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The Socialist Pulpit
THE CHURCH AND SOCIALISM.
OKLAHOMA STATE NOTES
How often we ask, why is the official church opposed to Socialism. It
la useleaa for us to deny that the attitude of the church has very much to
j do popular opinion. It has less to do with it today than it had sixty
? years ago, for the same attitude on slavery did the church great harm
r that It has never recovered from.
Socialism is a great moral awakening, it is a great moral and spiritual
' vision. The anti-slavery movement was also an awakening, an opening
; of t!ie’ eyes of the soul to the moral wrong of slavery, and the church fav-
> ore(j slavery and shut its eyes to this awakening light for just exactly the
same reasons that she is today opposed to Socialism. The cases are almost
'jomplete parallel.
Jesus denounced the wealthy and told the priests they -devoured
widows’ houses, and for a pretence, made long prayer,” and said “therefore
' shall ye receive the greater damnation.”
The iaw of Moses, the words of Jesus, and in fact the whole of the
prophets and the Ne wTestament are a poor man’s plea, the plea of the
oppressed, but in Jesus’ day AND EVER SINCE, the official church and
the authorized and hereditary clergy, have been the friends, associates and
\ copartners with the wealthy, the friends of the takers of the wealth as
’ against the makers of the wealth, the upholders of privilege and the en-
emies of progress and liberty.
In the life of Abraham Lincoln we read Mr. Bateman's account of an
jj interview just before his election. Holding a record of the canvass made
! of Springfield, 111., his native town, Mr. Lincoln said: "Here are twenty-
' three ministers of different denominations, and all of them are against me
but three, and here are a great many prominent members of churches, a
very large majority are against me. Mr .Bateman, I am not a Christian—
God knows I would be one—but I have carefully read the Bible, and I do
aot so understand this book,” and he drew forth a pocket New Testament.
“These men well know,” he continued, “that I am for freedom in the
i territories, freedom everywhere, as free as the constitution and the laws
will permit, and that my opponents are for slavery. They know' this, and
yet, with this book in their hands, in the light of which human bondage
cannot live a moment, they are going to vote against me. I DO NOT. UN-
> DERSTAND it AT ALL.”
He was much agitated and walked up and down in silence for long
minutes, striving to regain Belf-possession. He then resumed: "I know
’ there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm
coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for
me and I think He has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, thruth is ev-
erything. I know I am right because I know that liberty is right. Doug-
lass doesn’t care whether slavery is voted up or down, but God cares, and
humanity cares, and I care, and with God's help I shall not fail. I may not
■ee the end, but it will come, and I shall be vindicated, and these men will
find they have not read their Bible right.
After a pause he resumed. “Doesn’t it seem strange that men ran
ignore the moral aspect of this contest? No revelation could make it plainer
to me that slavery or the government must be destroyed. The future would
be something awful, as I look at it, but for this rock on which I stand
(holding up the Testament in his hand), especially with the knowledge of
how these ministers are going to vote. It seems as if God has borne with
this thing (slavery) until the teachers of religion have come to defend it
from the Bible, and to claim for it a divine character and sanction, and now
the cup of iniquity is full, and the vials of wrath will be poured out.”
The attitude of the church and the clergy on Socialism is entiiely
parallel, as Lincoln said, they "ignore the moral aspect," and we find that
against Socialism the clergy unite with the iiimsellers’ interests and white
slavers and bawdy house keepers as they did in Los Angeles and else-
where, and as the clergy announced the divine character of slavery, so to-
Xew Locals for the Week.
Ivanhoe, in Beaver "ounty, six
members, C. H. Camp, Ivanhoe, sec-
retary.
Supply, In Woodward County, nine
members, H. L. Bowman, Supply,
secretary.
Hickory Grove, in Hughes Coun-
ty, seventeen members, Roy Crane,
Holdenville, R. 3, secretary.
Local Harrington gets back in the
game with nine members. W. A.
Franklin, Cordell, secretary.
Local Berger in Roger Mills Coun-
ty, pays up their back dues as well
as the last quarter. C. T Burley of
Hammon, is their secretary.
Agawam local in Grady County
gets back in line with eight mem-
bers, Fred Jelks, of Agawam, is
their secretary.
