Show FORUM the san Sai iJuan juan record disclaims all responsibility for statements made in this department which Is open to readers for the expression of their personal op opinions Wons sometime ao ago a subscriber who wh claims he is not a communist gt requested the privilege viege ot of debating the tha merits of communism his first contribution tho the lengthy follows ed editor san juan record mont monticello i 1 utah dear sir it is rather unusual to and find an editor who is broad enough to and encourage a delate on the relative merits marits of f communism and of capitalism which is depre feinted ir 1 the united states by the two to party system in fact I 1 believe it is so unusual that if the record were one of the larger papers with a wide circulation you could not possibly permit it if you expected to continue to publish the paper there is in this count country such an 7 organized and powerful b body dy of capitalists p i ita lists controlling the news we ge pet that practically all newspapers printed in this country are either cither directly controlled by this synthetic news or are arc indirectly influenced by such misinformation as the news distributing agencies controlled by this body 0 organized capitalists doom deem it to their interest and advantage to give out to the publishers whom they supply with news this news manufacturing and distributing concern Is directly owned and controlled by one man whose record as a private citizen and as a public pubic enemy is such as to shame shaine the worst tyrant in europe for that reason I 1 do not expect to make any great impression on either the editor or the readers of the record they have already been to too well educated by this method ot of misinformation and prejudice to listen to any but this megalomaniac and his paid helpers their minds are already made up and to change them is next to impossible people do not want to hear anything that will tend to spoil all those fine illusions they have about capitalism and its merits they want to believe that the things they have been led to believe are true through all these years are really true and they resist their own minds and wills in believing the truth if it oes not conform to these ideas that have been built up around pre prejudice iudice and information supplied by the master of deceit the man who was once a boy who was twice expelled irom from school for the good of the scho sebo oll I 1 speak of this man merely to show how people are being mislead by propagandists sta and not to put the ithe man inn in a bad light this man and the worlds press are subsidized by the leaders of communism ed and now to the debate on communism that subject which this man ind his associates have so much maligned COMMUNISM WILL BE AN N improvement ON OUR PRESENT government in order to decide whether this is true or not we must understand first just what communism is false impressions pres have been built up by those who seek to prejudice the people so that few indeed have tile the least conception ot of what it is in looking into what communism is is let us Is firsti first look back upon ancient roman history though the romans RULED successfully M for a very long period they did not solve three fundamental problems any more finally than the people and governments before them had done indeed the mediterranean world was in more of a chaos than it had ever been ignorance envy hatred malice induce and all manner of set man inan against man and nation against aaion while only with hard labor could the MASS of men and women assisted by bv children wrest a livelihood from the soil oil the three fundamental jre lams which they failed to solve were 1 how to regulate the relations between man and man so that nil all mav have an equal opportunity to develop physically mentally and morally 12 2 how to regulate the relations i between nation and nation so that all may live in peace and amity 3 ife how to gain sufficient control over nature so that the great MASS of mankind will not be bound forever to grinding labor in field shop and mine but may be r devote some if f their time and energy to enjoyment and enrichment of life consequently tile the roman govern went came to its downfall for it failed to do what wv government thit iq j realy by and for the people mt m ani it t do to be a people s government we cannot judge communism so mh mch m ch now from abstract principles ard theories for theories of 0 econ o ic principles le and sociology y must mit give away before fact some of the theories with which communism nd rp n d its haf anning in russia llusia proved net so FO good and were taken out and unlaced ren i laed by bv more practical ones ilk hk all the sciences do at present test out theories and experiment to make improvements over the original conception of an idea so does docs the practice of communism allow and enc cuccur 3 A age continual improvements to be made upon the original conception of the basic ideas that it upholds it is an evolutionary economic and social improvement the communists are proud of the fact that they have been able to make such changes in III their system as are for tile the good ot of the people when they see such changes are arc really needed their aim Is to do whatever Is really FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE and so they have a REAL peoples government communism is not a utopia they realize that perfection is not possible on this earth but that does not prevent them from striving to better the condition of mankind so that all can have the utmost satis facion and comfort in life to which mankind is able to attain in order to achieve this they are trying to eliminate as much orf 0 the man made disorders and troubles as they can and to relieve men and women of as much mch of the burden of ignorance and selfishness as can consistently be eliminated and to build a system of government and moia modality moi allty lity that will five eive the people greater individual freedom and happiness than man has ever had before they are building a socialist nation which covers one sixth of the globe 1 land and area and they are building factories t modern houses schools hospitals libraries workers clubs and aid they are arc increasing production in in all lines including agriculture art and literature at a rate that Is surpassing all other countries under this PEOPLES government everyone who wants work Is employed they have brought a backward country out of wit illiteracy beracy to 98 p per er cent literate in the 17 years that they have had control this is two per cent above the united literacy and if our own country floes docs not work out f the depression depreS slon and get busy with tile the problem of education soon it Is likely to be very much more than that above old age aee security is established and full time wages with doctor and hospital services free is the right ol of all injured and disabled and sick mothers are taken care of before and after child birth this all comes out of the surplus fund find produced bv labor which remains in their control to be used for the benefit of 0 all instead of going into the hands of a few as it does under a capitalist government and this great peopled People lm govern is the outstanding nation in all efforts toward world peace ANSWER the writer who takes the negative side of this debate thornly agrees with alt alf of the foregoing statements except that he be has NOT been educated by the capitalist controlled press nor Is he be subservient to them on the cont contrary yary his opinions are based upon a careful study 0 past history the activities of 0 nations ri races and groups and documentary evidence supporting the implications and conclusions of such sch ies earlb the decision of the question whether communism would be an improvement or on our present form of 0 government must mst rest largely upon a definition and understanding of WHAT COMMUNISM REALLY IS the name cormanis 11 lias has been associated with three kle ali finite movements the ehg first was th the 4 communism of jesus jasus the nazarene whose doctrines when applied to our social economic and industrial life will prove the salvation ot of man the second ape has found expression in many sporadic attempts to achieve freedom from oppression without any particular emphasis on spiritual concepts such as the effort of the russian peasantry some years ago the third type Is that which is generally meant today when communism I 1 is referred to soviet communism quite different from russian communism this type ot of communism and its cousin socialism have developed thru two disciples of adam who after studying study inz jesuitism occultism and ancient devil creeds gave the he world in 1776 his doctrine of containing six principles 1 the abolition of 0 all ordered form of government 2 abolition of family marriage morality and the communal education of children 3 abolition of iriva private tp property 4 abolition of inheritance 5 abolition of patriotism 6 abolition ot of all form of religion this diabolical creed was accented by over three million secret members within the next cizhy years year and became the basis of the communist manifesto ascribed to better known as karl marx it is based on selfishness and hate the actuating principle of those who are the real power BEHIND communism and atheism and who are using this revolutionary movement to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them no other answer i is needed to settle thi the main question those who think a godles world will inifi improve rove present conditions which are already alre arly 1 far on the way towa toward rd it will vote for communism and then find that some power beyond their ken will sten ir even as it is now doing and take lake the matter out wt yr their nana h ana even to t the extent ot of wiping them out of ey ev istance in wholesale fashion that power will be tile the inexorable law of god expressed in ala a christian 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