The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-03-26
OLD WRITER
ON SOCIALISM
Discusses Remedies For
Many Social Evils.
Unique Remedies For Intern
peranCe and d.
v0rce.

Simmons. Ky. March 80. 1915
Editor Republican, has been ;
good many years since I hdve per
mitted myself to be provoked into
writing anything political. hav,
given my thoughts to things less ep
hemeral and more ennobling. but IL
this day when political quacks and
demOgogues are as spontaneous as
frogstools and as instructing and as
intrusive as fleas. one must be endu.
ed with monumental equipoise. II
he successfully combats the tempta-
ton TO speak out his mind in defense
of the truth.
II truth crushed to the earth will
rise again. so will error and false
hood, and. the latter seemingly more
vigorous. Men are blown about by
every wind of doctrine. The world
is on tangent. Men inbibe false
hood more readily than truth. 1t
does not require much effort to go
wrong. 1t only needs that one drift
with the current. But much anxious
care and thought need be exercised
to. keep ever approximately near the
truth. The body polite has been af-
tiicted with all kinds of political
vagaries. greenbackisms. granger
ism, whalerism, populism, etc. But
the greatest of all the political fall
lgcies in my day is Socialism.
The Victories of this cult see in II
a panacea for all the ills political
They can count off their finger tips
the solutions OF all the knotty prob
lens of government.
Problems of government that
would make Bryan and Wilson and
the other functionaries of our gov
ernment spend sleepless nights. give
a socialist no trouble at all.
They remind one of the old woman
who proved all her assertions by
saying twice nine is eighteen.
They prove that they are right by
asserting that everybody else is
wrong When Soloman wrote there
is nothing new under the sun. he
coult not have had the slightest pro-
monition of Socialism.
The remedies they offer for some
of our social ills have the doubtful
preeminence of being unique anyway.
Many eminent social refOrmers and
Christians in all ages have spent
their lives combating the evils of
incompetence. but il was reserved for
your modern socialist to discover
remedy at once. simple. practical and
effective.
Let the reformers of all ages stare
and gasp. Here is the remedy. Let
everybody make all the red liquor he
wants to and everybody drink all the,
red liquor he wishes The stomach
for booze and booze for the stomach
II the remedy is not very convincing
il will have in its favor the redeem
ing element of popularity at least.
And then again there is something
new under the sun i'm the way the
Socialists propose to treat the di-
vorce evil. Moses of old wrote about
II and Jesus Christ discoursed about
il, but be II remembered that to the
foresight and insight of your modern
Socialist is due the credit OF discov-
ering a remedy unique in all the
features that compose it. Alas!
how much valuable time has been
spent by wise men in all ages com
batting this dreadful evil, where
remedy both sure and steadfast lay
at hand. Here is the remedy Don't
marry. II must be admitted the
remedy would cure the evil against
which it is directed. How unwise'
then must appear the laws of our
country, that are directed against
men and women who consort togeth-
err like the beasts of the field. /
Down with the marital relations
and repeal the laws that enforce
them. Give us "free love" Free
woman from the slavery OF matri-
mony. the thralldom of housewifery
aud companionship. Read out OF
your religious creed, If you happen
to have one. the monstrous idea OF
being helpmate for man.
These Socialistic monstrocities. re- |
pellant though they are, are but the
logical sequence of the Socialist doc