The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-21

is one of those, who are seeking remedies for
evil conditions. His remedy is characteristic,
and to understand his remedy we must under
stand his character. We had once said the
Socialist was an inspired knocker Mr.. Charles
Ram Kennedy, author of "The Servant in the
House, has a better name and we accept 1T.
The Socialist is a gentleman with a "strong
nose" and he can smell wrong as far as a
hungry cat can smell dead fish. There are as
many kinds of Socialists as there are kinds of
noses. Every man is Socialist as far as he can
smell wrong.
The Socialist smells wrong somewhere and
smells it keenly; but the Socialist is not con-
structive by nature. He is destructionist. In
the annals of Socialism he cannot point to one
of his number, who ever possessed constructive
genius, and some of the worlds most brilliant
intellects belong to Socialism. A man must be
destructive by temperament or he simply can
not be a Socialist, in the present day accepta-
tion of the term, and time has narrowed it. SO,
true to his nature, having smelled something
wrong in church and society the Socialist would
tear down the whole structure and build anew.
Turn where You WILL You will find your active
Socialist arrayed against existing institutions.
Now, church and society have been evolved
through ages of toll and sacrifices. Brick upon
brick they have been built, and the bricks made
without straw. To destroy what we have and
reduce our ethics to- their original elements is
serious matter. What would we gain! Here
is where the Socialist propaganda fails. We
have every confidence in the Socialist scent
for wrong; but the world does not regard him
as master builder.
Then what is the solution to the riddle!
The drain pipe man said "There is some
thing wrong in this house in my line" and lac
studied the problem through to the end. lie
located the trouble, and then, forgetting him
self, risked his own life to remove the cause
without endangering the structure, for the sake
of the comrades up above
The Socialist gets his theory about the
brotherhood of man from the same source that
the Christians do, the commandment Love
thy neighbor as thyself''; but the Socialist pro-
poses to solve the problem of existence and
bring about milennal conditions in his own
way, ignoring the code of ethics, which the
enunciator of the commandment gave to the
world. Christianity says the brotherhood will
come through service and sacrifice, each gen.
Grafton martyring itself for the benefit of the
next, that humanity may through processes of
evolution rise superior to the selfishness of the
world spirit Socialism, recruited mostly from
the class on whom service and sacrifice have
been entailed as their only Inheritance on earth,
cry: $50 to. We acknowledge the relationship
of our unnatural brother; but we will enact
laws and that will compel him to give us our
portion" Thus we see that, while society as a
whole may have progressed marvelousy, hui
man nature has remained unchanged since
Jacob came into the world holding to the heel
of his brother Esau. Christianity, agreeing
with the Socialist as to the brotherhood, de-
clares he is speaking in a most unbrotherly
fashion The serious question of the day is
whether the Socialist will recognize that there
is trouble in this house in his line' and leave
the building of houses to carpenters and
masons. When he does so, and accepts his work
in the true spirit of the brotherhood he pro-
fesses, he will find to his surprise that the
pastor of the fashionable church, the artisan,
the professional man and the scoffer will re-
move their elegant broadcloth, and laying aside
their uncomfortable collars and neckties, roll
up their sleeves and enter the drain with him,
and there in the face of common danger, amidst
the dead mems bones and the slime of the pit,
the brotherhood of man will be perfected and
only there