The Haslingden Gazette. — 1908-12-05 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

POO:11. reform. Individualism he defined as a system which man was free to snake the best of his opisartunities without being fettered by the State so long as he did not injure or interfere with the liberty and possessions of other people. (Applausel Some lively questioning tty a number of Social. • ists followed the delivery of the lecture. Mr. Rd. Rushton, J.P., took the chair in place of Mr. Ross, who had to leave. Mr. C. Slater asked what has any individual's opinions on religion got to do with Socialism, and if the fact of Mr. Blatchford being art Agnostic binds the Socialists to that view, how about the opinions of Mr. Balfour on religion? Does that bind the Conservatives to Mr. Balfour's religious  .tows. Mr. Schaefer: What ha: religion to do with Socialism, you ask? That is what I want to know. Socialist writers say that religion stands in the way of Socialism. As for Mr. Fla Hour, lie has never axociated Agnosticism with thr Conservative party. (Hoar. hear.) Mr. Slater said the lecturer had as,ociatel Socialists with free love, but who were the guilty parties in the divorce court? Were they not Liberals and Tories? The Chairman ruled that the question was on. side the scop, of the lecture. Mr. Schaefer, however, replied that Marx. the , great Socialist tescher, associated free love with Socialism. But Liberals and Tories never associated iinmorality with politicY,. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Brunton said he never saw a more deliberate attempt to prejudice the can against Socialism than the berm, had mad,. It w as" a lot of silly twaddle.- anti he would like to debate the question with Mr. Schaefer. (Laughter.) Mr. Schaefer remarked that the twaddle was not all on his side. and Mr. Brunton seemed very excitable. He produced a book written by Mr. R. Blatchford, and said he never saw more twaddle between the backs of one book. Mr. Brunton: The lecturer mentioned surplus value. Why have the Cen,erv•tivie .not legislated to alter the incidence of surplus value in I favour of the working class? Mr. Schaefer said if he liked he could show that the Conservatives had done more for the working class than any party. But he did not propose to go back two or three generations. There was not time. Another Socialist questiouer asked what legislation the Conservatives proposed in order to meet present social evils. Mr. Schaefer said so far as the evils arising from unemployment were concerned he thought Tariff Reform would largely mitigate them. (Hear. hear.) Mr. Slater: IA it not a fact that in Berlin alone, where tariff, exist, there are 42.000 unemployed? Mr. Schaefer: Whit, are you quoting from? Mr. Slater: I got the figure from the Daily New.- (Decisive laughter.) They are from a German source. (More laugher.) Mr. Schaefer mid he knew something of Ger. many, and the working men there were nothing like as badly hit by unemployment a, they were here. A vote of thanks was passed to the lecturer, on the motion of Mr. J. T. Cowdell, seconded by IMr. Haworth, and supported by Mr. Brunton.  Measures against betting are to be taken Is Holland. the Mini-ter of the Interior has informed the Flesond Chamber.  At his residence in Nranctiester.road. Rochdale. a man named :lamer Wollenden, who had been ill, committed suicide on Similar by cutting his throat. He had kept bark neighbours by brandishing a knit., belie them.  Ptdra Yu.le% ist continental Hospitals by ico Rosran, job, rt-Xel, eau & others, surpasses everything hitherto emplo for impurity ofblood.spotsblotaws,pain atsmelLngofloints, bdnev. bLldder SE urinary diseases, stricture, disrharge, piles. 'gravel. pains in hack. gout.rbrumatism.exha ustion, slftple.sness, Th 'eV forms. N 05.1,9 &3. ~.nhng to disea es. Prwe2 particulars Id- stamp, post free &Great Britain The Le Clew Medicine-C, Haver. •Itsckli• motlisauf *eat Lor duo., priuripalCbemiste.