Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-27


} 1926 100000? What we want is to de-
| natlonallze IT,
"Soclallsm-in favor Of temperance
IN all things $50 does the Bible) II
, does not want man TO drink to hurt
him, etc Prohibition proves that any
drinking Is dangerous and harmful, no
matter how little
Read Tim. v, 20.
Prohibition claims that when sa-
loon keeper takes a mans money, he
is robbing the poor man, truly and
. worse, than II he held him up at the
point Of a gun"
Yes, but capitalism has been ahead
of the saloon keeper and held the
poor man" up at the point Of the
militlaman's bayonet and robbed him
of three-fourths of all he ever earned
and, as exempllfied by the unemploy-
ment problem, robbed him of the right
to earn any more.
Prohibition party is the only one
trying to educate the voters to kill the
traffic"
Socialism is educating the voters to
kill the root of the traffic as that is
the only way to kill 1t.
Prohibition of liquor is the only
thing the Prohibition party stands for.
The Socialist party stands against all
the evils of society. The author of
this statement is mistaken, or II not
we refer him to the Ananias club"
The author of Prohibition VS.. So
ciallsm would become distinguished II
he could get a Socialist into his club,
but he can't get that one in for that
: statement" because 1t is true, Pro-
hibition call the profit system, or cap
J italism, spectre and will not there
, fore, try to destroy 1t; and wihle 1t
/ dominates our government all the
I evils of society will flourish, liquor
= evil and all.
8 "A drinking man is not wanted by
the Socialist party He belongs in the
= Prohibition party (This was intended
B as sarcasm, but we accept 1t as COM
S pllment."
His determination to keep in good
o standing in his club, 1t seems, for pos
s ltively the Socialist speaker said fool
n and not "a drinking man"
= prostitution, drink, swearing, ire
+ ligion-none as immoral as poverty
i kIt is a crime to be poor"
The Socialist speaker said it was a
i crime to be poor and be satisfied OF
content with that condition when II
. was the result of exploitation.
y It is a crime not to provide for
u those Of his own house" Il Tim. V, 81
B and so it is crime to be poor when II
= is because he allows his labor to be
= exploited.
"Capltalistlc class glad to have the
people thinking about prohibition, tc
= take their minds away from Socialism
u (Thanks. To date we have received
no material aid from any capiltalist)
: Who said aid of any kind 1t mus
+ have been "a guilty conscience.
- surely.
. ''Men go into the saloons to drown
their economic woes" Prohibition
e says some begin drinking to drown
troubles, but most continue to drink
because they have the appetite,
Answering this, the Socialist speak
er quoted that noble woman who gave
her life to the temperance work, Fran
} ces willard. She said, What the So
clalist desires is that the corporation
/ Of humanity should control all pro-
Q ductlon. Beloved comrades, this is
n the frictionless way 1T is the higher
way; 1t eliminates the motives for a
s selfish life; 1t enacts into our every
day living the ethics of Christ's gos-
s pei Oh, that l we're young again and
: II would have my life 1t is Gods
! way out of the wilderness and into the
b, promised land 1t is the very marrow
It of Christ's gospel 1t is Christianity
applied"
+ The leading Prohibition speaker
:, sneeringly remarked that "she was
n growing senile."
+ "A moral movement cannot make
headway under capitalism" The free.
s ing Of the slaves was a moral move
d ment.
+ The freeing of the black slaves was
an economic movement.
= ut amounts in effect to this, wheth-
e er the operatives (slaves) of the coun-
C try shall be bought and sold and them
selves become property as in this
/ state; or whether they shall be hire
s llngs, and their labor only become
. property, as in some other states.--
Charleston Baptist Association memo
rial to legislature in 1885"
Hirelings we're more profitable (an
n economic consideratlon) so wage slay-
r cry, as immoral and far more inhu-
man than chatel slavery, was lnsti-
tuted.