THE WEALTH MAKERS.
November 21, 1895
THE WEALTH MAKERS.
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A rob of honor, Is too good prlM
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Unto a fellow man. Thls'llfs hath wo
Sufficient, wrought by nian'n latante foe;
And who that bath a heart would dare prolong
Or add a sorrow to a stricken eonl
That casks a healing balm to make It whole?
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Tim greenbacks must go, is the dictum
of the bankers. In other words, "The
people be d d."
The Chicago Dispatch says another
tune has been added to the Republican
song hook. "It is "Maryland, My Mary
land." . Reed and Allison, it is reported, have
pooled their chances and will unite all
possible forces to knock out McKinley
and Harrison.
Gen. Miles, being a soldier by profes
sion and war being needed to make him
a conspicuous success in his profession, a
man whose nameshall ring in the papers
is making a great noise about our need
oi coast defenses, and a big navy.
Senator Allison of Iowa has been try
ing to make a deal with the fellows who
run the Rep machine in Illinois. If he
can outbid Harrison, McKinley and Reed
and the rest in agreements regarding ap
pointments, he will get the Illinois dele
gation. So it goes.
Gekeral Tokkence of Chicago is to
erect a $2,000,000 mansion on Long Is
land, N. Y. Count him out of the man
sion distribution up yonder. He is hav
ing more than his share of good things
in this life. The rich in this liie muat be
located with Dives hereafter.
The wall paper manufacturers' nation
al trust, with a capital (water and all)
of $38,000,000, has just got a verdict
iu its favor from the supreme court of
New York, which says it is not operating
in restraint of trade. All the same, it
controls prices and destroys competition
at expense of the people.
How many '"links" plutocracy is weld
ing with the English lords and their fam
ilies! The latest was the marriage of Ex
Secretary W. C. Whitney's daughter to a
a young son of Lord Taget. And Cleve
land attended the wedding. Whitney
is one ot the Standard Oil robber barons,
The aforesaid "links", altogether con
stitute the chain of industrial slavery.
It is reported that Ex-Speaker Reed of
Maine, who will doubtless be re-elected
speaker of the house next month, and
who is probably the strongest supported
candidate in the race for the Republican
Domination for president next year, is in
favor of retiring the greenbacks by an
issue of bonds. He has been conferring
with the organized bankers and making
himself solid with the money power.
There is to be a national silver confer
ence held atChicagoBometime to be fixed,
but near the Christmas holidays. Sena
tor Jones believes there will be a silver
, party grow out of the conference action
Concerning the election Mr. Jones says:
"I think that the elections justheld have
demonstrated beyond the possibility of
any doubt whatever that' the issues in
the campaign of 1896 will be flatly be
tween the champions of gold and silver.'
Yes, but what is the matter with the free
silver declaration of the People's party?
There will be no other silver party that
will make itself respected.
BELFISHNE83 VEBEUS BELriMNEES
A man is not a good man because he is
poor. A very large percentage of the
poor would command and extort as
much from the toil of the d'pendnnt, as
do the rich, if they had the power. The
poor who are selfish, or self-centered,
have no reason to complain. Tbey are
simply carrying the heavy burdens which
they are eager to lay upqn others. It
matters not which individuals are the
despots, or which the denpoiled ones, if
both classes are to be continued; and
both classes must continue and co
exist with the selfish struggle so long as
that struggle lasts.
The spirit of the aristocrat, of class
and caste, is found the common prevail
ing spirit among the toilers. And it is
this spirit which divides them and keeps
them in subjection. The engineers de
mand more pay and consider themselves
separate aud superior to the firemen,
brakemcn, switchmen, and common
laborers that shovel sand on the section;
the firemen have the same. sense of
superiority and importance over those
whose wages are less than their own.
And so it goes, through all the grades of
useful workers, grades which the selfish
struggle has established and sustained
till they seem to unthinking people nat
ural. Hut the cause of labor is one cause,
not many. '.'An injury to one is is the
concern of all." This is truth, though
not generally believed or understood by
those who profess it. Labor unions can
not succeed until the principle of indust
rial equality and community of interest
recognized shall unite their forces. And
they are far, very far, from accepting
this principle and forming a real labor
fraternity.
At present the American Railway Union
leaders who seek to unite all railway
men, are being bitterly denounced and
abused by the five or six separating class
unions of railroad men, who teach that
the differently classified men aro not
equals and have uo common interest to
bind them together.