The Hamilton-Dodd debate Is a
thing of the past with us. I have ®
heard many debates hut never saw @ EXTRACTS FROM ®
one who was so little able to handle @ LETTERS AND OUR CHAIN ©
his Bide as Dodd. His long suit is OF PAPERS @
to crack jokes and roast his audi- j @ ®
ences, never attempting answer i
his opponent. Many non-Socialists Kennett, Mo., Nov. 2, 1913.
have told me they were disgusted Socialiat Co-Op. Pub. Co.
with Dodd and that our Comrade
Hamilton acted a perfect gentleman.
On both nights we had a crowded
house. The debate was held in our
new hall, which is the property of
local Socialists. It is being fitted up
for a permanent home for the local.
Dodd’s moderator at Lindsay has
seen the light and declared his in-
tention of joining the Socialist
party. ✓
Comrades:
Our paper is growing by leaps and
bounds. We must make it better
and still better.
Yours for success,
JOHN G. SCOTT.
Head of Chicago University Settlement Says
Improper Dances Should be Suppressed
Where They Originate
By Mary E, McDowell.
McDowell 1.
own profit than do the well mean-
ing enthusiasts who try to atom the
-- from
Comrade O. A. Fisk of Wetumka,
organizes a new local in Hughes
County, known as Hickory Grove
Local, with seventeen members. Roy
Crane of Holdenville, R. 3, is their
secretary. Comrade Fisk was Coun-
ty secretary of Hughes County and
one of that kind that did things.
If all the county secretaries were as
efficient as Comrade Fisk was in
the discharge of his duties the coun-
ty organization plan would have been
a big success, but unfortunately they
were not.
Local Quasada in Okfuskee Coun-
ty, has realized $100.00 from their
co-operative cotton crop. And please
consider the season. They will do
things for they have the mun to do
so with.
Comrade T. H. Honeybuss, a col-
ored agitator of Wellston, R. S., is
out as organizer for the Borrowers'
Protective Association and doing
some great work for Socialism along
with it. Any locality in any Coun-
ty in the state wishing his services
will address him as above. He will
come for his expenses and be glad
to help you. He cardies a red card
as member-at-large.
Comrade J. S. Tatman of Chicka-
sha writes that the Hamilton-Dodd
debate at their place was a huge
joke, as far as Dodd was concerned.
so
dav modern capitalism with its child slavery, watered stock, sneak thievery, ( His rantings had great effect in
and its open legal burglary, are openly defended from the pulpits. Why loosening the prejudices that had
is the official church and clergy opposed to Socialism? Why does not its | previously existed
Hamilton-Dodd Debates.
The most glowing reports come to
this office from comrades concern-
ing the Hamilton-Dodd debates. At
Lindsay, Dodd had as moderator the
first day of the discussion, a minis-
ter of his own church (the Church
of Christ). The next day the said
minister was not present so Elder
Dodd selected as his moderator an-
other Christian preacher. Our re-
ports say that both of these preach-
ers are now Socialists and do not
hesitate to declare themselves. One
of the curious anomalies of the So-
cialist movement in the southwest is
that the Church of Christ is fur-
nishing more preachers to fight the
movement than any other church
and that more preachers of that
church are coming to us than from
any other. Quite a number of the
strongest speakers in our movement
are ministers of that church, true
soldiers of the cross and servants of
the Man of Gallille, like A1 Hopkins,
Robert Allen, and many others.
Comrade Hamilton has named as
his other dates: Ardmore, Madill,
Ada, Stratford, Tecumseh. Dodd
has never yet named any of the ten
places which undet the terms of the
agreement, he was to select. It Is
generally believed that he is playing
for a chance to quit and that he will
seize upon any pretext to do so.
Comrades throughout the state, par-
ticularly in the southwest, are
warned to be on the alert. If a de-
bate Is announced by Dodd's friends,
wire at once to George Gilbert Ham-
ilton, 120 W. Locust street, Okla-
homa City, Okla. It is not at all un-
likely that some of these debates
will be advertised without due notice
being given Comrade Hamilton. A
few tricks have been attempted al-
ready by the opposition, but none
have succeeded, thanks to our red
card organization.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1913.
Socialist Co-Op. Pub. Co.
Comrades:
Send mats 1, 2 and 4. I have
now eleven trade unions subscribing
in a body, and as I find time will
soon get more.
Just think of the propaganda val-
ue of a paper that reaches more than
a thousand non-Socialists every
week, and these non-Socialists pay
for it too. The paper is self sus-
taining. If I could only get more
co-operation I could run up the cir-
culation to several thousand easily
in a few months.
