The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-21

mends it ought to have a less delicate
job than the care Of children. There
have been many examples of this
Socialist dislike of marriage. They
differ from ncn-Socialist violations of
the moral code in this, that in Social
ism they are held to be justifable
paraded as an evidence Of high intel
lectual condition and modern, liberal
spirit. There is an impression in
Socialism that nastiness can be brazed
out if it is part Of political or philoso-
phical movement.
Wherever Socialism gets an upper
hand in schools, there appear per-
sons who have mad desire to addle
with their own unwholesome sex
philosophy the clean minds of develop
ing children. They would thrust upon
the immature problem that even the
full-grown intelligence does not al
ways stand up against The awful
passion and power, the raging fire of
life, they would put into the unready
hands of little children.
1t isn't accidental: 1t is purposeful.
The Socialists want the schools. They
want the minds of the children. They
want them for Materialism, because,
as we saw, that is the basis of Social
ism and they want them for the lib
eraP' view of the sex relation-be-
cause the destruction of the family is
the capstone. Short is the leap from
Bebel to the injection of liberal
sex-philosophy into the schools. 1t is
the most cunning, the most dangerous
part of the Socialist propaganda. We
might let them rant forever and every.
where from their soap-boxes, we might
let them fill the universities with
Weak-chinned enthusiasts, if they
would leave the minds of the children
unpolluted. For it is in childhood that
the real wrong is done. 1t is in the
child that science sees the plastic
psychologist in which tendencies may
be set up and features formed that
will swell into restless torrents and
harden into adamantine ridges. Pro
fessor James j. Putnam of Harvard
says in one of the Harvey lectures
"That marvellous period when tend
encies are established and paths OF
least resistance are laid down, which
may give set or bias to all the
years to come, and cause the childs
mind to become sensitized to
special influences which may be
brought to bear later* =" That is
what Socialism is striving forte
sensitize the mind of the child
to make it ready to receive the form
and color of Socialism later, as 9
photographers plate is made receptive
for the picture.
This is not only the field of bat
tie where victory means the most fol
Socialism, but it is a field where the
spoil of the enemy furnishes the sin
ews of war. If Socialism can get con
| troll of your schools, it can make yoI
pay the cost of it's propaganda L
uses your money, your buildings, your
extensive teaching force to take your
children from the faith and morality
and political system in which you be
lieye. Your money pays the bills. L
is very simple.
1t is no wonder then that Socialism
is reaching for the schools, Strength
ening it's grip on the schools" as the
New York Call (Socialist) tells us In
large headlines. Under that head line
is an article describing tn activities
of the National Educational Commit
tee of the Socialist party, and, an in
terview with a member of that com
mittee, who is also state paid teach
er, in which he says that the children
in the schools must be taught &
philosophy to fit them to live"
You see, they go back, back of theil
political platform, which prudence
and opportunism and political shift
ness have voided of what might keeI
voters away, back of that to theil
philosophy" the philosophy of deaG
matter, of no-God, of liberal sex-em
perimentation," of no family They
can tin-plate Socialism at each cleo
ton time, but they cannot hide its
atheism and immortality, for of those
things it is.