nst
them.

Not alone are the Socialists defeated in their argument that
prostitution would be less prevalent in the Marxian state, but they are
hypocrites in using the argument they do. "The Call," for instance,
which frequently uses the argument which has been refuted, in the
magazine section of its issue of June 8, 1919, published a poem
entitled, "The Harlot," to satisfy its lustful patrons:

"I do not understand you--
I cannot see
How you can lie passive in my arms
When such a passion swells in me....
You lie in my arms--
Your face is close to mine.
I look into your eyes,
Revelation!
And you
Look into mine
Unmoved."

We now return to the question of free-love--we have not forgotten it,
though no doubt the Reds wish we had. Socialists who deny that an active
free-love propaganda exists within their ranks must either confess their
ignorance of what is going on, or plead guilty to the base charge of
deceiving the American people.

The "New Encyclopedia of Social Reform," edited by the Socialist, W. D.
P. Bliss, on page 484 contains an article on the family which reads in
part as follows:

"We then come to the third form of free-love, the free-love theory
par excellence, which is held today by many Socialists, and an
increasing number of radical men and women of various schools of
thought. According to these neither the state nor organized
religion should have aught to do with the control of the family or
of the sexual relation. They would make free-love supreme. They
would have it unfettered by any tie whatsoever. They argue that
compulsory love is not love; that all marriage save from love is
sin; that when love ends, marriage ends."

In another article, on page 1135, under the caption, "Socialism," Bliss
informs us that it is perfectly true that Deville, a French Socialist,
said that "marriage is a regulation of property.... When marriage is
transformed, and only after that transformation marriage will lose its
reason for existence, and boys and girls may then freely and without
fear of censure listen to the wants and promptings of their nature....
The support of the children will no longer depend on the chance of
birth. Like their instruction it will become a charge of society. There
will be no room for prostitution or for marriage, which is in sum
nothing more than prostitution before the mayor."

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