The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05

fell to laughing and joking. The cause ttla had brought all these people to- gether suppressed their personal anim- osities, tushed their national antiquities and established common bond among all
 The Rev. Morgan Dix opened the de. Alterations with this allocution to the body:
 Man is governed by both spiritual and physical forces, Until recently, the thing that we call religion was the mystic force that swayed the minds of men it enjoined submission from the workers it taught, and managed to induce them to give up the substance for the shadow to forget their earthly misery in dreams of q heavenly happiness But Socialism, this evil spirit of modern days, announces that it will establish paradise on earth, and instills the desire of enjoying life on this, instead of on the other side Qf the grave. With it's pestiferous voice, Social ism shouts into the ears of the wage workers You are being robbed rise and free yourselves!' It is by these means slowly making the once submiss- i've and patient working people ripe for rebellion, to the end of putting aside the privileged classes, taking their wealth from the rich and giving it to the poor, overthrowing religion, disbanding the family, destroying art and sciences and reinuroducing barbarism on earth How is this enemy of civilization and progress to be fought? What are the weapons we should take up against Socialism? Prince Bismark, once the arbiter of Europe, the modern Nebuchadnezzar, who over ran Denmark, Austria and France, was  overcome by lot of Socialist shoe makers and tailors. The French conser- vatives nassacred, iii 1848 and 1871, thousands of Socialists and turned Paris into pSmnloth shambles, but ut of the blood of those wholesale butcheries Socialism has sprung up ill all countries. After every slaughter, Socialism rises with increased strength. This monster has withstood the test of brute force. What is tS be done ?'h
 Thereupon, one after another, the philosophers and freethinkers present rose and proposed, in elaborate addresses. that Socialism be curbed by science.
 The Rev. J. Minton Savage and his friends tried to listen to these proposals with composure, but one of them could finally not contain himself, and exclaim- ed impatiently Tt is your accursed science that furnishes Socialism with it's most trenchant arguments.
 ''You are ignorant of the natural phil osophy that we teach" retorted one of followers of Herbert Spencer. "Our theory of evolution teaches that the low social status of the working class is the inevitable result of the laws of nature and that the privileged members of the upper classes will eyolute into higher and higher beings until they shall have formed a new race. The people of that race will resemble i13 nothing the beasts i'll human form of the lower classes, who are not to be ruled, except whip in hand ''
 God forfend, broke in another clerical gentleman, that that theory of evolution of yours should ever reach the ears of the working class; it would set them wild; it would drive them to des- peration, from which popular uprisings always spring up, You must be very simPle-minded if you latter yourself with the notion that your misleading science could stem Socialism, a move