The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-07-29

i This gentleman promises to do
what God failed % do when he put
Adam and Eve in the Garden OF
Eden (reputed to be all the Social
lists desire and more), found a state
of society, where hate, strife, crime,
vice and war, resulting naturally
lfrom this evil social and industrial
Isystem, will cease to exist"
Evidently, then all our theories
about original sin have been fallacies,
and the fact that crimes and wrongs
land injustice, worse than ours today,
lexisted in the most primitive state of
lsociety, must be accounted for in
some way other than those adopt
ed by theologians. Humanity has
changed organically. or history is in
terror, when II ascribes other than a
lcapitalistic system of society to the
Garden of Eden-or Socialism is fall
lacious.
| We lay no claim TO prophesy,
neither do we take any stock in the
prevalent psychic folly, yet in his
answer today to our editorial this
gentleman follows exactly the course
of argument we outlined for him.
We could have predicted many words
he used, pat phrases and appeals to
prejudice.
We said the Socialist orator or
writer begins by proving land an
easy matter it isl that exact justice
has not yet appeared in the govern
ments and affairs of men. Then he
paints a picture of an ideal state that
appeals TO everyone as desirable.
Having thus far met with no contra
diction, he explains that the ultimate
object of the Socialist propaganda Is
the establish ment of the brotherhood
of man. No one can well gainsay
that worthy object.
However, in that he has done moth
ing more than express the longings
and hopes of mankind since Adam
was driven out of the Garden of
Eden. But having struck a real
human note in his opening state
ment, this brother of man, turns
land with the most bitter invective
attacks-not those who do not de-
sire this Utopian condition,-but
those who decline the Socialists
method of gaining II. He does this
by drawing an imaginary line be-
tween the capitalistic class and the
proletariat, and not being able to put
the scholar and the preacher and the
editor in the capitalistic class for OBJ
vious reasons, he says: "The press,
the pulpit, the schools and universe
ties. generally speaking. are owned
and controlled by the same class, who
own the land, mines, mills and rail-
roads and exploit labor. To chloro-
form the minds of the working class,
while our brother(?) capitalists plum
der us and walk of with the "swag'
| (God help him. II is a division of
the ''swag" the Socialist is after)
they will enlist every pulpit that can
be bought, every teacher and pro-
fessor that can be seduced or coerced,
every pen that can be prostituted.
every coward that fears. and every
dog that can be induced TO bark and
bite. All these vile forces will work
for capitalism by every vile means. a"
There is brotherly love from one,
who says he stands for the brother
hood of man, and those "vile forces
and dogs" are his brothers.
With all this venom and hatred for
his brother, to whom he always
lalludes with a parenthetical inferno
cation point, the Socialist compares
the progress of his propaganda to
the advance of Christianity. Because
we said all men everywhere long for
the same ideal state the Socialist
always paints in the beginning of his
argument, and therefore IL Socialism
offered the right solution, all men
would be Socialists; he retorts that
christianity was proclaimed 1000
years ago and 1t has not won a ma
jority. We fear the Socialist lacks
the patience and perspicacity of Jeho-
yah, in whose eyes a thousand years
are as a watch in the night. Who
can say that Christianity today is not
the dominating force in the world,
working a social evolution and guild
ing human institutions slowly but
surely to the destiny externally fixed
beforehand? That man has been
slow in his personal relations to put
the doctrines into practice, we admit,
plead guilty ourselves, and declare
We know of no more backward prac-
titioner than the Socialist, who is
am lshmael from choice, because he
is revolutionist; says existing insti-
buttons are altogether wrong and he
would destroy them and build anew
on another principle. Christianity is
not destructive. but purports TO be a
fulfillment, and content to abide its
thine.
| Christianity says the brotherhood
of man comes in the heart, and logic
tells us that whenever that phenome-
non occurs, automatically the brother
hood will be reflected in our govern
ment; but not necessarily according
to the Socialist platform.
Socialism, on the other hand, says
1t will adept form OF government
under which man will have no occa-
sion to sin against his brother. Our
Brother dislikes for us to say he
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