The Newark journal., 1912-07-12
A FIVE MINUTE SER
 MON ON SOCIALISM


 and depise the other, Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Mat. 6-24.
 It is a well known fact that a ma chine built on wrong principles is aI- ways impractical.
 Now We can see that the industrial machine we call capitalism, which is built on the principle of competition and has through the laws of trade evolved into private monopoly, fs im- practical
 It utterly fails to give employment to all the people, it enables the strong to take advantage of the weak and as a result We have reached the point where the few who produce nothing have all the wealth and the many who produce all, nothing.
 According to the best statistics ob- tainable 6,000 millionaires own 60 bil- lions of the wealth of the U. s. Com putting their increase at 6 per cent compounded annually, (which is much less than their actual earnings in about b years they will own every dollars worth of wealth in the entire U. $.
 Will you be one of the 5000 or will you be one of the dlspossessed2
 What would you think of parents who would permit the larger, stronger boy to take advantage of his weaker brother? Would such a system be practical for the family?
 The motto of capitalism is Get all you can and keep all you get, while the Bible teaches Lay not up treas uaes on earth. '' Woe unto them that join house to house and lay field against field"
 Is such q system in harmony with "Doing unto others as you would have others do unto you2''
 Now, since it is clear that capitalism is not practical for the great majority of the people and Is wrong in princi- pie. let Us test Socialism by the same rule
 The industrial machine called Soc iaIism will be built on the principle of Cooperation. or the collective owner ship of the machinery of production and distribution. under democratic management, with equal opportunity for all to secure the production of their labor.
 You will admit that so far as Co- operation has been applied under the present system 1t has been success, for instance, cooperation in Produc- tion in our large factories, is the only practical feature of them. Individual methods were succeeded by coopera- tion because they became impractical for production on large scale.
 Now, if you will make the owner ship of the factory and the distribu- tion of the product cooperative you will make the entire system practical, and that will be Socialism,
 The public school and the postal system also demonstrate that the So- efalist principle is practical for they are collectively owned and operated for the good of all the people, and are in the main successful and satisfact- ory.
 The only impractical features con- nected with them is that we permit the privately owned corporations, such as the railroads and school book trusts to rob us by their eXhorbitant rates and prices, and the further fact that they are not demoeraticaHy managed,
 If it is practical to get our education at cost and get our mafl carried at cost, would it not also be practical to gel food, clothing. shelter and trans portation at cost2 4ou will agree that the church or ganization is practical institution. You pratiee tbo principles of Socialism in is mana cement. The church which is collectively used is collectively i owned and is managed democratically l while the things that are privately us- ed by the members are privately own ed and there is equal opportunity for all to do church work or to receive the benefits or advantages to be derived ! from the organization.
 These are the principles oi Social ism and there are no others.
 Since you practice these principles in your church organization, how can you consistently condemn other for ad- vocating them: Why do yoH not ! PREACH these principles as we'll as PRACTICE them?
 When you have studied them little more carefully and learn that they are in harmony with true re .gion and 1 morality We know you Will
 CAPITALISM or the stem of pro- duetion for profit, is taking something from your neighbor without returning an equivalent, and is the spirit of i (LRIsI'0 ee NJ X N MON