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Show HIIL1I OELIM talk ei mm Hostile Audience Hear ujn dress at Unity Hall by F. of L. Member. :j ; Before a large audience, for the n Ifo part hostile. Grant Hamilton, membe'i it the legislative committee of the Am can Federation of I-bor, delivered a"i d oroua attack on Socialism at the Uf Vfr hall last night. Mr. Hamilton's aubj i& was "Trnde Unionism and lis Incubii 1 Socialism." Moid, of his auditors v Socialists and they protested nga1 1, 1 many of the speaker's utterances. ' "At -Much of Mr. Hamilton's address waa it 1 voted to (luolatlona from the leading !,n cla)lrft of the world. He showed by q'i Ing the books and publications on Ao clalism that the Socialistic Idea waa destroy absolutely all form of rclli 11,1 and that the doctrines of Socialism w oi antagonistic to morality and encoura ' "free love." He also attacked vti?m-. SW the congressional record of Victor BenfcHi recently a Socialist member of congrfjj In the course of Ids address Mr. Hjl-5 Ilton gave frequent quotations frornT0' New York Call, tho Appeal to Rwi the Chicago Socialist, and from tho w Ings of .John Spargo, Karl Marx, pi erlck Unguis. Loon Fumemol. wllh if Lolbnccht, August Bebol, William Mi i, Joseph LJietzgen, Isadorc Ladoff. (jS ' O. Horron. Harold Happaport. Ed -i. carpenter. ISrnest Belfort Bax, EUa f Murx, Gabriel Deville. Paul Ufan ti Rev. Roland Sawyer, w. D iSSS Robert Hunter, Louis Duches A M' !) moms William English Waning! c;- t Kerr, Morris Hlllqulst and Victor Bet, orn'ii J,Ja,(TUo Mlled attention & artlclo m the Appeal to Reason in wi j It was stated that Socialism did - !i mean free love, the ending of roll u pr Immorality. Then he quoted FnS "f ck JSngols as saying there was no S in Socialism tor a supreme being i , ator or a ruler. He quoted LeonFm lf mot as saying that Socialists must w ,Jl an unrelenting civil war against church Ho quoted William Llcbnech saying It was the duty of SoclalUla .., consecrate themselves to athMtmi Karl Marx as saying that religion'-'! ' fantastic degradation of human natur Each of Ihe utterances of the Socli ' eaders as quoted by Mr Hamilton, e loudly applauded by the Socialists in' ' audience. , so Continuing. Mr. Hamilton quoted'. f ward Carpenter as declaring that ei -! woman should declare herself free ' ceptlng tho term with all the oilliim'BT belongs to it, sleeping, dressing. thlnlAllJ acting, and, above all, using her. seifll she deems best. He quoted Ernest" fort Bax as declaring that a man i justly reject tho dominant sex mora ,w and condemn the monogamic tnarri system, that he may Join himself l porarlly or permanently with anv w I, an. holding that the legal form of h'r rlage has no hindinc force on him. J-t' quoted Eleanor Marx, daughter ofdfil Marx and free love wife of Dr. Avel ki as saying that love is the only reeosn i mnrriage in Socialism. . The opposition of Socialism to the ti ,v unions Mr. Hamilton pointed out J( quotations from speeches and writing! L W. I". Haywood. Robert Hunter. Li bu Duchez ami A. M. Simons. Brequoi i Ol he was interrupted bv calls of "That! u lie" and laughter and hooting. . t, |