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thoughtful mind that socialism anu
dynamitism are great, growing and
Justly alarming evils, demanding in
no uncertain tone the earliest atten-
ton of the thinking thousands and
the pondering politicians. Not to
speak of its dire manifestation across
the Atlantic, where in one country
it stands daily menace to all who
dare serve their government IN an
official capacity, and III another
shuts up crowned emperor as
pitiful prisoner in the palaces OF his
ancestors if We look at our own
country we will find that there, 100.
it has begun to lay its cankerlng
curse and eat out the heart of the
social fabric. Not many weeks
since we all were startled 20 see III
the telegraphic dispatches Of our
Journals that the dynamiters had
partially destroyed the large store Of
Ridley 4 Sons, and adjoining build
ings in New York City. A few
weeks previous, our attention had
been called to the immense crowds
that had paraded the streets of Pitts
burg, bearing banners with soclalls.
tic notices, and rending the air
with sullen shouts that were strange
" like those that rang through Paris
in the bloody days of 1893. Since
then. we have read Of the immense
multitude OF socialists that assem-
bled il Chicago, where the arch
communist Herr Most fired to frenzy
his audience by his fervid and revo-
lutiOmary eloquence, and where
uomaa mounted the platform and
proclaimed theory winch, if put
into practice. must result in the in
evitable destruction of property and
life. Now, these are serious mat
ters and we must face them, no mat
ter how disagreeable and threaten
ing they nay be. They concern not
only those who really love country
and humanity, Out aiSC that large
class who have no higher ideal than
the selfish qualification Of their own
desires, for the African lion, fierce
and maddened with hunger and
wounds is tame and harmless, com
pared to the popu|ace, when once
the strong barriers of the law and
religion are swept away. This IS
exactly what communism, socialism
and dynamitism would do if un-
checked. Hence, to remove this
danger, it is the interest and duty OF
the selfish and patriotic alike. To
do this, we have but to find the gen
Grating cause AM remove that
cause.
The cause of socialism and all
germain movements can be expressed
in one word, Poverty. Remove pow
erty, and socialism disappears, as
mist before sunlight. Give a man
plenty of good, wholesome food, a
home to shelter HIM and his, and a
congenial employment, and there is
no danger Of that mans ever parad-
ing the streets under socialistic ban
ners or mounting public platforms
to deliver revolutionary harangues.
Admitting that poverty is the cause
of socialism aud attendant evils, it
behooyes us to study how it may be
either wholly or partially removed.
Can it be done by giving higher
wages to the wage-worker! At
first it would seem so. But the au-
thor of Conflict in Nature and
Life, whose dicta haye all the force
and weight of the words of one of
the highest authorities on social
statics, in very recent and able
article in the Popular Science
Monthly, clearly demonstrates the
of increasing the wage
workers wages as remedy for pow
erty. "Give," says he, 1.-The laborer
higher wages, and Immediately the
cost of production increases in like
ratio, the necessaries of life cost
more in like ratio anil high wages
in high-priced times, buy no more
than low wages in low priced.times."
Can poverty be lighteno d by allowing
wages to be tile same and the latorcr
to share in the profits after the cap
italist has had certain per cent. on
the money he invests in the busi-
ness ? By no means? Why? Be-
cause, this being the case. there will
not be the same inducement for cap
italists to hazard their money, and
to enter new fields of industry and
furnish new outlets fo- the eVer-in-
creasing numbers of the wage-work-
ers. and, hence, the Oil fields become
crowded, the wages drop TO mini
mum. and thenproveriy, hunger and
want stalk in, and anarchy, social
ism, dynamitism follow them as le-
gitimate offsprings. So the author
takes all the plans suggested to re-
lieye the wants of the latOring class
es ami subjects them to the cold
logic of facts and this, no matter
how we legislate or Il ink, is pitt
lessIy unchanging-ard proves the
fallacy of them all and says it is only
the greater industry and frugality of
the laborers that will be the magic
word to exercise this devil of fpauper-
ism. He especially dwells on fru-
gality, and says again and again it