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Prof. Kenan of Iowa College on
: Order and iti VoM
BOOIETT UHDEB 00NYI0TI05 OF BDT.
Then la no More System or Machinery
Able to Save The Spiiit of Christian,
ity the True Solvent of Social Ills.
Reprinted from toe Iowa Capital.
: The parlors of the I. M. U. A. were
crowded last evening with members of
the Unitarian club and their invited
guests, , including some of the most
prominent thinkers . ol tne city, among
them several clergymen, to hear Pro
fessor H err on of Iowa College, whose
recent address at Lincoln, Nebraska, at
tracted so much attention, partly it is
true through the aid of, misrepresenta
tion. The speaker of the evening was
. happily introduced by Henry B. Hawley,
the president of the 'dub. Dr. Herron
spoke subsfautia'ly as follow-: "'
This is a day of social solvents. Many
of the programs proposed for the evolu
tion of the social order from the present
perplexity and distress are good, so far
' as 'they comprehend the problem of
society. ; All of tbem, even the . wildest
social schemes proposed, are potential
with the elements of the power that will
yet unify all elements and forces in ' a
social regeneration. But noteven the best
programs satisfy that social feeling of
the people which is always a more in
telligent and commanding guide than all
the wisdom of political philosophers,
And we are asking for the man who will
outline for us the new social system. We
are calling for prophets who shall detail
to us the full particulars of a new social
organization. We are waiting for some
one to offer us a complete social program
and point out to us each step in the ful
fillment of that program, before we pro
ceed to right our social wrongs or be
lieve in the possibility of a juster society
We all know that the present social
order is wrong. Society is under a deep
conviction of sin. Bat we insist that
none of us, know how to procure a juster
order, and propose to wait until we know
jimti where and by what path we are to
go before we sacrifice ourselves and our
comfort and set out in search of a better
civilization. We imagine we are willing
to walk by sight. We are certain that
the safety of society depends upon treat
ing as offenders any who propose to walk
'by faith.
But by the soeial faith of the common
people we shall have to move out of the
old and into the new social order at last.
No new social system will be outlined, no
program completed by which we may
advance. No prophet will arise to pre'
diet for us the steps that shall lead to
the wiser organization of society or tell
us the manner and methods of organiza
tion. The new society will not be the
creation of the purely intellectual forces
that are at work upon a science of social
progress. The new social temple will not
be built with political hammer and saw.
Its foundations are descending silently
out of heaven from God, and its ma
sonry will rise without noise amidst the
social confusion, the work of unseen
hand.
Society is spirit. Strictly speaking
there is, and can be, no social system.
The quality of the social order, the
character of legislation, the principles
that govern production and distribution
all depend upon the social spirit. Society
in its last analysis is the common spirit
that relates men to each othor. As the
life of man depends upon the atmosphere
he breathes, so the life and development
of society have always been measured by
the social disposition in which men have
been educated by institutions and cus
toms. Any change in institutions and
customs, in civilization or system, has
been the fruit of a change or increase of
the social spirit. Better civilizations do
not make new orders of men, but new
orders of men make better civilizations.
Civilization is only the manifestation of
the common spirit in which men act to
ward each other in their social, economic
and political relationship. The visible
civilizations of the world are the spoken
word of the spirit Of life that pervades
the world. Our civilizations, with their
good and evil, lay bare the secrets of the
social heart and declare the social
thought of the forces that believe in and
sustain these civilizations. If society is
wrong, if civilization befriends the
strong, and makes life hopeless for the
weak, it is because the social spirit is
preying upon, instead of bearing, the in
firmities of the weak. If disorder threat
ens to bo the evolution of the present
order it is because the present order is
not dominates by a right social feeling
on the part of those who are benefited by
this order toward those who are not.
