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Show to Prohibition, the Single Tax, fasting, an the electronic vibration . But not one, so far as I can make outi, took to sense." Some time has passed by since Mr. Mencken wrote his vivid sentences. Socialism has blown up time and again but its adherents, "tender-minded" "tender-minded" as ever, are always with us. The great body of the American people, peo-ple, however, seem to have become convinced of tihe absurdity of Socialism Social-ism and all the other panaceas that would abolish individual rights for a dubious bureaucratic Utopia. THE DEATH OF SOCIALISM. "Fifteen or twenty years ago it (socialism) was making immense progress in the Unitied States," said H. L. Mencken, in his "Prejudices: Sixth Series." "All the young college col-lege professors, in those days, were Socialists, as they are eugenists and birth controllers. It swept and enchanted en-chanted the tender-minded. Fat women wo-men wept over it, as they now weep ver the Americans. But one day it collided slambang with the harsh and horrible facts. - One day it was put to the test in Russia and promptly promp-tly blew up. Even the tender-minded could not dodge the appalling proofs. So they fled this direction and that. Some, took to spiritualism, some to chiropractic, some to Genesis. Some |