The New York herald., 1878-12-02
SOCIALISM NJ.
Germany's Bitter War Upon
Its Advocates.
THE AMERICAN BRANCH.
Why Scc;aIis.ic Doctrines Cannot Sue
ceed in this County

The meeting OF French socialists in West Houston
street last evening was largely attended by ladies
gentlemen and even children. who accompanied their
parents. NJ. Boisset occupied the chair. aad in open
ing the proceedings caei attention tho Fact that
the very presence OF such C large audience showed
the growing interest taken in the social ques
tons Of the day. Hc trusted that the French
section of the socialstic party at least would show
by the conferences THAI all disposed to be in
structed in the great questions affecting mankind all
the world After the singing of several French
and German airs by Nine. Lu:z. NJ. Leopold Finiel
ascended the platform anl explained that socialism
really nothing else than the practice of principles
of justice. honesty and rectitude Nevertheless
it was vast study how 10 amcliorate the
social position Of mankind. One great idea must
he continually borne in mind. Man had the right
to exist and to eat Whatever theorists might argue
the triism that had the right to eat always
came to the front and whenever society refused to
acknowledge this truisn society should he reminded
that cach man had right to his place in that society
and again. that nc had right to eat. 1t would then
be asked how much does man require TO subsist
Tha. was question of figures. In fact, material
economy based entirely on figures.
! WAGES FRANCE
Take the average wages OF q workingman in France,
| for instance He is put down by statisticians AZ
gaining forty sous--lve centmes each sou-pcr day.
But he does not work 3e5. only 21O days per year.
| Again, IN average Yorkingman does not represent
himself alone he represents at least four persons,
constituting his family. for whom the law
| Of nature conlpe.s him to provide When
same warIinan Instead aae Of earnns h farts
sous. only 2S ~ centies per day. Now then,
to take anothe, method Of proving this by ea,eulas
ing the actual products of country say Of France
again and dividing that amoun. by certain number
% consumers which 1t contlins-the same result OF
fua mo- NaV nttA ha had ,s,rt
| ingmaa. then-it was the same for one country
as for the othcr-has not enough TO live
! he begins to understand that he fufls
his duty in society. while those who control
the provision merchant In arrangng the prices OF
his wares which wcrkingmen must purchase the
then ne adds on duties taxes transportation and his
| own profits. He then sells to the wholesale
chant The latter puts on his expenses. his profits
and sells to the retailer The retailer then puts
| en- his expenses and his profits and the poor
devil Of a workingman pays the whole OF it.
whether it be for sugar. coffee, tea. hams any
other necessities Of life Sometimes they told
that they exaggerated the state Of affairs. but the
speaker cared TO lift the veil which covered that
society OF Cabinet Ministers and kings which ex-
claimed continually that workingmen demanded too
much Not only the aged father bur the child in the
manner in which it was constituted to-day.
Only little whae & ago 'es tho defendars 81
the old system declared that the small band social
lists were making great deal Of noise in the world;
that noise. In Germany, for instance. they
PEELED to take ferocious measures oppose the
days in terror So much 1t least had been gained.
All socialists should march to the day of deliver
ance with confidence. The day was not far OH and
men, women and children, one and all. should press
forward to become martyrs il necessary in the great
cause
EFFECTS OF SOCIALISM UPON OUR INsTITU TIoNs
DISCUSSED BY REV. DEs. HITCHCOCK AND
sToRRs.
For years I anticipated socalistic trouble" said
Dr. Hitchcock In the Church OF the Pilgrims. Brook
lyn last night ..and now it has see serious
trouble ahead bat naught to indicste ruin. am
convinced that any organized attack upon
property here is to be drenched in blood. A.
cording to the last there nearly three
million farms in this country, and, allowing five per-
to each farm, have 100000 sturdy hearts
that will resist to the death any invasion of their in
| dividual rights. An attack them by Commu-
nistic fanatics is to meet with swift
defeat In fact. the wiser portion OF the socialists
no longer threaten every indscrimnately.
They except three countries from the universal ruin
that is impending over the heads of the nations.
france is ono, Great Britain another and the Ameri
Republic the third. France because she settled
forever the question of Comm unism the streets of
| Paris seven years ago. Great Britain. because her
trades unions and labor organizations
| ures in the struggle between capital and labor.
and the United States account or the entire free
dom accorded to every one. Germany, Austria and
Italy. say the socialists destined FOR terrible
baptism Of blood, but TO be spaced. The only
ing toward communism. may penetrate our political
life and its heresies ind expression IN our national
and State legislation This is the evil that We must
look squarely in the face and resist.
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM.
Socialism aud communism often used
synonymous terms. bnt incorrectly One is generic;
the other specific. Communism IL the annihilaton
OF the individual, his entire absorption into the
state. According to it the individual such has no
rights or property II control Of all private
industries aud dictates what kind OF work and how
much OF it = man must do. 1t withors all energy
and destroys even tho natural ambition Of getting
along we'll in the world. Property. family and reli-
gion perish beneath its bnefnl influence Some may
your true philosophc. thorough going Communist
attacks all three OF tho dearest ties of.the individual
Now socialist il not necessarily Communist. So
cislism s that which takes ccgnizance Of any
inequality Of social condition with view to correct
it, These inequalities it seeks to remove despite
natural differences. II that the social con-
dition may be egualizcd aud human characteristics
| aftcrward benefited. Now, for the social problem
there is no socaiistic solution. No cunning legisa-
ton no cooperative schemes. nothing with social
e. sna sn Pes y social san aseps T.
the only effcient worker IN the solution OF this
problem. It places individual character first
and the condition second The battle with socialism
will be brief but win be very hot No quarter viii
be given until IL s ended. II is astonishing some
times 10 hear Christian men talk OF adopting some
| cooperative plan by which the struggle may be
ayerted Professor Price, Of Oxford In an admirable
treatise on political economy says that 1t art
| and not a science and can be easily learned.
The average mind understand the rules
for the production and distribution of wealth.
He says we depend the clergy bring these
principles to the mind OF every one. A preacher
should throw all his influence the side OF labor
not in socialistic, but In q humanstic sense. The
minister ought TO b. the poor mans friend and 90
him with kindly feelings,
| VARIOUS INEQUALITIES.
Respecting social inequalities have fret, in
, eouslities of endowment of body and mind. In the
second place there inequalities Of Providence or
chances slch as sickness and other affiictons Then
we have commercial fuctuation and the more adj
vanced and complicated society becomes the greater
these fluctuations The last inequality fuay be called
immoraty of conduct especially in the use OF intoxi-
eating liquors 70 which may be ascribcd very
large proportion OF crime and poverty. nev. DIR.
Ha,uliu of Maine said that tho liquor law thoro has
well nigh aunihilated paupcrism. Many OF the social
inequalities may be traced to human weakucss and