The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-27

fssT ne Nakt0uEt8 Oh. lXeW II 0Txy Id ttbt IesyVss
Iulions adopted nc heir fS,sate Gonye ntfoIa ut
Syracuse, have made The most 0utspo
presentation Oh eonmuulsttc doctrine that
we hare thus 10. bad from any presumably
respectable body. Various forelxn agita-
tors In New York and san Francisco naYss
promulgated similar ideas, and numerous
conventions, not only OF NatioIals, Green
hackers. and Labor Reformers, so called,
but even OF the older political parties
as well, have rnnde demands Whleh iogi-
cally lead to these results but we DelleYe
this to be the first time that boov OF
decent American citizens, who are descriooa
as for the most part honest anu SOBER men,
have deliberately recorded their conYictlon
that the accumulation Of property is crime:
For that is really the sum and substance OF
the Syracuse resolutions, as well as OF those
adopted at the Ohio Convention on Tuesday.
These patriotic reformers do not simply de-
manti that the United States shall issue an
unlimited quantity OF notes, in order that
they NAV get !. cheap money" with which
to pay their debts. This is a form OF the
dwelling theory with which we are already
familiar, though the Syracuse people explain
the operation OF their plan in an unusually
definite way. Thus they demand "the I'M
mediate calling Ia and payment OF all Donds
in absolute paper money, without regard 10 4,
the time t1eY may have to run on their face
Thai IS 10 say, that all the people who have
saved ANYTHING in times gone by and invest
ed their surplus earnings, either Directly OF
through the. savings banks OF the life.insur,
apce companies, in United States bonds, snaii
have all their savings swept away py
food OF paper notes. which IT may please,
these wiseacres to call "absolute money,
but which everybody knows Will diminish
in value and purchasing power IN proper
tion as its quantity is increased, so tnat a
man who has nut hts savings into hundred-
dollar bond win find himself possessed OF a
note marked hundred dollars Whlcn may
be worth seyenty-fve, or fifty, or forty doi-
lars, or ultimately may not be worth ten:
Securities OF every kind, OF course, would
be scaled down in the same way.
Along with this goes "adoption OF iano-
! limitation laws" to prevent any man get
| ting more real estate than his neiShDoIscc
an idea plainly brought from The faG i =
coast, if not from Europe, Wiiere sucn u
thing as monopoly of the soll> may eA-
let bnt which is nevertheless consistent
With fine general plan. OF course, under
| this system .sthe State " is to control the
| railways, carry on 'sinternal improvements
establish agricultural, mechanical, ana
industrial schools" and prohibit the i'm
portation OF any article that can be pro-
duced in the country, admitting all others
free, except Chinese, who are not to be
admitted at all The brotherhood OF
man" breaks down here; but with this
exception the whole scheme is as near to
the German Socialist idea as it would be
possible to come all at once. A very little
development would be required beyond the
Syracuse platform to merge the individual
wholly in the community.
We commend this platform to the very
earnest attention OF the numerous polltl-
clans who are cultivating the "National
movement" and think that they can direct
it to some wise end. OF course the scheme
that is here presented is impractcable,
but surely it is not necessary to try
it in order to demonstrate its folly. And
we are likely enough to try it, though
the experiment would not last long,
if our political leaders do not leave OFT
nursing this mischievous lunacy as means
Of injuring one another, instead OF drop
ping their miserable selfish quarrels and
uniting to cultivate healthy and vigorous
political sentiment, in tue presence OF
which this un-American communism would
wither and die.-Philadelph5G Times.