The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27

against one or another of the diseases that aff1ict humanity, but you cannot change the eternal law. Forever the wages of sin will be death.
 Now there is a. well defined school of thought behind this loosening of moral bonds. There has been build ed upon the basis of that philosophy a political party. That party seeks cial organization. It is comprehen- sfve in it's aim. It leaves nothing un- touched in it's attack. It would rel create in accordance with the plan of l men not only oilrs economic system sbut our educatfonal and our moral sys- tenn
 This is the most recent definition Of ! it by one of it's leaders, MT. Morris 1 HilIQuit;
 1 SOCIALIST ETHICS.
 But Socialism is not devoid of eth- tieaI and spiritual implications. The Socialist philosophy involves certain views Of right and wrong in the in1| Idividua1 and social conduct of men, 1 which are sometimes at var'iance with l accepted standards; and the Socialist ideal is predicated upon a change in the reciprocal relations Of man and society which is bound to affect our conceptions of individual and social l duty. The moral conceptions thus inn piled in the Socialist programme con stztute the code Of Socialist ethics. An adequate treatment Of the subject will thus require a discussion of khea Socialist criticism and programnae and the Socialist ideal and phflosophy, as we'll as the bearings of Socialism on morale and religion As Socialism is the composite in which ali the forces of negation are now working. we may consider it as. a contagious disease. We may study l it as scientists have studied the var
 
 etiology, it's agencies of transrnissf on J and the violence of it's epidenicity It flows originally from injustice. It is the exigent of these conditions cre. ated by a combination of greed and cunning and power in some of the inr
 dividuaIs Of ohF race. and the exploit ! kations of such ef those whose lack of
 greed. or lack of cunning. or lack of power made them easy victims It has always it's greatest real strong
 holds in those localities where the burden of life is not well distributed and where great many backs break. under the strain while a few bear no weight whatever. Such a condition breed discontent and hatred, and dis- content and hatred are the natural i'm st1sl nnents with which revo1utionary Iagitators work.
 MINDS DEFINED.
 Minds that ar 6 hopeful are generally clear min ds, and Illogical programmes 1 of reform do not appeal to them. Minds that are disturbed on the other hand are never clear minds and these. eagerly accept the propaganda of So- cia1fs1n. They do not weigh the prom l fses Of the Socialists on the scales of good sense. They do not test the pre- l gramrne Of Socialists on the rock of 1 human experienced They do not care ! to know that this thing has been tried I out many times and has always re- suited in failure It does not appeal i to them as a pertinent thought that the French proletariat went thr rou gh ! every excess of cruelty and to every! extreme Of horror, only to learn as Carlyle put it that victorious analysiss bakes no bread. So from fgnorance, ! played upon by intellectual and moral
 madness comes this thing.
 1N Now let us consider these ethical and spiritual irnplicationss t Q which Mr.' EnIquit referred. He says that the Socialist ideal is predicated upon a I change in the reciprocal relations of
 man and society which is bound to af- I feet our conceptions Of individual and
 social duty.,, Where are we to seek
 the Socialist ideal which is to touch.
 matters so important as our concep- tiofas of individual and social duty? 1 Let us see what the practical opera ton is.
 The Socialist convert. predisposed l0WaGdt any mel n00Sa Ols f9E2TE1 by a consciousness of the injustice of con ditions now existing. is first interested l by the utopianisnn of an appeal either I from the soap box of the street ora tor, or from the lecture platform upon (which some university Socialist stands l He may be mechanic or laborer, l and the thing that attracts him my be
 MT. Allan Benson's statement that un : der Socialism the conn pensation of I everybody will be the equivalent of five thousand dollars per annuxn- He I may be a young man, full of generous
 impulses and deeply impressed with
 social wrongs that are all too real and in this circumstance his heart l may be engaged by the dream of a I commonwealth where there is Justice i between man and man and no poverty.
 Tn either event. once his attention is
 obtained he is thrust into the sea of I Socialist literature. It is a strange l mess in which he finds himself. In Si the works of one recognized authority sl on the subject, like Babel the Ger
 man, he will be told that marriage is an institution inseparap1e from capi- Fl talisn, which cannot survive capital I inns, and that the sexual relationship
 is endurabIe only so long as it is pleas I ant or highly desirable to both the
 man and the woman.
 STATE NURSE NEEDED. .j IT said in the works of one of their
 leaders, but he will find this in the works of nearly all of their leaders , and it Is not accidentally there. It :. fits in with another part of their pro gramIne. It dovetai1s with the plan \ of state nursery for the care of chil- <. dren. Such a plan, of course, com
 templates the removal Of the offspring
 of a marriage whose very existence II keeps the family together.
 ', What else will he find He will f7nd that 1jfera f1Irf an AlTn OSt 17Tli- N versalIy expressed belief that morality
 is to a great extent matter of con
 venience. Thus theft becomes under certain conditions no crime at all. Thus murder ceases to be a crime if it's Al commission advances the cause of So-
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