quotation of
but a small part of the production will suffice to bring out its real
worth and at the same time show us the benign effects of Socialist
teachings:

"You who are exalted by pictures but not by people: you who
worship a book and a god rather than hearts and men and
women:
I'd rather have my world and its flesh and its devil than your
heaven and its spirit and its god:....
And while I don't blame man for being base or praise man for
being noble, I embrace man as my brother for being man:
And there you have the whole story, my man intoxication: I am
drunk with man: you see how it is:
You can have your bibles: I don't need your christs: your
creeds would be an insult to me: I have man: I am drunk
with man:
That's the secret of secrets: that's the confession of confessions:
that's the inside of the inside of me:
I don't expect you to take it in: drunk with man: no: that's
too much like mockery to you: you shudder at it:
To you man always comes last: man never comes first: gods,
mountains, laws--they come first: man can take his
chances:
That's the rule of precedence as you have fixed it: that's the up
and down and around of your cosmos:
But I say no: I who am drunk with man can't give up my faith
for your blasphemy: you who are sober with god."

The attention of the reader must now be drawn to something of vital
importance. There is no doubt that "Knights of the Red Flag" have
advocated many excellent social reforms, such as higher wages, shorter
working hours and greater safety for laborers, legislation against
trusts, and the prevention of child labor and political corruption.
Great credit would they deserve if their real object were not to gain
votes to secure the establishment of a Socialist form of government. It
is probable that before long, voting with true social reformers, they
will see the materialization of many of the immediate demands enumerated
in their platform. But it is to be remembered that no matter how many
beneficial reforms Socialists may help to procure under our present
constitutional system, they thus in no way prove the superiority of a
Socialistic government, democratic in form, in which the citizens would
collectively own and manage the principal means of production,
transportation, and communication. The reason is that our constitutiona