The trade union federation has the
right name, but the federation should in
clude the class called laborers, and the
fraternity of labor should be made a
real thing instead of a rejected or merely
professed ideal. Deliverance will not rise
out of the ground, nor drop from heaven
It must come by denying the selfish
spirit, the spirit that divides the forces
of labor into superior and interior ranks
and mutually fighting or isolated parts.
The Farmers Alliance went down, where
ever it went down, because its members
lacked unselfishness aud faith in ono
another. So of every other labor organ
ization which hnsgoneto pieces. Organi
zation is the only salvation. And orga
nization can permanently succeed only
by the individuals who come together
recognizing the one law of organization.
It is not self-interest made supreme, but
the common interest enthroned, making
ench love all and be a part of all. But
the lesson of unselfishness is not yet a
welcome one even to the workers.
Lester F. Ward, discussing "Plutoc
racy aud Paternalism" in the November
Forum, says the danger of Plutocracy is
from insufficient government. He shows
that the plutocracy is a modern brigand
age, the rich not being the fittest, but
men who have absorbed the wealth of
others by means of artificial conditions
which have prevented freedom and equal
ity as regards natural opportunities.
"What in the last analysis, are these
eociul conditions," he asks. "They are
at bottom integral parts of the govern
ment. They are embodied in la w. Large
ly they consist of statute law. Where
this is wanting they rest on judicial deci
sions, often immemorial, and belonging
to the lex uon scripta. In other words,
they constitute the great system of
juresprudence relating to property and
business, gradually built up through the
aires to make men secure iu their posses
sions and safe in their business transac
tion!, but which in our day, owing to
entirely changed industrial conditions,
has become the means of throwing un
limited opportunities iu the way of some
and of barring out the rest from all op
portunities. And thus we have the re
markable fact, so persistently overlook
ed in all the discussions of current ques
tions, that government, which fails to
protect the weak, is devoting all its ener
gies to protecting the strong. It legal
izes and promotes trusts aud combina
tions; subsidizes corporations, and then
absolves them from their obligations;
sustains stock-watering schemes and all
forms of speculations; grants without
compensation the most valuable fran
chises, often in perpetuity; and in innu
merable ways creates, defends, and pro
tects a vast array of purely parasitic
enterprises, directly to foster the worst
InTina nf mnnicinal corruption. The
proofs of each one of these counts lie
about us on every haud. Only those who
are blinded by ignorance or prejudicecan
fail to see them.",
There never was a bit of sense in a
Government issuing bonds to borrow
monev of its own people, or the people ol
other countries. Why borrow, when one
of the functions of government is tc
make money, and whatever is borrowed
from the people must be paid by the peo
ple to the people? In other words, why
allow bankers to reap interest from tax
ingthe people wheu the people must Inter
and might immediately furnish the money
rl' l'.onds bearintr inter
est are a device of evil, conceived by tht
shylock tribe to roo tne workers oi a na
tion.
The Outlook of New York commenting
on the election says: "Notwithstanding
all the elements counted upon for Demo
craticgaiu improvement in thebnsiuess
situation, Republican responsibility for
state and local administration, supposed
decadence oi the A. P. A., exceptionally
vigorous support from the liquor inter
ests, and explicit declarations against
silver in this state and for silver iu that
and both for and against in many states
the Democratic party east and west,
has been defeated by majorities almost
as phenomenal as those of a year ago,
while in two southern states it has for
the first ti mo given place to Republican
ascendancy. In Massachusetts the plu
rality against it was 46.000, in New York
97,000, in Pennsylvanial84,000, iuNew
Jersey 26,000, in Maryland 19,000, in
Ohio 93,000, in Kentucky 8,000, in Iowa
61,000, in Utah 2,500, while in Nebraska
the grand total of votes polled by both
Democratic factions was1 but one-seventh
of tbe aggregate vote of the state. The
only state where it made gainsor elected
its state ticket was Mississippi, where it
had adopted a Populist platform in order
to fight the Topulists. With such a re
cord of. party disaster under circum
stances so diverse, it is worse than use
less to seek the explanations of these
reverses in local conditions or local plat
forms. The party itself was repudiated
by thousands of non-partisan voters,
dissatisfied with the administration it
has given the country, and by thousands
of partisan voters, incensed against one
or the other of the warring factions."
The Outlook is a non-partisan paper,
bear in mind.
