Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-05
a SERMON ON SOCIALISM
5lPreachedb y Rev. Hakey Annbros in the First PresbyteTans church Grand
Forks \. Dat evening services, Sunday, March 4, 19l9)

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"RusAelf said that the attempt i.
being made to use the men who went
across the ocean to fight for democ-
tracy to fight the working Glass de-
mands here. and the meeting was to
secure q preventive.
The working class has been d.
vided In all their attempts to solve
their. problems,' M. Russell. said
We have succeeded in this city 10.
night In getting together, regardless
Of what we believe Is the solution.
w are gcing,to get together onSa
program and organized Labor liz 20.
ing down the line for 1t. It IL q
delnocratin move-a movement Of the
q of the people,
Soldier Giyes Hts Views,
"'I am not here to run down tho
government said Mechanic. But II
TO tell tho truth is Il. Y 1t down,
TIT! ! must choose to uphold the
working class. to which 1 belong.
For 20 months i have been nshtins
for democracy; Now I want IT, I
and given 81 to pay my fare over
1000 miles to my home. my meals
and anything else I needed.
~ am here to join my class and
fight Its battles with 1t: I have Just
make this our government. I have
been fighting for. Justice and de-
mocracy. The capitalists will never
give it to you. The working men
must get it for Themselves
1.-THE purpose Of this organization
Is not TO get. immediate benefits
said, Smith, but to bring about q
social revolution. We realize we are
confronting a great problem of the
unemployed. We realize that ono
step must be to get shorter hours
that we will never solve the problem
until we abolish the wage system
and take a leaf out Of the book OF
those who are attempting in Russia
to operate industry themselves. We
must organize, not to beg for some
thing, but to take what is ours by
right
"'You working men never had q
country and never will until you do
like the Russians. take one,' said
Aller." t-
And from May Esstman's paper Of
February, 1919, we read:
For u part, though we have
every respect tor the historic role of
the United States constitution and
form of government. we are not salts
fed with them and We want them
changed. One of the most obvious
changes would be the abolition Of that
senilo veto upon the will of the
people which is enshrined in the SUI
preme court. We are not among those
who will urge the working classes to
got out on the barbados and be
moved down by machine guns before
they have organised the industrial
power to achieve their liberation, but
We believe that it is only by means of
a fundamental revolution-a transfer
Of control to their organizations
that they can ever achieve 1t. America
is not Russia, to be sure, and we shall
have u own problems, but the main
outlines Of the labor republics of the
future + laid down in the Russian
constitution. and the doctrines OF
Lenine' are the doctrines Of revolu-
tionary Socialism tho world over" :
United States Of America, IL 1t had
not been for the mayor of that west
ern city, Whose name will go down in
that states history as one of the most
heroic men 1t over knew, whose name
will 60 down in the United States his
tory Al aSman who atemmed the tide
at the psychological moment. and
when the onrush of the I. w. WIS
came, and with them those who had
been in this country only two years
he told them there were soldiers
police department they were told to
use their guns. not loaded with paper
wads, but with 42-caliber bullets, and
now. said Ole Hanson, move II you
dare. They did move, but went out
Of. Washington toward, California, and
the authorities there were all pre-
pared for the reception should they
come their way. In our land today
there are ten million aliens, eight
million illiterates, eighteen million
undesirable citizens. Why are they
over there. This land SO broad, and
SO free, with such love for the world,
opens her door not only to the good
citizen who comes to its shore, but
also, sad to say to the criminal also.
The-good who come to our shores we
welcome. We see them rise up and
become good citixens~good Ameri-
ans. Their children come. forth 100
pc recent American. but the undesir-
able class is here as we'll, and what
are they here for but to overthrow
the present form of government: do
away with the veto power Of the
president, do away with the senate. do
away with the government, and put
in the Bolsheviki government to the
letter?
Does labor want this form Of gov
eminent? Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor. to a labor conference in the
city of New York. December 3, 1918,
warned the leaders Of his organization
against their taking any part in what
was being agitated as a political labor
movement, for on September the