Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-24

The college must cease a foolish and
trucking subservience to the specious
theorists. It has lost its grip on the
masses In many centers because of its
entrance into the field Of speculation
its disconnection from the practical
of the every day has led to an empha'
sis on sociological theories which has
weakened the cause Of righteousness
as 1t has almost surrendered the in
terests Of liberty. For, disguise It as
we may, the colleges have boosted a
federation SO outstanding as that 1t
has almost permitted q propaganda OF
delusive and fatal error.
In the field of the material, the tenn.
poral, there is undoubtedly need for
many specific reforms. But reform
and revolution are radically different
matters. In reform we see the prog
ress of the world. but revolutions ,are
unwise except 1t is clear that old sys-
TENS are beyond reform, as they
never are unless elementally wrong.
The monarchical governments which
had given title deeds to the new world
to court favorites, faced revolution in
1776 quite justly and necessarily. But
that new government, the democracy
Of America has proceeded along paths
of such just advancement as that
theories which mean revolution In It.,
and it's displacement by vagaries and
political opium dreams,-are destruc-
tive of the strength Of manhood and
the liberties Of the masses.
Socialism has been the welcome
guest in the professional chairs Of too
many universities and colleges. That
pacihsm which all but ruined Ameri-
ca and nearly bound our people hand
and foot to be enslaved by German
despotism, is the offspring of the adul-
ferrous relationship between the col
Iege and socialism which is so ma
terial as to declare that the sum total
OF life centers in the control of food,
shelter and clothing. Such q philoso-
ply forgets the words OF Him who
said, "The life is more than raiment,"
and Man shall not live by bread alone"
And in the camouflage Of modern So
Geological science, so painted as to be
undistinguishable from the propa-
ganda in furtherance of the rights Of
man. Socialism has infested the po-
litical thinking of the day, assisted
by seemingly upright and noble men,
who with learning and scholarship
have been all the more dangerous aids
to the infidel and atheistic crowd who
aim at the destruction Of everything
sacred to humanity.
1t has been the fashion In these
spheres of academic process to speak
Of a "Christian socialism" It would
be as proper to speak OF Christian
atheism. Socialism IL not to be meas
ured by other standards than that in
ternational utterance which binds 1t
eterrally to- Marx, and mgel and
Unternann, and Bax, and. their. kind
And international socialism has but
three inevitable ends-anarchy in the
state, free love I'm the home, and
atheism In religion. It processes none
other than materialistic interpreta-
ton Of human history and declares that
the home is the product of the CAPT
talistic system, which when abolish
ed will take with 1t the establishment
we now have Of mans ownership
in his wife" and parental Ownership
in children" for these are the terms
in which socialism misrepresents the
idea Of homogeneous firesides and
happy family ties.
And our colleges must awaken to
the fact that the sociology witch as
sails that which socialism assails has
no place in modern college instruc-
ton, save as to be presented as q
terrible example of the possible follies