Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-24
A Gree Love" Delegate
Doctor Herrons Qualifications Should Please Bolsheyki
[From Col Harveys War Weekly

George started free for all love
colony for those who had money, but
recruits had barely begun to arrive
when the neighboring farmers wives
handed pitchforks TO the hired men
and told them TO get busy. George
saw them coming and didn't stop
running till he got to Italy. where,
having left the widow at home, he
could develop his socislistic theories
in peace and quiet.
4 Full Blown IntePMatiOnalist
He is now a full blown interna-
tionalist and a budding Bolshevik.
We quote from his more recent pub
lished utterances.
| am myself but q humble and un-
important follower of the interna-
tional Socialist movement for the
overthrow of the system which at
present dooms the peoples of all ma
tions to slavery, misery and hypocrisy
The church has wrought mainly by
brutal authority. That which was
atheism to Jesus has through the
centuries been the orthodoxy of the
church. The historic form of Chris
tianity has done its work and now
ought to disappear from the service
of life. The Socialist will at last
crown Jesus with a human glory
which shalt spiritually transfigure
man. 1t is not Jesus we ought TO
follow, but the highest truths OF our
own souls.
/ have no expectation that the
present kind of civilization can be
amended-it can only be ended. The
new system that shall give to every
man at first what he is supposed to
have earned and afterward what he
needs, can no longer be called a
party or sectional term. All kinds
of socialism mean the organization
of a world in which every man shall
be born with an equal inheritance.
What shall become of God and
Gods, of temples, creeds and faiths
in the new morning of Socialism?
| 1t seems to me that the effect of
the Socfalistic idea possessing the
world would be to change the entire
attitude of human life regarding the
future.
doesn't stand. very well today-by
keeping man in an attitude of fear
toward the unknown.
Can you find me any representa-
tive Protestant Christian in the city
of New York today who would not
think civilization would fall into
chaos IL men were TO take seriously
the things that they profess in their
churches Protestant Christianity
believes today a thousand times more
in the devil than in goodness.
There is not a bit of spiritual dif-
ference between the Standard oil
combination and the Presbyterian
church, or, rather. take the Presby.
terian church in which I was born
and reared. One demands tribute
| in the form of cash and the other
in the form OF enslavement of souls
and all the cash it can get besides
But when the Socia1istie, ,movem e nj
comes to something like really de.
fined conflict with the capitalistiC
classes 1t will come as a program OF
uncompromising Socialism without
regard as to whether you or I want II
or not.
| 1t is already too late to reform so.
ciety in America. 1t is no longer 9
| Question whether you will have q So.
| cialistic revolution. Tt is only left Il
/ you TO decide what kind Of revolu.
tion you will have.
So far as we uninspired Americans
are concerned, this leaves us abot
where we were, but the fact remains
that an oficial representative Of oul
officially deserted country, George ii
about to speak for us with the full al
thority of our President, OF hinisel
/ and of whatever lady friend he ha
been able to pick up in Florence
since or before Carrie passed away
| Why the President selected Geors,
to represent himself and the United
States at the international conferene,
! we can only guess.