The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-11-19
THE REAL SOCIALISM

springfield, Mass, declared that the
socialists platform did not contain
the essence of their principles and
that the leaders really sought other
ends than those indicated in the pub
lished declarations She claimai that
after having discovered these things
she was forced to leave the party as
she could not give her assent to the
real objects of the socialistic propa-
ganda. The Independent has long
known that to be the fact and has
often said that the logical result OF
socialist theories must be the destruc-
ton of the family. Now the social
lists are publicly proclaiming the fact.
From The Agitator of September, 1903,
a New York city socialist publica-
ton, the following extracts are taken.
These are not charges made by The
Independent, as the reader will please
notice, but the statement of socialist
principles by the advo ,ates of the co.
operative commonwealth, themselves.
On page rs of The Agitator, Septem-
Der, 1903, is this statement:
Marriage must go. 1t is con-
tinually being weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting. 1t is not
conducive to an improving BIRTH
supply and free, rational devel-
opment of the young"
Then on page 20 will be found the
following:
Here, then, is my arraignment
OF marriage, modern marriage
with its concommitant divorce
courts, its unspeakable, but in
eyitable prostitution; with its i'm
possible and unnatural ideals of
virtue and it's hypocritical disre-
gard for them this thins of
shreds and patches permeated by
an atmosphere of falsehood and
concealment. This is the full
flower OF our present economic
system"
On the same page and the one fol-
lowing this appears
Socialism will give the oppor-
tunity. No true and worthy rela-
ton of the sexes, no adequate So
luton of the problem of the birth
supply can be attained until men
and women stand on equal footing
economically The cooperative
commonwealth will supply these
conditions and the intelligence OF
society must reconstruct it's mar
riage traditions. Part and parcel
OF our archaic property system,
they must 60"
Years ago when the editor of The
Independent first began to hunt for
relief from the economic ills that af-
fict the common people, he thought
he might find it in socialism. He
therefore went 70 the authorities on
that subject without prejudice and
earnestly sought it there. He was ir-
resistibly driven to the conclusion that
the fundamental principles laid down
by its greatest writer's II ust of nee
essity destroy the family relation as
we have known it and which gives
about all in life tht is worth living
for Being an earnest student, he
was often admitted to the inner cir
cies and there he found men
advocating what he conceived to be
the necessary result Of the system, al
though it was never openly advocated.
Mrs. Avery seems to have had the
same experience.
The editor knows that there are so
cialists and socialists, many of whom
are pure and high-minded men advo-
eating the collective ownership of all
property, but who fail TO see that such
a condition would make the exist
enee OF the family as we now know Ii
an absolute imposslbility, But the
real leaders understand II well enough.
SeSScSS<SS
LET THE cuuRcn FEAR
Mammon and Molochl They reign
together. OUT OF obscure seats In dark