Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-22 | Page 8 | Good Sized Audience Hear Eloquent Socialist

GOOD SIZED HENCE HEAR ELOQUENT S8CIIST Stilt Wilson's speech on the war and its relation tn Christianity and Socialism ai the Methodist Episcopal church, under the auspices of the Socialist So-cialist part, was given to a good sized and attentive audience last night. Mr. Wilson Bald in part "I come to you in a very bumble spirit. The Christian church and Socialists have failed to prevent war "I am one of the oldesl Socialists In America twenty years of my life, seventeen of which I spent on the plntform. "I am wandering f what I have taught is worth while. I am a mem-:ber mem-:ber of the national executive board of the Socialist party and although this meeting is held under the auspices of the Socialist party, I come before you as a non-partisan and as a human be Ing. "War is as inevitable as the rising sun, and the United States will be involved when her commercial inter-ests inter-ests collide with those of her next strongest commercial rival. "Christianity, democracy and Socialism, So-cialism, representing spirit, politics, and industry, will solve the problem " Mr. Wilson closed the meeting with an invitation to shake hands and join the Socialist party of Ogden . no-