NOVEMBER 19, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
THE KE1L SOCIALISM
Mrs. Avery, in a recent speech in
Springfield, Mass., declared that the
socialists' platform did not contain
the essence of their principles and
that the leaders really sought other
ends than those indicated in the pub
lished declarations. She claimed that
after having discovered these things
she was forced to leave the party as
she could not give her assent to the
real objects of the socialistic propa
ganda. The Independent has long
known that to be the fact and has
often said that the logical result of
socialist theories must be the destruc
tion, of the family. Now the social
ists are publicly proclaiming the fact.
From The Agitator of Septsmber, 1903,
a New York city socialist publica
tion, the following extracts are taken.
These are not charges made by The
independent, as the reader will please
notice, but the statement of socialist
principles by the advocates of the co
operative commonwealth, themselves.
On page 26 of The Agitator, Septem
ber, 1903, is this statement:
"Marriage must go. It is con
tinually, being weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting. It is not
conducive to an improving birth
supply and a free, rational devel
opment of the young."
V
' Then on page 29 will be found the
following:
"Upre, then, is my arraignment
of marriage, modern marriage
with its concommitant divorce
courts, its unspeakable, but in
evitable prostitution; with its im
possible and unnatural ideals of
virtue and its hypocritical disre
gard for them; this thing of
shreds and patches permeated by
an atmosphere of falsehood and
concealment. This is the full
flower of our .present economic
system."
On the same page and the one fol
lowing this appears:
"Socialism will give the oppor
tunity. No true and worthy rela
tion of the sexes, no adequate so
lution of the problem of the birth
supply can be attained until men
and women stand on equal footing
economically. The co-operative
'commonwealth will supply-these
conditions and the intelligence of
society must reconstruct its mar
riage traditions. Part and parcel
of our archaic property system,
mey must go.
Vi.A.n ' . . u u ,1 r . aa mi
Independent first began . to hunt for
relief from the economic ills tnat af
flict the common people, he thought
he might find it in socialism. He
therefore went to the authorities on
that subject without prejudice and
earnestly sought it there. He was ir
resistibly driven to the conclusion that
the fundamental prineipies laid down
by its greatest writers nust of nec
essity destroy the family relation ai
we have known it and which gives
about all in life th.' is worth living
lor. Being an earnest student, he
was often admitted to the inner cir
cie3 and there he found men
'advocating what he conceived to be
the necessary result of the system, al
though it was never openly advocated.
Mrs. Avery seems to have had the
tame experience.
The editor knows that there are so
cialists and socialists, Tiauy of whom
are pure and. high-minded men advo
cating the collective ownership of all
property, but who fail to tee that such
a condition would make the exist
ence of tne family as we now know it
an absolute impossibility. Hut the
real leaders understand it well enough.
I KT TH K C III Kl It f'KAK
Mammon and Moloch! They reign
together. Out of ok-curo f i ats in dark
corners of station waiting rooms, out
of dark doorwnjs in city M recta, and
tun from' the garbage U,xm In the
alley, tomes Chicago's Larvcst of
foundling. Mothers mad. desperate
1 itarvathm and poverty Iwonw low
er than tho anlmsh and abandon their
joum:. Million upon millions, far be
yond th power to u,m them or even
tt give thorn away, are piled up In the
Im U of ft few Ly a political j srty
that givea countless fpcclal privilege
to a few and on the other hand frail
mothers abandon their offspring in the
hope thatsome one will have pity, or
haggard parents, with breaking hearts
giving them oyer to hospitals. But
what does it matter as long as there
ic a surplus in the government treas
ury that can be given to the banks,
and while the railroads have , more
trafiic than they can handle? Social
ist and republican leaders alike join
in the creed that in business there is
no right and no wrong, there is no
"ought" and no "ought not." We, who
have contended for the oppressed,
whose hearts have sympathized with
the toiling masses, can only stand
aloof for a whileTaTid watch the Jug
gernaut of money, and greed grind
v.eeping women and helpless children
beneath its wheels.
But there will be a revulsion. There
is a greater power in the world than
the power of money. It has trampled
armies and money under its feet often
times in the past. It is righteousness.
Churches may become corrupt, they
may accept bribes from the robber and
extortioner and keep silence, but
righteousness will in the end prevail.
The progress of man is onward and
upward. The time will come when
the acceptance of bribes from the fl
rancial pirates 'will be looked upon
with as much contempt as the former
selling of indulgences. There is only
one vthing that will stand the test of
the ages. It is righteousness. For
unrighteousness the punishment in all
ages has been terrible. There never
has been and never will be a way of
escape. It is not men like the corre
spondent from South Omaha, whose
communication is printed in another
column, who should fear. Let the lead
ers of the church fear. Their congre
gations will soon be made up of those
who enjoy special privileges and no
others. Then there will arise other
Wesleys and Savonarolas.
A DECEIVED PEOPLE
How a whole nation can be led to
believe a lie is shown in the history
of the last few years. The "stand
patters' have led the people to be
lieve ' that the present extortionate
tariff has produced all the prosperity
we have enjoyed and refer to lower
tariffs or free trade as the most awful
thing that could happen to a nation.
Recently a book has been published
entitled "A Political History of Slav
ery," by William Henry Smith. Mr.
