Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-11-08
Ministers TURNING
Socialist

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Church. South supplies the following food for thought to his
fellow ministers and fellow church members Lack of space
compes us to print only in part omtng various biblical ref
erences
and rags NJ Dewey, Special agent L. S. Department of
Labor At the present time statistics show the wealth
products of the United States measured dollars to be about
about six thousand dollars per family of five persons
Under the righteous scientific and practical economic system
which we advocate the aborer would get the full product OF
his toll its equivalent in anything produced in the nato
An industrial system under which the aborer would receive
bread that he could literally obey the injunction of Christ
Take thought for life, what we shall eat Matt
625 The trouble is have industrial system that robs
the toer of majority of what he produces and enables
of ders parasites and vagabonds to roll in luxury One
ates wealth, while another acquires it, produces it.
another accumuaes and amasses it, makes it, another
takes it. While the children of aboring growing up
in ignorance and thousands of instances suffering for bread
the poodle dogs of the idle rich tapping milk from golden
served at dog and cat banuets that cost fabulous
sums of money.
The injustices wrongs, inequalities and niqutes of
capitalist system accidents They the natural
and inevitable outgrowth of the system 1t breeds of
conquest 1t divides society into monares and tramp into
workers shrkers makers and takers oers and spoilers
1t makes factory slaves of little children and rams of their
fathers 1t forces 100000 miners while producing fabulous
wealth to endure the hardsips of strike against starvation
conditions 1t forces the industrious producer to divide up
allows the and control the upon which the
absolutely dependent for existence 1t clothes the
children of worngmen in rags and the poodle dogs of ders
infancy to perform long hours of deatdeang toll in the
heated air OF sweatsho while sends the cats and dogs OF
hot weather 1t produces 10000 suicides annually in the
United States 1t lays embargo many of colleges and
universities, that they dare teach the truth concerning
economies 1t advocates the doctrine that NIGH makes right
1t transforms society into bunch of swine where the strong
crush out the weak eat all the sw they and then lie down
in the trough 1t STILES every instinct OF humanity, cruces
the sentiment of brotery love- fosters the spirit of sesness
avarce and greed and renders the observance of the golden
rule utter mpossiby 1t the interests of every
against the interests of every other makes the
of depend upon the downfall of another and
forces society to be continually cutcng at each oter
throas 1t system of grab cheat lie deraud rob- steal
swindle every for himself and the devil take the hind
most 1t the natural parent OF bribery and corrupt egisa
ton muzzles the and STILES free speech 1t dee
state and federal constitutions dags laborng out of then
beds at the dead hours of night without warrants and forces
them into mines at the points of bayonets 1t dees all law
1t forces tens of thousands of working girls to barter their
virtues for bread 1t prostitutes holy religion to unhol
ends perver the gospel of Jesus Christ whose mission
to the poor dees sanctuaries corrupts pups
thrones the mamon god and subordnates to Anc
yet OH my God humiates me to confess it, some men wht
claim to love God will stand in the pulpit and to defend
this damnabe vianous murderous system of ievery rob
berry and oppression And they will at the cooperative
system of production and distribution, which would bring hap
pness joy, and plenty to the ong millions, mea
and bread question: unworthy to be advocated in the pulpit
Such ought to be able to swallow the doctrine of Econ
omc Determinsm" bodily without wry face; and |
him there is much truth in it.
The social system under which live would be disgrace
to Every winter the dispatches tell of poor
sick in large cities being evcted into the
from the shacls that had been furnishing them a parta
shelter because they not able pay idle
loafng vagabond mionare and how these
children are found death morning under the avn
ing of factory warehouse where they had sought e
from the bitter cold There is not tribe of savages tin
face of the earth that would of its members that
and you know it.
Over against this damnable system of selfsness
greed, would the cooperative commonwealth with il
doctrine of the universal brotherhood of and aterloo
of God For the doctrine of the survival of the ttes wc
is the law that governs the capitalist system the Jungle of th
tiger and the den of the rattesnake would substitute TN
divine law of love (Which seeketh not her own u Cor 10 y
and 49, which causes each man to look not only on bos
things which his own, but also the things of others "
Phil 2 which every man to realize that he is in
large sense, his 'bothers keeper Gen g. and that tn
strong ought to bear the nrmes of the eak.Rom ID
Instead of the doctrine of the capitalist the crocodile tn
panther the wildcat the ratesnake, the grizzly bear w
teaches that 1.-THE weaker members must pers' and 18th