Newark post., 1913-03-19
PEOPLES COLUMN
The Velvet Paws

+ lSf. ol q person WHO Is at one
and the same time really earnest
aud intelligent Socialist and an
orthodox Christian Those who do
not openly attack the Church and
Christianity show but scant respect
for either the one Or the other in
private. "
Mr.. L23.ham is an ojservant So
cialist.
1t is not to reform the evils of
the day, says Eugene Debs in The
Gr0s0th Of Socialism. "but to abol-
ish the social condition which pro
duces them that the Socialist party
is founded. 1t is the party not of
reform but Of revolution. -
EngcI, the co-laborcr of Marx,
says III MS Sorj0!ism, Jt0pian and
HciCHiiGc, page IL, "Nowadays in
our evolutionary conception of the
Universe, there is absolutely no
room for either Creator or a
Ruler. =
Perhaps there is no phase of this
matter more subtle and misleading
than that in which the originally
well-meaning if weak ''Christian
Socialist finds himself entangled.
The Social Settlement Worker.
stirred by the miseries Of the poor
and the very real oppression Of the
merciless unj just man--soon runs
his head into moose. For MARKHAM
Socialism assures him that the true
Socialist may not alleviate the mis-
, cries Of the poor. What is called
Reversionism here gets its scratch
in the eyes from the impaired claws
: of the velvet paws. 1t learns that
Socialism pure and simple really
means to increase the tension of
social conditions beyond all endur-
ance, and the end shall come sud-
denly as Marx describes it, like
the bursting of an integument. J"
All attempts to relieve the poor or
to remedy the conditions Of labor
can only delay this great event for
, 4 time the stress upon the social sys-
,, TEN. Hence the hatred of Social
l lists against the religious orders
within the Church who minister to
the sick and the unfortunate.
(Husslein, The Church and Social
Problems, page EDO
!, Christian charity. which is made
by our Lord the condition of eter-
+ nal life is denominated by the Mo
dern Socialist as an "opiate' and
"anasthetic' which hinders the
lively activities of rebellion and de-
, struction.
: Since the Day of Judgement kept
in memory by the Christian soul is
, annihilated by the Socialist Mate
, rialistic conception of History
{ there is obviously no meaning in
the supreme test Of human conduct
E contained in the words, 81 was
hungry, and you gave me 70 ea4s,
, For in the Socialist s Uto' spla
, earthly plentitude the ..sre are
poor, and therefore none in ne
Equally mesfnlngless to the Soc
e ist iss4s lf,tHa n: assertion "The Poor J
.ss1snave with you always"
';ts No one but an atheist has e
he doubted the truth and the auth
as ity of the words I'm the sweat
cial his brow shall man eat bread. y
in is the primal curse on Sin, bear:
bv upon capitalist and labor alike.
less capitalist who does not work
the "brow' to the sweating po
1ar- would be hard to find; perhaps
greater the amount of capital
that more profusc the "swcat. -
Win Certainly this is true OF all II
an Of genius, and the financier il
on man of genius iii his way.
"Thosc who believe that this L
ini- foe to Christ and His religion (
md be soothed by compromise or sile
di- understand but little the eau
volt which in every country have
3on stinctively centered all its alta
y -, upon the Church and have pers
rab- entity united all its forces for
Ba- obstruction .
""The number of clergymen G
the side the Catholic fold who are
do linquishing the standard of ort
bese dox Christianity for the red ban
,ciaI OF Sociaiistic revolution is daily
now coming more appalling. y &
lism church and Social Problems, p.
ples Yet we have no fear for the Chu
to whom the promise was gi
the gates of He'll shall not pre-
Mo- against her. - Within the Chu
it is the prevailing sentiment is that
of solicitude and pity for those W
true children Of her fold, who, refus
heir to listen TO her warnings, or
heed her commands, percipi1
com themselves into the maelstrom