The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-21

woME5 AND SOCIALISM.

A select coterie of progressive women of adj
vanced views, the FChicago Inter-Ocean tells rs.
have established dub in that great city as head
quarters for the discrimination of socialistic doc
trines among women. They contend that socialism
alone offers the only remedy for most of the wrongs
and domestic miseres which afflict sadly the mem
bers of their sex in Europe and America We are
not told the nature of the wrongs and miseries of
which the members of the club complain, but we
feel satisfied that if there be one class of human
beings which, for its own sake and through pure
self interest, ought to beware of socialism, it is
that class whose members are known to pious
writers the "devout female SEX" 1t demands
no very intimate knowledge Of ancient history to
realize and deplore the melancholy state and deg
radiation of women before the establishment of
Christianity, and one needs no prophetic gift to
foresee what their condition will be if respect for
the doctrines of Christianity disappear from the
thoughts of the women of our country. In the
socialistic cult and Generalization of established
order there is little place and apparently no
ration for the weaker sex and the recent examples
OF well known socialists, and the uncovering of
their domestic lives, furnish ample proof of this.
The disgusting and shameful familiarity of
Gorky with the woman he brought to America to
fill the place of the wife he threw aside, the i'm
moralities of Ferdinand P. Earle, lately in the
public eye, the reputation of his lawful wife by
Jack London and the slurring and insulting atti-
tude of Bernard E. Shaw toward marriage and
It's sacramental obligations ought to convince in
telhgent manhood, and much more intelligent wO-
manhood, that socialism is pitiful substitute for
Christianity. Gorky explains his outrageous viola
tons OF decency the grounds that his way of liv
ing is common In Europe among his socialistic
companions and associates and that America is
prudish and behind the times" Earle, also pro-
nounced socialist deliberately sends his wife with
her child back to her father and mother so that
he can live with his affinity" and he defends his
brutality and his lust because his conscience ac-
quits him of dishonor and as he contends, he is
independent of, or above, public opinion.
In opposition to the contention of the social
lists and anarchists that the world is in condi-
ton OF industrial slavery and that things are go
ing from bad to worse the moral, social and edu-
catlonal status or position of men and women IN
industrial centers and in rural districts has i'm
proved steadily, and we draw attention to the fact
that In those countries least contaminated by the
septic influence of socialism the status of woman
is the highest and reverence and respect for her
character the more sincere.
While it is not openly included with other rev
dictionary doctrines, the degradation of woman,
from the attitude of socialists themselves, must
necessarily follow In the theoretical state of So
ciallsm the sanctity and inviolabilty of marriage
hold no place, and if we are to judge the heresy of
socialism by the Practices of its adherents, women