Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-04

is the political part of the pro-
gram by which humanity is TO
terminate the ruthless tyranny of
private monopoly, the brutal and
interminable class struggles, abol-
ish forever the curse of sweatshop
and slum, drive from off the earth
the hideous harpies of poverty and
greed, put an end to the prostitu-
tions of womanhood, and the slave
toll of little children, wipe out the
curse of intemperance, stop war and
bring peace upon the earth.
SOCIALISM NOT HOSTILE TO
THE FAMILY.
To say, as some speakers and
writer's have, that Socialism leads 1
to free love, or that it would destroy
the family is the grossest misrep-
resentation Bishop McFaul to the
contrary Notwithstanding No
scientific Socialist ever advocated
any such thing. 1t is the present
social system that is hostile to the
family. There ere THOUSANDS of
people in America today Who have
no homes, and never can have
4 under the present system. The
cruel grind of monopolistic greed
has driven 5000, 600 women into
the ranks of wage-earners, where
they compete with husbands,
brothers and even their own off
spring for a chance to live. And
not infrequently when a complaint
is made that wages are too low TO
enable a girl or young woman to
live well, the accurSed capitalistic
system replies: 'There are other
. ways she can get money if she
wants it,. Miss Nellie Anton, a
. graduate student of the Chicago
University, found thousands of girls
and women at work in swcatshops
E in Chicago whose average wage was
less than SIS per year. Not in
frequently mothers of families and
:, young women who are supporting
: aged parents, are driven to prostiu-
: ton, as the only means of earning
enough to keep body and soul to-
gether. And then those whose
system blights and curses our homes
are charging ms with being hostile
| 10 the nOInc.
Nor is this the only charge we
make against the present system.
8 A few years ago it was supposed
that child labor had disappeared.
;. But recently the extent 20 which il
:. has increased in America has be-
). come appalling. In the southern
states it has increased 200 per CEN
= in the last ten years. (Scc censu.
bulletins III, 11S, 11o, 1913, 1870
:. 40; also Child Slavery in Amer
= ica, - by Spargo.
1t is the present capitalist system
that is destroying the home, Social
, ism will save it. And as to fire
love- in the sense of community o
: wives or the like, no Socialis
=, writer has ever advocated such
-, thing. A single quotation iron
Karl Kautsky shows the Socialist
: position: son the contrary h
: says, Socialists maintain that jus
- the reverse of a community c
wives, and of all sexual oppression
and license, 70 wit, ideal love, vii
/. be the foundation of marrimonis
=, relations in Socialistic common
=, wealth, and that pure love can onl
. prevail in such a social system. y
/; AS to the vulgar idea that Social
=. lists want the erich to divide u
-. with the poor, - and the micsoncer
=: ton that Socialists want tn
e government to own everything,
- it is enough simply to state thu
=. the Socialists never contemplate
any such absurditieS.
Now for a brief definition
Socialism, so brief and simple tn;
any one can comprehend it, and "
lat if possible complete enough to en-
y. brace all the essential elements
,r- the philosophy. The following wi
is serve as such a definition:
ial l. The collective ownership
lot the greater material means of pr
lot duction and distribution.
,ut 2. The democratic organizatiC
ate and control of industry.
not 3. The substitution of co-ope
yes alive in place of the present ca
d. italist system.
of a. Private property in person
income and of wealth pertaining
aid private life.
ow 5. The organization of an ind
it pendent political party distin
it from and opposed to all capitalist
parties, for the purpo5e of captu
err ing the powers of government
IN order to put the above principl