Smith, now deceased, waswell known
by all newspaper men. He was the
editor of a bitterly partisan republican
paper and for a long time was man
ager of the 'Associated press. In this
book appears (Mr. Smith writing as a
historian) the following:
"The ten years following the
enactment of the Walker revenue
tariff of 184G opened a wide field
of controversy between the politi
cal economists of the free trade
and protection schools. Many
years afterward the author of the
tariff of 1S4C reviewed its work
ings, and declared that its benefits
had exceeded the most' sanguine
expectations; and that none of the
evils destruction of manufac
tures, discouragement of agricul
ture and increase ot frauds on the
revenue predicted of it had been
realized. He gave to his tariff the
whole credit for the great Increase
of wealth from 1850 to 1SC0, which
wag In excess of 125 per cent
nearly double that of the preced
ing decade."
The whole country looked upon the
results of thia tariff in the same llht.
It tamo the nearest ta being frto trade
of any law ever enacted, Now when
It U to the Interest of tho tariff Kraft
trs to Wlaro that low tariff and
"roup ho'-Ui'V always go together, the
whole country ixenu to betlevo tho
tl. That It dimply because tho whole
ptirt h pr.T tli ally In tho hands of
the tarifjruftcm and plutocracy.
The democratic hour bona never fill
to make afjt of thenwlTe wheni-ver
on opportunity offi r. They did It
hen they nominated He wall, when
they turned down Towue, ami they
l.ow eee a (banco ta repeat tho per-
HAYDEN
BROS.
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ROS
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formance at Washington. There is
not the slightest chance that they will
fail to make use of the opportunity.
The attempt to make Panama the
great issue in the next 'presidential
campaign Instead of the all-important
economic and sociological questions
that press for settlement is in line
with their work for the last thirty
years.
IIARHABOUS TRAITS OF CHARACTER
Years ago when The Independent
began to warn the people concerning
what the result would be of the deifi
cation of wealth, it was like theoice
:of one crying in tho wilderness,"
where no one would hear. The whole
literary world seemed to go mad, and
rot an article appc-M anywhere in
defense of the old ideals. There was
nothing In life but the accumulation
of money. The reply to any protest
vas: "What does he know? He has
lived forty or fifty years and never
accumulated any money." If a man
had not accumulated money, that set
ted it. His opinions were worthless.
Metaphorically, the God of our fathers
was dethroned and Mammon was wor
shipped In his stead.
The Independent has lately drawn
attention to the fact that a revulsion
has begun against thi3 sort of degra
dation. It Is seen In many of the
magazines that three or four years
ago had nothing but derision, scorn
pnd contempt for those who did not
think that such men as Rockefeller,
Carnegie, Morgan and Schwab were
the highest types of American man
hood, Leslie's Magazine attached that
sort of peoplo along one line this
month and The Reader Attacks them
along another, Even some of the
great dailies have lately admitted ar
ticles to their columns, although they
put them off In Inconspicuous col
umns, that they refused two and three
years ao, IMlm Carman, In HIhcush
Ing In Tho Reader the moral d i,en-
orutloii resulting from the worship of.
money, eay:
"AukIo-S ixon civilization, to
upe'tU of no other, ha become a
humiliating and nn rupihmm
Kanuv O tr fathers an I grand
fat hern eared for many td-al. for
tumor, for honexty, fur patriot'
Urn, for culture, tor hUh breed.
I:u:, fur nobility of hii . t- r, and
unseUis! ne ; of purpose, We taro
fjiilr for wealth, au l rpeit only
tho reb-titloiiH and barbarous
tr!U of character by which it 1 1
AlUllK'.t."
Tho Independent It not aa much
alone as it was a few years ago. There
are others now beginning to voice
the same sentiments and are defending
the same principles. We bid them
welcome. The guard post, so far in the
front, has often been a very lone
station. ,
THE FARM M1CKOISB
The chemists and bacteriologists
are constantly making astonishing
discoveries. There used to be a theory
that the world must of necessity at
some time become uninhabitable. All
the coal would be consumed, the soil
would be exhausted of its fertility and
the' globe remain an uninhabited
waste. But the discovery of radium
and the work of the bacteriologists
have given that theory a hard knock.
The farmer for thousands of years
has known that certain kinds of
beans would grow on soil too poor to
produce, anything else, though the
beans produced food of the highest
utility. A bacteriologist In his re
searches has discovered that the beans
were, populated with numerous col
onies of germs that, coming into ac
tivity when the beans were planted,
multiplied .by the millions and ex
tracted nitrogen from the air which
served to enrich the soil. So this
scientist went io work to propagate
that kind of germs. He found that
they could be preserved in a dry con
dition in cotton and this cotton, plant
ed In the poorest soils, soon was found
to be alive with them. Drawing im
mense quantities, of nitrogen from tho
air, they soon transformed the poor
est soil into a condition to raise Im
mense crop:. The most valuable con
stituent of commercial manures con
sists of nitrogen and this farmer mi
crobe when properly set to work Hill
oon produce mure nitrogen than erer
came from tho guano deposits of Peru
and Chill. The experiments mado
phow that the fertility of land In
which tho mic robes were et to work
was inm r.'e l from 100 to 1.W0 pet
tent. Hurrah for tho farm microbe!
Bume men have accumulated for
tunes greater than the world ever baw
I efutJ, They are not the rcmilt of la
lor. They ur not the result of eaph
tal. They are In every case tho ro
ult of upoelal privilege!.
POULTflYANpCGa MONEY
