Week
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contributor: W. E. Peirce
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1920-05-08
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note: ''T^W'Wy^fHWP ij»i!imw ->,y# DESTROY THE RULE ol GOvLD BY ESTABLISHING THE "GOLDEN RULE." % V/c Work Por All! Leisure Por All! Abundance Por All! Why Don't We Get It? New Edition—Vol. J, No. 2 VICTORIA, MAY Sth, 1920 $3.00 Per Year 10c. Single Copy Peter Collins and the Ninth Commandment "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness." Peter Collins spoke last week at the Alexandra Club under the auspices of. the "Knights of Columbus." On the platform with him were Mr. J. D. O'Connell and Bishop McDonald, with Mayor Porter in the chair. With such men as those to support him one would have expected Mr. Collins to keep to the truth. But he was dealing with a subject that could not be supported by facts, and consequently he had to prevaricate. The Week does not know how far those on the platform agreed with him, but as they offered no contradiction they laid themselves open to the . charge of allowing the ninth commandment to be seriously violated. Mr. Collins was strong on the ten com- , .jnandments. For that reason he should have been very careful not to infringe any one of • "them. • . 0 He made the statement that Socialism and .j Christianity were opposed to one another, and f that Socialism was antagonistic to every one of- the ten commandments. When questioned ' as to the Bishop of Birmingham's stand on Socialism he denied that the Bishop was a Socialist, and insisted that he was simply a social reformer. For the benefit of readers who have not read what Bishop Gore says on the matter The Week here produces part of a pamphlet written by the Bishop on "Christianity and Socialism." I He starts out with the statement: "Socialism, in its strict sense, describes a certain economic theory, viz., that for the present system of private capital'should be substituted collective ownership by the state or community of all the instruments of production, i.e., land and capital in all forms." After describing some of the differences of opinion among Socialists, he says: "But Socialism as a…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374012
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : [publisher not identified]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text