SOCIALISM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 20 October 1911, Page 3

SOCIALISM.

(lo tfie Hidit/^r.} Sir, —That- a resume of Iv'lr. Ro.csevelt's tirade agamsL Socialism should appear as a Jcaa.uig article in a IS'elson paper, may be lit-tlo cause fo-' auiipriie; but false representation is another matter, and one that you say "proofs can. be .given, backing up t'nvse statements.;' it is this I now challenge-, I do not propose dealing with, ail tne statements contained in your articles; 'but must refer you, amongst a host of writers, to the reply of ilugene V. Dcfos, SocialistCandidate at the last Presidential election in the states, and which appeared in "Tihe Appeal to Reason," Kansas, U.S.A. Millions of copies of which were issued. Few Americans took Mr. ltooseve.t seriously, but as "you endorse his statements, you should tell us:—lst. What socialist speaker, or writer, living or dead, states that wealth is produced by manual labour only '■ 2nd. Whait kind cf manual labour is it that can be exerted without brains I 3rd. You say you "dare not discuss the revolting domestic morality of Socialists. Will you name some Socialist whotcaches or preaches this? Against your statement: "T/hat Socialists are b.md_ to everything hut the material' side, of hfe. I put the following extracts from tho Church of ■ England Socialist League Manifesto: —"its members are committed t-o the definite economic scciajsm 01 accredited socialist bodies." ihey do not think the Christian faith is summed up in the word Socialism; but are suio that the. -ethics of Socialism, so far a» thev eo, are a re-statement cf the ettacs of our religion." I ask. are these the expressions of the immoral people had in your mind when penning those articles? Or was it those millionaires who have d-.clared for revolultaonary. \Socialism in America. Mr. Joseph 'Mcdill Patterson, Mr. Bros. Lloyd, 01 Mr. iGavlord Wilshire. The first of whom wrote "The Confessions of a. Drc.ne, and the latter who spends thousands in propagating the Socialists. cipals in his monthly _W.ilshir-.Js Mag " zine? Or was it Mr. Allan,, of the. Allan Line of steamers, Scotland has declared "that he is prepared to hand h.* millions over as soon as the State is organised to receive the saine. - ■there aire those ndble women who have aaorifioed' so mu<Sh for the princip v.you so aibhor, Lady Warwick, . Ethel Curnie, Margaret MacMillan. . Inf - rll as you do, a monopoly of brains to the capitalist class, it may be hard fo y ou to imagine such a man as A. M. T* lc!m P, son, ol the "Clarion," and author_oi the "Arcadians, putting in money earned by literary work, (together _\vith Robert Blatchfo-d's), into bottconies pit of Socialist Propaganda; but they do. May I ask was it the «- v ception of the material side of y th£t prompted \v lUiani MoiTm to avr tv his poems and paint his " that caused those early Socialists to martyries themselves in the cause of huminity, in what is often y called Socialist experiments? 1 ™ the commercial aclttlement of Louis

C.afoet, Robert Owen, and Fourier. - The intelligent horseman will lead has .beast up to the. motor car and let him exarfllJXe it and satisfy himself that it will not hurt him. The fool will force him past, and probably get "thrown" for his •trouble. It is a- well known £act that of those who honestly study _ Socialism few remains unconverted to its pn'nciiples. Socialists want to make the fullIness of life for all a possibility right here and now, by removing those causes that prevent this coming albout, viz., the present economic struggle for existence. As I write, this comes across the section: "Dad! look up, what a tiny spec he is. but isn't it a lovely note?" "Grot no time foT larks boy, got to put these tomatoes in; get me some more sticks." Somo day we may have time to listen to the lark. I am, etc., J. B. HULBERrT. p.S.—I have eliminated all I think vou can tak-~ exception to. v J.B.Ji.