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Show M. E. KING MIKES lEPLfTflilTON Salt Lake Socialist Goes to the Defense of Party's Principles. Murray E. King addressed an audience that filled Unity null hist night, in reply to Grant Hamilton, who attacked Socialism Social-ism and the Socialist poUclcs at tho i;ig.K wero hostile to religion, maxriage ami and referring to his main statements,. What lmlfkir. Hamilton Proved and what has ho failed to prove? Let u bo honest and acknowledge i tho full truth and give the argument of our opponent Its full value. In rcgaid to religion, he. has proved that mi V of the authoritative writers and thinkers think-ers In tho Socialist movement d d not believe In a personal God npi n tho supernatural: hut he fal ':d to nrove that all Soda st authorities wore atheists, or that the Principles of Socialism havo anything to d with this question, or that belief In these religious principles stood lii Mu. way of anyone remaining "i the ;o-clallsl. ;o-clallsl. party, or that tho majprltj or Socialists are opposed to religion. In regard to tho question pi nuii-ringe nuii-ringe or morality. Mr. "am on proved nothing more and notmiij, less than that some Socialist, writers of prominence have attacked t ho marriage laws as they exist, but he did not prove that marriage Is any part of fundamental Socialism or that the majority of Socialists agree In any way with tho extreme doctrines of some prominent writers. He proved that In some Instances certain Socialists had displayed an- i tagonlsm toward tradn unions, but he did nol prove" that, tho Socialist movement as a whole was opposed In polloy or prlnclplu to the economic organizations of labor, or that there ovor was a tlmo when unionism was not a fundamental principle in the Socialist movement. Taking up tho subject of religion, Mr. King declared that tho Socialists had twice declared In the Erfurt programme, the crvstalllzed opinion and thought of ItO.OOO.OOO Socialists that Socialism wis a political nnd an economic movement and that religion was a private matter, and that It. did not In any way seek to interfere in-terfere with the rcliglouH beliefs of Individuals. In-dividuals. This attitude has been indorsed in-dorsed In America, ho said. He ugaln quoted from tho Erfurt programme pro-gramme to show that Socialism did not Intend to abolish the marriage, but that It contemplated placing marrlago on a higher basis. On the subject of tho attitude of the Socialist partv toward trade unionism. Mr. King attacked Mr. Hamilton vigorously vigor-ously for what ho termed his unwarranted unwar-ranted conclusions in the light of the origin, the fundamental principles and tho wholo history of tho Socialist movement, move-ment, declaring that according to the original purpose of tho SoclnllBt movement move-ment and tho Erfurt programme the; wero cognato parts of tho same movo-mcnt movo-mcnt and that in every country in the world they had alwayB worked In close co-opera tlon. |
