The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-01-26
Socialism, Anar.
chy--Free Love
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chists who always enslave, impoverish
and degrade the human race. Yes, YOU
wealthy anarchists, opposed to just and
equal division of the worlds wealth be-
cause you want to steal it oil yourselves
We have You routed for defeat. and you
must evacuate the earth and climb the
mir or give To faithful toll and thought
just reward for services received
Calling conscientious revolutionists
naughty names will never save You from
the terrible tempest thut your mean
ness has started raging and roaring in
frightful fury over all the continents
and islands OF the seas. May as well
attempt to stop the movement of the
planets or TO stay the thunders of the
socialism by telling lies to Islander and
defamc the saviours and rcdecmers OF
the rights and happiness OF man.
Again, the foes of socialism foolishly
assert that socialists advocate free
love" which they construc to mean that
ihoh rONt COuTl illl
mems sisters, daughters and wives; that
every woman will love and court all
other womcn's husbands, brothers and
sons; that the world will become
bedlam of immortality and lust; that
home and happiness will disappear and
humanity become den of fiends. Moth
ing could be further from the truth, and
nothing could be more absurd, than to
Islander socialism as the advocate of such
II foul and filthy force and fraud. While
some socialists advance the doct rine that
we should love so freely and faithfully
that not even matrimonial VOWS could
more firmly bind in welded love, so that
grasp and fond embrace of sacred love,
socialism knows that matrimony and II
happy home arc the holy of holes in the
hnllowed sanctuary of the human heart.
Socialism prophesies the happy dawn
when pure, sweet womanhood and true
manhood will become 30 generous, great
and grand in reason. justice, liberty and
truth that they will grandly clasp each
others hands and hearts in affection.
perfect and divine enough to forever wed
them with the wealth of two united
souls, without the necessary subterfuge
of useless ceremonies. fashionable for
malities or licentious lies. When peo-
pie marry under customary conditions.
where worthy women and girls are
forced to marry men, or men compelled
to carry women, simply for supporter
where men and women marry merely for
one anothcr's wealth, where fitness, love,
conseniality OF affection are neither con-
sidcred nor required, OF course their
marriage must be celebrated with super.
tiles in order to impress contracting par
ties that they are marrying for more
than the qualification of some subterfnge
of selishness.
So, too, when there ia higher mo-
tive in matrimonial contempla tons than
the sordid ambition of getting fortune
or a home, while the husband wife il
scarcely considered in the matter at all.
of course it is absolutely necessary, I'M
der these circumstances to bind such
marriages together with all the ropes
and chains of ceremony, custom. law. re-
ligion, fashionable forms and supersti
tious foolishness, in order to coerce our
enlightened heathcns to cohnbit until
they secure divorce. In 1910, Of 1886
marriages in Cabell County, w. Va. l4l
sought divorce-the consequence of capi.
talism which falsely says that socialism
would destroy the home. In this case
capitalism DESTROYED 81 of every hun.
dred homes.
If these rich aristocrats. who diss"m
mate this falsity that socialism advo.
Gates the debauchery and dcpravity they
characterize ~ free love, would quit
marrying for the demoralizing consider
alton of mere wealth and titles. and mar.
ry only those they truly love: if they
would refund enough of what poor, hard.
working women and men produce to en-
able them to live in decency until they
find the persons they can dearly love for
life. it would prevent all this hidcous
shame and ain of uncongenial matches
OF unhappy homes destroyed by desertion
or divorce. while little innocent babes
are cast upon the heartlesS waves of