The Socialist Antidote (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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May 1911
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THE SOCIALIST ANTIDOTE
7ft. „..d. ,„d ,t. rnn.ot
Hy. lion. K. C. Co*. Houw of Representee*
fourth Oklahoma LofW ture
All the animal creation are creature* of
lion; and observation teaches ua that wonderful
und seemingly impoaaible things can be accompliHh-
rd in training the mind as Veil aa the body to be-
lieve and accept certain theories or perform certain
act* If we attend tlfo average circua we see peo
pie In the ring performing acta that seemingly no
human being could possibly do, this of course .a
brought about by untiring effort, <evertoting
peraiatance and determination to do those things.
It ia iuat aa poaaible und Just aa reasonable that
the mind can be taught to believe and perform
aa it 1a that the body can be taught to believe and
perform. I maintain that our only hope is to study
She great principles of truth, right and justice and
train in the proper direction. I believe in a grea.
(Jod of Justice and rinht, who is all powerful and
wiae, who will smile on us and bleas our effort*
when we are in the right.
On® of the best lessons that we can possibly get
is from the two boys who went through the sam*
forest. One was constantly and persistently look-
ing for flowers, birds and butterflies and the other
just aa persistently looking for snakes, thorns and
lizard—and they both found what they were look
'"I don't think it is unfair to say that if there evev
waa a class of people who put in more time and
effort in looking for thorns, snakes und hzard*
than the socialists do, 1 have never met them. They
get in such a habit of this that they are constantly
Jt it and never stop to think what they are doing.
They find themselves in a very awkard Pr®d>cn
ment at the present time on account of the ae-
ration they have been registering against the
president, charging him with being in sympathy
with Villa! Now the idea of charging Wilson,.!
man who is honored and loved throughout the
civilized* world as few other men are, of being
sympathy with a man like Villa is almost unbeliev-
abK nL that Villa's band of thieves and cut(
throats have l een driven into the rnountains and
caves of their native haunts, scattered to the four
winds and put out of business as compjetel^ as a
murderous band ever was, will the socialists n.
knn nt rnouirh to say that they were mistaken
No not once. They are not trained that way.
The average citizen has very little idea o ^
class of literature that the socialist Pc°P,e
doitfd out to them. I believe that if all the people
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Sfsas sstfxsa ?is
5 *W? borne of the brave, should enter his pro-
C^ld£n In the homo und in the school should
have the environmenta thut would lead them to
rihi' sr
UDM? part of his body and the vultures that po>•-
h deous picture? What kind of dieama w uW,'V
4, ?^ ^h^ed,rnnta8Utt',
fiWUS -e hope for them ,0 he
WhO*n r SZtt? T ™ -- t
SSSS a",rXTnd sapphire JeweU, adjusted to
the "econd. 25 rear Bold atratu case. Used on
.very torpedo l.onl cv^ysubnumt.e as
on all the big dreadnaughts in the U. >
K full page advertisement, every line of whichi >
£ u*ht with falsehoods an advertisement tha
w£uld not be admitted to an honorable publication
^On* the fh*st page of reading matter he has this
a«Mrtlon: "No organization, political or re-
ligious, is responsible for anything that goes> '"t"
the Melting ftt. "le all your cu...n on the
editor." It seems aa though he has made up l
mind to say something awful and what ho to
say on the first page is so vulgar and unit to leaa
that common decency makes me refrainton^nt'on
its nature—stuff that would make a Bocialiist
ten-year-old child ask questions he would refuse to
answer.
On pag, four we hava another full page pctu v
of a hideous monster, half man and half heart,
with the bones of a hu ma nl.eingscatteredaroun
his feet while in his hands he holds a Bk" '
crushing it in his teeth as an ape would a c^onuln
On the next page a picture of a hog,'J™8®? '
man's clothing with the vulgar expression. An
artificially begotten exploiter On thl
........ wt. find an advertisement of their dook en
titled, "Life of Jehovah"—a book that is written
in an effort to prove that Christ is a bastard, God
is a fabled sky-monster and the Bible a .
ated mass of falsehoods written by some Jewish
priests who, for sin and shame, have never been
«Miualed on the face of earth.
On page seven we find a full page picture of o le
of Hilly Sunday's Meetings which the editor says
is "not an all-night's picture of a round up m a
tenderloin, neither a snapshot of Matteawa
asylum but a picture of a scene in Billy Sunday .
revival' in Philadelphia." Now I want to askyo-i
people who stand for Christian education s
against socialist education, if you do not think t
is high time that you should at least enter^yoi
orotest? I enter mine here, now. I know not
what course others may take, neither do
care. I have a feeling of pity and ymPfathy.^r
any good man who can be caught in the trap that
is set for him by the socialist party. I do no.
fear ihe day that they may come >\to poweiv fo.
I believe a God of justice has placed that dav
the very dim and distant future.
In this same issue, the editor of the Melting P
takes up several pages in telling of some desperat,-
acts of people who have gone suddenly ciazy and
killed relatives and others. We know-and every-
body knows-that people lose their minds brooding
over almost any question. Only a short time ag<
we had an example of a man who went sudden.y
crazy and killed his entire family, inc.lud,n.JJ?1
own father, down near Lawton. But this editorial
brute would lead his readers to believe that people
do not lose their minds on any question but religion
and so degraded and vile is he that he would indite
the whole Christian world because a certain un-
fortunate man lost his mind on the subject of
rCWe have what might be termed an unwritten
law that the people of this country will not to> erate
the crime of assault on a white girl by a brute of
a negro, but this man, who prefers to be respon-
sible for everything that is in his paper, spent s
quite a lot of space telling of the poor negroes who
have fallen victims to lynch law. I abhor th<
idea of lynch law, every law-abiding citizen does,
but the question, "what would you do if your li .ti*,
girl was the unfortunate victim? has a tendency
to make us stop and think.
