The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-09-12

ciZed for failing to prevent Euro pean war, what about Christianity? It has been some nineteen centuries in possession of the field. Its be- lievers were on throne and in ham, let. It was not suppressed or super ceded. It was the system of religion that prevailed. But it had no more power to bring about the brother hood of man than if it had neither dogma nor inspiration at it's back, and was not a religion at all.
 Now there was time unless all records lie when christians actually lived up to their professions of brotherhood, equality and all things were in common, That was in the very early days when it had hard row of stumps to hoe, and the pro- paganda of this religion was likely to end on the cross or in the circus
 How did this all change, for it did change, until today we find men who are professed christians killing other christians with infinite zest for the love of God?
 The modern social philosophy of the socialists affords key to this, and it explains indeed clearly enough now why men are fighting who should as christians be broth CTS.
 That key is found in the material ist conception of history, or as some prefer to call it the doctrine of eco- homie determiniSm. One can suit ones self. This says that economic conditions determine the mode ot ones thoughts and ones action, de termine historic movements and eX- plain that human institutions are adjusted to the needs of the eco homie environment.
 Let us revert to explain this, by taking up socialism. Socialism aims to establish a condition of collective production and collective distribu- ton collectively administered by an industrial democracy of producers and distributors, direct or indirect.
 Under the capitalist economy there is collective production, but the distribution is individually control led by private ownership.
 Under socialism the incentive to labor would be human welfare and the satisfaction of the social needs. This leads to an equality of inter- est in all productive and distributive efforts The interest of one becomes thus automatically the inter est of all. Brotherhood meets with no insuperable obstacle towards it's realization under such solar un- realized economy.
 At the present time, all industrial activity is for profits. The profit of the proprietors is really the only reason for the existence of such in- dustrial activity. It is the incentive to all industrial energies and it has resulted in an immense conflict of interests between one profit-seeking individual and another, and one profit-seeking nation and another. Under it brotherhood or equality is merely theory which can never be realized, ahd the justification for it's monstrous cruelties and injustices is sought in some such pseudo-scienti fic aphorism as the survival of the Attest, in the struggle for exist ence.
 Obviously then, under capitalism as under feudalism, brotherhood is impossible. Since one mans gain is truly and literally some other mans loss, this constant struggle leads to domestic and foreign strife. There is not a single community which does not manifest such condi- tions of conflict and which does not show that under this economy any realization of christian principles as taught by Christ are utterly imposs- ible.
 You can take up the new testa- ment at random, and seek to fulfil the doctrine therein expounded, and one will be either locked up as a lunatic or jailed as an anarchist disturber of the peace under this system.
 The fact is that the failure of christianity is explained, not by the shortcomings of Christ's teachings, but because such an economy pre- vails as keeps man from man and