Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-06-18

Tile people.
don, in 1847, together with other
words of these two Socialists, are
usually referred to as the "Bible of
Socialism" To consider Socialism
without considering the Manifesto,
would be as absurd as considering
Christianity without the Bible. The
Communist Manifesto proclaims,
among other things:
1. 1.-THE abolition of property in
lands.
2. "The abolition of all rights of
Inheritance.
The Congressional platform of the
Socialist party, adopted in 1918, IA
vors the following in regard to farm
ers' lands:
'The retention by the national
state and local government of all
land owned by them, and the contin-
| uous requirement of other land by
reclamation, purchase, condemna-
ton, taxation or otherwise, such land
to be organized as rapidly as praC-
ticable into socially operated farms.
Encouragement of unions of agri-
cultural workers.
Extension of labor laws to agri-
culture and the securing to agricuI-
tural laborers of minimum standards
requisite for a healthy life and
worthy citizenship.
eve also call attention to the fact
that the elimination of farm tenantry
and the development of socially
owned and operated agriculture re-
sulting from the foregoing measures
will open new opportunities to the
agricultural wage worker and free
him from dependence on the private
employer"
Naturalization of Land Proposed.
The Working Peoples Nonpartisan
League, which is the organization
with which the Nonpartisan League
has been forced to combine by the
latter's leaders in their effort to cap
ture the Republican party machinery
on June 21st, has the following to
say as to it's political and legislative
program:
public ownership and operation
of railways, steamships, banking
business, stockyards, packing plants,
grain elevators, terminal markets,
| telegraphs, telephones and all other
public utilities; and the nationaliza-
ton and development of basic nat
ural resources, water-power and I'M
used land, with the repatriation of
large holdings to the end that SOL
diers and sailors and disIOcated
workers may find an opportunity for
an independent livelihood"
In other words, they declared in
| favor of the naturalization of I'M
| used lands, which means One-half of
the lands in Minnesota; and they de-
Clared they favored the repatriation
of large holdings for the benefit of
soldiers, sailors and diSlOCated work.
ers. They favor the taking of private
lands and the granting to others of
the farms now owned by Minnesota
farmers.
Socialism and the Family.
AS regards the family, the Com
munist Manifesto has the following
to say:
ION what foundation is the pres
ent family, the bourgeois family,
based? On capital, on private gain.
In it's completely developed form this
family exists only among the bour-
geoisie. But this state Of things finds
its complement in the practical abb
sence of the family among the prole-
tarians, and in public prostitution.
"The bourgeois family will vanish
as a matter of course when it's COM
plement vanishes, and both will van
ish with the vanishing Of capital
The bourgeois sees in his wife a
mere instrument of production
THE Communists have no need to
introduce community of women; it
has existed almost from time imme-
mortal"
Remember that the term 'bour-
geois" used in the Communist Mani
festo refers particularly to the land
owning class, or the farmer. Mar
riage must disappear; this is a part
of the program.
Frederick Engel, one of the au-
thors of the Communist Manifesto,
says that the three obstacles which
block the path of social reform are:
religion, the present form of mar
riage, and private property.
Oscar Wilde, a noted English So
cialist, says: Socialism annihilates
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