J. Pierpont Morgan, the Rothschild
representative in America, who scooped
in by taxlngus for hisgangnot less than
ten million, and probably twelve to fif
teen, in his bond syndicate deal with
Cleveland aud Carlisle, is very religious
yes, very. He is an Episcopal, and play
ed a prominent part in the national meet
ing Of the Church spell it with a big C
at Minneapolis last month. Ex-President
Harrison is also very religious as a
Tresbyterian, and at a public meeting
of his sect he presided aud it gets into
the papers, somehow. While in New York
sawing political wood for use uext sum
mer the mau with the grandpa hat was
introduced at a "grand central" meeting
by Rev. John It. Duviesin the following
words: "Permit me to introduce to you
a great and good man Benjamin Harri
son, ex-president of the United Stutes
who will preside over your meeting."
And the applause which followed when he
rose "was deafening," the papers report.
Bah! A great, good man in politics,
leading the party that has practiced hy
pocrisy while plundering for a genera
tion, and has legislated the people into
landless poverty and the big corpora
tions into the fabulous resources which
belong in the way of opportunity per
petually to all! Great! Good! And the
church applauding it!
Deiit, on paper, or the usurious bor
rowing of land, homes, highways (rail
roads), manufacturing plants and other
living necessities, is an established power
which dictates wages, controls prices and
so provides for monstrous unlimited
growth of despotic power, with corres
ponding industrial slavery, destruction
of equality and manhood. The power
of concentrated wealth and the depend
ence the great majority of the people of
of this country on landlords, capitalists
and corporations to whom have been
giveu in law special monopolistic privi
leges, is now too far advanced to resist
successfully until the ignorant, deluded,
insensate masses have been crowded and
crushed into consciousness and despera
tion. For the rich there are to be (for a
time) more riches, splendor, luxuries,
princely power and glory beyond any
thing the world has yet seen. For the
poor.the masses and the common people,
it is now the time of tribulation that
must increase. "Let them that are in
Judea flee into the mountains." Con
gregate, co-operate, where debt caa be
escaped, where nature (God) can be with
out charge embraced. So help one
auother. It is the only salvation.
The war cloud is still hanging over
Turkey and is of the blackest kind. The
news dispatches report a state of anar
chy, a rising spirit of Moslem fanaticism
and the most brutal outrages in the
Christian provinces. All missionaries
are in imminent danger of being ruassa
creed. The Powers have demanded
radical reforms, putting the nominally
Christian part of the population out
from under Moslem rule; but these re
forms can not be carried out by the Sul-
tan without rebellion which would de
throne him. On the other hand, if the
Towers invade Turkey to put a stop to
the massacres of Armenians and mission
ariee, the Turks will fight them to the
last ditch. They are great in natural
bravery, up to the times in the art,
weapons and armaments of war, and they
would be spurred on by love of freedom,
and fanatical hatred as well as regard for
home and country. ' Then, if 'defeated,
the six selfish nations conquering would
have an empire todivide, and they stand
a good chance to get by the ears over
what should be the share of each.
It is reported that "the situation at
Constantinople coufd hardly be more
critical. Anarchy reigns, apparently
throughout all the Asiatic provinces.
Turkish finances are at the lowest ebb:
one Ministry has gone out aud another
has come in without any real change of
policy; a conspiracy to dethrone the
Sultan and put his brother in bis
place has been discovered; outrages of
the most brutal character are reported
from all sides, showing a rising fanatical
feeling in the Moslem population. The
Sultan stands apparently helpless be
tween his fanatical subjects on one side
and the united group of western nations
on the other side. The Powers iusist on
great and radical reforms, but to grant
these reforms and make them effective
will probably involve the loss of the
throne. It is not astonishing, therefore,
that the Sultan still dallies, procrast
inates, and intrigues. He is surrounded
by guards whose loyalty he suspects and
by a population which will not hesitate
to dethrone and assassinate him if he
makes any further concessions." It is a
black war cloud.
Certain events might bring us tempor
ary relief from the pressure of monopoly
power. The placing of the Republican
party in power certainly would not se
cure any help in the way of anti-monopoly
legislation. But a war or a famine
in Europe which should kill off thous
ands of the poor (God pity them!), and
draw away hundreds of thousands from
work to consume only the goods of the
markets that under the capitalistic,
profit-demanding system are always over
full, would raise prices for American pro
ducts and give us, at. European expense,
better times. Or, a discovery of very
rich and extensive deposits of placer gold
which poor men could wash out, would
give the poor, and the class now limited
in their power to consume, more money,
which would, by increase of demand for
goods, raise prices, and so restore a de
gree of prosperity for a time. The South
African gold mines are not helping the
times, because eight ar ten very rich men
own them and hire Kaffir labor, and the
money they coin only comes to the peo
ple who can borrow it and pay interest.
