principle that is supreme, for the attempt to couple them equally
together betrays charlatanism or lack of thought. There is,
therefore, no need for a specifically anti-religious test. So
surely does the acceptance of Socialism lead to the exclusion of
the supernatural, that the Socialist has little need for such terms
as atheist, freethinker or even materialist, for the word
Socialist, rightly understood, implies one who (on all such
questions) takes his stand on positive science, explaining all
things by purely natural causation--Socialism being not merely a
politico-economic creed, but an integral part of a consistent world
philosophy."

"The Western Clarion," a publication of the Canadian Socialists,
declared in its issue of May 23, 1914, that the Socialist Party of
Canada would have "no compromise with advocates of Christianity."

Alvarado, the governor of Yucatan, and his criminal sustainers several
years ago drove the clergy from the country, turned the churches into I.
W. W. meeting houses, and turned some, as in the case of the Cathedral
of Merida, even into warehouses. Religion was outlawed and an atheist
tyranny established. Alvarado is an ardent I. W. W. Socialist of the
most violent sort. His advent into Yucatan from the lawless northern
part of Mexico was marked by wholesale confiscation of property, by
robbery and outrage. His vile subordinates, of like origin with himself,
committed loathsome crimes, unspeakable and without number, and no
opportunity was overlooked to persecute the unhappy people whose
accumulations by thrift and industry and whose steadfast adherence to
their religion marked them as certain victims of robbery, murder and
outrage.

"The Call," New York, April 9, 1919, informs us that the workers in
Yucatan have elected a succession of Socialist governors, and in its
issue of April 14, 1919, under the caption, "Up to the Minute Official
Socialist News," we read the following:

"Felipe Carrillo, president of the Socialist Party of Yucatan,
Mexico, spoke on conditions in Yucatan. Among other things he said:
'The Socialist Party of America should do everything possible
against intervention in Mexico.... All the public officials, from
the highest to the lowest, are members of the Socialist party....
There is no middle class in Yucatan.... The Socialist Party of
Yucatan has been in power three years.'