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SOCIALISM AND STUART MILL.
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Tie Last sentenco but ono in Mr. Mills "Au.
tobioGrsplU" describes his pursuits during thu
hnal three years OF his lifo. 1t begins: " I hav&
writton various articles in periodicals., chiefly in
my friend hr. Morieys Fortnightly Her!esr"
Tho volume DOW before us ia nnde mp OF tut
Forini9hNy articles. and Of q fow others, notable
among which aro tue flyo papetn on landlcnuro.
which arc contained In the last fifty paEca. II
addition to the articles on land and kindred
themeB. wo find hero revows Of Thornton'a
Labor" In which ia Mills famous retsaction
Of Ills vaRo-fund theory; OF Taino'a !" Dc I'm
telligonoo"; Of tirote'a "Ariatotlo." and oi
Baet'e "L'Aveso r1mposta, =" Property md
Taxation; md, finally, papor on treaty obli-
CATIONS.
Mill Ia ono Of tho most suggestive writer's IN
the world. His works resemble in tlis rar
quality Buckles " History Of Civilization. - and
P1uta1clIe Liyes," THAT fount from which II
many famoua mon Of overy sort, from Pitt to
joaquin Miller, haVo drunk their inspiration
Tho strongest suggestion In this book-the ont
which lights up ercEy pago, aud must fotch II
self upon tho attention Of every reador-ig. thai
tho doct1luo commonly known-or rkthor I'm.
knoNn-as Socialism, IL OF solld value, aud thai
society Is haascning towards 1t. The book sho7s,
In short, that John Stuart Mill became, before
bis death, thorough Socialist. Tlis III stato
ment not to be mado lightly. It il. however,
graro faet,-gEave, but mono tho lcas fact
Facts. indccd arc not apt to 10 especially merry
Since everything stamped With tue namc
Mlu" raRses Il current coIn With
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spread tho doctrines OF Socialism whore
they have neyer reached bofoso. W. dtscusH
eGItorially elsewhere some anpetts Of tA!H 4llos-
ton. We are hero concerned simply With prov
in. tho Tact Of Mills Socialism. III doing Suits.
We labor uudcE N e1nbasrassmont OF riclcs.
Studying tho book with the sim Of discovering
tho authors feeling on Socialism, Vo lavo
maskod page after page: l3sforo quoting fc"
specimen proofs, It will bo well to define the
main obstruction botwoeu the two sota Of Doc
trines koo wn a. Socialism aid Communism.
Mlll 1ays, Ia lis "rolticsl Ecunomy" IT,, p.
aG2): '"I1,o word Socialism, which originated
among the English Communists, and WAS as
sumed By thc as name to desGnase their own
doctrine. IL nov, ou the Continent, employed in
larger s,neo; nut nccesAarily implying
Communism, or tho. entire abolition
Of private properly. bat applied to an,
tic Instruments Of production should be tha
property. not Of lndiyidukls, but Of communities
Of associations, or Of thu Government" sinca
thls passage wAB written, tho two words have d.
1etgoA st,ll moro widely In meaning. Gomman;
| all wealth to be hold III common by small CON-
muuitlos Of poraons, whose righta to the land
| aud it's produce shall DO regulated - those Of
tho v1llageconmunlties OF 1ndla or lt!,asta aro ;
| tho BtAto 10 to be abolished, aud each Commune
to 10 independent. Socialists. On the other
| hand, wish tho 6tate to continue forever.
aud to 10 used az = machine for batsering
the condition Of tho poor. Communion u
tbeory tho paternAl Gun, carried to Its logical
/ extreme. Whon the artisans Of Paris forced tho
| National Assembly OF 1913 to found national
! tioos, ttsy were Socialists. When they, sozcd
Pari. il 1871, aud proposed 10 separate the city
| from tho Eest OF Franco they wero Communtats.
Nov lot u discharge our selfsppolnted task
o4 proving the Socialism OF John Stuart Mill
fro III these, AB latent writings. Hc says (p. "
1,ao higher principle j. ruquirea that : term
1houM 10 nied :. A. tno expiration u
xha fe.lao wmeuis] should under tbs control of
tho u IT, TO 10 1nodiaed, ot snsy eaAnstd' u AZ
discrtaIou.
To this no may add tho declaration concerning
dndoWiuonts On psgo 2a9:
The whole Of them ought to b. takca In hand By tho
nauonr md thoroughly rssoEn1et.
This h. immediately explained to mean thAt
*'Their la nds should either 10 managed Tor them
by the btate, nx taken away altogether, tho
Htats psy.ng them therefor, in 1he iattor case.
only II it chooses to do 70.
lii, Mil a,ssrts broadly (p. 20 that the atats
"owos" ~ elementary oducat1on to the '.sntlro
| body OF thoas who cannot pay for 1t" and "su-
| pertor education" to the most promising poor.
While It 10 tkue that sof-lDserest, u enlightened
sratn,ne. the statement that Il 'toxss any suot,
thing Il markedly sociAisto: We read again
n Eo]: "Ou III tmonopolzed artlolssl, ths
Stato has an asknoTledeed right to limit the
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