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Show Marxian Club Socialists ! ( J. 4. Any question concerning Social-j- lam answered. Address all com-T com-T munlcatlono to K. S. HllllarJ, I Ij. 436 Hcrrlck Avenue. 1 H-r-i-j-H--H-H-f-:- f-:--:-:-H-H :-!-:-:- j " Editorial Committee; -j- KATE S. Hlt-LIARD. X E. A. BATTELL. j ROY E. SOUTHWICK. .j! ! I It i 1 1 be a snarl, and not a paean of thanks; and I don't blame tbcni. In their circumstances I would also snarl. Critic and Guide, THEY ADMIT IT. Missionaries Advance Agents of Com- j mercialism, Says Head of Their Society. We Socialists have, over and over acaln, nclaimed ihat the C'bristla church la devoted to the interests of capitalism. Ihat It Is, In all Its various ramifications, an agency of the rullnp class. Particularly have we insisted that the much honmed foreign missions mis-sions of Christianity are conducted in the Interests of commercialism. "First the missionary, then the an. dier, tehn the traders." Ok course, we have tiecn contradicted, contradict-ed, abused, discredited, by those iu--terested and their dupes Now, however, how-ever, we are justified, and by no less a personage than the Reverend G. W. llliams, newly appointed agent for the London Missionary society In Australasia. Aus-tralasia. This gentleman ought to to Know, and he stated, iu the course of an address delivered at the society's socie-ty's annual meeting a few days ago tint: Give me a taate of life! Not a tang of a seasoned wine. Not the drug of an unearned bread; Not the grape of an untllled vine. The life that is really life; That comes from no fount afar, But spring from the toll and strife In tho world of things as they are. CLEAVES. ABOUT NICAi.- GUA, Gradually tho truth about Nicaragua is coming out. The Yonngslown, a., : Daily Democrat reports a ' distinguished distinguish-ed member o" congress" as writing to It; 'I know In a general way that New York financiers are acquiring valuable val-uable concesslnsn In the the Central American republics. In some of these publics. Including Nlcaracija, soi called 'American' parties have becu created. Of course the revolution in Nicaragua is lelng financed from somo 1 tource; k would not be possible for It to exist a day without strop financial Id. I am inclined to think that a revolution is being financed iu this country. An anenxation to Hie Vnited States would bring large returns re-turns to some one. If we could get a congressional investigation we might be able to get at ..ie bottom of it all." Small wonder that Secretary Knox gel very angry when Inquiries are made concerning his "patriotic 1 policy." 1 ".Missionaries were ambassadors of commerce and empire builders. Commerce Com-merce followed In the wake of the ; missionaries, who had won whole provinces for the empire by bloodless wars " THANKS FOR WHAT? Ahem! bloodless is good ill r,hc candid mission agent take the trouble to look up only a few of the Instances where the killing of teh aggressive ag-gressive missionaries has been made the pretext for the dispatch of punitive puni-tive expeditions of gunboats, and even of International armies as to China a few years ago? These were just "regrettable "re-grettable Incidents." eh? Mr. Williams Wil-liams proceeded, Inter alia: "Africa was the great dark cloud overshadowing the world. The British Empire was on the verge of a great olcano, and the only way of escape was lo invade Afiica with the ideals of Christianity. Otherwise no one could estimate the effect of setting loose a race so virile and numerous." This Is good! Excellently good' First of all missionaries are "ambassadors of commerce" the phrase generally applied to commercial travelers; secondly, sec-ondly, capitalism Is warned that the virile barbarian races are not likely to make good wage-slaves unless they are, at the same time, liberally doped wliJi Christian "otherworldllness." Thank you, Mr. Williams! This is the first time that so plain and significant sig-nificant an expose, by one of their own accredited agents, of the true role of the churches as mental chloroformers of the peoples in the Interests of their exploiters, has come lo the notice of the present writer. Sdney People. Dealers In cemetery lots and th like got in their lick with the Supreme Su-preme Court of the Austrian Empire. They secured a derision ruling that cremation is illegal In Austria, being opposed to the Christian Idea of burial. bur-ial. The "Chilstian idea of burial" Is the Austrian term for the "real estate interests' Idea of profits." i Hac we anything to be especially thankful for? Personally, vea. .Many thlDgs. We have a charming wife, excellent children, a nice comtortnble borne In the best part of New York city, fine friends a fewr but good, ones , a good practice, journals that frtnud for everything that is good In medicine and that tend toward tin-betterment tin-betterment of humanity at lurge, and that are constantly Increasing in influence, in-fluence, and Lat but not least, good spirits and an optimistic outlook on life. Isn t that enough to make anybody any-body thankful? Yes, it is, nnd we arc duly thankful to the powers that arc responsible for our personal blessings. bless-ings. Dut, looking at the world in general, Is there anything to be specially prateful for? Has anything tiktn place In the year 1909 to call forth a Fpeclnl vote of thanks? Nothing that vo can sec. The world Is all right end eventually it will work out its Falvatlon. But It moves along with cxasperai Ing slowness and when you cbFervo Ihe gcnnial stupidity. Ignorance, Ignor-ance, narrow-mindedness, cruelty, invasion in-vasion of rights, etc, etc., ymj feel like giving vent to sometnlng of an entirely different character from thanks. You feci like swearing loug and audibly. No, humaulty at large has no special spec-ial reason to render thanks for Us progress, for its increase in happiness happi-ness in the jear lfio:. Single individuals indi-viduals may have? but ask the starving starv-ing and starved multitudes, ask 1 1n millions who toll from their cradle to their grave without a raj of joy ever entering into their lives ask them, aud note the answer. |