Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-16
A ssrls 70 M. srRaseE.


EDEToa Posz-IETKlLsaEEcEE
On the evening Of Nay lst lsetnrs
Vas delivered In tils University y the
Rev. Mr.. Strange en Socialism Be-
ing present as the lecture, and listening
aateutiveiy 10 What be had % say, take
the liberty Of stating that the reSsrend
RsutIeman's idsas Ut socialism are rash-
- vaouos IN fact. he has failed TO grasp
shs fund smeutzl principle q 70. on else
be has SiIfaiIy igDsrsd t. For bis ben
efit and those that heard him, alloa me
to state, In few words what socialism
il
Socialism i . tetser and most list
zvsfem Of RoEernrnens.-IF sbsteyis De
ficsayE.
Socialism Il the sciEncs Of iustios ap-
plied 20 the social relations Of mankind,
rs fundamental principle being teat OF
the night Of each individual 20 receive
the full value Of bis own lsbor-no iess-
DO naore.-Sah FnIRcisaO Truth.
Socialism does not want tn tear
down everything - is merely ANS to
reconstruct society on snisntiie basis,
on a basis of absolute justice. Social
ism does not want 20 divide up the
wealth Of the coustry,n as the reverend
gentleman asserted, and can onIy no
gics that sufficiently TO say, nobody out
side Of q luDatie asylum proposes suen
a thing. and the H6x. Mr.. Strange ought
70 knoW IL. Ii dOss want TO prevent the
Ioafin1 classes from dividing mp be-
tween themselves their thefts from the
xorkinC classes. Socialism would not
level everything 10 one dead equality;
IL would only give equality OF chance %
every man, breaking the barriers wnlen
the loafers of the world have erected 10
the way of tbs workers, and its motto
today is, "Hs who will not work, neither
shall he eat" Socialism does not mean
q free love- IS Dir. Strange said that
socialists would have wives hike an
almanac, to change them eveYy year.
Il does mean that under sociaIistic
state Of society conditions will not com
pei legaiizsd or professional prostitution
for bread.
Wealth consists Of bat one thing, ard
Il produced by bot one process IL Is
the resources of nature made valuable
BY the labor Of maD. If 3 class Of non
producers exists, IL Is clear that they
must live of Of the labor Of the pro-
ducers. Living thus, they must rob IL
of those who are Justly entitled TO It..
Today they do il BY fraad backed mp
BY AUTHORITY" fney have wrongfuIly
seized and hold Il the natural resources
II the earth, (2) the tools Of prodnc
ton, 49, and the medium OF exchange
of commodities.
First--I say Wronefully, because no
man having made these, ne msn can
own them; and where 10 man can own,
the title of all men for use 10 equal.
Secoad-The tools Of production are
mainly the result OF labor of ptst gen.
erAtions of men; 70 them no hvInR man
can claim ownership, and their use
should DO free 20 all.
Third The mediem of exchange
(money) being designed by society for
the benefit Of society, no man can
riehtfuIly claim tribute for its use;
and yet, for the use Of the raw material,
which nature gives gratis, the nsn pro
ducers exact rent, for the use OF the
tools Of production profit, asd for the
use of the medium of exchange, later
eft. This Is the cause Of all misery,
poverty, disease. and 80 per cent of all
modern crime.
Since the working. man 1.-THE producer)
only receives about one-third of the
value OF his labor, il necessarily fol-
lows that he is not able 20 boy back that
which to produced. Not being able to
dispose of the goods, the capitalist shuts
down factory, mirle or workshop, and
utters What today Is the death gasp of
this capttalistic era--"ever. production, "
producing q panic These panios
come periodically and With increasing
severity, each time thrswing thousands
of men out Of employment, who, com
peting with those employed for the
barest necessafies of life, regulate the
iron Law OF wages which coHtinually
yibrateg round the point necessary to
sustain life; now a little above, nov 3
little below. Yes, fellow; for today par
ents have TO send their children of
tender years 10 the factory to assist by
their mite 10 keep starvation from the
door.
Look a little beyond your comfort
able study, Mr.. Strange. and see the
little innocenss of twelve years in Con.
neaticnt, working for half dollar a
week, the miners in Penpsylvania work
ing fourteen hours for 60 cents, the
miners In Hooking valley displaced by
Earopean paupers and today work
lnQ for wages which compel them to
live like Chinese and this that Q few
men may roll In wealth ground out of
the lives Of others this IN land that
10 In the very van Of civilization. But
IL there no remedy for this ? Yes, and
ere II is 1: Since che cause IL class OF
sdlers, the remedy 10 to make them 90
70 work. How Well, time will tell
best. and those whsl think most on the
matter feel pretty well convinced that
that time Is not very far OF. AT pres
emit the working clssses are doing little
quiet thinking. and asking themselves
the question. /" Why are We in want Of
the comforts Of life while we are willing
to work Look around In every large
city when the whistles blow at O'Clock
in the evening. and zee the mnltitudes
who Huffsr wrong they oil the streets
Ike living sea Just as soon as We
have the will we can establish justice
snd compel the loafers TO 90 10 work.
By producinR only for ourselves. deelin-
ing 20 be further ribbed exercise our
motto:
He Who viii not work.