The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-09
SOCIALISM MOST
IMPORTANT ISSUE
PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE CONCEP-
TON OF ITS REAL
DOCTRINES
CATCH PHRASES DECElVlNG
The True Tenets Of the Movement as
Laid Down by Carl Marx Must Be
Made Known to Check the
Drive for Members

Billings.-Socialism and the legis-
lative program which it will offer will
be the most important issue before
b people of Montana in the coming
election and subsequent ones, accord
Ing to A. A. Frankie of Lewistown,
prominent educator and student of so
cial economies, who addressed a meet
Ing OF the chamber of commerce here.
Nj. Frankie declared that the issue
was n Of great moment and that the
program Of various organizations
which have already gained an aston
ishingly large following in America
and in Montana is all a part Of the
great red conspiracy to foist MARKHAM
socialism upon America.
"Many well-meaning persons, pro-
gressive in attitude, believe themselves
socialists" said Mr.. Frankie, ''but they
have little conception Of what socialism
really means. Carl Marx, author of
works which are admittedly considered
to be sOcialism's bible, has laid down
the tenets Of the movement in un-
mistakable language.
"For the confusion in the popular
mind regarding socialism, the socialist
methods are directly responsible. The
socialists have reasSns, and among the
reasons is the desire of socialists to
get a following by false p%retenseS.
gradually instilling into their converts
the real doctrines to socialism. When
it is realized that the purpose Of So
cialism is to build upon what they call
the proletariat, those without property,
simply because there are more of them
than those whom they call the bour-
geois, those owning property, it will be
seen that there is method and system
in their plans to secure a following by
false ~pretenSeS.
"Our sO-called Observation-Disclosures or
mild socialists do not know that Marx
says: Society is the history of class
struggles; men must necessarily be in
conflict with each other; the hostile
camps in society are the bourgeois
and the proletarians. The bourgeois
are those who have property the pro-
letarians, those who have no property !;
the rule of the modern state is nOt for
the bourgeois; the bourgeois has re-
duced the family to a mere money re-
lation; religion is only a veil for ex-
ploitation: the bourgeois will bring
death to itself because it made possible
the working class-prOletarians; they
are to WELD the weapons of death.
"He says further: Bourgeois mar
riage is in reality a system of wives
in common. and this, at the most, what
the communists might possibly be re-
preached with, is that they desire to
introduce in substitution for a hypo-
critically concealed, an openly legaliZed
community of women
''There is no installing the meanin"
of this language. Marian sociai.Sl'
is admittedly the system which h"
been introduced in Russia. S"rial : :
i'm America and moay orgAni:li'E
controlled by socialists ere ope1!T
championing the cause of Soviet Russia.
"The Individual who SubScribeS to a
mild form of socialism only hastens
the time when he must subscribe to the
entire MARKHAM program, whether he
likes it or not. Once in power, the
true MARKHAM socialists will assume a
dictatorship such as we have seen in
Russia, and civilization will receive a
eve check.
1.-THE average individual does not
believe that socialism constitutes any
real danger to our body polite. Such
a belief is born of ignorance of the
true situation. The growth of social
ism has been phenomenal during the
past few years. Radicalism is ram
pant and thousands of our people are
being deceived by the catch-phrases of
socialism and the promise of the social
list of Il better era, n which Will
ameliorate all of the wrongs and in
Stitute an ideal state which will harhor
in it no injustice and no unhappinesS
of any kind. Socialism in its actual
workings would be a sad travesty on
the enchanting picture which the so
ciasist speakers paint.
"GovernQr Stewards warning, voiced
before the Montana State Bankers
convention recently, was IA timely one,
and one to which every loyal Montanan
should give heed"
Dakota Has Soviet System.
N - Hhn Nov ~ MI n N