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to run for any office at alL These
big grafters have the people hypno
tized. If the machine does not want
you, you have absolutely no chance.
Awake, citizens and voters! Do
your own thinking. The man with
out the backing of any machine or
click should be your choice. "Dem
ocrat" and "Republican" mean noth
ing; absolutely nothing! Vote for
the man, not the machine! Down
with the royal family! Long live
freedom. J. B. McKeon.
HAD YOU BEEN MARIAN?
Allen Steven says: "We, as a social
unit, seek to wash our hands in the
blood of the young man who, through
fear of us, may have given poison."
And, again: "If I had loved Marian I
would have married her, even if she
came to me with triplets not my
own." Why, sure! So would any
body.' If accent on the "if" I loved a
Zulu lady with a litter of brats as
black as the ace of spades I would
marry her. But here is a young man
who won the love of a girl, and has
had relations with her, and he is so
scared of "us" that he may have
given her poison. Why was he so
scared of "us"?
He could have done the manly
thing by her had he really loved her.
He could have married her. But, no,
he only wanted her for a little while,
just long enough to gratify his lust,
and after that he wanted to be free
to seduce other girls. And, accord
ing to Allen Steven's views, Marian
should have doped herself up and
gone on living and laughing as if
nothing had happened.
I can imagine about how a girl
would feel after having been deceived
in such a manner.
It is not a question of birth control
or medical science. These have
their place, but not in the case under
discussion. The question is: Has a
man a right to cultivate the love of a
girl to the point of obtaining her
Honor in order to gratify his own base
passions and afterward, having tired
of her, to give her some dope and-tell
her to go her way and bother him ncu
more?
I think we have evolyed a little waj
above the beast stage.
If little Marian's spirit comes back8
I hope it will warn all little girls noC
to believe all the nice lovey-doveyk
bunk told to them by every Tom,,
Dick and Harry whom they mayT
meet. Clarence Ellsworth, 5259
Prairie av.
PITFALLS. A Forumist writes:
"I have read many times in The Fo-5
rum where religion has been labor's
worst enemy and still the writers areg
not progressive enough to sidestep jt,
and push their own cause to the
front." An example, of poor think-
ing. y
Along the road of life there arej
many holes the theological hole, the.,
economic hole, the intemperance
hole, etc. If you run into any one of.
these holes your duty isn't fulfilled9
by simply sidestepping the hole. You
should warn others of the pitfall or
fill up the hole that others may not9
be endangered by the hole. 3
The writer says: "Push your ownj
cause' But are not all of these holess
endangering labor? It may be that
you can do better work filling up theT
economic holes than you can the the-8
ological; if so, it would be proper to
work on the economic, field,, but youj
shouldn't knock others, who arej
warning the people against the the-j
ological pitfall?
If you don't know what you are,
writing about you had better post up7
before you work as a reformer. Forj
instance, some Socialist speakers will3
claim there are a. million in the U. S. i
A. out of employment all the time,
some say three million, others put itt
at eight million. Some will declare j
for the abolition of private property. a
According to that, the state would,-!
own our shirts, stopk of provisions,
houses w,e live it, garden , tools, etcv
Others say that socialism, doesn't
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