The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-08
Proofs Made and Con.
tests Defended.
SPEECH BY R. ". DALzlEL

SPEECH BY R ". DALzlEL
Before Regular Meetssg o. Ward County
= SoeAlists, March 76, 'o3.
CoNrINuED FROM LAST WEEK
What the world needs today is an
ideal. Socialism bears upon her pure
and expansive forehead, the beauty
crown of idealism. Communionism was
and is the ideal Of the Savior, socialism
is 10th century communism.
During Christ's earthly stay he taught
communism, condemning riches and also
Those who held them to the suffering OF
Others, and his deciples for 800 years
who cared to follow Him closely, ad
hered strictly to this as TO His other no
more important instructions. It was
only when mon became more DESTROYS
OF riches, of profits, of gains, on account
OF which the sinners we're scorged from
the temple, than they were for the king
dom of heaven that Christ's example as
to communism was set aside and an effort
was made to forget all about 1t and to
hppease the conscience and blind the
mind to the fact that it is impossible to
gain entrence to the kingdom of happi-
ness and peace and justice and plenty
and all that is good by "some other way .
1t is not the avowed purpose of social
ism to preach Christ as the gate to
eternal peace, nevertheless we find pleas
ure and stimulus in the truth that in
preaching socialism we are not teaching
principles at war with God. Christians,
we believe, must be socialists. The
Christian is the man who prays 'lThy
kingdom come; Thy will be done in
earth as it is iii heaven" and means what
he says. "Thy kingdom" means peace,
content and equality among men. Are
you trying to usher in ''Thy kingdom
while the good things Of earth are
monopolized and enjoyed by few and
the rest-all the rest are suffering the
pangs of frost and starvation? Have you
ever tried to lift yourself by the boot
straps? That is Just as easy and reas-
enable. .'Thy will be done" means a
government of and by and for the peo-
pie" whereas we now have government
Of and by the people, but for the CAPT
talist.. Yes, it's of and by the people
and we voters have no one to blame but
], ourselves, because we are wholly re-
sponsible for our ballots, and we have
foolishly been putting the shackles upon
our own wrists. fyou saw a man rivit-
ing ball and chain to his ankle,
wouldn't you Conclude that he had
mental single loose and Tapping in the
wind? How much less crazy are we vot-
ing kings who, during the years past, in
stead Of recognizing the reasonableness
OF the class struggle, and voting for the
class to. which We belong, have been vot-
ing the same tickets as our own Capital
ist masters have, voted, just as if we
thought our interests were the same as
theirs? The Christian Who breaches
Christ and righteousness and the right
of private ownership of the earth or any
fraction thereof might as well enter at
once upon the task of forming an or
ganization for the revision of the ''Sword
of the Spirit the Bible, and omit the
Savior's condemnations of private owner
ship, SO that his preaching may SAVIOR
more strongly of consistency.
When gospel preachers get on Gods
side OF this question and preach for the
people and equal laws and just gov
sHrnment, thsn, effects will tell for good
against evil.
Socialists stand Tor honesty; they be-
lieve in keeping their promises, as in
dividuals and ss a party; they always
bear in mind that an unfulflled prom
Use is not better than q downright un-
truth. It is better to be alone than in
bad company, but it is thousand times
better to be in good company than alone;
if you are in old party company you
would be better alone, bat if you are
with socialists, your company is pledged
to strive for full recognition of the truth
OF the universal brotherhood of man.
Socialists should keep happiness in their
hearts and in their homes and should
spare no opportunity to strike for laws
and government which will insure the
supremacy Of happiness throughout the
hearts and homes of the earth. some
an established fact and see first, those
lar with poverty, want, encouragement,
anxiety and heartaches, and see the
deeply ploWed care burrows gradually
giving place to the more suitabls aimp-
Piles and smiles, and seq this effects of
adversely and despair and heart burdens
replaced by a bright reflection uf peace,
plenty and satisfaction. The robbers
and murderers are becoming not only
law abiding but law loving citizens, and
whereas, under capitalism, thoy sought
to destroy and wrong: tnder socialism
there is no need for dark orimes, be-
cause all are equal in possession of the
things that make msn upright: And I
see those who we're the millionairgs with
stunted souls and only excuses for hearts,
their disregard for the misery of others,
their greed for gain, transformed into
lovers of God instead of lovers Of gold,
and the voices of those born to sing
sweetness into the lives of men are cul-
tured and. developed because all have
means and leisure time for the develop
ment of their natural talents, and see
the nimble fingers OF workers flying
across, the key boards of musical instru-.
ments, producing the sweet chords that
effect 50 much in making earth life
heaven. And see the man who under
capitalism could not make women their
wives besause of the uncertainty Of their
ability to provide them the comforts of
life; the husbands of contgnted, carful-
wives and the fathers of well-fed, we'll
clothed, happy children. see the
farmer drive into the peoples elevator
with his grain, the peoples train come