1 intended to review the Appeal to ^.eafon a"('
the Rip Saw too, in this article, but I think I have
written enough and am not half through ti
Meltin^Pot yet. 1 want to close this article with
remarks on another ad that we find on page 18.
A friend of the editor says, in waiting to him,
"Your life and exploits of Jehovah is the killingest
book out. It tells the truth about the great Goo
myths. Grimm's or Anderson's fairy tales are not
half so interesting. Whoever reads a page of th-s
;,orl- . in never be satisfied without fir-isliing all
those stories" about Jehovah and all his^ satelites.
The serious result is that they are laughed out of
existence." . . ,,
Now I not mean to be disrespectful to he so-
cialists but I do think that they and every bo ly
else should stop and ponder as to what the result
of reading such papers as I have mentioned wou'd
l>c As I have said, we are creatures of tduca'
and we should ponder well the question as to what
we should read and what we provide for our chil-
dren to read.
"Upon what meat has this our Caesar fed that
he has grown so wise?" ^
Cordell Beacon: We have a lot more respect for
a banker who charges usury in violation of the law
than we have for a paid reformer who stands un
before a street crowd and willfully and maliciously
misrepresents a proposition that he knows is fair
and right. ^
WILL GET ALL WE PRODUCE
—UNDER SOCIALISM
By J. L. Montgomery
Recently we ran amuck one of these hot air mer-
chanU who said, "Under socialism each one wou d
get the full product of his labor. Each one would
"w.'a.k*|Ph^U^w"h.found it out. or who told
Sd".?fwid SuU^Of1 coaur«V'rh. ou.
1„. quotation from the Appeal to Reason but
""£,r,m".h„ a principle nf.r a tned-out
policy. It is a philosophy. No one can define it
from a socialist standpoint.
We then requested him to tell us how or by what
manner they would determine just how much each
one produced under socialism. He answered that
no man had yet appeared wise enough to suggest
•j plan by which it could be determined but that
he believed some man would arise, smart enough
to solve The problem by the time socialism was
inaugurated. Doubting his prophecy coming true
and anticipating a long dry sp ell before socialian
is ushered in, we will try our hand at the solution
We give the following analyssis, viz:
It must be determined by one of four methods-
(1) by one man; (2) by a committee, or three
men: (3) by a referendum; (4) by himself.
1 .lif one man is to determine how much each
one'produces, isn't that paternalism, one man pow-
er? No matter how selected he is sole arbitrater,
whether right or wrong there's no appeal. Should
he be chosen by a referendum vote, it would takj
up too much time to take a referendum on each
decision. There'll be no law nor judges under
socialism—just the referendum to decide matters.
So the one man power which is paternalism. No
so cialist would assert could harmonize with so-
cialism. How much would he himself produce
while bossing that job or acting as a divider or ref-
eree, and what portion would be given to the
impatient, the sick, the blind, the lame and the
lazv? We can see but one way to settle it and
that would be for Uncle Sam to go to null for them
and all eat out of the same pot.
2 if by a board or committee who would ap
point them and who discharge them or fill vacan-
cies created by death, resignation or removal/
Who would make /ules governing them and should
two of them decide one way and one the other,
what would the remedy be? or would they always
agree Unanimously or is the majority alway^
right9 If so, how about those who got drowned
in the flood, or when the majority killed Christ
All human experience shows when power has been
concentrated it has been abused—majorities are
not always right. I had much rather belong to
a righteous minority than a reckless majonty.
Although a majority may delegate authority to a
committe, they cannot empower sucli committee to
destroy a principle, may do all things necessary to
be done but never destroy *he principle. Suppose
the committee should be sele<?ted by a referendum
vote, and one a section hand, one a dry goods
clerk and the ocher a circus cIowit—these three to
determine what each man produced for any given
locality or length of time or for all time and over
the whole world, for that matter. It is only the
more ridiculous and they being on a farmer. The
clerk says he knows nothing about farming, like-
wise the clown, and Pat says, "Nather do I. Its
every man to his job. Give me a pick and a spado
to the divil wid socialism." We might go on
ad. lib. with any or all the various trades, mdus-
'tries or associations in life and they would all
show the same or even more nonsensical than the
case cited. No, the committe wont do—wouldn t
work, no where, no place. It would destroy in-
dividual rights and would be a form of paterna -
ism obnoxious to every liberty-loving free Ameri-
can, which would eventually lead to open rebellion.
3.—How could it ever be determined what each
one produced by taking a referendum on it. This
is absolutely too silly and nonsensical to talk
about, and yet socialists say "Uncle Sam will
determine all questions, well who is uncle sani.
Why the people of course. Well how or by wha.
method would the people determine? By the
Referendum is their answer every time. Well lei
some Solomon among them tell us just how you
could determine how much each one produced t y
a referendum and we will shut up shop and take
out a red card. Thi? will give them the lock-jaw
watch and see if it does not. Socialism will do
to fool folks with, but it wont stand analysis.
j —Every one determine for himself, how
he produces, is the last analysis. None of the
other plans are work^le as we have shown an i
this is the last extremity. Let us suppose a case;
a man goes to a new country, uninhabited or to
an Island in the sea, and begins life as all men
have done in a new country, selects a site, cleans
up a farm, and agriculture is now the sole industry.
He pays no rent, interest nor profits, has no com-
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Stone, Logan. The Socialist Antidote (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1916, newspaper, May 15, 1916; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc281702/m1/2/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.