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THE SOCIALISTS.The Truth, a recent Victoria, ^ not an out of date Rossland, pub- ( lication, declares that there is no ( man that ie oooupying bo muoh of ( the public's attention among our . legislators, at the present moment, ( than the member for Nanaimo. f It goes on to say that the reason j is that the Socialists, with Mr. Hawthornthwaite at the head, are keeping the McBride government in power. It depreoatingly remarks that Mr. Hawthornthwaite af ter all,;s but a mild Socialist. Tba rather reminds one ol a story told by a lair Bostonian traveling in England, where Bhe was mistaken ■ lor an English woman, and wherein she tells of the surprise felt when shedeolared her nationality, “why,” it was said to her, “you have no accent!” “As if,” writes the annoyed traveller from this continent, “educated Bostonians talk through their nosesl Now just as the prejudiced islander could not believe the Bostonian to be American because she spoke as is used by a reiiued woman, just in the same manner the prejudiced critic in Truth cannot believe Mr. Hawthorn th waite to be a Socialist, because he does not rant of hot air with a foot on earth nowhere. The Truth man goes on to deolare that Socialism is a religion and is antagonistic to Christianity, as all religions are j antagonistic the one to the other. This assuming that Sooialism is a religion and not a reform movement, whioh is the p tint at issue. The learned oritic is evidently guilty of vicious reasoning—ignor-atio elenchi. The faot of |the matter is that the first Communists one reads about generally are thoBe of the New Testament and, moreover, a large body of Socialists emphatically call themselves, in order to dissipate a popular error, of whioh no aoourate critic should be guilty, Christian Socialists. It is true that with the ignorant Socialism takes the iorm of faith rather than that of reason, but for all that some of the oloscBt reasoning in the world is that of Mill and moBt of the lethal weapons of the Socialist armory are drown from that economic source. Mr. Hawthornthwaite is playing his own game for the advantage of his party as best he knows how. If he fails, his constituents will sure ly condemn him, if they do not he may prove to be a diamond which only Boore the upper and nether millstones of the old parties, in stead of being crushed by them. Abuse or misconstruction are not fair weapons when, however mistakenly, a man is sinoerely seek ing the Truth.
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Rossland Evening World
Rossland, British Columbia, CA
Tue, Feb 02, 1904
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