The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-12
SPEAKS FOR SOCIALISM
One of the Comrades Tell What his
Cult is Trying to do for
the World

Vulgarly called the kept press
have been telling US that socialism
meant anarchy. They figured cor
rectly that very few truth-seekers
among their readers would look in
their dictionary to see that socialism
and anarchy are as far apart as the
poles. So they got away with 1t,
and the popular conception of social
ism among those who are not so we'll
lence and 1awlessness. We have
been told that socialist leaders were
mercenary. and that they were DOM
mated by the lust for office. When
certain great religious leaders threw
their influence into the socialist
movement, among whom / mention
Rev. George kirkpatrick, author of
WAR, What For" Rev. George
Sheldon, author of I'm His Steps, i
famous Christian classic, Rev. |
Bourk White, author of THE Call of |
the Carpenter, Rv G. r. Lunn, late
mayor of Schenectady, n. Y, and |
Miss Frances Willard. president and !
moving spirit of the Woman's Chris
titan Temperance Union until her
death, and hundreds of other we'll
known ministers and Christian lay
men. they were accused of "sensa-
tionalism, and barred from the
IweaIthy churches.
Socialists have been accused of
advocating free love-" only a week
ago, two groveling editors of the Re-
spectacle press, in Tarrytown, n. Y,
were compelled ito retract this charge
which they had made against Upton
Sinclair in particular, and all social
lists by inference.
A couple of years ago when Ger
many and France were at each
Others throats, hundred and TWEEN
ty thousand socialists met on the
border OF the two countries, and
uplifted hands, took the oath of
peace. War was suddenly averted,
and the nations of the world awoke
to the fact that there was a new
World Power to contend with: The
international Socialist Party. The
complacent middle classes CAPPED
with amazement; Socialism stood
for Peace, not War. There was a
scurrying for dictionaries and text
books on socialism. Marks Critic
que of Political Economy" and Kirk
l patrick's WARRIOR What" were
in such great demand that the SOC
ial publishers had TO turn the books
over to larger concerns in order that
the demand might he met. No one
who reads at all is very much CON
fused as to the meaning of social
ism,
A few days ago came the news
from Paris that the great socialist
deputy, Jean Juarez, had been assas
sinated; later from Berlin we were
informed that hundreds of sociaHs
leaders were being executed. Ever
Respectable newspapers cant very
well revile these socialists who have
been martyred to the cause Of peace
so little is said, except that I'm Ger
N many, they are called traitors anG
l unpatriotic, because they refused II
1 commit murder at the behest of {
maddened war lord. Meanwhile six
4 ty million socialists, tho world over
/ are in mourning. The international
! Socialist Bureau calls an extra-ord:
l nary meeting in order to devist
ways and means of securing peace
We are informed by the press tina
Germany is making poor headwayi
news of the great Russian Empire II
l strangely scarce. Movements o
/ troops by both countries are largely
/ theoretical. The reason is that tht
troops of both countries have theil
hands full with the rebellion of tbs
socialists against war. Any mo
ment may come the news that tbs
governments of both countries have
been overthrow, and socialist adj
ministrations placed in power
| Italy persists in remaining neutral
for the simple reason that the no
ment her soldiers are out of tbs
] country, the socialists will seize tbs
reins of government and proclaim
M the nation at peace.
: We may say that the whole work
has been plunged into vast cruici
ble Either the dross or the GOLD
will be utterly destroyed. Eithel
socialism will rise out of the ruins o
the great Eastern Empires and builC
a wonderful and lasting civilization
or the revolutionary element will bt
crushed entirely, and all Europe viii
- be Russianized in principle.
D Meanwhile the prices of food il
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