Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-16

II cialism at his tongues end and pre- sented with telling emphasis and ef- feet, Peter w Collins, national lec- turer of the Knights of Columbus, ad- the town hall on Monday evening and held their undivided attention for the hour and twenty five minutes of Iiis address, which was followed by half an hour in which he answered in an entertaining and enlightening way the questions put to him by number of members of the Norwich local of the Socialist party.
 For the first twenty five minutes of his address Mir. Collins swept along with an accommodating flood of quota tions from the recognized leaders of Socialism in which he got down to basic principles which they advocated and his audience was too attentive l to applaud until he reached a climax with the statement that he had no l apologies to offer for the Ten Com mandments which had been the bea- con lights of civilization through the ages that were past and would still | be doing business at the same old | stand when the grass is growing green | over the grave of Socialism. Then they shook the room with their ap- plause
 The meeting began shortly after o'clock. Grand Knight Henry D. 1 Buckley of White Cross council. No. l 13, under whose auspices the national | lecturer came here, called the meeting | to order and in his Introductory and welcoming speech thanked the big au- dience for it's attendance and referred 1 to the thousands of miles of travel which MT. Collins had covered in th- course of addressing over 60.000 peo- pie under the auspices of the Knights 1 of Columbus.
 when Grand Knight Buckley said that | MT. Collins would be glad to answer l questions after his address. Seated upon the stage were Rev. William A. Keefe of Plainfield. state | lecturer of the K of C., and these | had served as ushers: J. J. Corkery, ! Dr. T. A. Crowley. F. T. Diggins, Wal l ter H. Casey, NJ. J. Coscoran. F. P. l McNamara. and C. " James. A large American flag hung on the wall be- | hind the speaker and another over ! the front of the desk.
 National Lecturer Collins. I At the outset of his address upon l the topic, Socialism a Menace, Nation al Lecturer Collins said he proposed | to speak in the practical, everyday language, from the standpoint of the | working people, for Socialism had two | languages, one of which he called the university language, under which is l hidden the doctrines which would drive people away if they know what l they were, while the other is the lan- guage of the soap-box orators who nightly organize an illegitimate dis | content towards the breaking down | of government.
 | In the University Language. | In the university language they use | the term materialiStic conception of l history, three words said MT. Collins, which are merely the bald proposition | s.I | of God.
 l Not From the Workers.
 Socialism. he said. pretends to be a ! movement of the workingmen, and he proceeded to combat that claim, say | ing that it does not and cannot come | from the workers for the workingman | Is inherently religious being. The | speaker mentioned Karl Marx, who wrote the so-called Bible of Socialism,
 in which he lays down the materialis- | tic conception of history. which means | a denial of God; Frederick Engels. | who wrote with Marx and declared | that there are three obstacles which
 must be torn down-religion. private l property and the family; Leibknecht, Dietsen. Paul Singer. Bernstein, and l others not one of whom were work | ingmen. From that he argued that
 Socialism does not come from the 1 workingmen, but is the greatest l menace and danger lO lHc pIOSFSSS OI l the working people.
 1 He called Socialism the most scien- | tific definition of fraud in the world | and went on to speak of other of it's prominent writers, none of whom were | Workingmen among whom was includ- | ed Robert Blatchford who devoted 400 pages of his book to showing the inn | possibility of a God from socialistic standpoint
 Mir Collins brought up the case of Paul Lafarge, the Frenchman, founder l of socialism whose two daughters and his son in law Marx all committed suicide, and asked how a doctrine that held out nothing for them either on this or the other side of the grave
 could ho1 dout anything for the work 1 ingman.
 By the phrase economic determinism, the speaker said, socialism was fooling l the people into a belief that it was an l economic movement, but it was a new title cIeverly devised partly in the lan- 1 guage of the university an partly in language which the. workers under 1 stood but which hides the old doctrine l of denials of God.
 I Why does socialism want to abolish God? Because morality is from God and socialism is immoral unrighteous
 and unjust.
 Religion and Science.
 The speaker combatted the state ment of Carl Legien that religion is abolished by science and went on to give the names of Ampere, Volta. Ohm and others, all scientists, who derived | their inspiration from religion There is no conflict between true science and religion.
 Socialism Against the Command ments.
 | Socialism is against every one of the
 ten commandments, said the speaker, but they will cure every evil social
 and industrial and it is not blasting at
 them that we need, but better under
 standing of them to instill more of
 righteousness, justice and morality.
 At the Foundation.
 Socialism starts at the foundation to tear down, at the abolition of the fam
 fly, fer the socialistic conception of the l family is as a tool of capital founded
 upon private property, and is a vile
 islander upon the working peoples
 family.
 Three Average Answers. The speaker stated that there were three answers that the average man would give if asked what socialism were-governmen ownership, social reform, and something to do with the labor movement.
 He went on to show how socialism
 was none of these. quoting from so- cialistic literature.
 We have government ownership in many countries in Europe, but not a socialistfc country. The socialistie platform contains collective owner