H. G. TERLISNER.
Comrades, put your shoulders to
the wheel and help push! Do not
leave your faithful local editors to
stand alone. Do not leave them to
do their duty and yours too. We
know their efforts; and their dis-
couragements. We see it from this
side, and we often wish you could
see it from your side. Apply the
Golden Rule.
Lay- aside any petty differences—
and remember our cause is too great
and high to stumble over “little
things.” It deserves our united and
unabated co-operation. A lift here,
an encouraging word there, and fi-
nancial help now and then and when
we sum up things as a whole we will
find what great things have been ac-
complished for the movement.
SPREADING THE LIGHT.
For the week ending October 26,
we received 63 subscriptions to The
Light from out of town, these do not
include the 70 odd that we got from
the Federal Union in Shreveport.
This is the rate we wish to grow for
the next twelve months. WE MUST
HAVE THAT 5,000 CIRCULATION.
—Southern Light, Shreveport, La.
(Miss
"Angel of the Stockyards” among
the big population of Chicago’s
Packingtown. She is the head of
the University of Chicago Settlement
in the midst of the Stockyards dis-
trict. Although not a member of
the Socialist porty Bhe calls herself
a Socialist and has been a tower of
strength in aiding the slaves of the
beef trust to fight their own battles.
Her views on pleasure for the girls
of the working class should there-
fore be of considerable interest.-—
Ed.)
Let us abolish the tango, the tur-
key trot, the bunny hug and all
those dances that lend themselves
to lewd or suggestive motion. Let
us abolish them from the top in-
stead of from the bottom.
I do not know what the lure of
these dances may be, except that It
ls-'the lure of exciting motion, and
I do know that the thousands of
young girls in Chicago who have lit-
tle joy in their lives must find pleas-
urable excitement somehow. How
are they to know that the dances so
featured by Chicago society are not
as legitimate for them as for the so-
ciety maid and matron?
For my part I am sick of the so-
phistry that besets effort at reform
in such directions. We have spent
thousands of dollars in the effort to
popularize beautiful and graceful old
folk dances in our public parks. It
is an earnest effort, but it is a fail-
ure. Why?
Resents Old Styles.
The young girl of the factory or
the store Is a twentieth century
girl. She resents being asked to
dance measures which to her are
obsolete and uninteresting by com-
parison with the dances that society
dances, and the current publications
feature—the dances which hold the
center of the stage. So she seeks
her amusement where she can find
it.
Where does she find it? Why,
Comrade Oies Stofer writes as fol-
lows on the Hamilton-Dodd debate
at Snyder:
m
against the So
“moral aspect” appeal to them? Answer the question that Abraham Lin-1 cialists in that city. They all feel
coin asked of his friend Bateman, and you have the answer to these. Why well paid over the effort and all had
was it that when in 1830 the workingpeople demanded free schools and a good laugh while he expounded his
universal education, they found the church and the clergy bitterly against ignorant dope
them? The pulpits said every thing against free education and free schools
they now say against Socialism. In like manner they opposed life and fire
insurance, and declared that a lightning rod was a challenge and defiance
to God Almighty. Of these last ignorance and fanaticism were the cause,
hut of Dublic schools and slavery, the church and clergy but repeated, the----- . .. that
words of the master class( who own and rule them) who felt their eco-1 good to the greatest number, with its hig mora v sion, religion the
nomic interests would be threatened. You ask, how of the "moral aspect?” | this vision shall be made real and practical, is t e
The church has no "moral” aspect.” ..The moral aspect of the church is the j world has ever had presented to it. avalists
J hn,,ard and the scavinger hyena. When the sugar As to the man of Nazareth, even the materialistic Belgian Socialist
M openleitir
House of Representatives,
Washington.
The manager-—What kind of work
can you do around an "L” road?
The Applicant—If there's an open-
ing, I’d like a job as interpreter for
the guards that call out the stations.
tide of events that move on
hour to hour. The dance of the
pulsing young girl or boy is the lat-
est dance—the most fascinating
dance. It is strange that this
should he so?
Where lies the blame?
Can you tell me why we should
look with complacency upon society’s
featuring of the very dances which
the police may suppress because of
their evil influence on the morals of
the community?
Don't we all know that if society
viewed its duty to society with true
perspective, it would realize the val-
ue of example and do away with the
dance which may be held in subjec-
tion in a politely administered ball-
room, perhaps, but which runs riot
in a dance hall such as the places we
have to contend with?
