The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
DAVID GOLDSTE|N HIT
SOCIALISM IN SPEECH
Hurled Broadside Against The
Doctrine OF Free Love.
From tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
David Goldstein of Boston deliv
cred a lecture against socialism at
the Loyola club before large audi
ence. Preceding his lecture, the
Loyola orchestra gave selection
and Father Hartman then introduced
the speaker in a few words.
Mr. Goldstein has studied social.
ism in all its phases and having
once been 4 socialist leader he seem.
ed 10 know what he WIS discussing
from every angle. A large part OF
his lecture was 4 broadsde against
the doctrine Of free love and the
religion or rather irrcligion of the
socialists. etc
Atheism undermining The church
and free love destroying the home,
where held up as two Of its cardinal
principles which make il an enemy
of Christian civilizations Mr. Gold
gIment on premises taken from the
standard and authoritative works of
the party and its leaders, and then
develops the conclusions Of the prin
ciples enuneiated. In the address
last evening MIR. Goldstein used only
the works of the socialists them
selves as the basis of his argument.
These books and pamphlet he ar
ranged on the table so that all who
cared might inspect them AZ the
al NF
Warns the Catholics.
II was here that Mr.. Goldsteln
warned the Catholics against allow
ing the socialist creed, in any in
sidious manner, to creep into his
life. The socialist uses as his great
est argument to catch the Catholic.
the words of Daniel O'Connell, who
said: II take my religion from Rome
but not my politics" The speaker
argued the deceit of this argument
by pointing ont that "O'Connell's
true meaning was that he took his
religion from Rome but would not
be guided in his politics by GER
tain obnoxious English churchmen.
The Catholic church is not n po-
litioal party and its believers can
ally with any party not in conflict
with Christian morality without a
word being said by the church. But
the socialist party" said the speak
err with especial emphasis, us in
conflict with Christian morality"
Socialism Denies God.
Socialism," said The speaker. de
MES God, says that nothing Is per-
manent. that all is changing. Karl
Marx, the greatest socialist, says that
the material conception of history,
atheism, is the necessary foundation
of scientific socialism. The Catholic
if he is a socialist. must accept two
wholly different doctrines. lie must
serve both the Christ and the anti
Christ Socialism says that our NOR
ais and religion are determined byl
the mode of producing The necessar-
les OF life and that the cooperative
which is cocksure to-
come, would cause them TO die out"
The lecturer denied that socialism
had nothing 10 do with matters of
religious beliefs, declaring that all
of the highest party leaders from
Karl Marx down had been and arei
now atheists. that one OF the prin-
ciplos Of the party is the materialist
of history; that il denied |
and SCOTS 4 revealed religion, and
these latter assertions were proved
by copious quotations from the works |
Of socialist writer's and from the !
different organs and publications of
the party. That "al standard SOL
cialist literature is against God, am /
iagonistic to the Christian ideals
and against Christ" the lecturer as
serted. and said that socialism isl
against the family and that its teach /
ings are that men and women shonld t
be free 10 love as they will, with
out the intervention of the church
or state" that these relations should i
terminate at will. thus obviating the
necessity of any woman being drag
eed through the mire OF the di-
vorce courts.
Question BY Edwin Soskey.
Edwin Boskey arose. after chal-I
enge had been given TO any person
in the audience to refnte his state
nents. or ask any questions, and re-
1uested the speaker to explain III
ne thought that the primitive church
Of Jesus Christ was OH the com
nunistic principle, TO which the
speaker said it was not.
Everything proves that during
he life of the Lord, lie was with
lis parents and did not live in com
nunistic conditions and he then
explained the difference, between the
primitive church and those that
anne later, and also the conditions
lndcr which the disciples lived.
they formed a society for common
rood, not for common gain, and /;
alter similar society has been or |
,anized which is world wide, called !
he Society of Jesus. This society
S for common good in teaching
'thers to live right. and not for |
ommon gain. Il
The speaker finished his forcible I
ak OF the evening by talk on [
ONE OF the socialists hooks which 7
zero hpinr pirpltIated aSnrpially re- I !