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APRIL 28, 1904.
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About all the Japanese that the Rus
sians have so far been able to kill ai e
prisoners they have captured. When
ever they capture a Jap, they court
martial and either shoot or hang him.
Seven of the Kansas delegates to
Springfield are 'enrolled members of
the Old Guard of Populism.' They are
Messrs. Breidenthal, Allen of Doug
las, Johnson, of Ottawa, Truman of
Dickinson, Wright of Smith,, Hewitt
of Stafford, and Ruppenthal of . Rus
sell. '
Louisiana held a state election last
week'. The dispatches say ' that the
democrats elected, not only - all the
state officers, but that the legislature
Is also solid democratic. It is added
that no negro votes were cast. Any
man is at liberty to makeany remark
that he pleases concerning that situa
tion;:' K. :!- - ' ''
The supreme court of ; Colorado is
composed of as big a set of cowards
as the district court. ' It held court
last week while 32 armed soldiers
stood at the entrance. Let everybody
keep away from' that God-forsaken
country where scenes are enacted not
known in any civilized land since the
granting of the Magna; Chartai '
Wm. Hey wood Buckley, R. F. D. 1,
Berkeley, Cal., says: 1 "I" defy any
man living to name, not a score or
two, but ONE economic social ill
which the abolition of interest would
, not cure. For the one who succeeds) I
will pay a year's subscription to The
independent Either answer through
The Independent or direct to the
writer." ?
The thinking man cannot help ar
riving at the conclusion that "com
plete socialization" as taught by the
socialists would result in the loss of
all Individuality and end in degen
eracy and decay. It would put human
ity into an organization of dependent
parts having only co-operative func
tions. Each man, woman and child
would be a cog In a wheel and noth
ing more.
Mr. J. D. Tucker of White I'lumo
Farm, Valparaiso, Ind., gays: Th In
dependent i keyed to high O In the
tonga of )vart k. W have been
starving for some tiiae for the oM
Mamwi. U reminds tta of the Chicago
Sentls! and Nonconformist. Though
77 years old and with an Invalid wife,
1 ftM-l ai full o( fight as In the days of
the old ivhool home campaign. If
mt state and national convention
Circa ut a greenback platform and
the Declaration of ludepondecre 10
tttnd on, I will take up the fight here
In our locality and lay: "Damned be
the man mho flrct erica Uoldl fuougM
: SOCIALIZATION OF HUMANITY
The recent drastic criticism of the
postulates upoVwhich Marxian social
ism rests Mas driven the followers of
that cult to the necessity of forming
new theories so widely different froa
those heretofore defended that the Je
suit is a practical ; abandonment of
the Marxian" philosophy. "Economic
determinism", has been attacked from
so many sides and so fiercely that new
positions are being taken. The late&t
is a work by Charles Kendall Frank
lin! Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago),
entitled "The Socialization of Hu
manity." Economic determinism as
laid down by" Marx and Loria comes
so near to fatalism, so completely'
eliminates the power of mind in shap
ing events and the spiritual side of
humanity is so completely set aside,
that as soon as it is understood, think
ing men utterly repudiate it. ."
That man is incurably religious
seems to be acknowledged by thisau
thor and to provide lor that, he at
tempts to construct a religion to suit
the circumstances, the major portion
of the book being devoted to that pur
pose. As he found that he could not
have a religion without a god of some
sort, he manufactures one'to sulChis
purpose, 1 this god is "socialized hu
manity." He says: "In Oriented per
sons, the influence of one's' social na
ture upon one's Individual nature, Is
referred to , as the influence of Gcd
upon the individual. Allegorically
this Is true, but instead of some im
aginary God, it is to the real 'facts In
human life that we owe all of our
morality, owe our social nature, our
spirituality ; and our "intellectuality.
The good, the true, the great,; the su
blimeeverything grew up in human
ity." ; V' '.T
The word "social", is always used
in the Marxian 'sense in the work.
"Social sense,", "social state," "social
morality,", etc., are only .'words to des
ignate his new god. ; ' " v ; '
In trying to build up this new bo
cialist : religion, the ; author' rubs
against the game mysteries that conr
front all those who- venture Into tlie
region of the unknown. ' ' ' .
' . He says: "The unity of ; nature sej
cured by the hypothesis of God only
adumbrates the perfection of the unity
of nature which the facts some day
will establish; for, despiW ail our reaf
soning from the hypothesis of , God,
man has never; been able, to explain
how ari omnipotent God could let the
devil live; or how it was that a per
fectly pure and holy God could be the
author of anything, and yet not ,the
author of evil." ! , J
Neither can Mr. Franklin explain
anything about it. He says, but that
does not explain anything, that .'none
of these inevitable contradictions will
be found, in the naturalistic explana
tion of things, "monism." Everything
in the universe will be perfectly or
ganized. The interdependence of the
inorganic, the organic, and, society
will be given; and the Individual, In
stead of referring things to the mys
tery of God, will trace them to their
natural causes." That leaves the
mystery greater than ever. If things
are "perfectly organized" there mu3t
bo an organizer. "Natural cause"
must be the primary and original
thing and somebody will want to
know what that "thing" la.
