Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-09-09
DOES SOCIALISM MEAN BACK
TO sARsARisM?
Written by S. l.. Car,

Written by S. l.. Cary.
Why not Socialist? There is much
in a name CAS- well kill dog as give
him bad name.) To be sociable is
good for all parties, but how about
being a political socialist? 1t looks
innocent enough, equal voice in So
ciety,- equal rightssins and to proper
ty, all things in common But look
a little closer whose property do
they mean? What about individual
ity, the most valuable thing in this
world of values. A community of
property means negation of indi-
yidual rights, means possession and
use without paying or giving proper
equivalent. Our government of the
people, for the people, by the people
has acquired certain property, which
belongs to it as administrator for all
| subjects of this government Then
to encourage individuality this com
mon property is sold for the benefit
of all. Now political communism
would extinguish our individual rights
and have all in common Communism
stripped of the glamour of a good
name in practice means barbarism.
1ndiHiduals buy and pay for property
and the money goes to the benefit
OF all. Then the members of the
community that have been benefited
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a political party and say (robber like
4 your property for the use of all or we
will tax your real estate so high as
to destroy all profitable use of it.
Who is benefited and who is hurt
by this robber like demand? small
part of the community who have
made no effort to accumulate, idlers
dDnes, might be temporarily bene
! fitted. But individuality, the mos
valuable thing on earth, is wiped out
Through individual effort, invention
and production, we are at sunrise
OF the brightest day the world has
q ever seen. Universal peace, equa
: rights to all. special privileges t.
} none. The declaration of independ
, ence and our constitution make pc
| litical socialism and communism i'm
5 possible. And the fact that tn,
; United States is able to feed an,
81 ciothe the world, and being a ma
r ton of peace will do much to max
f war impossible. ''In time of peac,
al make war impossible" is the. lates
g and best revised version of old tim,
theories. Socialism is the advocate
g plea that makes the worse the bet
: ter reason. The greatest source o
: strength in the governments of TIL
/, United States and the British En-
: pire is the stability of real estat
], titles, and as to the communism o
D olden times, we might just as wei
r return to the poligamy, the SLAYER.
A and the barbarism of those times a
: to it's cmomunism. A still grave
charge is made against socialism O
communism, that both lead directl
f to anarchy, and as Roosevelt says
: Compared with the suppression o
: anarchy every other question sink
t into insignificance'' Again he say
t Iii one of his messages, .rhat tn
y business reforms he was urging wer
e necessary to save the country fror
d anarchy and socialism. Every col
o poration or individual waterin
!, stocks. taking rebates, bribing les
r islatures or insisting upon unlawfl
a rights, or criminal privileges is hell
d ing anarchy. But today, "vice
II a monster of such hideous mean, thu
to be hated needs but to be seen
it The great tidal wave of reform wi
3 sweep into oblivion the errors an
e idols of past ages, and all thing
el will become new.