not license, there can be no oppression of classes which can be more than temporary, and which cannot be overcome by orderly education and agitation of the masses.

In other words, Lincoln firmly believed and advocated the English and American theory and practice that first there must be a complete freedom of the individual, and by means of government of the people and by the people, the people individually and collectively, but not by classes, must and can work out government for the people, and secure to themselves and their posterity the blessings of the liberty which they enjoyed as individuals and not as classes.

The underlying purposes of all governments are ruling and serving. An absolute monarchy is the rule of one, that all may serve the King. Oligarchy is the rule of the few, chiefly to serve their own interests. Marxian Socialism is the rule of a proletarian dictatorship, to serve its own ends.

The great underlying thought of Christianity is service; and the subconscious purpose of the United States, a professedly Christian nation, has been to make its government, increasingly and acceleratingly, one of service to the people, more service, better service, higher service, to effect the safety and happiness of the people, to promote the general welfare, and to secure to the people, now and in the future, the blessings of liberty.

To-day American Democracy offers to the stricken world the choice between the broad Liberty Highway on the right hand marked "Democracy," a road of service, safety and happiness for all the people, and the dark and threatening wood path on the left called "Marxian Socialism," a path serving the interests of a dictatorship of the proletariat, but of woe, terror and despair for the people.

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WE MUST MAKE AN IRREVOCABLE CHOICE BETWEEN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND PRUSSIAN SOCIALISM AND

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PROLETARIATOCRACY

UFFICIENT facts, not theories, are now before us to enable us to state the nature, purposes and

place of the struggle between American Democracy and Prussian Marxism; the parties to it; the relative strength of the forces arrayed against each other; the methods of battle of the respective sides; and the line on which our campaign should be carried on.

The Nature and Purposes of the Struggle are Simple.

It is a life and death fight between the forces of light and the forces of evil; the forces of life and those of death. On the one hand we find a living force, with all the self-contained powers of Life to grow and expand and develop and to perpetuate itself in new organisms which may have even greater powers than their parent. This force is also like the X-ray, with power to penetrate the densest masses and to kill malignant growths. On the other hand, we find Death-the ability to kill Life; a poison which paralyzes and causes intense agony and kills.

On one side is a wonderfully successful democracy with a record of 140 years of purposive achievement. On the other side a balked and exiled Prussian student's dream of class hatred and social revolution has come true; and has for its record less than 140 weeks of truly

Prussian rapine, murder, chaos and ochlocracy. The struggle is Prussian in origin, concept and methods, and the nature of a Prussian conflict was proclaimed long ago:

"Hate now! Arm thyself in steel and pierce the heart of every foe. No prisoners! Lock all their lips in silence. Turn our neighbors' lands into deserts." "Let them perish, all the enemies of the dictatorship of the proletariat. God demands their destruction." "War must leave nothing to the vanquished but their eyes to weep with." "It is better to let a hundred women and children belonging to the enemy die of hunger than to let a single proletarian suffer." "It aims at nothing but the sanctification of falsehood, the adoration of brutality.”

These words were not spoken of Bolshevism, but of its mother, Prussianism. How much more do they describe Bolshevism, which has been found to be the only legitimate conclusion of Marxian Socialism.

This is a civil war. But far beyond this, it is a war against society and civilization, and all that Christianity and democracy and idealism and brotherly love and every uplifting force have heretofore accomplished toward the accelerating improvability of men. It is a struggle between those who would deify all that was depraved and worst in Prussianism against those who have struggled for individual and political liberty and the securing of the blessings of that liberty to all the people. It is the supreme attempt of all the evil forces of the world to-day to triumph over the uplifting forces which have heretofore been triumphant. Marx has boldly said that his theories were based on the sure coming of social revolution. Lenin says that the social philosophy of Marx had never been put into practice before. For Socialism all roads lead to social revolution. The purpose of the

enemy is to destroy all purposive government by destroying any possibility of saving a strong, trusted and stable government. It is only under such governments that purposive government can live or thrive.

Can there be any persons who still think that Marxian Socialism will promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty? No government of class hatred and social revolution can ever make a success of social reforms and governmental ownership and paternalism—as has our purposive government. We have done more for such reforms in 140 years than Socialism could do in as many centuries.

The Place of the Struggle

Lenin says that Bolshevism must be applied all over the world in order to render it effective. All socialists truly claim that Marxism can never be successful nor continue long in power anywhere, unless it carries out its Prussian dream of domination over the world. Islam's dream of extermination of all infidels is an infant's effort when compared with the mouthings and strivings and performances of the radical socialists.

The conflict is in our midst to-day. It is civil war, but not between men upon the battle-field. It is against women and children, the aged and the innocent; against the thrifty and those of clean lives; against those who will not bend the knee, nor worship Baal. It is a battle of extermination of all that is good in the homes, in the churches, in the market-places and marts of business, in the factories and on the farms.

It is to be everywhere a social revolution under the control of a Prussian or Prussianized proletariat. The only question is as to how soon will our own homes and business be within the battle lines.

The Parties to the Struggle

On one side are the Prussian proletariat, the childrenbearers, and their confreres of every land. Or, as Horace Greeley said of another craze:

"The conceited, the crotchety, the selfish, the headstrong, the unappreciated, the played-out, the idle and the good-for-nothings generally."

But also the criminals and the very scum of the earth. To these are added those who believe that the world owes them a living, who deify the spirit of graft and get-richquick in every part of their mental and moral being; and the lowest classes in society. And through it all there is a distinct tendency for all socialists to sink to the level of their lowest members. Socialism does not appeal to those who are willing to take advantage of the opportunities offered them by a good purposive government, and to fight their way upward while they aid and coöperate with their fellow men. Above all, every true Marxian socialist is a potential Bolshevist, Spartacist and anarchist. There are many parlor and schoolroom socialists who preach and uphold Marxism, but who are too great moral and physical cowards to live it or carry out its logical and admitted purposes. Such are morally, if not legally, accessories before the fact and after the fact to every crime and treason of the I. W. W. and other Marxists who have the courage of their Bolshevist convictions. The attacking forces have all the characteristics of any other mob, formidable to the weak and unorganized. Yet they are only a mob when opposed to well-disciplined forces.

On the other side are the unarmed and the uninformed and skeptical forces of law and order; of democracy; of purposive government. In 1914 and 1915 there were