Must Abolish Bars.
How shall we take the sting out of
the tango or do away with the evil
effects of these torturous dances so
long as the city of Chicago permits
men owning dance halls to sell liquor
from public bars reaching to the very
boards of the dancing floor?
Let us suppress evil ew«rywhere.
Let us suppress the tango ana all
the rest of these dances if we can.
But let us suppress them where they
originate—in the ballrooms of the
society people.
Example is better than precept.
Let the women and girls of society
put a ban on suggestive dances. Once
the evil dance becomes unfashion-
able it will fade away from the pro-
grams of the less fashionable.
And while we are at it let us find
out why we must still suffer the
curse of the bar permit in places
where the poor little pleasure seek-
ing girls go to seek a few hours of
diversion from the monotony of their
lives and there too often fall vic-
tims to the vicious.—Milwaukee
in the dance halls whose managers1 Leader.
THE LATEST PROMISE. bined manufacturers and banks pay
- the workers, who accept all their
By Dr. Karl F. M. Sandberg. notes and certificates.
- j If the manufacturers and bank3
The workers of Kenosha, Wis., would accept the notes and certifi-
have for the last two months re- cates of the workers, the same as
ceived half of their pay in a new sub- these accept theirs, the workers for
stitute for money, notes, stating that a full day’s pay could work one hour
the First National Bank of Kenosha and give notes and certificates for
“will pay bearer.” The worker can the other seven. ^
use them because the merchants If the workers of Kenosha do not
have been induced to accept them in protest against this latest invention
payment for their goods. The em- iu the line of promises manufac-
ployers urge their employees to save turers and banks in other cities will
them for a rainy day as they draw soon follow the example and the
three per cent interest. The other country will be flooded with "prom-
half of the pay probably consists of ises.” There will be more and more
as long as
aspect of the turkey buzzard and the scavinger hyena
trust syndicate and associates had absorbed the beet sugar lands in Cuba,
the church joined in the cry of “the cause of humanity" to free the Cubans,
and assisted to foment a war, and then blessed it in the name of the Prince j his teachings, as far as we are
of Peace, but for forty long years before the rause of humanity cried out ^ crafty priesthood, ail mean Socialism and
in Cuba to a church that was deaf, andonly unstopped its cars when its
financial masters demanded its help. “Moral aspect?” The church is
morally stultified, a coward, and an intellectual imbecile and is today hiding
the wolf by the hypocritical sheepskin of the profession of being a religion.
The church is a prostitute to Mammon. I challenge the church to show
where or when, she ever was on the side of moral principle, progress or
liberty, as long as her financial masters and owners were opposed to the
cause? Since the adulterous union of church and state in 325 A. D., the
church and her principal daughters have been a constant bar to progress,
the hereditary enemy to freedom, and any minor branch, such as the
Quakers, that have stood for liberty and obedience to the "moral aspects"
have his life-size portrait in their house of the people, and over it «ie
words, "Our Comrade.” No nobler, manlier man has lived in history, and
able to separate them from, the forgeries of a
a life of loyalty to the highest
and best moral ideals we can conceive. If this is not religion, then its what
the soul of man needs, and as to the church and theology, they are u
barnacles and parasites on the truth.
It is to me a surprise that Socialism as a religion, has not long been
„ra„tad Into an ors.nic body. FATHER JONES.
(Geo. D. Colemaf!.)
My Dear Mr. Editor:
Various farm credit plans !
proposed to relieve agriculture.
I am sending you a copy of
last speech on the subject in support
of the principle of government loans.
I am against any farm credit plan
that attempts to care for the great
national economic policy of con-
servation of agriculture by turning'the ordinary national bank notes, a of substitutes for money
it over to profit seeking money lend- i hank in San Francisco or some other the workers will accept them
am for anything that will distant point "promises to pay on their work
as was Roger Williams in the height of a New England winter, but whom
the Indians, more humane than the holy Puritans, received and fed and
helped.
