Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-23
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From Mr.. Hilburn.

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What is it man or woman
will do or leave undone on account
of prejudice? Let me form mans
prejudices and l can destroy him.
can make him destroy himself,
his wife, his children, and even
his own mother. Plant the poison
of prejudicein in his soul and destroy
his life. Surely Satan could find
no greater weapon than prejudice.
| know of no better illustration
than that of the boy who was to be
vaccinated. So strenuous was his
objection to the process that he
had to be roped and hauled to the
DOCTORS Office, but after fierce
struggle he was finally landed in
the apothecary shop, just as an
other boy was undergoing the
operation of vaccination. After
witnessing the simple process he
said, stake off the ropes, If that is
all there is to it, you can vaccinate
me without holding me-" The
ropes were removed and the boy
barred his arm and underwent the
operation without a CULVER.
When / attempt to talk Social
ism to men | find their minds have
been stuffed with all kinds of false
ideas to prejudice them against
this great movement that Francis
Willard said is Gods way out of
the wilderness. Some of your
readers who are looking at these
lines now will have to be roped
to make them read this article
beyond the word Socialism"
These are the people who won't
read the writings of Ingersoll be-
cause of the fear that his reason
ing will destroy their religion.
A religion that won't stand the
light of truth ought to be de-
stroyed. So, system of econom-
les that won't stand the light Of
reason ought to be relegated to the
abandonded system of the past.
Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth,
said, "When the spirit of truth
shall come it will lead you into all
truth" John, 1913. "And ye
shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free" John, 1882.
Ingersoll said, "The home where
virtue dwells with love is like a
lily with a heart of fire, the fairest
flower in all the world" Truth
never was couched in more beauti-
full language
Then let us open your minds to
the truth. Disabuse them oi
prejudice and be free. Let us
forget that we are Republicans,
Democrats, Prohibitionists ano
Socialists and remember, only
that we are men and women whose
greatest welfare demands that We
know the truth.
Socialism has been variouslJ
defined. Let us try another def
finition. Cooperation under Ma
tional, State and municipal laws
We have been told by the enemie
of Socialism, that it means pa
ternalism. That it means to hav'
the government do for us what w
should do for ourselves. What i
or ought to be government bu
4 popular will? Then, If popula
will, or as it is often stated, tn
people, are the government, thel
whore is your paternalism? If tn
people, in the name of the govern
ment, do for themselves the thing
they formerly did as individuals?
II hundred men combine an
make laws for the government {
their conduct, and if they carr
J these laws into economics an
{ manage their industries then b
! dividing the profits among thos
engaged therein according to th
amount of labor performed, woul
that be paternalism or co-opera
, ton?
Then, If those hundred men ha
, families dependent upon them an
some Of them were sick, SON
/, blind and some insane, and the
: decided to erect hospitals and en-
I. ploy doctors, nurses, ETC., woul
3 that be paternalism or co-opers
/, ton?
t Then what is true Of one hundre
men would be equally true Of A.
] hundred, five thousand or eve
= eighty million men, women al
!. children.
/ found another fellow VIII
Z wants to know what we are goin
S to do with the fellow who won
| work. Well, the answer i
"nothing.' Wewon't try to NAL
him work for that would
I slavery, in all forms. If he cs
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