The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-11-24
QuakerS Gone Over To State
Socialism.

Editors Midland Joar7aal.
In your issue of Oct. 9th you gave a letter
from me headed "Quakers Leading In
Socialism" The same letter afterward APP
| peared In the Oxford, Pa, News of Oct. 18th.
1t was answered in the News on Nov. 1st by
isaac +. Walton in a strain befitting the
| most aggressive Socialist. think it is really
time for the Quakers to change their name to
I''Friendly Socialists and to see the papers of
the poor ''proletariat'' revived by funds from
these well-to-do Friendly Socialists The fol.
lowing letter in reply to Mr.. Walton may be
of interest to your readers also
Quakers as Socialists Let the Appeal to
Reason, the Chicago Daily Socialist and other
Socialistic Papers henceforth call the Quakers
l"Comrades.''
Editor Oxford (Pa.) Ne,os:
In your issue of Nov. LIST note a reply to
mine of Oct. 18th in which / showed that
Quakers were leading in Socialism had
hoped that there was remnant of the Society
that stood for individualism and the faith of
the fathers, and thought that either private
ly or publicly would have heard from this
contingent. On the contrary not word
came and the letter of Isaac P. Walton in the
News of Nov. LIST clinches the Quakers as gone
over to Socialism. In case it might be said
that the News does not reach the Quakers of
the entire country, can say that l have
reached them all by similar letters in other
papers.
The Socialists are beyond all others in their
defense of the public schools. The self-in-
terested educators themselves bear no COM
parison to Them, In fact, as the leading oppo-
nent of the public schools in this country,
am obliged to- say that they constitute at
present my only adversaries. They have ever
said that State education for the young is
bound to prepare the rising generation to
demand food, clothing, shelter, beer, music
dance halls and theatres later on in life. We
see these things being already demanded in,
some Observation-Disclosures for instance, and
it may be possible that Quakers will ultimate
ly call that city or Chicago their headquarters
and bid good-by to the famous old city of PENN
Mr.. Walton can tell me nothing new about
Socialism, l have been in constant communi-
cation with it's leaders for so years; have been
on the free lists of their papers and magazines
and many years ago predicted that all the
religious bodies that placed education para
mount to religion would ultimately drop to
the Socialist level
The Quakers are now irretirevably gone
Episcopalians in Milwaukee acknowledged
Socialism through school and child-labor laws,
and their paper, the Living Church. now spouts
Socialism and is quoted at length in the
Socialist papers. In preparation for the COM
ing struggle between individualism and
Socialism, it is well to know just where every
man, every church and every party stands.
The Socialists acknowledge am doing a grea
work in the alignment.
Mr. Walton pidiculas the s.divida NM, ,,,o
position that charge Socialism with, very
we'll know that the comrades" ridicule it
also-that it has been flung at them so often
and with such i'll effect that they are abandon
ing the slogan in reference to it considera bly,
Nevertheless, so long as the slogan hangs out
the opponents of Socialism have every right
to quote it and enlarge upon it accordingly
OF old this slogan was: From each according
to his ability, to each according to.his needs"
AT one time the Anarchists had it also. The
above slogan, slightly altered, but meaning
the same, was quoted by Elizabeth Passmore
| of Oxford presume, and the meaning of it is
plain to all.
Socialists propose to tax the well-to-do out
of existence, but if this is too round about
task, they propose confistication, just as single
| taxer Henry George did in the matter of land
only. 1t was on this point only that enlarged
some years since when, single handed, drove
the Single Takers out of Delaware-that is,
prevented them from capturing it flor trial
| of their movement. The Socialists are learn
ing wisdom from. the Georgetes and are in
clined to drop those asperities in slogans
which they find too glaringly scare the
public; but, as say, until they are dropped
completely they must abide the results and
newly found converts had better get definite
instructions from headquarters before ventur
ing on the soap box or in print.
am fully aware, as Mr.. Walton says, tn at
the Socialists are making a worldwide demon
stration for peace. Fundamentally, they want
on to suppress Labor Union riots and strikes
While the principles actuating the Socialists
exactly founded on those of the Prince of
Peace, we can nevertheless, welcome their
efforts and recognize them as, in this instance
have some good features; but things must be
judged as whole, and with society plunging
headlong into Socialism, nothing less than
revolution will be the result. The chaos and
strife exhibited at all past Socialstic settle
ments is an Indication of what may be ex-
pected in general turnout
freely acknowledge that Socialism is COM
ing unless the policies that | lay down are ac-
cepted and carried out. say the trend toward
paternalism in municipal, State and National
government must be stopped and hat public
schools, as one of these trends, must go. Both
capital and labor are beginning TO question
the public schools From Mr.. Walton's dearly
beloved Socialist sources see this recognized.
For instance, in the Chicago Daily Socialist of
alist's regret over the public schools in these
words. why did we in the past urge free
education upon the peopleY We thought it
would make labor more efficient-it has made
| it a REBEL
| In the foregoing see the fruits of hundreds
of articles that have sent to the press under
the caption: Public schools breed Strikes,
Now contemporary with the above from the
Daily Socialist, on the very next day, Oct 22nd,
a howl set up in that city against the public
schools by labor unionists and Socialists. It
went to show that the poor man to whom Mr.
Walton fondly assumes the public schools are
blessings, was finding them the reverse The
| first point made against the schools was:
Boys are wasting their time under the
present industrial education idea,'' but my
space forbids the rest Suffice it to say, all