Society is wrong because there is a com
mon belief in, and practice of, social lies;
because men are acting in a social spirit
that relates them to each other as
antagonists instead of brothers. The
social problem is a problem of the social
soul. The production and distribution
of wealth is a spiritual question. The
enlargement of the social functions of the
state will be decided by the social faith,
by what ideals are translated into our
political creeds, by whether society be
lieves in brotherhood and co-operation,
or in selfishness and competition, as the
safest ground for political action and
civilization. A wrong social order can
be set ritrht only by a right social spirit
We cannot have the order first and the
nirit afterwards. The new order must
be the fruit of the new society. Society
cannot be reconstructed; it can only be
regenerated. The regeneration of society
is tne present social proDiem. ho wan
in vain for the conception of anew Bocial
system that shall give peace and justic
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tbat snail neai our social m auu ngt
our social wrongs. No such system sha
be given us save as it be the growth of
new social spirit, the manifestation c
regenerated social life. Except society
be born again, it cannot see-the juttt
Honifll order which has always been an
ticipated and defined as the kingdom of
heaven upon tne eartn.
Societv cannot be saved from its in-
iustice and troubles by legislation.
Legislation can be saved from its present
fallen state, in which it has become the
shame and curse of the people, only by
the rise of a Dure social feeling. Good
laws cannot make a" right social spirit,
but a right Social spirit can make good
laws. There must be always a spirit in
advance of institutions, or the best
statutes become the legal perversions by
which the powerful subject the exploited
people. Without the rise ol a new
social spirit we look, unto a source
from whence comes no help when we
look to legislation for social salvation
It is legislation that needs saving quite
as much, if not more, than anything to
be found in our American civilization
Again, society cannot be saved by rev.
olution. even though revolution lie be
tween us and our social redemption
Only by social regeneration can our na
tion be saved from the sorrow and loss
of revolution. For revolution is loss and
wnte. Notwithstanding Carlyle, revo
lutions do go backward. The continuity
aim development of ttur human life can
not be broken, tnougn we foolishly tm
agine ourselves sometimes to be separa
ted from the past by great fixed gulfs
But we can no more break with the past
than we can get ourselves out of tne uni
verse. The past always is and is to be
and the work of the present is to carry
the past enlarged and sanctified into the
future. ' There has never been a great
revolution seeming to break the past and
make the earth new for an instant, from
which there has not been a terrible recoil
Sooner or later the revolutionized nation
or civilization has had to return upon its
course and connect itself with the good
substance of the evil torms from which it
revolted. The continuity has had to be
taken up again, the broken links re
united. '
If I could use the term without being
misunderstood. I should say that noth
ing else than a great revival of the re
ligion of Christ, a profound resuscitation
of the church which bears his name, can
solve the problem of society. By nothing
but prayer and fasting, issuing in re
pentance and the honest purpose to prac
tice the teachings of Christ on the part of
Christian institutions, will the social de
mons be cast out. -1 see no other hope
for our nation, no other redemption of
society, than a religious revival such as
the world has never known that shall en
throne Christ in our national ideals and
give men the common will and the power
to put into social practice the thrist-life,
A day of social reinvigoration through
the incoming of great spiritual forces
would give more wisdom and power to
procure economic iustice and industrial
peace than a millennium 01 present legis
lative wisdom and metnoas. i oo not
mean by this tbat I do not, and you are
not to, advocate and earnestly support
social and legislative reforms, i am my.
self an unceasing advocate of many
measures that are ignorantly and com.
monly called socialistic, such as the na
tional ownership of all public monopolies.
and public control of the sources of pro-
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duction. l Deueve aiso in me aireci leg
islation of the people without the inter
ference and obstruction ot some ol our
present legislative institutions. I believe
in a single and direct method of taxation,
or better still that the govern mentshould
earn its own living But I do mean that
the first supreme need, the power that is
to inspire and enforce tnese retorms and
reconstructions, is the incoming of a vital
religious spirit that shall enlighten us as
to the religious nature and solution of
all our economic, industrial and legisla
tive Questions, . 1 say that I am not, if I
am to measure my thought by the scien
tific cant of the day, which is as truly re
pulsive as the religious cant it despises, a
social scientist. Iam simply a witness
to a social and political faith in Christ.
