The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-04-02
ANOTHER SOCIALIST
ANSWERS TINSLEY
Mt Socialism But Pauperism
Worst Things We
Have.

MC1enTy, NY, mdTcH ZJ.-EultOr
epublican-Under the head lines of
an old writer on Socialism we see
vast storehouse of knowledge opened
which we believe, had it not been
kept back from the dear public, we
would be living in the millennium to-
day? The gentleman opens his epis-
tie with the sad news that he had not
written anything political on ac-
count of giving his thoughts to things
more ephemeral.
Now let me say right here that If
there is anything political in what
failed to get it. He goes so far as
to say that the worst thing we have
today is Socialism. But / say the
worst thing we have today is pauper-
ism. And no doubt he doesn't know
that just one mile from the mines in
which he works first class coal min
ers are on the mercy of the county
and the good people of Hartford.
And he wont find it out till he steps
out of that little narrow path that
leads from Simmons to Walton's
creek church, because his preacher
will not tell him about these condi-
tons. He says men are blown about
by every wind of doctrine. say no.
There are not three thinking men in
McHenry that he could get that dope
down. Had he wrung that stuff in
when he was head brakeman on a
mule car and had corn in one end
of the sack and rocks in the other
the dear people might have fallen
for it, But too late now. And just
listen to this. He sheds a boot leg
full of tears as big as hulled walnuts
about free love, and honestly, men
who are learned men and get good
pay for condemning Socialism never
mention it at all.
Let's see how the women fare un-
der this system. Let the gentleman
go to one of the large cities, not Cen
tertown, and he can find womanhood
sold on the market and also find the
snake that sells her and the brute
that owns the property where she
is sold, and in nine cases out of ten
they are members of some of the
churches and have, if you please, a
license from this grand christian gov
eminent to carry on his domnabie
business under the very shadow of
your churches with their sky piercing
domes.
Now, he takes a fall out of booze,
and says Socialism says let man
make all the red liquor he wants to.
Socialism says that's all he will make
because he can't sell it at a profit and
he won't sell it at all. And had he
spent the sleepless nights that I've
spent with a moving picture show
going on all night exhibiting snakes,
frogs, bugs and spiders after filing
up on that recified furniture polish
that he was voting for when / was
born l think his mind would change.
And, furthermore, doesn't he support
a system that the law gives men a
right to take one barrel of whisky
with fish berries and other poison,
and make twenty barrels out of il?
He comes across with some dope
about religion. We believe in the
religion that Christ taught, peace on
earth. good will toward man. Let's
see where his cult stands. A short
while back they started a missionary
with the message of Christ to the
heather and the same vessel that
ca rried the missionary also carried
1000 gallons of rectified whisky
Some love Ell? And of course that
converted the heather. Now, below
ed. get the Socialist platform and
study it with an understanding heart
before you get out your surgical
tools to skin US any more, for you
can't talk rational about something
you know nothing about.
ROBT. OWENS,
McHenry, Ky.