Men like Jesus, Servetus, Latimer, Roger Williams and the Quakers nr
Stood for liberty and freedom, and all suffered death, persecution and jenca and not one word of trUicisn
promises to pay on
demand,”—that is, if you go there -;
and demand it, or of warehouse re- Ft. Dodge, Kan., Oct. 24. 1913.
ceipts, stating that a certain niim- Local Fort Dodge, duly a-'sembled,
bur of gold or silver dollars have passed the following resolutions, to-
been deposited in Washington, D. C., wr;
and may be had on demand—if you whereas, the Lyceum Bureau has
go there. iucured a deficit of some $15,000,
Jhe pay envelope is full of prom- and
ises of one kind or another. i Whereas, the National Committee
A worker in exchange for his work liave jSgUed volunteer stamps of the
should receive the products of the denomination of 25 cents, to meet
work of some other worker, or Us same, and
equivalent in money paid this other Whereas, we do not wish to see the
one for his work, but instead of thot1movement retarded or hindered;
most of them get nothing but prom-1 therefore,
ises to pay at some future date. Resolved, that we will do our putt
telligcnt objections have been received. We are glad to get them. It * Missouri .u« --“ — Th„e promises circulate as money t0 wlpe out this debt. But.
not a definite purpose to start a church but the many words of encourage- kota with their . T .. and most workerB therefore cannot whereas, the rank and file of the
endorsement o' the mission of the monthly which is being 1 heavily mortgaged^ wiii see- that make3 an>' difference, party had no voice in the contracting
° °la [but the capitalists can see it and of thia debt; and
OBJECTIONS TO THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIALIST CHURCH.
1 have received no objections to the propo ed monthly to which sub-
all^ subjects, have been deemed heretics, to he lashed naked, or their ' SCriptions are coming in rapidly, but to the proposition oi organizing a
ers. I
help. If any money lender repents
and will lend at a lower cost, let him
do it. But neither the bankers, the
building and loan associations nor
ten-per-centers will carry out the
policy.
I do not believe me farmers "own
ail the bank stock,” but I know that
bankers and their associated money
lenders ow-n most of the mortgages.
I am not in sympathy with an effort
made by the money lenders to make
the farmers look like high fiaan-
I ciers.
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Of all subjects, have Deen aeemea uereuus, io ue r . . p .. onriaiiS|S KOme logical and in- Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
tongues bored with hot irons, or expelled by their more holy co-religionists church, a general church movement for theSo >a . . ^ u is Mi8Souri, Wisconsin and North Da-
objection, firmly establishes my mind not prove the whole case.
haired from the official church and clergy. Why, I ask, in the face of his-! on (he launching of a
monthly magazine to
defend Socialism from the | number of counties in the various
where a small proportion of
torlcal facts, does anyone ask why the church
Why shouldn’t the devil hate the light? Why shouldn t a prostitute de-
ceiver advocate the interests of her owner and master. Jesus said, "Ye
cannot serve God and Mammon.” And the church as a bond slave to Mam-
mon, blasphemes when she pretends to be other than the enemy of God, or
the enemy of all Truth, Justice and Righteousness. In 1905 when gaunt,
hungry and ragged, the poor Russian peasants came on a Sunday morning,
unarmed, to present a paper petition to the head of the state church of
Russia, that church head had soldiers with machine guns hidden on the j pit. n-onthlv
i, opposed .0 Socialism? .umdpoiM oi r.lWou. lo W— «P»» t« calumniators sutes ^ va„,a,ion
the religious and Biblical answer of Socialism. , form*, io verv
I have received flattering comments from able writers on the contents [of the un'“°rtgaged Ur™
of The Socialist Pulpit Department in recent issues of the papers, and have much ^ than t^ of hJ
not received any criticism on what 1 am saying therein, if any one has gaged farms.- Ij^ome parts of n
objections or criticisms to offer, . will be pleased to receive them. Some ta^ttpon the
differ from the ideas presented hut this is not an objec..on to the nia ' rop . mortgage
publication under the heading, The Socialist Pul-j burden does not show in mortgage
i statistics.
pay with promises.
Supposing we turn tt
! around.
Stiposing the worker for a full
day's pay should work four hours
only and tender the manufacturers
Whereas, Socialism is composed of
caBe three fundamental principles, to-wit:
(1) Equal voice of every individual,
upon all social or public questions.