Nothing more than bis witness could 1 be;
trust him to keep me from being less.
Yet though making no scientific profes
sion I venture to assert that a truly
scientific study of history will give a place
to the great religious revivals that has
not yet been given, and will discern in
them the formative influence of civiliza
tion. John Richard Green, in his "Histo
ry of the English people," is the only his
torian who defines the place of religious
movements in the political redemption
and development of England. The power
and influence of the revivals of Edwards,
Wesley and Finney in the political de
velopment of America have never been
taken into account. It is certainly un
scientific to undertake the study of social
ills and solvents and ignore the supreme
social force that religion is. ror civinia-
is.n i. fftn.tA.wi nnnn what, fuknnla KaIiaTA
concerning God and dnty, and it is built
by what people feel. The chief value of
Mr. Kidd's widely discussed book on
"Social Evolution" is in the emphasis
laid upon the religious foundation ot
oivilizntinn: Tha nhilnnonhv of Mr.
1 Kidd's book I cannot for a moment M-
supernatural I believe to be absolutely
fatal both to fate and reason. Some of
bis assumptions seem to me inexcusable
and his dogmatism intolerable. Tet he
has done good service in clearly defining
civilization as a religious development
and in calling our attention to the his
toric relation of the purely intellectual
forces to tbat development.
JDDGESILAS A. HOLCOMB,
Through the centuries tbat have passed
quickly since Jesus came, the world has
been learning from him the truth that
can make its civilization just and its peo
ple free, learning in blind, stumblingways,
through experience and suffering, through
failure and tragedy, and yet learning.
The spirit of Christ may even again be
crucified before our eyes by social revenge
and hate. It may be that Herod and
Pilate and Caiaphas will again ally them.
selves to overcome the spirit that is de
structive to the authority and action of
them all. But every such crucifixion is a
festival of new life for the world. That
which is crucified becomes the resurrec
tion life of man, and in the power of the
increased life he ascends higher toward
the goal of b is social perfection. Though
we may still have unsuspected saving
lessons to learn from him through baffled
effort, through fearful disaster, through
utter bewilderment and despair, yet the
truth in him whom we have believed will
increase its light unto the perfect day of
the accomplishment of our social destiny
in a society that shall be the incarnation
of his spirit. The world of which we are
a part is yet very young, and it behooves
us to be patieat with its crudities while
we travail in its toils, and to abound in
the hope of its social perfection which we
have seen in Christ. The world is not
old and hard, as the poets and prophets
tell us, but a mere child-world yet. so
young that the race is almost beginning
its real career, with only Html glimpses
and uninterpreted dreams of the beauty
that awaits its spiritual development.
The nations tbat have grown up through
the Christian centuries are in a relation
to Christ almost analogous to that which
the members of that early little coinrnu
nity of disciples sustained to their Lord
before their unity was fulfilled in his
spirit. The spirit that came upon that
community may be coming upon the
community of the nations. Iexpectthat
there is drawing near a national, een a
universal, Pentecost as much more com
prehensive and powerful than the re
ligious institutions of our day foresee or
desire as the spirit tbat immersed that
little community of disciples was mightier
and more comprehensive and persuasive
man tneir tnougbt. since so profound
an experience as theirs was possible and
actual I can conceive it possible and al
together likely and necessary that such
an experience may come to the nations
bo tbat they shall be born in aday. And
such an experience would be ho miracle
or extra-rational or supernatural event,
but the natural evolution of the forces
tbat have been at wort since the begin
ning of Christian history. Doubtless the
main service of our social efforts and re
forms will be the preparation of this larg
er coming of the Lord. For it is God
who will save society and not man. Our
part is to let God have his own way with
us, not to get out of, but to fall in with,
his way and prepare forthesocial coming
of his spirit. The work of the true wit
ness of the spirit of God that was in
Christ is to make ready for the social re
generation and inspiration of the world,
the witness himself being a personal,
divine, social order amidst the disorder
he condemns, practicing his faith in all
particulars and loving not his life unto
death, being himself a quickening and re-
generating spirit. And the nope that
God and not man is to effect the social
Regeneration will not paralyze onr reform
Activities or weaken our sense of respon
sibility or lessen our readiness to be offered
In our brethren's behalf,, but divinely
energize us with the most strenuous ac
tivity and inspire us to the holiest sacri
fice. .
