The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-01-31
SOCIALIST AGITATORs.

are In the throes OF a mighty ecstasy
over what they consider the result
of the World War. They claim It
has put the bottom rail on top and
that henceforth those who produce
the fat OF the land will live on the
fat OF the land. They proclaim that
the age OF gold of which poets have
ever sung and philanthropists ever
prayed is being ushered in, in which
all men will be truly band of broth
ers, containing neither a millionaire
nor a pauper, neither a master nor a
slave. They announce the dawn of
blessed era in which labor will not
fear the Cormorant, nor capital the
Commune. They have felicitous
visions of common store-house from
which will come abundant supplies to
common table around which all hu-
manity will sit and feast. They de-
nounce the old regime in toto and
clamor for the abolition of private
property rights. They demand gov
eminent by soviet committees, having
communal control of all industry and
trade. Their propaganda contem-
plates betting the globe with a
mighty Socialistic Democracy that
will overwhelm every other political
faith and forever put an end to the
sordid selfishness of individualism.
Socialism is an hallucination that
leads otherwise sensible people into
a wild orgy of anarchy in search of
heaven on earth. 1t is a contagiop
that robs men and women of their
reason and causes them, as they wan
der in the desert of their weird mag
inings, to see mirages of bountifulness
they are about to come into posses
sion of, produced by the brain ami
Drawn of others. II propagates on
the delusion that If the other fellow |
has more of the worlds goods than |
you, or Is worth more financially than |
you are, he has robbed you of the
Overplus of his possessions over
yours. The Socialist aggregation is
composed largely of people who ar
que, without any basis whatever for
their argument, that the world owes
them living. irrespective of whether
they work for it or not, and il they
are hungry, thirsty, naked, prison
er or an unwelcome stranger, 1t is
evidence that the existing order of
things is radically wrong and needs
to be changed for their special bene-
fit. When an individual gets out of
joint with society, with religion,
with the powers that be, and sours
on everything generally, he heads
for the Socialist camp. The
heart of Socialism pulsates with revo-
luton, bloodshed, disorder and chaos.
The nightmare that haunts every So
cialist adherent is that capital is OPP
pressing him; has him shackled in a
terrible slavery; and as his ball and
chain gall him, he shrieks for an i'm
aginary liberty.
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love tenet and it diabolical COM
seeks. in this most momen-
tous hour of all human history, to
take advantage of the disorganized
of society and government
TO establish its false doctrine that
belongs to everybody and
thus destroy ever incentive that hui
manity has to rebuild the world. In
iividual merit has always won, and
always will win. Divide up the
earth's wealth, as the Socialists de-
mand, giving to each inhabitant his
pro rata. and in a short time the
thrifty and ingenious will possess
again the bulk Of the worlds money,
goods and lands. This in accord
with the immutable law of reward,
and 1t can not be changed by the fiat
Of red-fag lawbreakers who cOvet
heir industrious neighbours belong
ngs. Law and order is the direct
product of intelligent individualism,
and unless private property rights are
held inviolable and capital thereby
to invest and develop the
natural resources of the world, labor.
he mighty giant, is inactive and pow
erless to lift the race to more per-
'ect life, and civilization, as a eonse-
iuence, must lapse back into bar
,arism. 1t were a thousand times
better for nation to be in the
clutches of Autocracy than to get in /.
he deadly coils of the Socialistic SER
Dent.
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