New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-07

6ctitious. if not q matter of show and OBJ
seryation alone. it is at least blind and pre-
iudiced. If more than a poor pretense ana
sham, it is certainly not warm, creative
intelligent and thorough going faith.
For Democracy that rejects and con-
tennis Socialism. whether in terms OF
backyard slang like those employed by
Gen. Cass or not. does really contemn IT.
self and tramplc on its own most sacred
principles. Democracy and Socialism if
not identical, are as intimately and necesSa-
rilv related as are morning and noon in the
progress Of day. The one is the incvi-
table sequence of the other. and only they
who repudiate both have a right to rePu-
diate either. Democracy is but the pre-
cursor and preparation for Socialism, and,
were il otherwise, would be absurd and
out of place in history, and calamity for
mankind.
Democracy teaches equality of political
rights, Socialism equality of social rights
the one aims to emancipatc men from the
control of kings and rulers; the other
from the control of money, OF landlords,
and Of masters. Where the one is es-
tablishcd the subject or yassal disappears
in the citizen and where the other, the
tenant the employe. the mcnial diSdp-
pear in the proprietor, the partner the
associate. The essence of Democracy l.
TO guarantee to individuals Of certain sex
and ace the right to vote: the essence OF
Socialism is to guarantee to all individuals,
Of both sexes and all agcs-children of rich
and poor alike-thc right to the best eddca-
ton of their respective talents and capaci-
tie,-industrial. scientific, artiStic-that
the resources Of society can bestOw; with
the opportunity OF employment and the full
amount of wealth that the talents thus
educated and employed, may produce. The
theory of Democracy is that 1t gives man
a fair chance politically Except negroes
who in this country are not held to be menu
but il leaves untouched the distinction of
master and mcnial. of learned and ignorant,
of rich and poor, of refined and clownish.
Thus it does not give fair chance so
chilly. and cannot. 1t begins the work, but
cannot complete it. 1t is great step in
the cause of human emancipation, but it is
only step. 1t is a promise, germ of
that comprehensive justice which Society
owes to the individual, but it is nothing
more. 1t is the first letter in the alphabet
of equal rights and of liberty, but without
Socialism to complete it, it is letter
which spells nothing, and dies away like n
fantastic sound
Now there are persons who utter this
first letter of equal rights, and swear by it
as if humanity had nothing more to say
after it. There are those who believe in
Democracy as long as it allows and enables
them to become rich and powerful at the
expense of their fellows but when it goes
further and announces state OF things IN
Which land speculatiOns, and usury, and
cheating in trade, and all the thousand
means of plundering the masses, and accu-
nulating fortunes without work and with
out usefulness, and all the luxuries OF me-
nial seryitude and obsequious and ignorant
interiors, will no longer exist, they cry out
in horror. That is a greater degree OF
eoual RIGHTS than these - democrats are
prepared for. They are content as they
are. What do they want of Socialism
1t strikes at what they hold dearest, the
chance of getting rich on other peoples
labor. 1t is repugnant to their trade and
to the instincts of their nature. Accord
ingly they assail it with calumny and slang
and misrepresentation.
But, fortunately for the world, the true
democracy of this republic is not confined
to the men who seek by crying Equal
Rights " to get into office. If it were,
the future would be dark indeed IL is to
be found in the institutions Of the country,
and in the great fundamental spontaneous
tendencies Of the people, and not In the par
ryhacks who thus seek to arrest and pervert
their development. This true democracy,
this living faith in equal rights and priv
leges. does not turn its back on Socialism
1t accepts and adopts it. Witness tho
spread of Free Schools, of Protective Unions,
of Homestead Exemption, and of the many
other forms in which the great principles of
Mutual Assurance and Association are more
and more universally aud thoroughly ap-
piled.
GOOD SENSE AT THE SOUTH.