued.
'T have always loved it wholesale
since 1 was little girl. L want to see
everybody happy. Before my time
comes to leave off the work socialism
will be far advanced. / expect to see
the whole of society cooperating in
the production of the economic goods
upon which each member of society
depends and every man and woman
drawing from the common fund ac-
cording to his or her needs. Then ev-
cry individual shall pursue whatever
part of labor he is most fitted for-the
work he loves. By this means only
can men and women accomplish the
best there is in them The reason so
many are failures now is because ne
cessity compels them to labor along
distasteful lines into which circum-
stance hos thrown them.
Everything then will be perfected
because the events of our lives will be
the result Of advanced thought, not ac-
cident and circumstance. Do you know
what makes had maria res =,