The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-21
Burnette G. Haskell Makes a
Brief Statement as to
aog2A What it is.8Ad r4so.
Socialists do not Advocate the
Doctrine of "Dividing upn
rt, Everything.
The Remedy for Existing Evils is the
Organization ola cooperative
Commonwealth.
For The Enquirer. i7'5 IaH z.Haias
WHAT SOCIALISM acknowledgements n

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WHAT SOCIALISM Is--DEFIEITIoNs. / /
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"a theory of society which advocate
more precise, orderly and harmoniou
arrangement of the social relations 10
mankind than that which, has hithertt
prevailed" Nv ebster's Dictionary (neH
edItion). - East,r-- - - S6
Socialism is the science of justice ap
Piled to the social relations of mankind
its fundamental principle being that %
the right of each individual to receiyt
the full value of his own labor, no les,
and no more."-San Francisco Truth. .
WHAT SOCIALISM Is NOT. : An
Social does not want to tear dowr
everything )" it aims merely to recon
struct society upon a scientific basis.
Socialism does not want to divide ul
everything" it wants to prevent tn.
loafng classes from dividing up betwee1
themselves their thefts from the pro
ducers.
Socialism would not ''level everything
to one dead, dreamy level of equality; )"
it would give only equality OF chance tc
every man, breaking the barriers thai
the loafers have erected in the way Of
the workers and allowing the greatest
possible diversity in condition compati
BILE with the rule of He who will not
work neither shall he eat"
Socialism does not mean "confsca-
ton" it does mean that the power Of
the loafers to confscate the results o.
the labor of others in the future at least
shall be abrogated. \ IL (
Socialism does not mean free love >
it does mean that in Socialistic society
conditions will not compel either legal
lied or professional prostitution for
bread.
THE PRESENT sYsTEM-sHoULD IT NOT BIZ
CONDEMNED
Is not the object of life, happiness
If 50, must not all things be judged by
the standard of our desires, our neces
sites? If so, then does the presentsys
tenn of society satisfy the desires and
supply the necessities of humanity I? Oul
necessities are threefold, physical, menta
and moral How does society now
provide for them?
PHYSICAL.
Man requires, primarily, food, clothing
and shelter. Ten millions of people art
killed annually in this world fby the
operation of the competitive system O.
production and distribution. With
natural resources and machinery sufi'
cient to supply the wants of all the peo
pie OF the world in three hours toll pei
day of each man, millions 60 naked
shelterless and ahungered. Out of 6
population of 1,25O,oOO,OO far less than
100000 enjoy all of the advantages Of
our so-called "civilization," while the
balance, who have produced these ad'
vantages, slave and die in abjeet misery
At this moment, in America alone, there
are 100000 men unable to obtain work
who are willing to labor. Far more than
half of the worlds population have not
enough to eat or wear, nor shelter to
keep them from the elements. In Con-
nectlcut children of12 are forced to work
for 20 cents week, and in Pennsylvania
miners work fourteen hours for 60 cents
MENTAL.
The physical needs of man attended t.,
he requires that his mental wants be sat
isfed. Our system of education bur
dens the mind with useless rubbish ; oul
literature is degenerating into vapiG
nonsense; our art of government is buI
a vulgar scramble for Office IN which 6
man who would mount to fame must make
steps of the bodies of his friends; our
social life is but concealed warfare and
our scientific knowledge is inaccessible
to the general herd = TX
MORAL. !
How can love exist when it is weighed
against gold? How can art flourish
when the mass of mankind have no
thought. of aught save gross materia
wantsP How can religion the Worship
ofthe good, the beautffal, sthe true
exist where all men are forced to bow
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down to the bad, the sblorrent and the
false? They do not, they cannot exls
among US nowl In their places are
ecclesiasticism, distortion and lust. 80
CAUSES OF THE PREsES Mt ANARCHY. j
Wealth consists of but one thing, and
isproduced by but one process. 1t If
the natural resources Cf nature made
valuable by the labor of man. Since II
is impossible for one msn to, alone and
unaided, supply all his wants by hisowr
labor on natures raw material, civiliza.
ton becomes possible only upon the
practice of division Of labor and machine
production. Under this system worker
Is entitled to demand tie full value In
equivalent goods of the results of7-bis
own productive labor no less, no more
If, then. a class of non-producers exists
it is clear that they must live off of the
labor ofjthe prod 1eersf Li1ng thus, of
of this labor, they must rob it ot
those who are entitled lustly to it. How