The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-06-04
CundiT Answers TinsIey.
Hartford, Ky, RID. No. 6.
MAY rs, 1915.

| EuilOIS RtpubiitdHs
Here is my last say to Mr.. Tinsley.
Definition of Socialism in sixteen
words-"Collective ownership and
democratic management of things
collectively used, and private owner
ship of things privately used"
Ethics is one thing, religion is an
other thing. Socialism is one thing.
religion is another thing.
Economic equality and identity of
interests will bring peace and har-
mony. Our individualistic, capitals
tic and competitive system causes
war. Mr.. Tinsley, your religion is
the religion of individualism and cap
italism.
Outside of Marks capital. Marx
and Engel's Communist manifesto"
and the Socialist party platform there
is no Socialism. None whatever
Confiscation wouldn't hurt you, for
you have nothing mental, moral, or
material. to confiscate.
Mr.. Tinsley. as a rule a church
member has no acutely awakened
conscience concerning the wrongs
and injustices of capitalism. The
most powerful, moral agency bulwark-
ing the capitalist system is the
church. Read Acts IL: 44-45. Also
Acts ": S2, "a. So, 81, SO. 80, on
having "all things common. This
was communism. Read XXv:23. Le-
viticus, on land. Read SO, same
chapter, Leviticus, on usury.
The human mind is a factor in the
process of social evolution. Social
ism is impossible in ignorance. 1t is
not a system that will force itself up
on us, nor one that will work auto
matically. We shall not have Social
ism until the people think.
Mr.. Tinsley, you have never learn !
ed to think. Parrot like, you repeat |
what you've been taught; whether ii |
confronts reason or not.
The greatest moral resistance to |
the Socialist movement is the mega
tive quality of social conscience in |
church members. The immoderate /
individualism in their moral instruc- /
ton makes them Indifferent to the
facts of social problems. The church
member has no awakened social con-
science on the wrongs, robberies and
injustices of the capitalist system.
He is without moral fervor for Social
Justice, and economic freedom for
the workers.
Any religious teaching which ig-
nores Social Justice in the means by
which we live is worthless, and is
terrible menace to humanity.
The Bible is a dangerous, radical
book Ito masters and rulers); and
the secret of the revolutionary char
acter of this book is that il puts so
great a finite value upon human life
and personality. 1t makes human
life and welfare sacred above all 9TH
er things.
Mr.. Tinsley, you and your church
have assumed the Interpretation of
The oracles of God. You declare your
love for souls, while you fight against
hat which is best for the body-free-
ION. You announce the eternal
value of the soul, but ignore the
'alue of the body, which must have
health and sustenance in order to
give value to the soul
If a man is valuable anywhere he
S valuable everywhere, whether en-
bodied or disembodied. whether on
,arth or in Heaven. If a human be-
ng is the supreme value in Heaven
n Gods presence. he ought to be the
upreme value on earth in the pres
nee of men. II
Mr.. Tinsley, you are called upon a
o-day TO overthrow the capitalist ;r
amble in human souls and bodies II
nd to establish Socialism and free n
ON.
Mr.. Geo. Tinsley, I'm member of
he M. E. Church. South; and was a y
lember of the Baptist Church for
4 years. Hence. I'm not an infldel.
m for Social justice.
Nor am an anarchist. believe
a the political economy of Jesus, and
a the religious principles that He l.
Jesus denounced the
honey changers (shovers and dis
ounters of legal paper and money!,
nd all the horde of usurers, land
,rds and profit-mongers of His day.
You seem to favor them, and to
esire them to lay burdens on the a,
DOR (the workers.. Jesus did not.
esus was the friend of the poor. He
'as one of them. And He was loyal u
nd true to His class. You, Mr.. a
insley, are an enemy to your class a.
the working class, You, therefore,