Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-10
Outside Point of Niew

Twenty five wears ago, yes, ten years
ago. TIE man predicting the formation
of q republic in China would have been
laughed at for his wild speculations.
Something YET may prevent such a
wished for national revolution, but at
this writing il seems probable. And
the non-religious man is again forced
to admit that God moves in a nayster-
ious way His wonders to perform" 1t
is so easy row to see how this tremen-
dous change has come about. We have
| read for a number OF years of the Chi
nese students at Yale. Princeton and
Harvard. Even here i'll Iowa We have
had Chinese students at the university.
| at Arles. at Grinnell. and other col
;leges. II is true students from China
were educated IN England. France
and Germany, different forms of gov
eminent from the United States. nut
even in these countries as we'll as our
own. the observing Young ChinaInan
! found out the fact that the people
governed themselves, the titled head Of
England and Germany being only the
mouth piece OF the people. Such stu
| derts noticed ard sought the cause Of
after wears of education and observa-
| ton these Young men went home to
| China carving their new ideas with
them These students bya large per-
centaee became "rnen of affsirs' in
! China More than ever they realized
the absurtii:y Of one mar ruling d
thousand. and that one man doing SD
by the supine Indifference of the thou
sand. II time the students educated
abroad began a system OF education at
home. The result Ais the columns of
the daily papers of ls12sS>z
There is a bloodIess revolution going
on today in this country. It's name is
a 'bugaboo to one of our strongest
church organizations. Our political
parties affect to despise 1t, but results
equally astounding to- future genera
tions are certain - come. What the
socialist party is doing, has done, and
how this revolution Is being carried on
is ,ersely told by A. G.. Craig. Of Cress-
Kill. New Jersey. in a letter to the New
York Sun. He says:
The letter of IS. J. T." in The Sun Of
Nov. 10 prompts me to make few re-
marks. In his eagerness TO prove to
| himself and others that the socialist
party is a mushroom growth that will
soon fade away he has failed to attri-
butte any credit to the work OF the So
cialist organization. The dues paying
membership and the vote have grown
together in all parts OF the world In
about the ratio OF 1910. The feeling
that the republican and democratic
parties are hopeless1y corrupt is In
deed widespread. and that has weaken
ed party allegiance. but It has also
bred the belief that all political parties
are corrupt. This belief IS the great
est obstacle to socialist progress.
/ 1t seems absurd to claim that the
wage workers Of Schenectady. Reading
and such places have any idea that
socialist administration " ould promote
commercial prosperity when every SO.
ciali.t writer and speaker has been
proclaiming a war Of determination
against the business interests. What
Comrade Lunn meant when he sale
that The socialist party would not at
tack the business interests was thai
nothing less than public ownership o!
large business enterprises IL OF benef
to the workers. The socialists teach
that there is no community of Interest
between employer and employed, ane
the growth Of the party in industrial
centers has been largely due to thu
more open class antagonism felt there
1t is also to be noted that the great.
est growth has been where the part!
, members have done the hardest work.
; Ir Elizabeth. for instance, the 1oca
|, socialist paper distributes free 500
copies every Sunday.
In Reading, a city Of $4,000 houses
there Is an organization that can ant
does reach every house in forty min
, utes. An unwelcome statement in al
afternoon paper is answered at once
and the answer put in every house be
: fore bedtime.
, The growth o. the party has bee1
| t slow, but its roots are deep and tn
: education of self-heIp which 1t Is Civ
: ing the WORKING c]ass v II; in time en-
| able the workers to dominate IN
) world.
Contrast this style Of work, tines
, appeals to reason" with the accot,n
) below of how some zealous young me-
5 propose to convert other young rne'
) TO their way Of thinking. Tho following
t was clipped from q Chicago dsily:
I '"The Flying Squadron Of Early Ris
u
{ Pfble Glass d, Third Presbyterta
a church, made a raid yesterday on Oh
e young men OF the West Side Z. u. &
( A., who failed TO arise in time 70 a
|, tend Sunday school
/. "aSealed orders werc sent out
: Thirty members Of the squadron
l. meet at the 7. II. c. A. at 10 o'clocl
"a A Hist Of delinquent Sunday schot
q. members was in the hands Of the CAP
tain when the men arrived. 6epaTaa
"details were delegated 70 each floor.
81 Don't miss one said Capital
! Rufus TeFFy-otherwise known Z
7. Terrible Tsfry-:and II you lcAu
= make them get out Of bed. dress, ah
% come 70 Sunday. school leave q tral
o and q card Of invitation.
81 Thirty rooms in the dofmttoey We
y visited. In some Of y the rooms q
u visitors fo1nA IL oeeapaats SttNh1
v ing. In others they were shaving
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