Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — Socialistic Baptism. [ARTICLE]

Socialistic Baptism.

It U reported from Australia that Mr. Tom Mann, lately a London publican —not of the clientele of St. Matthew—who haa since transferred the benefits of his light and leading to the Antipodes has instituted a form of Socialistic “baptism" in those parts. This rite consists in his mounting a platform, receiving babies Into his arms and attaching to them scarlet rosettes Inscribed with their names, their parents acting as tnelr sponsors la devoting them to a lifelong eerrloe to Socialism. * x gjriA "**