"The Appeal to Reason" (Socialist) is authority for the statement that "when the great struggle came between the Republican Party standing for capital and property and the Socialist Party standing for labor the capitalist system would find its most powerful ally in the Catholic Church." And now the struggle is strong between them, and somewhat acrid. The Appeal declares that "the priests who in the name of religion attack us for attempting to destroy religion are the aggressors, and that whenever we have discussed the subject at all it has been when we have been forced to do in self-defense. The Socialist Party explicitly declares that it is a political movement, and that religion is a private matter with which Socialism has nothing to do." But it is nevertheless true that many advanced Socialists make their religion their politics and their politics their religion, and so are antagonistic to all religion which does not approve of the religion of Socialism. Isn't this about the facts of it?