in philosophy and in politics there must be war between Socialism
and the Church."

In England, too, the Socialists are the avowed enemies of religion.
Blatchford, who is well known to his comrades for his extreme work in
propagating Socialism by the pen, wrote in the "Clarion," October 4,
1907:

"Believing that the Christian religion was untrue, and believing
that all supernatural religions were inimical to human progress,
and foreseeing that a conflict between Socialism and religion was
inevitable, I attacked the Christian religion. I am working for
Socialism when I attack religion which is hindering it."

Again in his book, "God and My Neighbor," Blatchford utters the
following blasphemies:

"I am an easiful old pagan, and I am not angry with you at all--you
funny little champion of the Most High....

"This is the God of Heaven? This is the Father of Christ? This is
the Creator of the Milky Way? No! He will not do. He is not big
enough. He is not good enough. He is not clean enough. He is a
spiritual nightmare, a bad dream born in the savage minds of terror
and ignorance and a tigerish lust for blood....

"Is this unspeakable monster the Father of Christ? Is he the God
who inspireth Buddha and Shakespeare and Beethoven and Darwin and
Plato? No, not he. But in warfare and massacre, in rapine and rape,
in black revenge and in deadly malice, in slavery and polygamy, and
the debasement of women, and in the pomps, vanities and greeds of
royalty, of clericalism, and of usury and barter--we may easily
discern the influence of his ferocious and abominable personality."

This book, which teaches atheism from cover to cover, could be bought
for a dollar a copy in 1912 at the National Office of the Socialist
Party in Chicago, Ill. In the May, 1917, issue of the "International
Socialist Review," "God and My Neighbor," by Blatchford, is thus
advertised:

"Is the Bible true? This is the chief subject of debate today
between Christians and Scientists the world over. Robert Blatchford
says: 'Is the Bible a holy and inspired book and the Word of God to
man, or is it an incongruous and contradictory collection of tribal
tradition and ancient fables, written by men of genius and
imaginations? Mr. Blatchford believes religions are not revealed,
they are evolved.

"'We cannot accept as