SOCIALISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9618, 11 October 1909, Page 5

SOCIALISM.

"A JUMBLE OF IDEAS" CHRISTIANITY AND COMMON OWNERSHIPS. United Press association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. LONDON, October 8. At the Ciiurch Congress Dr. Arthur Shadwell held that there was much in ol' ideas labelled "Socialism" which appealed to the Christian. He was surprised at many clergymen so readily accepting a theory based on money—the "have nots" wanting other people's goods. No factor,'he declared, had so little to do with happiness as economic conditions. Socialibm fanned cupidity, envy and hatred. The Rev. Dr. Wakeford, of Liverpool, considered that Socialism was the ally of Christianity. He. favoured nationalisation of minerajs and railways. The Bishop of London Right Rev. Dr. Winningttn Ingram, declared he shared the Socialists' discontent in things as they are. There was nothing un-Christian in the common ownership of land and the means of production, but a move in that direction would make a "jolly mess of it." Socialism set class against class. Drink and gambling were the chief cause of missery. Bishop Welldon, Dean of Manchester, said that though the first Christians were Socialists it was voluntary Socialism. There was nothing inherently wrong in Socialism, but it was materialistic, and appealed to the worst elements of human nature.