Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-01
FIGHT SOCIALISM.
Vigorous Campaign Against Po-
litical Faith to Be Organ
lied by Clergy.
CALL DOCTRINES ANARCHY
Rev. j. Wesley Hill of New York
Claims American Institutions
Could Not Tolerate Ii.

For several weeks the Rev. J. Wes-
ley Hill has been faying the Socialists
before his congregations at the Met
Fopol1tan temple, in New York city,
which Is given over to the work OF the
Methodist Social union, and now his
flock have come to the conclusion that
the 1ayfng ought to be extended from
a civic to a national basis. AS a con-
sequence they have passed a resolu-
ton authorizing their spiritual leader
to call a national antt-socfalist1c con-
Vention.
The Rev. Mr.. Hfll says he is glad
they did this and that henceforth the
work will engage his whole attention.
He hopes to bring together In bis
proposed convention Representatives
of universities, Summaries, Sunday
schools, trades unions, organized reli-
gion and sociologtsts.
To Be Fought Assreesi~efy.
Sitting In his study the other day,
the Rev. Mr.. Hill discussed the constd-
erations that move him to devote his
next few years to leading a vigorous
assault upon socialism.
"We are going after socialism and
are going after 1t aggressively. There
are some very foolish ministers OF the
gospel In this country. They have the
hardihood to speak OF Christian So
cialtsm.' and some OF them even have
adopted it as such. 1 want them to
know-and they must learn it-that
socialism attacks the very fundamen-
tai principles OF Christian religion. As
well talk Of Christian free love or
Christian atheism as of Christian so
cialism. Rather class socialism where
it Of right belongs-with anarchism,
with Mormontsm and with atheism"
It was suggested to the prime mover
In the proposed crusade that some
folks were having rather a consider
able problem OF fixing upon an exact
definition OF socialism
What Socialism Really %,
'Tn tell yeu1 exactly what 1t is.s he
answered. ~ftsls an frrecancfinhae enc
my Of the existing civic and social or
der. It's program rs confiscatHon-that
Is, the municipaftzafion or nationalist
ton Of all capital. Il wants to break
abruptly with history. Il denies the
fundamental truths Of evolution. It
sees In revolution its chief and. IN
fact, its only practicable weapon. I
don't want to lead a pussy footed at
tack on such an institution, for its
very spirit is misanthropic and pessi-
mtstic. It goes to the poor ana unfortu-
nate, the unadapted and disseminated,
and strives to make them still more
disconnected than they are.
1.-THE socialistic movement is perme-
ated with discomfort and class hatred.
The leaders present a disheartening
picture of life to the toiler, striving to
poison his mind against the employer
by picturing him as vampire feeding
upon the hfeblood of his helpless VIC
tins. AS it is there are Socialist Sun
day schools being organized where the
spirit of revolution is instiIled into the
minds of children. In this movement
there is a subtle attack on our schools.
'.And then take the propaganda fun
1t wants to place a sort
of paternalism above the heads Of all
men, making them subservient to 1t.
AS If man wasn't here before his in
he creating them and not
they creating him, they overlook this
fact of Gods law of Gre
alton, and they attack the primary ele-
ment of progressive preservation of
individual initiative.
'And the Christian ministers may
well be aroused at this time, for so
cialism is preaching everywhere that |
the churches are paid servants of cap
italism. In fact, the destruction Of the |
churches is one of the prime objects of |
socialism.
1.-THE hope of the proposed confer |
ence is that it shall be able to unfurl |
q danger signal against fostering this |
saturated as it is in the |
of confscation. We shall |
organize branches in every state and |
shall center our work at first in ar |
extensive press and publicity bureau |
No Socialism For America.
ThesRev. Mr.. HIS attention was
called to the fact that in Europe Sam |
uel Gompers was styled a Socialis; |
during his visit there last summer.
while here he is known as a trades un |
Ionist-
"And the reason for that is very |
clear" he suggested. Socialism is not |
Indigenous to the soil of America. II |
was not born to fight our institutions,
but those in dark, tyrannical coun. |
tries where the freedom of man can |
be attained in no other way. On our
city's east side, for instance. the I'm
migrants are often recruited from Rus !
STA, where to be a Socialist means to /
oppose the tyrannical car. An Amer |
lean Socialist, meeting these new immi- |
grants. comes well Endorsed. He finds |