The Washington herald., 1912-10-13
KS Socialism Justr Is the Subject Of
Discussion Between Kopelin and Ryan
Churchman Says Socialism, Is Uyust and it
Successful Would Outrage Al Human
and Divine Laws
and Divine Laws.

Of productioo and distribution should be
IN the hands Of the State" What II
the "Stater' Everybody. The people
around US who now make and ssll ~
the things We u0s would b omcsS Of
the Socialistic state" But there would
be big difference in the way Of doing
things.
Suppose that now Q Mr.. smith n your
nearest baker. II he does not supply
you with good bread you can 90 to .
Mr.. Brown in the Same place. II he
does not please you perhaps q Mr.. Jones
further on may send . wagon around to
pick up more custom ~ supplying better
bread. II none of these bakers satisfy
their customers II 10 possible that Mr..
Robinson may set up . bakery In the
same neighborhood. for the natural law
Is that want brings . supply. And all
Of these bakers know that II they do not
sell bread that 10 good at q fair price
they will lose their custom and their
means of living. Il II to their interest
to serve their customers a. well ~ they
can.
Suppose. however, Q Socialist State had
charge. There would be only one big
bakery In each neighborhood. It Is not
likely that rival ones would Be allowed
to exist. for that would diminish the
State profits. Mr.. Smith might obtain
the situation as State baker. and Messrs-
Brown, Jones. and Robinson would
have to take situations under him IS as
sistants or 60 elsewhere. Mr.. Smith
would know that II you did not like the
bread he sent out you could not get any
other. You could only mako complaints
to some other government ofhcial. who
might not trouble himself to attend to
TkAv. hox, "
but to wait till the next election came
on. when there would probably be many
other matters to be voted upon Of more
importance than the quality OF your
bread. You might starve in the mean
time on your tnpalatable bread. Social
ism. in plain words. would be nothing
less than State tyranny.
At present a working man Is free to
choose his employment and his employer.
II he has a complaint to make against
his employer, his foreman. or his man
ager. he can get II put right either by
going to his employer direct, or through
his trade union. Under Socialism the
workingman would not be able to choose
either his employment or his employer.
State-and there would be no trade unions
before which to place grievances.
The working man could not even
seek a remedy through the press. be-
cause there would be no independent
newspapers. but only the organs OF the
government. During tho Paris Social
ist Commune in 1871. only the oncial
journals were allowed to appear. The
whole OF the independent newspapers
were at once suppressed.
Socialism 10 eminently unjust be-
cause In return for the sacrifice OF the
right of private ownership II makes
promises which II is not sure 1t can
fulhll. 1t cannot convincingly explain
with its adoption. which would make
the proposed cure worse than the dis
ease.
The Socialist Is a veritable quack. He
cannot demonstrate, before applying II,
that his remedy Is free from death
dealing poison. He believes that II Is.
But he cannot prove its curative pow
ers until he has northumberland he
has tried II on the whole nation. IL you
please. as though we were dogs. Shall
we permit ourselves to be stretched on
the laboratory table like brute animals
for this social vivisection?
There Is no place for an unjust doc
trine like Socialism In America. and no
excuse for it, A legitimate. legal rem
edy is in the hands of everybody of
men in this country for any and all
questions, and that alone in the long
and injustice always bring reaction.
Socialism is arrayed against all law.
natural, human. and divine. 1t out
RACES every right by a false assertion
of its own. plumbers In the name of
liberty. and would steal in the name
of Justice. Its end IL II could succeed.
would be the chaos OF a universal right.