140 PERILS. — SOCIALISM. 



differ widely as to policy and extreme doctrines. The 

 platform ^ of the Socialistic Labor Party contains much 

 that is reasonable, and is well calculated to disciple 

 American workmen. It does not, as a party, attack the 

 family or religion, and is opposed to anarchy. 



The Internationalists are divided into two parties: the 

 International Working People's Association and the In- 

 ternational Workmen's Association. The latter, known 

 as the "Reds," are somewhat less violent than the 

 former, the "Blacks." The "Black" Internationalists 

 are anarchists, while many of the "Reds" are state 

 socialists. ' ' The International Workmen's Association 

 is composed chiefly of English-speaking laborers, and its 

 main strength is w^est of the Mississippi. " 2 



The ideals of the International Working People's Asso- 

 ciation are ' ' common property, socialistic production 

 and distribution, the grossest materialism, free love, 

 in all social arrangements perfect individualism, or, 

 in other words, anarchy. Negatively expressed — 

 Away with private property! Away with all author- 

 ity! Away with the state!. Away with the family! 

 Away with religion ! " ^ In the manifesto unanimously 

 adopted bj' the Internationals at Pittsburg, occurs the 

 following: "The church finally seeks to make com- 

 plete idiots of the mass, and to make them forego 

 the paradise on earth by promising them a ficti- 

 tious heaven." Truth, published in San Francisco, says : 

 ' ' When the laboring men understand that the heaven 

 which they are promised hereafter is but a mirage, they 

 will knock at the door of the wealthy robber, with a 

 musket in hand, and demand their share of the goods of 

 this life now." ' Freiheit, the blasphemous paper of Herr 

 Most, thus concludes an article on the " Fruits of the 

 Belief in God " : " Religion, authority and state, are all 



1 See the document in ."Joseph Cook's SociaHsm, pp. 20-22; also Prof. Ely's 

 Labor Movement in America, pp. 366-370. 



2 The Labor Movement in America, by Prof. R. T. Ely, p. 2.53, to which 

 also I am indebted for many quotations from the socialistic press. 



3 Ibid, p. 244. 