The Silver Knight, otherwise known
as Senator Stewart, is doing a very un
manly, cowardly, slimy thing insinuat
ing base motives in and Wall Street con
trol of the men who withstand his effort
to mold anew the People's party. Stew
art is determined to make free silver the
main platform, the dominant idea of the
party. The Southern Mercury, which
persists in standing with both feet on the
Omaha platform, as ever, has by so do
ing, put its burly form across the old
millionaire's path, and he tells thecount
ry'they must suspect that Wall Street is
behind such an act, that the Mercury will
bear watching, etc. He also alleges that
Brother McGill of the People's Party
Post of Oregon is "opposed to any in
crease of the People's party," and says
it is because he prefers to be a big man in
a small party, rather than a small man in
a big party. Such attacks on such men,
because thpy hold fast to the great prin
ciples of our party, are base and con
temptible. George S. Doxnell, chief of the census
division, writing to Mr. Young of the
Star and Kansan says: "Home tenant
families are 63 per cent of the total num
ber of families." Iu the country districts
and in towns containing less than 8,000
inhabitants: "In 100 families, on the
avfrnge, are found 50 that hire their
homes, 10 tlfat own with incumbrances
and 34 that own thein without any in
cumbrance." In the 420 cities whose
population ranges from 8,000 to 100,
000, 64 families hire their homes,
12 own with incumbrance aud 24
own without incumbrance. In the 28
cities containing above 100,000 inhabi
tants, "Among 100 families, on the av
erage, 77 hire their homes, 9 own with
incumbrances, and 14 without incum
brance." Iu New York city 94 in a hun
dred hire their homes, and only four in a
hundred own without incumbrance.
The cablegrams of Nov. 11th reported
that the Rothschilds had temporarily at
least averted threatened panics at Paris,
Berlin and Vienna. Yes, they are tho
saviors of the nations of the world,
money loaners. The financial power of
Europe and America is right in their
fists. Europe is on the verge of a
great panic, aud war threatened.
And the gold kings save it, for a conside
sideration. And euch time they increase
the world's debt to them. Money and
property kings will go on increasing in
power, extending their domain and
greedily grasping for more and more un
til there is a forced collapse of respect for
law, and the armies of the plutocracies
will try to put down the rebels who re
fuse longer to toil as slaves and starve
n snnprfluous servants. U'e are in the
rapids of the Niugara current.
A European war seems now to be un
avoidable. The Sultan of Turkey has
called out his military reserves. Riots
and massacres are occurring all over his
empire where there are Armenians, and a
religious race war of extermination can
not be avoided. England, France, Italy,
Germany, Austria and Russia will have
to take a hand, and the fight may be a
fierce ami stubbornly contested one to
subdue the Turks. They are great sol
diers, and if they fight for religion af
well as country it will be a great conflict
Then wheu the Powers subdue Turkey it
will be a most delicate and difficult mat
ter to divide the nation between thera
and not fall to fighting over the division
We call attention to a letter of Count
Leo Tolstoy's, found on our first page
this week, giving the great Russian's
views of duty, under preseut.difficulties,
and the right spirit. The letter was for
warded to us by Mr. Ernest Howard
Crosby of New York, who last year visit
ed Tolstoy and is in much accord with
his ideas of social redemption. Mr.
Crosby is a sou of the late chancellor of
Columbia College, Rev. Dr. Howard
Crosby.
The emperor of Germany had a social
ist editor prosecuted some short time
ago, for too free speech, and the people
rebuked the man who says "The State,
that is I." by electing the aforesaid editor
to represent them in the Reichstag.
Whereupon the emperor causes this
elected lawmaker to be imprisoned for
five months. The people have beforenow
done worse than imprison hereditary
despots, such as young William.
When Hood wrote the famous "Song
of the Shirt" which aroused the senti
mental sympathy of the world, the aver
age wage of the poor sewing woman was
but 2 pence an hour. At the present
time most of them cannot average over
1 pence an hour, says the Nineteenth
Century magazine.
PATERNALISM."