The truth Is, that this does not sat
isfy the lutcllect half aa well as Mrs,
Eddy's explanation. Sho nays there
la no devil and no evil. All such
Ideas are mortal error, or even the
explanation of Jonathan K J wards,
who looked upon God ns a sovereign
endowed with passion like man aud
punished with pain and rewarded with
Joy a It pleam-d hlmnrlf.
In the latter half of the volume,
Mr, Franklin gets back to the old
Martian doctrines pure and simple.
After having made a go,J of noclaliicd
humanity, he repeatedly declares
there U no God at all. Hear htm:
"The primitive concept of thine, that
they are created and maintained by a
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god, is totally erroneous." Of scien
tists he says: "None accept the God
hypothesis and reason from it; for
that wouldupset all science.' Many
of his other' assertions are of the broad
socialistic character. "The scholars of
the world from time immemorial, the
scientists, artists,' literary men, busi
ness pjen and statesmen of the world
have held the God and immortality
hypothesis only as a matter of pol
icy."jAll that is pure Marxian social
ism. i - '
Thie; Independent must Insist that
this effort to make a socialist god and
create a spcialist religion, notwith
standing, the learning exhibited, is a
dismal . failure. ' Every man -Who at
tempts to evolve a religion from Dar
winism must meet with just such a
failure as those who have attempted
to build scientific theories upon the
Bible., Mind determines the destin
ies of mento a much greater degree
than does economic determinism and
man Is incurably religious. Let phil
osophies be, built upon these truths.
- WHERE'S THAT SILVER?
Mr. HHl, in introducing his mone
tary, bill in the house, said that "on
the. 1st of July, 1904, the treasury bul
lion will be exhausted." Will Mr.
Hill please ; make another statement
on the floor of the house and teil
what, become of those cords of pig sil
ver In the treasury that used to be
shown to every visitor who came to
Washington who could bo indued to
look at the,m and over which the !:
publican' spell-brhdcrs, senators and
repr.iffn''.ucg were wont to rave?
What Uvaue of that silver? Thc.e
were tous md tons of it. Is it possl .le
that the republicans have coined It
all Into money after the shouting and
raving that they did for years? Did
they coin it or not? Did they sell it?
rid crce cf them steal It? What be
came of Hose tons of silver whhh
republican U.ld m to coin and put In
limitation vuu repudiation?
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The Arena was the first magaUne
to take tip and dlaptutionatly dU
cum the economic proportion pre
sented to the world In the Omaha
platform. It hai had a checkered
career, It has often changed pro.
Kletors and editor, but It ha con
tinued to ciUt. A new arrangement
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pTaced in full editorial control again.
The table of contents in the -April
number shows that il is again taking
up the discussion of those fundamen
tal principles upon which depends ; the
happiness and prosperity ,of the great
COmmon ne.nnlp 'nf tuhrim InA wr.aAn
r-many." -' Such titles as "Capital
Crimes' Against' 'Free Government," ,
"National Sovereignty Not Absolute." -
"Plea for Academic Freedom," ai;d
"Prof.- Parsons' Story, of. New Zea
land" show 'that this magazine ; wilt
become a noPsaMv tn
"-j uvu o.uu wviuta
who think. It is published bv Albert
Brandt. 5 Park Smi 51 ro Pnctnn Mocc
$3 a year, 25 cents a number. ;
AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERT,
The State Journal and its evening
edition, The News, deserve the, plaud
its of Nebraska for making public one
of the most astounding discoveries of
the age.
These journalistic "Old Sleuths'
have actually found out and published
the most astonishing fact that , the
Burlington railroad system in Ne
braska Is, for taxation purposes; -divided
up into some fifteen to seven
teen different parts, each retaining its
original name; and that the net re
sult of such practice is to make the
Burlington's taxes much lighter than
they would probably be if the road
were taxed as a unit.
Headers of The Independent will
probably experience a touch of "that
tired feeling," to bo told this old, old
story; but they should be patient. The
Journal and News have a clientele of
"mullet head" readers who could not
bo hired to read The Independent or
any other reform paper, $ And now,
arter many jears of silence, It Is a sub
ject for congratulation that the Jour
nal and Newa will allow their readers
thla modicum of Information, even If
It li a bit iftale to persou who kety
In touch with matters of tate govern
ment. To writ a platform that would !
generally arreted by the democratic
party Ij a manifest lmplbtlity. It
ran t I done. The party Is dlvMr-4
Into two camps holding lrrcondlb!t
principles. No platform can be wilt
ten that will suit them both.
