The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-30
Socialism Defined.

To the Editor of The Star:
 Dear Sir:-Since the article defin- ing Socialism appeared some ten days ago in the Evening Star 1 have been requested by some forty per sons to give a fuller definition of it to prevent the idea that it is a the ory and an experiment.
 Socialism is a science and a study including the university, medicine and law.
 Socialism is line of facts accom- panied with the principles of those facts-for instance a locomotive could have been created six thou sand years ago if man had only got ten the fact and principle of it.
 Man has needed Socialism since the foundation of the world and is just now finding it out. Although be has had a certain part all along flor instance the postoffice, public school and police system. l never heard of anyone paying $1 50 to write to their mother and $10.25 to write to the hired girl because a capitalist was in control and $500 per child per year for schooling.
 Socialism is society and society is numbers and numbers is success for instance, the more customers store has the more valuable the store and the better for the custom CTS; the more people a city has the more each one is worth and the bet ter the city of course.
 Socialism teaches that selfishness is the Root of All Evil" and that one can sin and not think of money.
 Socialism teaches that the power of labor is 100 per cent more power ful than the power ot the dollar and that the power of money will finally yield up the ghost. For instance, if l have all the money and you have all the food, you can starve me to death.
 Socialism teaches that war is mur- der and instead of making ID the lead of this country into bullets to Kill human beings, make it into printers type and print mankind a new book. 1t teaches that a shot, gun argues nothing but gives the best man the floor to present his ar- guments again and the matter is where it was when we started in 1912 and again in 1861. The fact is this, those things must be for gotten, cut out with brains and with pen.
 Socialism stands for the following principles when applied to the intel feet of humanity: Honesty, wisdom, truth h-these will include love, vir- tue, happiness and so on. Take the principles of humanity for instance. l defy any man to open the Bible and prove to me that there is any other doctrine or religion taught be- tween the lids of that sacred book.
 Socialism is the blending of good and evil for ultimate good for in- stance the authorities jailed $50 pub lie speakers in Spokane, Wash. a few weeks ago, now the speakers have their liberty and the authorities are on their way to State prison.
 Socialism is a concentration of com mercialism. Rockefeller is doing as much for Socialism as Debs whether he knows 1t or not. Morgan is do- ing as much as Warren. Republi- | cans at present are doing more to bring about Socialism than Socialists It IS strange say that people fail to | see that every move made in the world tends toward the facts the whole world IS drifting that way at a terrihle rate. We are getting wiser indeed we are and as it takes me 65 minutes talking fast to ex- plain Socialism 1 will have to leave the subject with you with a final statement that Socialism is those parts of the character of the un- known unseen God that became visi- ble to men. Socialism is not on tri- | al in Milwaukee but the powers of | that oppose Socialism are on trial everywhere.
 Yours truly,
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