(2) Majority rule. (3) Co-opera-
tiou; and
may
ter as inappropriate for
%
time, urging them to be thrifty and
save the notes for a future time, and
promising them if they keep the
starts there will be opportunity for free expression. > i am trying to treat this subject | noteg a year t0 work three hours ex-
and swept down men, women and innocent children in a crush of hr g • THOMAS W. WOODROW. I the discordant and unrelated efforts thfe(J hour8 worlt and urge
bones and mangled flesh. This is a fact that cannot be denied, and yet | ______ j ensuing from a different plan in each | ^ tQ ^ thege a,80 The mer.
you ask why is the official church opposed to Socialism? Remember that WOODROW’S MONTHLY. Mate, if there is profit Iwant it ^ been perBuaded t0
the official church is a political machine, and whether united openlv . this blank filled and for-, put into good roads for the farmer payment for their
covertly with the ...to, the te.ehln*, .1 the >». r.nil.ho. ». »t Into 0» | ££ ”, lhl, «,hem,
only as a stalking horse, a pretext for the mam purpose to keep the people | ward to me to upera nockets of the same money lenders ,
oh.dl.ot to ho robbod. To® »y .ho. I. a prepootc,... |™°“S, ^OpZvo P..hU,ht»g f«,W. «t. K®«».
Hear Comrade: Wo, the undersigned, agree to pa.' upon demand, f:fty
cents for one year’s subscription to "WOODROW’S MONTHLY.” it being
understood that magazine will not oe Etat to ] or call made for the s'lb.tcnp-
brown notes stating that they "will wiiereas, the Socialist party is not
work” the other four hours, at so™6 , managed in harmony with these
pockets of the same
who created the necessity for relief.
Respectfully.
E. It. BATHRICK,
Member of Congress.
ENGLISH SPEND $30.000,OOO
ANNUALLY PLAYING GOLF
lo what church authorities say. The Rev. Geo. P. Eckman is editor of. the
Christian Advocate. You'll admit he's pood authority. In 1911 at the Rock
River conference of the M. E. Church, held in Evanston, ill., he said: "Men
Of wealth should see that they owe their wealth to Christian preacher-.
Christianity (he meant the church) is the only thing that keep-, the great
mass of the poor people from assaulting the rich and tearing from them
their riche*. An endowment would not be a charity. It would be a small
payment on a big debt. Why does not Carnegie or Rockefeller endow aged
preachers'?” There you have it straight from the mouth of a mail who ..................
officially represents the largest separate denomination church in the coun-1....... .............[spent on
try. It’s rarely the preachers tell thi5 secret out in public.
It is very appropriate and timely, that Comrade Woodrow now pro
poses a religious unity of those who believe in pure religion and do no;,............' ' ................................ f3, club, golfing outfits, lost
Con money until enough subscriptions have been p'cdgrd to insure Its pub-
lication for at least cnc year.
NAME. ADDRESS.
was working in good order the work-
ers should print green notes stating
that they "promise to work” in Cali-
fornia or some other distant place
and tender these notes in Kenosha
for two more hours of work a day.
Having got this scheme iu running
_ ,,rder also, they might print golden
Lor.dc —Borne statistician has' certificates stating that some work
that nearly $30,000,000 is also had been done and that the
figured
golf each year in the United .equivalent of it
Kingdom About $12,300,000 0f. Washington, D.
lb?/., PJW to Tbe r„. ** I
might be had in
and then tender
principles; therefore
Resolved that we demand the re-
organization of the party upon more
democratic principles; and further
Resolved, that we will not here-
after assist to pay any debts, or de-
ficits, in which we had no voice in
contracting; and further,
Resolved, that we demand at least
one collectively owned, and demo-
cratically managed publication,
through which all questions of vital
importance to the membership, may
bo initiated, thoroughly discussed,
and settled by the membership; and
Resolved, that a copy of these res-
olutions be sent to the National Ex-
p'-utive Secretary, and to five Social-
ist publications for publication.
IRA JACKSON,
Chairman,
John W. FERGUSON, Cor. See.
halls.
I other hour’s work.
There is not. nor ever ha3 been, a
They would then 1 valid excuse for war with Mexico.
tallat* in the church. As he intimated, a ma.. may even profess atheUmt ...........................I upkeep of grounds, etc
or agnosticism and yet be more truly religious than the ultra theological BnLscription fre* si club raiser, for each club of five. Send In Holland most people spend on
ra averags about $1.75 per day to
Keep the wolf iront the door.—Prog-
ressive Worker, Holland, Mich.
for a full uay's pay be working one
hour only, giving notes and certifi-
cates for the other seven nours*
You may laugh al this, but it is a
fair illustration of the way the com-
lt has been urged on one pretext
or another and would surely have
been brought about but for one thing
—that the American people have
stood solidly against tt.
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Arnold, Grace. Rogers County Voice. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 8, 1913, newspaper, November 8, 1913; Collinsville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1076822/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.