Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-24
MENACE OF SOCIALISM
u. IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS

into which the~ human intellect may
The voice of God calls now for a
halt in the maudlin sentimentality
which has made the sum total of life
to seem to be concerned with rents
and interest," and "unearned incre-
ments," and "the monopoly of food.
shelter and clothing"
Our great universities must cease
the foolish contribution to the leader
ship Of the thinking world in the per-
sons of men and women who have
been made to feel that progress is a
matter of mere arithmetic and that
the human soul can be fed on corn
and wheat, clothed with the product
J, of the. loom, and sheltered with
matched roofs or tiled rafters.
And above all, the church college
must lead in this uprising to defend
the hottest things of history against
the gross and Grass nateralism which
has stolen into university chairs, to
steal away the brains Of men who face
the mighty problems of unfolding the
plan Of God in making humanity the
fine evidence Of curative wisdom the
Infinite designed 1t should be.
Let Methodism lead. Let its treas
uries be closed to those institutions
which, playing with the fire of error
in what they are pleased to call the
liberal spirit and the tolerant spirit Of
the age, train leadership for the
world which, liveried In the garb of re-
Hg1on. goes about contributing to the
materialistic socialism, which contra.
diets God and Gods plan in nature at
the very beginning, and finally makes
the race dream of voorhees, age in
which II aught is accomplished, It
must be secured by the tabled Al
ladins lamp, or else an idle race will
return to the wigwam and the tepee
OF primitive man.
No! No! Z would not be narrow
nor bigoted. But the blight. of social.
ism is all too apparent now. 1t has
sent from great state universities
titled scholars who are the enemies
Of the state. It has sent from great
and small church colleges graduates
who are the enemies Of the church. It
has infected American thought to
such an extent that we allowed the
priceless jewel of liberty to be forgot
ten until German propaganda had
almost put the republic to sleep and
we awoke just in time to enlist to
save the world from the domination
of the bestialism of the Teuton philo-
sophy of life. Socialism, exalting to
the chief place the bodies of mankind,
in an empty and hypocritical theory,
brings to the soul an atrophy, and but
for the voices OF heroic spirits Ameri-
ca would have lost its SOM
The time is here. The church must
insist that hereafter, colleges shall
not receive its money in endowment
or equipment, unless there is some
guarantee, and a safe one too, that
the money shall not support specious
theory which gives assistance to the
socialism which individual interest
must oppose or yield to conglomer-
ate or nothings which will surrender
even mighty America to the weak boil
shivism which has betrayed aspir-
ing and great Russia, a helpless vic
less victim to the dishonest and hor-
rible despotism of the hideous Hun.
And the citizenry Of America must be
touched by the revived and alert
church, until this narrow and big
oted system of thinking which pro,
crosses only when class hatred is be-
gotten and which is hopeless, of as
cendancy until class is arrayed against
class, has met and lostlits Waterloo.
know my voice may sound like the
voice OF reactionary, but If so. it is
because we have been so blinded to
the villainy of socialism and the dis.
honesty of socialism, that we have
mistaken retreat for progress and err
ror for truth. The college will fail Of
It's great service to the future unless
It awakens to the danger Of socialism
and refuses longer indirectly to per-
NIT the faculties Of great and small
schools to act as evangelists for sys-
tenn which cannot rule unless 1t shall
destroy the state, the home and the
church.