The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-04-06
Just a Dream.

clear, logical and interesting manner
in the following article. Read it:
| The socialistic scheme to take over
all productive property and all means
of distribution, to be owned and oper-
ated in common by all the people, and
the proceeds shared in common, is ut
terly improbable and would fall of
it's own weight, while everything good
F, that is claimed for it can be attained
under our present system.
Socialism would destroy incentive
and chain the wheels of progress, Gre
ating lazy and reactionary world.
The next step after socialism would
be anarchy, and that would be follow
ed by empire. Then there would come
revolution and return to the republic.
Why should we swing around the cir
| cle?
Every experiment in socialism, bas-
ed on economic teachings, has failed.
Nothing but religious zeal can weld
t.. hearts of men together and hold
them for any considerable time to a
community purpose And if socialism
were practicable at all it would not be
in country so large as ours with a
hundred millions of people, and must
lead to destruction of this union of
states.
If people ever become so universal
ly devoid of selfishness and so god
like in wisdom that socialism would
be practicable, then they would be so
good and wise that we should need no
government at all, and anarchy, rather
than socialism, would be the natural
outcome.
If there can be no rightful individual
ownership of productive property,
then there can be no rightful national
and the Hottentots have as much right
to America as we have, and must be
admitted freely to the socialistic COM
monwealth.
Socialism would create new form
of slavery, for those not willing to do
fair share Of the work must be COM
PEELED to do it. The crack of the slave
drivers whip would be heard again in
the land of the free.
1t would create dead level of
mediocrity by removing all incentive
and striking the word excelsior" from
the lexicon of youth, while the glory
of the world is in individual equality
and leadership. We need now and
then Moses, Mozart, an Angelo, a
Napoleon and Shapespeare with their
divine inequalities. What loss to the
world if they had all been exactly alike
and thereby equal.
Socialism is based on materialism,
and would drag angels from the skies
instead of lifting mortals up. Its
greatest philosophical writers and
leaders believe in atheism, free-love
and class consciousness, the tendency
of the whole movement being against
God, and home, and native land.
Socialists talk mostly of munich
pal ownership of public utilities, but
that is not a distinctive feature of
socialism, and is believed in and prac-
ticed by many opponents of the So
cialist heresy. Even the ownership of
the telegraph lines and railways has
been urged by prominent democrats
and republicans. The real economic
test of socialist is that he believes
in the ownership of all productive
property in common, it's operation in
common, and the sharing of the pro-
ceeds in common. Such a system
would cripple industry, benumb gent
us and cruelty civilization, without in
any sense securing the moral regener-
alton it promises in its manifesto.
Nothing but the grace of God and
the divine philosophy Of the lowly
Nazarene can remove all evils from
the world. No economic theory can
save us from our sins.