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Show -fHWWHH-WHW-HH ( -:-!-H-:-r-:-r- 1- 1 :-i-:-i"!-I- I Marxian Club Socialists ! . I Any question concerning Social- V ism answered. Address all com- ? munlcatlone to K. S. HllllarJ, "f" 436 Hcrrlck Avenue. j .!..M-;-w4-?.'-.tj-;!-l 1 1 Editorial Cmmlttee7 -j- KATE S. HILLIARD. J. E. A. B ATT ELL. ROY E. SOUTHWICK. THEY ADMIT IT. Missionaries Advance Agents of Commercialism, Com-mercialism, Says Head of Their Society. Wc Socialists have, over and over again, claimed that tho Christian church is devoted to the Interests of capitalism; that it Is, in all its various ramifications, an agency : of the ruling class. Particularly have we Insisted that the much boomed foreign for-eign missions of Christianity arp conducted con-ducted In tho lutcrcsts of commercialism, commer-cialism, "First tho missionary', then the soldier, sol-dier, then the trader." Of course, we hae been contradicted, contra-dicted, abused, discredited, by those interested, and their dupes. Now, however, how-ever, wo are justified, and by no Icbs a personage than the Reverend O. J. Yllll3ms, newly appointed agent for the London Missionary society in Australia. Aus-tralia. Thla gentleman ought to know, end he stated, In the course of an address ad-dress delivered at the society's annual an-nual meeting a few days ago, that: "Missionaries were ambassadors of commerce and empire builders - Commerce Com-merce followed In the wako of the missionaries who had won whole provinces prov-inces for the Empire by bloodless wars." Ahem! "bloodless" Is good ', Will tbo candid mission agent take the tiouble to look up only a few of the instances whero the killing of the aggressive ag-gressive missionaries has been made the pretext for despatch of punitive expeditions of gunboats and even of International armies as to China a few years ugo? Those were just "regrettable "re-grettable Incidents." ch? Mr. Williams proceeded, inter alia: . "Africa was tho great dark cloud overshadowing tho world. The British Brit-ish Empire was on the verge of a great volcano, and the only way of escape was to Invade Africa with tho '.deals of Christianity. Otherwise no one could estimate the effect of setting set-ting loose a race so virile and numerous.", numer-ous.", This Is good! Excellently good! First of all, missionaries are "ambassadors of commerce" the phrase generally applied to commercial travellers; secondly, sec-ondly, capitalism Is warned that the virile barbarian races arc not likely to make good wage-slaves unless they are. at the same time, liberally doped with Christian "otherworldllness." Thank you. Mr. Williams! This Is the first time that so plain and sig-nillcanl sig-nillcanl an expos", by one of their own accredited agents, of tho true role of the churches as mental cbloro-f cbloro-f oi mors of the peoples in the interests of their exploiters, has come to the notice of the present writer. Sydney People |