The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-12-29
SOCIALIST DOINCS
To THE EDITOR:

To The EDITOR:
In an article under the abovenamed
rubric published in your paper 9th Of
inst, you have paid attention us Finn
Socialists. We would have greeted it
with welcome if your information
about us had been correct. Sorry to
say you have quite failed ia regard Of
truth in your laudable attempt to
make US and our cause more known to
your readers. Therefore, you may
excuse US il we must make several
corrections to your description Of our
socialist doings." .,.-
First, with your talk of free love"
"anti-God," -the-govern-
ment," yon lead your public into the
general opinion that we Finn social
lists form some religious section which
teaches and breaches against mar
riage, God and government. This is
certainly not urdoing. AS socialists
we do not touch with a word any kind
of religion, you may believe as you
like.
Very little have we socialists to say
about marriage. Sometimes our Or
ganizers have given statistical figures
to prove how the poor economic con-
ditions decrease marriages and poiaE-'
ed out how the rich American girls
marry tc the titles Of European mob
lesses and these with dollars. We
socialists are not inclined against any
kind of government as you tell about
us. We are no anarchists and among
US Finn socialists there IS NO ONE
political refugee in this country.
Our socialist association-NO. of
membership Sis local to the Pub
lie Ownership Party of Minnesota,
Incorporated under the laws of Min
nesota and this organization together
with the socialistic organizations in
other states is the Socialist Party of
the q. S. A., now third party in this
country, the said party being branch
of the international socialist world.
1t is very difficult to see if you are
fighting against socialists in general,
calling thema postles of free love,
anti-God and down-with-the-g govern
ment or only against Finn socialists
in this city. Some of your sentences
suggest you to ignore that socialism
is now one of the biggest movements
in all civilized countries, more than
twelve million votes having been casS
in favor of socialism. Now, we here,
do not differ in any essential point
from other socialists OF the world.
Our Finnish movement supports two
Finnish sOcialistiC weeklies In this
country and Finnish local to the
Socialist Party is working in almost
every town with some Finnish popu-
latiOn. You cannot even yourself
believe that these millions and mil
lions socialists of the world as little
as we few thousand sOcialistic Firms
are apostles of free love, anti-God
and dOwn-with-th e-gOvernment."
10 SIlUW uOW CIlC
speakers are condemned by their own
people you refer in your article to a
Finnish festivity celebrated at the
Opera House on Sunday the Sd of
Dec. in honor of the secured political
liberty in Finland. you report that
one of the principal speakers of the
day was cried and Missed down by the
} audience when he Switched to a
socialistic address," The truth here
is this: In longer speech the speak
} er showed that the secured liberty In
, Finland was the result Of the awak-
ening of the people largely due to the
} socialistic movement in Russia and in
> Finland, as we'll as the lack Of free
dom resulting from the oppression of
bureaucracy and from darkness in
. which the Russian church with its
ministers kept the nation. During
this speech, One-saY One-religiOus
fanatic cried down." but no other
supported him and there was NO HISS
at all. On the contrary, the stormy
applauses at the end Of his speech
proved that the speakers ideas had a
strong support. If one OF the Fin
nish ministers in town considers the