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Show THE VRE AFTER HIM Dr. Boynton Stirs Socialists and One of them Replies. Says the Genial Doctor Is Full or a Certain Fruit Commonly Called Prunes, and we Heartily Agree. Smlthlleld, Utah, Dec. 10, 1003. Kiiitok Looax Kkpuolicak: In taking the defense of Socialism as against Dr. C. E. Iloynton's comments ZL in todajs Republican addressed to his rW& Socialist friends 1 take It as a pcrson- al Invitation to answer, as I pride my self on being one of those friends. It Is peihaps needless to ask the public's pub-lic's Indulgence for my Illiteracy as compared with the learned Dr. Boynton, Boyn-ton, I having had no advantage of any education except what I hac been able to pick up, I might say, from those whom the Doctor designates fools without "common sense secretions." secre-tions." Having mingled with them all my time, and being one of them, it Is perhaps natuial that I use my puny Intellect in their defense. The doctor starts out with the declaration de-claration that "law is not omnipotent." omnipo-tent." Socialism docs not teach that, but the Socialists do say let the folks with money lock It up, as much as they pleasc.butdonot lock up natmes, resources. As to the stagnation of business and coal famines which he asserts Socialism would cause, this Is simply an opinion of the Dr.'s to which he has a right, but such a con-ditonisby con-ditonisby no means possible. That our picscnt system docs produce business busi-ness stagnation and coal famines is a potent fact, if repoi t Is correct. We . feel the effect of it even here. "You can not eat your cake and have it at nhesame time." sa.is the Dr. Socialism simply demands the right to cat the fc, cake produced l. their own brain 7K and brawn without being compelled " J to divide thice-loinths of it with I ' someone who has in l the least moial right to it Let me call jnuratten- I tlon to the fact that your cherished I systejn makes that division legal. I Socialism pioposes to make that I division illegal, yes, even criminal. I As to the assertion that "a frugal I man can save something In almost I any occupation "ifiik kkeis at it" I Is not true. The Dr. does not say how. I long he wants him to kkkp at it. but I I know that some time or other he I gets old and can not kkiu- at it. I Some keep at it all their davs and I then must depend on chailtj hu miliating Indeed after having spent fifty orslxty years In useful toll. Do not add insult to Injuiy by charging worthlossness or laziness, nor even Inability to manage. 1 can take you to many a man In Smlthtield who has been saving and frugal all his life but has none of the vast amount v, of the things his toll and saving has produced. I know of frugal and saving sav-ing people here In Smlthtield who have whesthat are slowly djingfor want of medical and piofcsslonal attention, having not the wheiowlth I to piocuie the nccessaiy piofcsslonal services, and what is tine in Smith-field Smith-field is tiue in every hamlet, and city in the world. The Dr. makes the admission that "Socialism would not he so bad a plan If the human lace had the goodsenso that would bo sine to make a perfect social older under any government." Thank you, Socialism wants to supply . that good sense; that Is Its mission, no moie nor less. Will jou not help usV AW want to do away wlththo meanness and shiltlcssness of mankind, man-kind, product of your present system, not of Socialism V It Is useless to de.n that fact, for It Is a fact, we nie tin- pioduct of our environments, and the Capitalist competitive com-petitive system lias pioduced the present world ehauicteis, which jou pronounce so bad. That in itself proves your system bad. A tiee is known by Its fruit and II' the fiult Is as you state, the tree must be lotten. Socialism pioposes to dig up the old rotten tree and plant In Its place a healthy vlgoious tree and by Intense cultivation give It a chance to bear good fruit. You aie right in stating stat-ing that we picsumo that most bialns v,. are able to secrete common sense, m but which you call our fatal enor. "We say that It is Just as easy, If not jJj easier, to secrete common sense as the fHa opposite. Your deduction is woug MM when jou say not. It is true, how-ft how-ft ever, that our present system ills-BY ills-BY courages common sense secretion but encourages .the opposite. Common sense Is detrimental to the Interests of the Capltalst class hence Its oppression. oppres-sion. Make the conditions right and jou will have plenty of common sense secretion. You say Socialism can not change these men, and we say we will change them by changing the environments. environ-ments. We piopose to make a change with the material as it Is, as well. There Is no such thing In Socialism as one giving his product to another, nor can another one appropriate some one else's products. That can be under our picsent system, but, as 1 understand It, not under Socialism. Social-ism. If anything is squandered, which, of course there will be, (but not as much as under a competitive system) that goes light back to the commonwealth) the one who squander squand-er It included. All business will be conducted by and for the commonwealth; common-wealth; no pilvatc Individual can conduct con-duct business for himself, nor will anybody want to. All business is now run for profit, and under Socialism there will be no profit. No man will want to give his pioducts to another in order that ho might Hc In Idleness, Idle-ness, but even that would be piolded against, 1 think, as ever) body would have to show value received. The cqulvolent of a man's credit would be labor pei formed by himself and not by someone else. So, you see, because of that fact there can be no "Impcr-lum "Impcr-lum in Impciio." We do not consider law Almighty, but simply a righlerof wrongs, piotcctlng the weak from the encroachments of thcstiong. Ofcouisc there will bo lawbreakcis to provide against but the percentage will be very small as compaicd with what we have now; the Incentive to commit com-mit crime will be taken away. I might go in to details ad flnitum but I have already written more perhaps than Tin: Rkfuiilican can spare space for. I shall however be glad to say some more on the subject soon. .lAMHs S. PKDKItSnN. |