St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-03
POWER OF SOCIALISM.
what it Has Accomplished in France
Fold by Evert NymanOVer.

O1u W CKt "
A German workingmen's society, affili-
ated with the national socialiStic labor
party of the United States holds fortnightly
meetings at Martins Ksll, corner Washing
ton and Cedar avenues.
At yesterdays meeting, Mr. Evart Ny
hanover of Minneapolis, who some months
ago returned from Paris, the great metrop-
oils of France. gave highly interesting
lecture in German upon 1.-The Recent Labor
Movement in France"
1T was the people of France" he said,
who first shook the chains of Europe. 1t
was the French division of the Latin race
that scattered the sand heaped by the flood
of tyranny during the dark age Of European
history. France has been and remains so
to-day the foyer DIES idees,' the chef lieu
de la civilization moderne.'
Mir. Nymanover said that der Ursprung
die heutige Arbeterbewegung in Fran
kreich, ais vie anderwarts, SciZu suchen
in die socialen Unzufreidenheit." The his
tory of the labor movement in France is
the history of socialism Many people look
at socialism as a castle in the air, and that
"a castle in the air is poor consolation to a
houseiess head True. But let us look at
facts. Who were the first to form higher
relations in modern times? | answer: The
socialists. Who have cut the greatest
figure in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries? France. Where is the focus of
modern culture and refinement? Isn't
Paris? Who govern Paris to-day? The
French socialists. Victor Hugo, Henry
Rochefort, Louis Blanc. Fola and others
akin are the men that have successfully
moulded the views of present and recently
gone generations. They devoted them
selves to the greatest cause of our time
the cause Of the laboringman.
1t was Louis Blanc that occasioned the
foundation OF rassociaton ouvrieles 1t
was Henry Rochefort that founded the
famous workingman's organ, La Marsell-
aise,' which was paramount in converting
the French people from the prestige les
idees Napoleoniennes' had in the eyes of
French citizens. The same man afterwards
founded the world-known La Lanterne'
To-day he is the director of the great daily
'L'1ntranSgcant.'
Who more has written work like the
'MlserableS' of Victor Hugo? Emile Fola
is the digne author of 'GerminaF-Phistoire
de les freres de misere ct de revoIte! In
spite of the armies of kings and the eX-
communications of popes, modern civiliZa-
ton is Democratic. And the politics all
over the world turn to solid Democracy.
Socialism, fellow workingmen, carries in
its breast renovating power of which we
have no conception. But whoever can
properly appreciate its power, whether he
| be a mere believer or an independent
! thinker, will readily confess that it is des-
| tined some day to become the inner organic
| ing power Of the state and then it will re-
veal itself to the world in all the depth of
| its ideas and the full richness of its bless
ings.
The progress of socialism, or the labor
movement, as we call it here, has been very
marked in France. Clemenceau, Lockroy,
Micheliu, Basley, Henri Rochefort,
Valiant. Endes, ETC., ETC., are socialist
leaders. Socialism has for its ultimate end
the Specialization of property, the natonali-
Zation of land and the equality of condition
for all. You can call that "a castle in the
air." but | do not 1t is, after all, the
grand redemption spoken of in the Bible.
and no else. To work for social redemp-
ton is to identify ourself with Gods design
of progress; and / wish L could bring this
matter home to the breast of every work
ingman. The Socratic saying, Man know
myself is the saying likewise of the So
cialistS. But it has as yet only been syl-
| tables in the history of civilization. Man
knows everything but himself; that's the
trouble. Nevertheless it has come to this.
individually as well as socially: die
Forderungen heutezu tage werden NIGHT
mehr auf die politischen Rechte beschrankt.
sic sollen auch auf die gesellschaftlichen
lage der EinZelneon erstrecken." In France
it has come so far, and [ am glad of it,"
| Mr.. Nymanover finished his interesting
discourse by a graphic description of
La Commune de Paris, of the labor move