The regeneration of society would be
the preservation and divine utilisation
jot nil that has worth and substance in
ourcustoms and institutions. Regenera
tion destroys nothing, wastes nothing,
but makes things new. ' And it is the
.things that are that the spirit makes
'new social orders and set them down in
the world, but makes the old new. The
spirit does not even destroy the evil but
Nebraska's Next Governor.
transmutes It Into the good. It gathers
up all fallen pasts, all ruinous forces, all
the dead and decaying systems, and
bears them into the risen future which
their own regeneration constitutes. If
the holy spirit tbat was in Christ could
today immerse and possess our institu
tions Just as they are, our modern in
dustrial machinery and its fearful ener
gies of cruelty and greed, our oppressive
monopolies and corporation switheut
conscience or remorse, it could transform
them all into the forces and machinery of
the kingdom of Godr and make tbem all
messianic and redemptive in their opera
tions. In the last analysis it is not sys
tems and things in themselves that are
wrong, but the spirit that is in the sys
tems and things. And there is no re
generation of unholy systems save the
process of the spirit that is holy.
The 'Women all Coming to TJs.
The condition of our country, the dis
graceful proceedings in Washington, the
strikes, the terrible revelations of the
wholesale corruption in our metropolis
and in every department of government
as well as in tne business world, orougnt
to light by investigating committees;
the rapid concentration of wealth in the
hands of a few all this fills me with
apprehension as to the safety and
stability of a government composed of
men alone. Women and children have
equal rights and interests in this heritage
left us by tne fathers, and i am not win
ing to trust our future welfare in such
hands as administer our government to
day. If we stand parleying with such classes
in power another half century, the mass
of the people will have no rights, privi
leges or immunities for which to contend.
We must prepare at once for political ac
tion and inaugurate a People's party.
Rejected by Republicans and Democrats,
our political aristocracy, we must cast
our lot with the laboring masses, of
whom many thousand joined ns in our
petition for the right of suffrage Eliza
beth Cady Stanton in New York Sun.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull Joins Vs.
It was announced last week that ex
Senator Lyman Trumbull long a staunch
Democrat, is in sympathy with the Popu
list party. Saturday night he delivered
an address at a Populist mass meeting
in Central Music Hall on, "The Rights of
Man as Affected by Accumulated Wealth
and Favored Monopolies."
Industrial IVglon Circle.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 3, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
All Farm and Labor orders. People's
party clubs, Silver Leagues and all othe
organizations in full sympathy with the
People's party, can be organized into the
Industrial Legion for twenty cents, which
is simply the cost of postage and sup
plies. All persons, male or female, over
fourteen are eligible for membership, and
where they have no organization the
Charter fee is one dollar, which is used to
pay the exptnsM of printing and post
age. Where the people are utterly unable
to afford to pay this one dollar, they can
send the postage as above and cost of
supplies. Quartermaster General Geo. F.
Washburn has perfected a wonderful
plan for the benefit of the kjgion. It will
be known as Article VII of the Constitu
tion. It will benefit each member, pay
all his dues, and net all the money that
is needed for political and educational
work. It is simple, easily understood,
and has been thoroughly tried, and we
earnestly request all organisations to
turn into Industrial Legions as rapidly
as possible, so as to take advantage of
this plan. Paul Van Dehvoobt.
