Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-31
TELLS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD

preaching that there is no God Itl breaches class hatred. The Second Com mandment says Love thy neighbor as myself. How can this be done if class hatred is preached? Third, the Bible | says Thou shalt not steal" But BoI- | shevism says that all property must be taken and thrown into a grab-bag and | the clutching red hand of bolshevism grabs in and drags out that which does not rightfully belong to it. And ESQ it goes down through all Ten Command ments. The only remedy is a strict ad- herence to the Commandments that were handed down thousands of years ago
 These Commandments have lived long before socialism was ever thought of, and they still live. I say to bolshevism, socialism and to the I. W. W. and to all other kindred "isns" that the Ten Com n1andments will still be doing business at the same old stand when the grass grows over the graves of bolshevism and socialism.
 There Is large number who have a | mistaken impression of socialism. First they think that socialism 1~1ans an inn provement to social life, social reform | This is not so, for there is no common
 ground on which socialism and social re- form can stand. Socialism is of the. de-
 strHctive type and reform is for the bet | torment of the world.
 l Second is the mistaken impression | that it is a political doctrine. This Is not
 a political doctrine although the social l ists try to introduce a platform into it's
 teaching. This is merely another way to I try and deceive the people Socialism is f a plan for life. The platform has in it
 less than five per cent. that has anything
 to do in a political line. When I testified
 before the New York legislative inves- tigation committee four points were Il | expelling the assemblymen of socialistic principles. irFst, every socialist that Is
 elected to any public office has to have
 a signed resignation filled out before he
 takes office so that at any time he may
 be recalled by the vote of few from
 an office to which he was elected by the people
 | Second, every socialist who goes to
 the assembly must pledge himself to
 vote against any military. measure that is brought up. This practically consti- tutes treason. Third, they must try in every way to oppose war and put every
 obstacle in the way that they can Fourth, they must pledge allegiance tc the doctrines of Lenine and Trotsky How can anyone say that theirs is po- litical doctrine for politics means the bet
 terment of the government.
 The third mistaken idea is that social , ism and labor are the same. They arc , not for labor believes that capital should have its proper place and should be
 reasonable with labor. Harmony be- tween capital and labor means content ment. The socialist tries to break UT
 any such condition. It has even trieC , to break up the unions in the east ana
 west. It was for this purpose that thu l. W. W. was organized. Socialism , never laid brick in any construction O
 ever put a cent into the workingman' , pocket. Socialism wants to give poisol
 to society to cure it of it's evils. Mos , of the labor difficulties could be settlel around the conference table. 1 was member of committee that investigates ' conditions In Illinois and the manufact j urers that were on the committee wer : dumbfounded at the conditions the, = found. They immediately set to wor | and now the result is laws that talk 3 care of the working people. Labor need . capital and capital needs labor. Ther
 should be harmony between the two.
 What the world needs most is harmon between nations, harmony between car
 ital and labor in religion and betwee
 individuals and families There shoul . l be service to God, service to country, sel Il vice to neighbor and service to self. Sel Il vice means sacrifice and contentment. Following the lecture MT. Collins ir U vited any in the audience to ask hiI Il questions and two or three put question $ to him which he satisfactorily answered