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abolish this age-long night of poverty. There is no deliverance for captives unless this social captivity is ended. There is no setting at liberty the people that are bruised unless this age-long bruising machinery is stopped. If we are ever to call the poor and the maimed and the halt to the banquet of creation, the program of the revolution must be inaugurated. The
Heavenly Father may know we have need of all these things, and He may have provided for these needs in the limitless resources of nature, but we never can have them for the people except by seeking the kingdom of social justice and human brotherhood β which is the Kingdom of God β which is the social vision of the social revolution.
367:, arguing that land gained its value through the collective activity of humanity, not by the individual owner, and that the city, "the Social Mother in whose household we all live" should support itself by taxing this collectively created value. He gained the support of the League of California Municipalities and lead unsuccessful initiative campaigns in 1912 and 1914 to change the California constitution to allow local governments "home rule" in taxation so that they could choose to tax land separately from buildings and personal property.
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Wilson believed that there was an "impending social revolution" in the economic relations of man marked by the principle of "social ownership by the whole people of the basic equipment of land and machinery." Wilson asserted in a 1911 pamphlet that this social revolution was "now on" and declared
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The Sermon on the Mount I saw was a code of social duties, so to speak, a revelation of the fundamental principles of Social
Justice and human fellow ship for this our everyday world. Such a passage as that beginning with the phrase, "No man can serve two masters," is nothing short of a brief but
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If God is ever to wipe away the tears from the face of man this age-long wrong must be overthrown. If the mission of Jesus is ever to get the upper hand in human affairs, the social revolution must come to pass. There is no more good news to the poor unless there is the message and the task to
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First, then, the facts drove me to
Socialism. The injustices, misery, and wretchedness, and the unequal struggle of the workers against such frightful odds compelled me to study the underlying causes of this social agony β and I became a Socialist.
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comprehensive Social
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Wilson was married to Emma Agnew and had four children. His two sons were
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in its desire to stop manufacturers from importing cheap, non-union labor from the Far East. This proposal, primarily written by
Untermann and Wanhope, was effectively killed by the convention on a motion by
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Second, I was a student of economics and sociology, reading, observing, meditating, and this led me to
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from 1911 to 1913. He ran for Congress on a socialist platform, receiving 40 percent of the votes cast, but was defeated by the incumbent Republican Congressman.
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The Harlots and the Pharisees, or, The Barbary Coast in a Barbarous Land; also, The Story of a Socialist Mayor; Letter Declining Mayoralty Nomination.
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792:"J. Stitt Wilson: Berkeley's Socialist Mayor,"
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