Everything Undertaken, by the Whole Peo
ple, for the ISeiif He of All, Is Paternal
ism. We find the following article credited
to an "Exchange." We have taken
the liberty to rearrange the matter
and to make a few omissions.
Paternalism is the demagogic wall of
the fellows who have both hands in
Uncle Sam's inside pocket.
The government can store whisky,
but to provide storage for wheat and
cotton would be paternalism.
The government may lend the banks
money at 1 per cent, interest, but to
lend money to the people would be
paternalism.
The government may protect alien
manufacturing" corporations with a
tariff, but to protect American work-
ingmen from imported pauper labor
would be- paternalism.
The government can issue bonds to
provide a safe and profitable invest
ment of capital, but to provide employ
ment for the homeless and destitute
would be paternalism.
The government can operate 156 rail
roads for the benefit of English and
American money kings, but it cannot
operate a single road for the benefit of
the whole people. That would be pa
ternalism. Every franchise granted is for the
encouragement of enterprise," or "in
fant industries," but to encourage en
terprise in the common people or to
protect the little farm industry would
be paternalism.
The government can appoint receiv
ers to build up swindling corporations
and turn them back to the stockhold
ers without expense, but the sheriff
and the auction block are good enough
for the mortgaged farm and household
goods of the farmer and workingman.
It is all right for the government to
nurse and coddle corporations, trusts
and syndicates of money lenders, ex
ploiters of labor, eramblers in produce,
and making of "hell juice." But any
thing tending to protect and benefit
the common people oh! horrors!!
what madness!! paternalism!!!
The government must maintain a
gold reserve for the sole purpose of
accommodating bankers, importers of
foreign goods and exporters of gold.
It must bank against all the money
brokers of the country to protect their
credit, but to do a banking business
for the benefit of the entire people
would be paternalism.
The government can, by contraction
of the currency, enable the creditors
to confiscate the debtors' property to
the amount of the contraction, but to
expand the currency by the free coin
age of silver, and the issue of legal
tender greenbacks sufficient to restore
prices and enable the debtor to recover
the property that was confiscated,
would be paternalism.
The government may build a rail
road across the continent, make a pres
ent of the whole thing to C. P. Hunt
ington et al. and throw in 12,000,000
acres of land for good measure, and
that is statesmanship and broad
minded development of our great na
tional resources. But for the govern
ment to retain the ownership of the
railroad for the benefit of the whole
people, and give the land to the people
who need it for homes why, that
would be paternalism.
The government was not intended
for the protection of the people and
as King Charles asserted on the scaf
fold, where he was beheaded for trea
son, "a share in government is nothing
pertaining to the people." Govern
ments are instituted among men solely
for the protection of property, and to
encourage the building of an aristoc
racy to manage the common cattle
whom God has called to do all the
work of the world.
In short, all the helpful offices of
this fatherly government are for the
rich and greedy, and the whippings
which all good fathers should some
times bestow on their children are for
the weak and poor. Sugar plums and
pie for the lazy and gluttonous; bayo
net injections, prisons and soup houses
for the industrious and useful. Ne
vada (Mo.) Director.
The adoption of the New Zealand
graduated land tax would compel tbe
Northern Pacific to let go its holdings
instead of foreclosing on settlers who
have made payments and improve
ments, and now because of the strin
gency of the times are unable to meet
their annual payments. It would put
a check upon land monopoly and
loosen the grip of the big syndicates
that are now holding hundreds of
thousands of acres of Washington's
best land from public use. Seat tla
(Wash.) Call.
SHERMAN'S MEMORY.
Bob Schilling Refreahe It In Reference to
Some thing He Had Forgotten.
Several columns of matter were tele- :
graphed from Chicago lately, descrip
tive of a forthcoming book entitled
"John Sherman's Recollections of
Forty Years in the House, Senate and
Cabinet"
He talks much plainer than one
would expect, thus giving evidence
that he has abandoned the great aim '
of his life to become president of the '
United States. A politician as sharp
as John Sherman wonld not have aU '.
tacked so manygother politician, dead
and alive, had he any hope of becom
ing president
We learn from the extract that he
was out of office only one day since '
March 8, 1855, consequently he held of- :
flee with that exception more than
forty years. For the greater part of
the time he received $3,500 a year; for
four years as member of the cabinet '
88,000. To average his salary at 85,000
a year his "earnings" in that time-'
were 8200,000. John must be very eco
nomical, for besides supporting his
family for forty years, he succeeded
in saving by strict economy and at
tention to business several million dol
lars out of that sum. At any rate that
is what is usually reported and he him
self admits beinir wflt,hv in his hnnlr.
