Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-21

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factorily defined. The rest we can
understand better. Immediate Ae-
quirement by the Municipalities, the.
states, or the federal government 81,
air grain elevators. stockyafdA stof-
age warehouses. and all other sd1-
tributing agencies Further, ';iexfsn.
sion of the public domain. to- include
mines, quarries. otl-wells. forests, any
water-powers." collective oygnsrshtp
once again, collective ownership and
democratic management!of the bank
ing, and currency system This IS
the present program: but it's not the,
end. Common ownership as to be
more and more extended until the.Co-
operative Commonwealth OF the world
shall be reached! This. ideal Is never
beyond all the states and nations that
exist TODAY: beyond all forms Of gov.
eminent that obtain amonk inen. Gov
eminent ownership and municipal
ownership are but stages on the way
to the goal. The congressional plat
form for 1918, to which Ihave already
referred, significantly says: Govern,
ment ownership, without democratic
management, may become q greater
tenn of private ownership and ex-
%ploitatton, which is passing away.
Without the control 81 industry, a
democratic government may be a
menace to the liberty 81 the individ-
ual."
The Goal Of Socialism.
However it may be ,brodsht about,
the purpose of Socialism is to estab-
fish what is called this Cooperative
Commonwealth. What this state is to
be, they have not clearly defined. But
! II ia tn o11nAH0nao th3I--nOinfiA-
tionalities and forms pf government.
1t will probably consist Of industrial
groups, not widely differing from
those communistic communities which
the world has outgrown, or, as dust
suggested. like the ,"Soviets' Of Nus
STA. We may gather. however, some
features OF what Socialists believe It
Everything will be owned and al
ministered by manual labor which
will then be entirely SociaLstic.
n property Of all who own any-
thing today will have been voted
away, or otherwise appropriated BY
those whose labor 10 supposed to havS
produced It SIBrain work does not
Gun Ihe Socialist talks about de-,
I'll 8 not democracy Competed 81 a1is
the people. but OF Socialist labor.
Another feature of the Socialtstfe
state will be the absence Of competk.
But competition has been an Inn
portant factor In human progress and
we cannot see that. its usefulness has
yet ended.
1t has led to numberless Inventions
and improvements. in the technical
processes of production and thus it
mas played a very large part in mate
RAJ progress. Nor Is competition
necessarily brutal.
Another feature Of the Cooperative
Commonwealth will4be the s%ubordina-
ton of the individual to the mass.
70 guard against tdiscbntent, anoth-
er feature Of the Co-oberative Conn
monwealth will be. its ease and con.
fort. = ~. ~.
Pref: Hertzka, of:vienna, nd. cal
culated that the working day, under
socialism, could be reduced two h0ura
and twelve minutes. Charles Vail in
MS principles Of Scientific social-
Ism" gets it down to one hour, while
Wllllam p: HAYWOOD adds other fea-
lures to the Socialistic33 reeime.
From the earliest DAYS 81 the "a.
cialist theories, the aceSpted view Of
marriage and Of family have been re-
pud1ated in favor Of free unions
founded upon elective affinity"
These theories have recently been
enacted into law by CERTAIN OF the
bolshevik governments Of Russia,
Know how strenuously the ~""socialixa.
s s,Dn q ali Ker,e1 + Is m ,dsaisd By their
fact remains. upon 7I siaua Iet t.st Z
mony, such as that. off, Ambassador.
Francis, and Roger E. Simmons, con-
Ilrmed by many others. One of the
INST dispatches am from PetroTrad.
ny way OF London. to the effect that,
tne town Council OF Petrograd has
decided that all unmarried women be-
provided with husbands seleetsd. Sv
the council. The children of thesh
unions. 1t Is added. will not IS 1lfoWedl
tq remain with their parents. but VIII
pe educated under the eontrol of. the
Soviet government"
b is thing more. John
spargo, in his book ons MARIAN So
eiaiism and RELIGION" saysS ut must
De ADMITTED that. in spite Of the Sfor-
religion by Socialist l.pasties. Aattacks
on religion and the churches are com.
Ganda." E.l 80
The late Prof. Rauschenbusrh. him
selIaa Christian Socialist'-so-calleds
-says that when. q man, who reyere1
relis1on goes into z Socialist meeting,
Etitpde Of suspicion and dffiEe" atnst
3 church which often.g aftses 3
tdownrisht hate and bitterne1, ana
e1pahds to general n antaxontsf6
agsinst religion itself The naSfarisf-s
istic philosophy OF hlstcrr p tEe
averase Socialist expound6 it sm.
pnasizes the economic 4nd material.
.Sklke SO exclusively that tn,
splf!tuAi eiements Of hRmantty sem
q q &nDOFf6nf 80