The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-15
Socialist Lecturer Says Ma.
tion Is Not Fighting
for Democracy.
AGREEMENT BROKEN
Party Leaders Here Say War
Was Tabooed in Arrange
ments for Talk.

Mixing the world war, capitalism.
socialism and Christianity into one dis
course. Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare. in
orthodox Socialist party terms. defined
the war situation as 1t effects what
she termed the "Henry Dubbs" at the
Eagles hall last night.
Mrs. O,Hare plunged into the war
question in her first sentence, and kept
an audience which filled the hall
awaiting her next utterance with an
expectation which made her, lecture
seem short, though 1t continued for
over two hours. Mrs. OHare. who is
n noted Socialist lecturer and writer,
came here with the understanding.
Missoula Socialists say, that the war
was not to be mentioned in the lee
ture, but she confined herself entirely
to a discussion OF the conflict. telling
why it was brought on and seeking to
impress the. audience with the futility
of the slaughter. The Socialists here
disclaim responsibility for the address,
though 1t was along the lines taken
by the party convention in May.
Denies Democratic Motive.
1.-The United States did not plunge
into the conflict to further democracy
or cause the downfall of autocracy."
Mrs. O'Hare said. we entered the
war when our economic interests be-
came identical with those of Great
Britain and her allies. AS long as the
golden streams were allowed to flow
into the United States, we We're neu-
trail, but when they were sunk into the
bottom Of the ocean. then the rDuch ex-
tolled patience of the president ceased,
| and we climbed down from our high
stand of neutrality. Had the United
States been the creditor of Germany.
instead OF the allies. this country would
have entered on the side of the kaiser.
! for where a mans pocketbook is, there
Is his heart.
THE unceasing struggle between the
nations OF Europe for commercial
dominance brought on the war origi-
nally. The slaughter began in order
that Great Britain or Germany, both of
whom are constantly seeking to ex-
pend commercially. might decide which
nation was to be the financial ruler.
| The war came not because of So
cialism. but in spite of It, 1t came.
not because the Socialists had preached
the doctrine Of brotherhood. but be-
| cause lHc pOHcuSfiuS III Wis WA III
would not understand the message
| Three days before the war the So
cialist party was damned because 1t
tried to stop the war: three days after
war began, it was damned because 1t
could not stop it.
"Yet when the conflict began the
only voice raised for peace was that
of the Socialist party. The Christian
lz nI
that church and the clergy became
servile slaves of the war gods. The
only persons that are standing true
to Jesus Christ are the ones that were
called agnostics before the war.
| "christianity Is Dead
THAT thing that was called Chris
tianity died the moment the war be-
gam drowned in human blood" said
Mrs. O'Hare, but the message of The
Nazarene. Love thy neighbor as thy.
SELF is not dead. 1t lives in the heart
of the working class. When the wal
is over, then will humanity arise in 1t:
might. and build a civilization in which
war cannot live, and build a Christian.
ity that Jesus Christ will not need tt
be ashamed of. Civilization and wa
never did and never can live in thu
same nation at the same time.
"All of the ideals upon which thu
United States was founded are gone,
she continued. civil laws, justice an,
equity have disappeared to the exten
that we have lost our independence
and freedom. forfeited our democracy
and had the chains Of slavery rivete'
upon us. Human rights have beel
abridged and the constitution has bee
trampled on by the plea of militar,
necessity. All conception of ethics an
morals has died with the first sound
OF the battle. War is hell, and wher
hell is, God is not"