" H. E. Taubeneck. '.
The Populist Record. In Kansas.
The old party speakers are busy telling
the1' people of the calamity that , befell
Kansas when the state .went Populist.'
The following figures will show how much,
the Populist administration of Kansas
has saved the people of that state:
By reorganising tha ctate militia $ 12,00100
Exeeeeo! fee of aecretary ol tat
tamed la under a Populist law , TM.ti
Excma ol fwa ot auditor torDed in nn-
der tb tame law.. MI.H
lina ol lee of bank eomtniMlon
turned In under same law....... 3,340.41
Fan of chief clerk of the honae leaa
than Kepnblloan chief rlerk for '
am time ; I : ' 1.11S.M
Faea or aenata eecratary leaa thaa Re-.
. publican ..,. 47100
Inrrean in railway taxation 7J3.SM.40
Be redaction ot state tax by Ponnllat
law t . 71.IJM
Popullet legislature appropriation .,
leaa than Kepublican appropria
tion! lor same time 1S.0M.47
Same in aeoretary ol atate'a office, a.... 1,062.11
By reducing aalariee and laaa In count
offlcea....... 144,650.00
Total aaTinfca. ...... a
Nor is this all. The Populists in 1893"
turned into the treasury unused money
from appropriations $315,143.56, and
there will be quite as much returned this
year at least, making a total of 1 630,-
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SUMMARY. ' : , j , ' '
Total Republican deficiency bllla.....'... 170,060.88
Total other item - 4,702.00
Total appropriation not made on
ordinary year 211, 022. 07
Total appropriation tor public Im
provement 171,000.00
Total aaved by Fopullat administra
tion ........ 1,160.884 81
Total... ...,..'..$1,7U,M.M
Deduct credit to Republican appro
priation.. .l 08,000.00
ropniiat aenciency btlla ... 70,000.00
And f undry expennee... 71.SIS.8S
Total, 304,812.8
Net eared by Populist admlnle-
tratlon $1,612,080.25
Southern Mercury.
New Zealand House of Representatives
has passed a bill authorizing the govern
ment to expend 250,000 for opening up
certain portion of New Zealand to settle
ment, and 250,000 for the purchase of
lands. Inter-Ocean.
New Zealand will soon be the paradise
of the world in all senses of the word if
the people continue to advance in sensible
socialistic Christian legislation as they
have been advancing during the last
generation. The government there is
acquiring the lands as well as the rail
roads and is breakingdown all monopoly
power and speculation. With our boast-'
ed progress we are retrograding, and
have been ever since the birth and growth
of the great monopolies. We are today
far behind this little country the other
side of the world in the matter of main
taining the rights and liberties of the
common people. '
"Too Tbln to Make Ply Nets."
Scotia, Neb., Sept. 29, 1894.
Editor Wealth Makers:
Edgerton spoke here on Sept. 26th to
a good audience. Messrs. Barry and
Jefferies, our nominees for representative
and state senator, were with him and
made themselves heard on state issues in
no "straddle-of-the-fence" manner.
Barry has a "walk-a-way" in his re'
election, while Jefferies, who is an old
settler, and a pioneer in the Independent
party, feels secure and has good reasons
for such feelings. This is one of the town
ships, yes, and this is one of the conn ties,
where the vote for Tommy will be too
thin to use for fly nets.
Mr. Edgerton made us some votes
surely. , Tours for the right,
E.A.II.
NBWH FROM THE FIELD.
J. L. Grandstaff, president of the Peo
ple's Independent club of Bladen, writes
tbat the Republicans out in bis country
wear a kind of woebegone look, believiug
that not only Tommy, but also Parson
Andrews will be sent up Salt creek.
The new song book contains about
125 pages, extra large size, illustrated
cover page. No doggerel in it All high
class, patriotic, pathetic, humorous, en
thusing matter. Now ready.
THIRD DISTRICT PQPUIjMTS.
