Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-16

would open thls artlcle Wltn Ihe remark that in 1t am considering International and scientific socialism as represented by Karl Marx and Engels, the founders, and as defended by Hyndman, Bax, Carpenter, Henon and many others whose names are prominent in socialistic ranks, as X well as by The People, The Worker and the Appeal to Reason, which s have told us in one form or other that the socialism of Marx and En- gels, with the Manifesto as it's mag na charta is the only international socialism thus understood as worthy of the name. This remark is for the benefit of the committee in Water bury whose position is, to say the least, ambiguous. If they are inter- nationalists and their speech betrays them often, they should accept the system as whole or tell us honestly wherein they differ. The committee { brides itself on being of that vast army in the United States who are { in the ranks of socialism. But that army is internationalist in the sense of Marx and others mentioned above, and where it is strongest, in the mid dle west, it is extremely interna- tional with complexion and has decided views. not only on politics and economics, but also on religion, education, family life, etc. At least 7 that is the kind of socialism against which I have been protesting. If the committee is not of this brand, it need not consider itself included in these remarks And of this brand l would say this: that it's success would mean the abolition of family life, the degradation of woman, the destruction of morality. In saying this, I am aware that there are many in the rank and file and some, too, :. among the leaders, who do not ap- prove the ultra-radical views of so- cialism's great apostles
 They all approve the economic side of socialism and it is precisely be- cause of it's economic side that so- cialism is opposed to the condition of the family as now constituted in the sense that socialism claims that the present makeup of the family is the result of economic conditions. So says Engels in the following: .sMonogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but economic conditions, viz: the victory of private property, over primitive \ conditions and natural collectivism. ' (Origin of Family, p 79.) And this despite the revelation that God him. self founded matrimony in the mono gamatic state and declared that ''they shall be two in one flesh" But God has no place in this socialist system. He is the one great evil upon which war is to be made. It is unfortunately true that economic ambition plays an important part in marriages, but that is an entirely different proposition from the social ist dictum that it is founded on prop erty. And on page 91 of the same book we read: We are now ap- preaching social revolution, in which these old economic foundations of monogamy will disappear just as surely as those of it's complement, prostitution. Socialistically argu- ing the abolition of marriage would be the remedy and the present form of matrimony would cease Arguing, too, on the promises laid down by Engels, every married woman, whether pure or not, is prostitute, : for prostitutism is the complement of monogamy. And this book of En- gels has the appreciation of the lead ing socialist papers in the United States. The Appeal to Reason (Feb 21, 1903), The International Social ist Review Sept, 1902), The Com rade (1902), The Worker (July 13, 1903.) By all these Engels Origin of the Family" is proclaimed the great classic of socialism, and by that great classic every married woman is now prostitute. A beau tiful system this to put into power in these United States. On the same page Engels tells us that the hope of socialism is the abolition of marriage for he asks: Since monogamy was caused by economic conditions, will it disappear when these causes are abolished?"
 . Let us see some more from this great socialistic classic which says (p. 39) And if strict monogamy is the height of virtue the palm belongs to the tapeworm that carries a con- plete male and female sexual appar
 atus in each of its 50 to 200 cells and passes its whole lifetime in fertiliz- ing itself in every one of its sec , tions." And so in socialism our mothers. and sisters eff married) are of no higher social type than the tapeworm. And Engels tells us then: With the transformation of the means of production into collective property the homogeneous family ceases to be the economic unity of . society. The private household changes to social industry. :. This removes the care which now forms the essential social factor hin- dering a girl to surrender uncondi- tionally to the beloved man. Will not this be sufficient cause for a gradual rise of more unconvention- al intercourse of the sexes and a more lenient public opinion regarding vir- gin honor and female shame (p. 91-92. IL certainly will be a very sufficient and efficient cause for just these very results and under this be- nign socialism virtue would sing into cesspool and sexual intercourses that are now branded with shame. would be in honor because of uncon- female shame would change places