SOCIALIST PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 325, 12 October 1908, Page 10

SOCIALIST PARTY.

At His Majesty's Theatre a. lady member of the local branch made her first.bow to a public, audience. The speaker, Mrs. B. Glover, lectured oil "The Moral Side of Socialism," arid covered a wide field. She pointed out how society, as at present, acted as a forcing bed for cruelty, and egotism; and how Socialism was striving to widen human sympathy, and bring all mankind within the borders of a free and ample life. It was therefore a moral rather than a political moveriicnt, and its faith' in humanity ■ was its greatest strength. It was the effort of the common people to ariso out of wage slavery and suporstitioil,' into the realms of self-rc-spcct and meiital freedom. It was establishing a truer'morality, than any other, movement, as it was granting women their freedom, both economic, and mental, and was so bringing their best activities to bear on lifo's great problems. The_ average woman/ she averred, would never join the movement, lis she was not prepared for tho responsibilities of freedom; out the exceptional woman was bound to, as it was, tho only , cause that offered her social and economic equality.' She attacked orthodox " Churchianity," and stated that a section of the people had " spiritual dyspepsia through swallowing overmuch dogma"; and that tho A B G of spiritual. growth was the-root principle of her cause. For until tho brotherhood of the human family was expressed in terms df material things,_ there could bo no great advance in the realms of mind.