The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-20
PUBLIC OPINION
SOCIALISM vs. AMERICANIsM.

SOCIALISM VS- AMERICANISM. Editor Farmer:
 Be kind enough to permit me to again use your columns in further reference to this matter of Socialism
 It Is with pleasure that I note MT Horsehefd's rare choice of words. in designating his most recent article. "A Reply,T for it is apparent that even ne, himself realizes that glitter ing generalities," bfandly conceahng painful admissions, in no way con stttute an answer
 True to his Socia1istic schooling, he exhibits the usual tendency to con- fuse matters by endeavorfng to en. velope them in maze of economic" and philosophical postulates. but when confronted with a few simple facts. down here on terra firma, he shrinkingly evades the issue, and at tempts to becloud 1t with matters of but incidental connection
 For Mir Horsefield's edification, let me state that I did not refer at all To the attitude. hostile though 1t is. of Socialism's political policy toward separation of these two institutions are concerned. American history proves the utter independence, one of the other. between Church and State. 1hus-. when my friend unnecessarily odverts to this phase of the matter, he uTleonsoiously betrays his familiar ity with a subject which awakens in the heart of the orthodox Socialist, the foulest hatred which his philo- sophy fnculates-
 did assert. and again charge Mir Horseheld's cult on the continent with uniting with Anarchists and other Radicals in the perpetration of niurderous atrocities in Barcelona In committing these, with infamous rhoice, they selected for their prin- -cfpai victims priests and nuns, be- cause of sntipathy of doctrines and envy of the wealth which the fifty seven cathedrals and convents which they burned and desecrated, inspired. Following the execution of Ferrer. the .ino{tor. of the slaughter, Social ists. Throughout France. Italy, and Spain particularly. instituted wild demonstrations. thus signifying, as, indeed they did by resolution also, brethern in Barcelona Furthermore. they voted money in Paris. to aid in the development of revolution. one of the principal aims of which was to foremost of them vouchsafed their active aid to the furtherance of the good work of -bloodshed.
 These facts he cannot deny. and izations of far-fetehedness will lessen tbeir potency in determining the true character and the underlying mo- tives Of Socialism Furthermore. MT. thoroughly out of order. for, better than I. he could if he would, elabor- ate in detail on what have but merely outlined.
 Lest MT. HorsefeId labor longer under the misapprehension, let me assure him that the activities of Soc ialist '.parliamentarians. making and unbreaking, ministries" are fully ap- preciated. and my friend need not take a long Journey, ere he meet one of these so called ''parliamentarians 70 who dare not return to his native soil lest he contribute to the livelihood of -owaCrffnnaar urhn fo on commission What MT. Horsefield is pleased to term "parlia are noted principally for passionate verbiage and riotous conduct In the which requires industry and dili- gence. and the dreamy legislation that they oft-times fain would foist on their respective countries stamps theories
 Misery loves company" is an old saw, we know. but ft; undoubtedly furnishes a plausible reason for the make their interests appear Identical with much condoned labor. The fact is that Socialism. by the very nature--of its tenets, is dfametrically opposed to the best interests of la- bor- Labor, if by that we mean the great mass of people who work for living. asks no middle ground. nor seeks a truce such as the Socialist elimination of competition fain would confer It is not by a fantastic de- structiDRs of the whole social system end the substitution therefor, of a ..udely Aconcocted and imaginative ;ystenn. pr ssupposing men to be an- gels. that existing social evils vii dnd rectifcation- Not by a revolu- tionRry usurpration of social order which has obtained since the eartt was first peopied. and which is the natural result of the inequality ot one man to his neighbor, in brains ability. Industry. or other determfn- ing qualities. can seeming incongrui- ties be eliminated The fraiI creature