New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-04-07
European soeisissm- CADET and the Iearian
Comm uists.

We noticed the other day the Socialism Of Eu
rope in some Of its successful aspects. We are
now about to speak Of one Gifts failures, bat think
that before we have done, great deal that has
hitherto been said on the matter by the Journal
d<s Debate, Tunes, Express and other journals
equally unlike in point of talent though similar in
spirit and ter dency, Ill appear both ignorant and
unfair.
STEPHEs CADET was born at Dion, France, Jan.
lst. l7es, aud is now GO years old. His father
a cooper and he worked at the same trade in his
boyhood. Subsequently he studied medicine and
then law. He was admitted TO the bar in 1912 and
was regarded as young man OF great promise
During the first years Of the second Restoration
ne was prescribed. He afterward exercised his
profession in a most creditsble manner saving
from de s,h several persons accused OF conspiracy
by the royalists. He was siterward q leading
member OF the Car6onari with Lafayette, Man
uel. Dupont de lEure, &c. In the Revolution Of
1880 he was prominent, and though he publicly de-
clared his dissatisfaction with the Charter and the
new monarch claiming that National Assembly
should be called to form Constitution. he " as APP
pointed Secretary to the Minister of Justice and
aiterw ard Attorney General OF Corsica. In con
aNstional Assembly he was soon dismissed from
Office Not long after he was returned TO the
Chamber of Deputies from his native department
and took his seat in July, 1892 on the democratic
side He was accused of being engaged in the
insurrection which took place ut Paris jane 9Th,
80. on occasion Of the burial Of Lsmarque, but no
evidence ever proved it. la 1894 he was prose-
cuted by the Government for republican articles In
his journal the Popula,re and condemned to two
wears Imprisonment. Rather than suffer this be
escaped to London and passed five years there IN
exile. This time he devoted principally to writ
ing his history Of the French Revolution in vols
octave, a very valuable work
Up to this period CABET had been simply one
OF the chief democrats of France. But now he
commenced inquiring how the principles OF de-
mocracy could be realized in the practical and
business relations of men. In the course OF TINS
inquiry the reading of Mores Utopia led him to
Communism, and this conviction much reading
and thinking served only to confirm Its adop-
ton led him at once from the avenues oil amotioh
omen to him as a politician. What could Com
munist hope for in the way of Office or distinction
In 1889 he returned to France. where nc has
since been engaged in advocating the doctrine oil
the community Of property. His chief work on
that subject is a romance called the voyage 70
Icer;s d" in which he describes a nation organized
according to his theory. 1t is pleasing book,
fnll of generous and humane sentiment, but not re-
markabe for originality or power.
The system of NJ. CADET is absolute Communism
in which alone he conceives that the greatd OF
modern times, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity can
be realized. He says that as long az individual
property and tn inequalities are preserved, Equal
;,v will remain an illusion. He does not, how
ever. propose to divide what now exists or may
hereafter be produced by industry into equal por
TONS giving no more and no one less than an
other of the good things OF this llie lie would
have all property held by the Community or State
His motto ic From each according to bls ca
pacty 10 each according to his wants. That
ia every man should be subjected to the duty OF
producing for the Commonwealth In proportion 10
the canacities with which he 10 endowed, ana
bonld be entitled to receive from it the supply oil
all his natural wants Including oil possible ee-
,.,c;s. and refnements)-a formula which they
who understand the least will probably mock at
Al. ,,o., The government OF Icaria is demo
or.,;c all offices being filed by election and the
,oo;slative bodies being very large in order to
,..nect CADET differs from Robert Owen lie
.,.i aiesr. from him in the preservation OF the
,,,.r,;sss institution and in his religious views
He believes positively in the DIVINE BENG as 'he
TJ,ivsr.al Father while Owen admits his person.
.lRxi,tence as a hypothesis only Caoet wages
war ON established churches. lie toid 'he pre-
.o,, writer that in his opinion owen had inhlc'eu
-, ;ncalculable injury upon the Sociai cause oy
- ,.ads against Christianity and the Church
1T \. 40, ON foot in England at time when
,hsra WAS the iairest promise oil The inhuen''ai
.,...es cooperating with him IN the important
...,;csl reforms of which he had given SO COD
IL. an example at New Lanark- Osoet' on
AZ. o,ber hand, appeals to the New Testament as
.srordug the strongest arguments IN FAVOR Oh us
..,.m. The practice of the primitive |hureh
and IN, teachings of the Early Fathers he con
,e,5. are also on his side as regards the tenure oil
property. They too, he says were apostles oil
Fraternity and preached the necessity OF sub'ii'
tp,;ng social love for individual selshness and ra-
p.city. In this connection il should perhaps be
.s;d that the theology OF MIR. CADET comes nearer
Unitarianis than any other current form OF rem
gious doctrine.
~, .n,no.e that the great change he oontemplstes
can be brought about suddenly Every sueh I'M
movement, he says, is gradual and had he seso
lutte power over any country of Europe the hrs'
steps he would take would be to educate the
people. give them better laws and arrangements
for industry, and otherwise take care to improve
their morals; only introducing his fundamental
prineiples as the population were slowly and
surely prepared for them.
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