On his financial views he dwells at
length and sums them up as follows: j
"So that for all practical purposes, j
we may regard gold as the only true
standard, the money of the world, by
which the value of all property, of all :
productions, of all credits, and of every
medium of exchange, and especially of
all paper money is tested." i
Of course when a man publishes Ms
own "recollections" it is hardly fair to
expect him to recollect things that
stamp him as a renegade and a traitor,
so we will help him recollect some or
his record on his financial views.
Here are some of John Sherman's
financial views:
If ydu issue $150,000,000 of treasury,. ;
notes you then, for the first time since
the bank of the United States, have a
national currency, stamped with all j
the credit, with all the power of the
government of the United States. It '
is not controlled by a corporation; it ia
not controlled by interested parties;
it is not controlled by men who desire i
to make money out of the circulation; I
but it is a national circulation for the j
redemption of every dollar of which
the national credit and all property of !
the people of the -United States are I
pledged. U. S. Senate, Feb. 18, 1862. '
There are but two species of lawful '
money gold or silver coin, and the
other the United States greenbacks, as
they are called. Senate, Feb. 9, 1863. ;
What does specie payment mean to
a debtor? It means the payment of
8135 where he has agreed to pay $100, ;
or, what is the same thing, the pay- '
ment of $100 where he has agreed to
pay $74, where he has purchased prop
erty and paid for one-fourth of it, it j
means tne loss ot tne amount paid.
Senate, Jan. 27, 1869.
Capital lost nothing by the war, even
when paid in greenbacks, for the de- j
mand for capital during the war made t
ample amends for the loss by the de- j
preciation in greenbacks. Senate, !
Jan. 27, 1868.
It is commonly said that with specie
payments we have had the panics of ;
1837, 1817 and 1867, while with- irre- '.
deemable greenbacks we have met a
war, a fire at Chicago, and other ca- '
lamities without a panic; therefore a '
specie standard is a fallacy. Senate, !
Jan. 16, 1873. ,
While we can make and have made i
our paper money the measure of value, !
we cannot fix the price or value of any :
commodity, whether gold, silver or
food. Senate,, Feb. 27,1865.
Here is a significant fact, that when ;
gold was $3.80, our currency was $550,-
000,000 and now, when our currency
is over $700,000,000, gold is $1.30 and I
going down. This fact shows that the
mere amount of legal tender outstand- ;
ing does not fix the rate of gold. Sen
ate, April 6, 1866.
But it was found that with such re-
strictions upon the notes the bonds
could not be negotiated, and it became
necessary to depreciate the notes in ;
order to create a market for the bonds.
Senate, Dec. 17, 1867. National Ad
vance.
'christian socialism.
It Is a Practical Attempt to Answer
Request Couched in the Lord's Prayer.
A good many people are as much
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syllable of it was a piece of dynamite
likely to explode if the word is pro
nounced out loud in a church or politi
cal gathering. As a matter of fact, the
word socialism to-day is used calmly
and intelligently by some of the best
men and women in the world as mean
ing a better condition of society; more
common riarhts and less uncommon
wrongs; more justice and equality and
fraternity. And the word socialism, 1
as most of the best writers on econom
ics use it to-day, means all that, and a ,
good deal more that is hoped and .
prayed for by those who want to see a 1
better world. It is either gross igno-
ranee or downright refusal to distin- ;
guish between words and their mean-
ing, to confound socialism and an
archy, or socialism and misrule. They '
are no more alike than Christian
ity is like paganism. To say I
that a man is a "socialist and an an- 1
archist," as a prominent newspaper ,
said in this state only a little while '
ago, is like saying that a man is a
black man and a white man. Such ig- :
norant or loose handling of words is
inexcusable, especially in anyone who 1
pretends to be informed as to the real
movements of social progress.
When the word "Christian" pre
cedes socialism it adds to its already
good meaning. For Christian social
ism is no more nor less than the an
swer to the Lord's prayer in an at?
tempt to make the kingdom of God
reality in the every day life of the
world. Every man who prays the
Lord's prayer intelligently, meaning
it, and wanting to live it, is a Chris
tian socialist. Christian socialism is
the Lord's prayer worked out in tho
life of the people as they live together
under civilized forms of government
Topeka Mail and Kansas lireeze.