Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-02-29
From the Sioux City Tribune.

MT. and Mrs. L. E. Lewis and Miss
Alkaline Lewis are seeking health
among the Bavarian Alps. Recently,
MIR. Lewis submitted to an interview OF
socialism.
What is your view of modern so
cialism ?"
Modern socialism seems to be adj
vancing SO fast that the various politi-
cal and financial systems OF the civil
lied world will soon have to tand be-
fore it n justify their existence, he
replied. lit does not cry, nor cause
its voice to be heard in the streets, but
is persistent and undismayed at OBJ
s%tacles: steadily. and in many places
rapidly. progressing. 1t deprecates all
force and abhors the outrages commit
ted in the name of labor upon the Pa
cific coast and elsewhere.
1T lain to seek by an intensive
propaganda of education to so change
public opinion as to the distribution of
wealth that a radical reform. not by
depriving anyone of IL just possession
and. least of all by force, but by volun-
tary ballot.
"a weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod,
But executes a freeman's will
AS lightning does the will OF Cod
For thousands of years men have
been oppressed by those who by force
vi 1ioou NAVE SdluCO lne power TO 90
SO. Even Solomon with all his ac-
credited wisdom, making silver of no
account because he had so much of 1t,
yet oppressed the people fearfully. as Is
evidenced from the remonstrance of
that young scape-grace Rehoboam
when he told them that his father had
whipped the people with whips, but he
would whip them with scorpions
Religious teachers of all ages have
sought to hold men in this subsection to
cruel governments by pointing them to
a future life wherein all wrongs would
be righted. But Moses did not so
teach He told the people that they
were going to a land flowing with milk
and honey in this world.
"'He preached no future world OF pain
or bliss
To cheat the weak and rob the poor
of this
The modern scientific socialist, led
by such men as Henry George, Alfred
Wallace and Philip Snowden. and
above all by Mr.. Carnegie's libraries
seems to be getting back to the ugges-
ton of Moses that the Earth is the
Lords, and it is not the Divine will
that h majority of men should hope
lessly labor for the enrichment of a
few. The socialist points to the fact
IIietI IllIlhII6 MINUS nave lOIlS lcIU li1lS
inequity of a comparatively very small
numbe appropriating h lions share
of the worlds goods, but that men are
only just beginning to see a way from
under the burden.
"The blind and beaten giant is stag
gering up at length
And the pillars of his prison house
begin to feel his strength"
every revolution has been a pro-
test against the domination OF man
owe man, although few have shown the
intelligence of the Swiss and the
United States revolutionists. Crom-
wells revolution was defeated by the
unfortunate n ever since repeated
recall of that worthless scamp Charles
II. The protest of the French revolu-
ton against tyranny was lost by the
blind brutal. horrible deformities Of the
protesting party.
Modern scientific socialists claim
that submission to the detestable
tyranny of man is rebellion to the di-
vine sovereignty of God That the
present system of the distribution of
wealth while barbarous toward
the many is also d~emoralizing to the
few-that the only ultimate source Of
all wealth is the land itself-and that
nationalized. In other words, tina the
and itself should not be owned ex-
clusively and In perpetuity by private
holders. They hold tina the only sole
owner of the earth in making the only
allotment known to history appointed
a year of jubilee when all sales n
dispositions Of land hould terminate
and the lam revert to his original all
lotment Expressly saying the land