The Davenport gazette., 1851-05-15

From TIE Nsv York Ezpress.1
PRACTICAL sOCIALKA1E.
Whom man sets up for = 'sphiIosopher, !"
or "reformer," ve ike 10 900 hTm practice
what he breaches. For bow knavish soev-
er may bs the doctrine, the professor 10
that case 10 entitlsd at least 70 The merit Of
sincerity. We hsve no respect fos your
demagogue, who il always calling upon
other people to give bic isms and olcgies =
practical exempIiifcation,-but who 10 al-
ways careful never to leopard his own neck
or his own personal liberty, by following bis
own advice. It was Proudhon, We believe,
who FIRST proclaimed 10 The world, the great
truth that, "All property 10 Robbery" but
we were never informed that that gentle
man ever undertook to work practically up
on that comfortable convictioo. Extreme
ly careful himself not TO descend to the
picking and stealing part Of tho commun-
:st creed, whereofhe u the grest exponent,
nevertheless be has many followers in
France, who miss 40 opportunity admirably
to act out the principle An amusing case
in point, we are cognizsnt Of, in one Of our
foreign papers, received BY the last steam
or. A servant robbed bis master Of fifteen
hundred francs, and deposited in the chest
he took the treasure from, letter, which,
for ils pithy and sensentious exposition Of
the "social'' creed 10 not often rivaiied, in
the blouses. The fellow writes az If be
were sincere, aud no doubt he Il. Howev-
or much we may condemn his Socialism,
therefore, a. we said before, We entertain
for him an infinitely higher respect, than
your Louis Blancs. and your CADETS, who
run otto Eneiand and America, whenever
a practical enforcement Of their doctrines
is likely to invite visit from the police
Here is the letter that was found in the
chest in lieu Of the francs:
amy dear Master: Since came into the
world, rather since | have begun to reason,
| am convinced that all is notequai for oil.
Men have abused what God has made equal
for all. BY what strange coincidence is il
that you have SO much, like % many others.
and that you are yerwheImed with the ia
vors Of for.unei What have you done more
than have, and great number ofwretch-
es, Of whom am one! Have you larger
dose Of intelligence? No! Ideny it. For
moment the wind Of liberty and fraterni-
~ had blown on France; everything was
about to become equal for all--bus no! saw
ages have stopped its progress-things ere
The Same. Wretchedness always for the
proletairs. When entered your service !
bowed my head; ! was hungry. lowered
my dignity % free man, became your
valet! But still cherished in my heart
The thought freeing myself one day from
that servitude, from that abusive slavery,
from that profiting ofman BY man-shame
10 me, shame TO you. hope you will un-
derssaud the logic Of my reasoning, and
that you will agree with mo in adopting the
following conclusion, namely, that he who
possesses too much is the debtor ofhim who
hos not enough. Now, know that you
have superfuisy, and therfore profit BY
your abseuce to take the !, 500 francs ont
Of your secsetaire, and 10 take myself off
| can establish myself with it, and gain an
honest livelihood in trade. You under
stand me we'll! Many people may think
this is q theft, but the principles Of reason
declare that il is legal. I do you no injury
40 you possess too much. Now listen and,
bear in mind-n day will come when the
rich shall want the poor That day is not
far distant, have influence In a certain
qusrter-amongst those who will before
long be the conquerors. On tho dny Of set
tiement they will be kind 70 th.ir brother.
Ny word with them Is safeguard. But if
you annoy me BY complaints, which will
be listened 10 because you are rich, shall
point you out to my brothers; and sooner or
later vengeance! II. on the contrary, you
consider yourself a. having only conferred
an obligation on me, you will have nothing
to fear whatever may happen, Health and
fraternity!
The fellow states bic case like counsel
lor, and we may be permitted to express tho
hope, We devoutedly indulge, that when
''that day which is not far Distant" comes
along, the "conquerors" will not neglect to
do honor to ono who not only forwards So
cialism with his pen, but with bis Fingers.
Meanwhile, however, the gentlemun has
been arrested and clapped into prison, TO
await bic trial for theft. A portion only Of
the stolen francs was found on his person,
the rest be had pisposed Of, a. Is supposed,
10 forwarding the happy doctrines Of which
no bad shown himself 90 zsalousa disciple.
The chances are, now, that the light finger
ed philosopher will bs sent to prison, where
he will have excellent opportunities for
meditation, upon that "good time coming"
when the world will be brought 10 &C
knowledge the comfortable truth. ",hat he
who possesses too much 10 Tue debtor Of him
who has not enough"
Hoseland, the Psychologist, relates that
Louis II. Of Hungary was crowned in the
second year Of bis life, snd sscended the