Mr. Devlne la Winning hla way With
All uood Honest Man. , ,
The campaign of Hon. John If. Devine
In the Third district is being conducted
with much energy and ability, and every
meeting so far has been m grand success.
The campaign was opened at Neligh, tha
opera house being well filled, and all
political beliefs being represented.
Themeetiugat Neligh was first ad
dressed by Mr. E. W. Jeff res of Greeley
county, Popjjlist candidate for state
Senator. Devine followed. He talked ol
the sovereignty of the people, their exer
cise and delegation of that, sovereign
power, the national debt, the shrinkage
of prices, the purchasing power of money
and the ownership of the wealth of tha
nation. In discussing the money ques
tion Mj Devine saidl ' T
"Money is not like anything else. It if
unlike axes, hammers and saws. These
things are useful while in possession, but
money Is useless except for the purpose
of exchange." . ",
He attacked the intrinsic value theory
of money and his scholarly argument
and illustrations carried the minds of his
audience with him to accept his necessary
conclusions. Mr. Devine is possessed of ;
the gift of the best thinkers, that of mak
ing his meaning clear to alt minds and
compelling the assent ol the reasonable
and the unprejudiced. He is also win
ning support by his generous and kindly '
teellng. his courtesy and consideration.
At- Clearwater the largest political
gathering ever held in Antelope county
greeted him. From east and west tha
people came in on trains, and by private
conveyance, from all directions, soma
coming in from Holt county. A proces
sion passed through the principal streets
headed by the Elgin brass band and the
Smith drum corps. There were many
inspiring banners. An auditorium had
been improvised, but it proved far tod
small lor the vast crowd and an overflow
meeting had to be held.
The opening address waa by Capt. J.
D. Hatfield who spoke on "The Old
S ildiers in Politics." Hon L. H. Suttr
poke next on the subject, "The Railroad
in Politics." T. H. Pollock spoke on
Duty's Call."
Mr. Devine eroke in the afternoon alter
a dinner of roast ox had been enjoyed by
the assembled thousands. His speech is
reported as masterly in its character.
Other local speakers also addressed the
crowd, Hon. Herman Freese speaking
on "The Initiative and Referendum."
Heard In The ThirO.
When John M. Devine comes out on top
Jext November with a 2.R00 plurality
boost, the half-baked whimpering fusion
ist papers wilt feel like crawling in a hole
and pulling it in after them. Petersburg
Index.
' It is about time the Bryan men under
stood the situation. Hon. John M. De
vine will be elected to Congress before
Bryan will get one vote for the United
States Seuate from the Third district!
This statement is all wool and a yard
wide, and don't you forget it Allen
News.
Any Populist who thinks that J. M.
Devine will not be in it this year needs to
took at the situation and reflect for a
time. Devine will get every vote of the
free coinage league and that vote alone
will be no small factor. No Populist can
refuse to vote for him ' and will he not
draw from Meiklejohn? There are thous
ands ol free silver Republicans who will,
vote for Devine before they will vote fot
Thomas. Thomas is a free silver Demo-
crat and cannot get the vote of a single
administration Democrat. The Morton
Democrats will vote for Meiklejohn. Now
this is a fact and there is no use deuying
ing it, the same forces are at work today
that elected Meiklejohn and they will
continue until election day. The fact is,
either Meiklejohn or Devine will be elected.
Take your choice; again be misrepresent
ed or vote for Devine. Howell Journal.
Matt Dangherty wants to know why
the people should ''surrender the state to
Populism?" For the same reason that
an employer would discharged a dishon
est employe. Republicans have been
elected year after year to enact laws in
favor of the whole people. They have
failed. The people will now discharge
them and put in their places the Peo
ple's Independent party. Their candi
dates are honest men and will pass laws
for all the people. This is why the state
will be surrendered to the Populists.
New Era Standard.
The new song book, now readj ror de
liver, is immense. Fire in your order.
Thirty-live cents a copy.
