The daily sentinel., 1909-01-05
MIR. SAWYER
TELLS WHY

Editor Sentinel:
Dear Strive often wonder why
every effort made for the betterment
of the human family has to pass
through nearly the same process of
criticism and opposition. Every in
vention every great discovery of
modern times has been treated like
wise.
Why is it?
Gallileo was prosecuted; Bruno was
burned at the stake. and Jesus was
Inundated by being crucified be-
tween two thieves.
Jesus and Bruno gave up their
lives for truth sake; Gallileo was
willing to do the same; Columbus had
the honors of his discovery stolen by
another and was imprisoned; Watts,
Stevenson and Cartwright had great
opposition; Fulton was the laughing
stock of his time.
The railroad train was an 'impos-
sibility.' Some said it could not be
started. and when it did start, 9TH
ers said that it could not be stopped.
The Atlantic cable was another I'M
possibility; Ericson's screw propel-
Ter for ocean steamships would not
push the boat: Morses telegraph
would not work-it took many years
to convince congress that it would
work. Tyndall, Huxley, Darwin.
Herbert Spencer. Milton and many
others were condemned by wise I'd
critics.
1t is no wonder then that Karl
Marx and his followers come in for
their share of condemnation by those
who do not know what he taught.
and will not learn until conditions
force them to understand what
awaits them under the capitalist sys-
fem The claim Inv the New York
Times that socialists are plainly dis
heartened' is wide of the mark.
think | voice the sentiment of the
majority of socialists when | say that
we feel very much encouraged with
the votes received and counted at the
November election. If we take the
vote as reported. we have held our
own as to numbers and made gains
in many places. There was falling
off in the vote in some places, but
large gains in many other places.
w. J. Bryan comedies that the vote
of 1904 drew from the democratic
party far more largely than it did
this year. All fair-minded voters
will concede that the socialist party
lost many votes by there being many
millions out of employment and away
from home looking for jobs. Man,
socialists believed w. j. Bryan would
that number. Many socialist voters
who We're not members of the party
organization voted for Mr.. Bryan,
thinking to get relief Immediately.
Such was the case here in Colorado.
we are positive. The writer further
more believes that w. j. Bryan would
have been elected had the Catholic
church not voted solidly for Taft in
all doubtful states and districts.
N.Fl l.. -. q
believe the million votes of the
Catholic voters will show that they
hold the balance of power. Taft and
Roosevelt completed the deal with
Rome on the friar lands in the Phil
ippines. Mark Hanna said before he
died that the only hope of defeating
socialism was the Catholic church
We all know that Roosevelt was sup
ported by the vatican, and the New
York City vote shows how Mr.. Bryan
was knitted there.
The solid south did not give Mr..
Bryan as many votes as it did Judge
Parker in 1904, the reasons for
which will be found when we con-
slider the fact that the south is be-
coming manufacturing district.
l'will close by saying that what
socialists want is SOCIALISM. 1t
matters not to them what political
party gives it to u.s. If the republic
can, democratic populist prohibition,
socialist or any other party gives it
to us it will be socialism and that
will be what we want.
! We know that no other party can
/ of will enact socialism. other than
! the socialist party, and for that rea-
son we go right along educating the
I people what to do when capitalism
shall have forced socialism to take
/ the place of our present foolish and
I corrupt system of spoilation.
/ The day after election we began
the campaign for 1912. Our speakers
/ are just as earnest, our writer's are
/ just as forceful and hopeful as they
/ can be. Our party membership is in
/ creasing every day and our propa-
| ganda literature is selling better than
/ ever before. We have no reason to
/ be disheartened.
The following dispatch to Chi
Fcago daily paper is very significant:
| SHAW FEARS SOCIALISM:
WANTS ALUMNI TO FIGHT IT
New York, Dec 14-Speaking be-
! fore a gathering of alumni of Dick
inson College Leslie NJ. Shaw, for
mer secretary of the treasury, ap-
pealed to the college men to save the
country from socialism. He said:
Il am alarmed at the trend toward
socialism in this country today. If
there is any power in this country to
stem it. il ought to be the trained
! minds of college men. But four out
of five commencement day orations
are purely socialistic. / have met
many of the teachers of sociology in
our schools and universities. With
few exceptions. these teachers are So
cialists. as you can find by a few mo-
ments of conversation with them, and