Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-08
SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE
What Socialism would Give in Ex-
change for Existing Institutions.
Rights Of Property Abolished.
Nobody 20 own Anything-The Political
Managers to own and Control
Everything.



vert and remove the existing Industrial,
political and property status OF the world,
what does II propose to substitute in their
pla,e?" These are questions many per.
sons are asking. One socialist" has
tried to befog the readers of the Tribune
and OF another city paper by copying a
part Of webster's dictionary definition Of
the term SOCIALISM" thusly;
Socialism Is theory of society which
advocates a more precise, orderly and
harmonious arrangement OF the social
relations of mankind than that which has
hitherto prevailed. And Webster gives
as the synonym, communism. Turning to
the word Communism, Webster defines
it as follows:
The reorganization OF society, or the doctrine
that i should be reorganized by regulating
property, industry and the sources of liveli
hood, and also the domestic relations and so
clal morals OF mankind; socialism, especially
negation Of individual rights OF property.
The important words Mr.. Socialist or
"W. Il. s." carefully omitted and sup
pressed. He quotes Emile de Laveleye
as saving:
Sooialistic doctrine aims at introducing
greater equality into social conditions; and
secondly, II tries to realize these reforms by
the action of the law on the state.
This is a glittering generality and con-
veys no definition or concrete idea of the
real socialistic platform. Summing up So
cialism and anarchism, the Tribune said;
Anarchlsm is the violent enforcement OF so
cialism or the putting Into effect of soeialletic
principles. Anarchism is the method adopted
by the holder and inpatient class of socialists
"a pat the doctrines OF their party into practice
right off. In principle anarchists are socialists,
pure and simpie, hey aniagonize the right OF
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sonal, as they hold that all property should be-
long to the state. Dynamite bomb throwing,
police killing, Wholesale robbery and incendiar,
Ism are merely means TO the great fundamental
end In view-wiplng away of all personal right
TO own, or buy, or cell anything.
And in another article the Tribune said:
The poor. house aud the penitentiary, so far
as rega ds dependence, work and ownership of
property, or control of earnings, are really the
models on which socialism Is based Every
factor in the great EQUATION OF making life
worth living would be cancelled until only the
wretched existence were left If the anatch-
lists could put socialism into operation there
would be no need of art, or science, or litera-
ture, or learning, warehouses, ships, railroads,
manufactures or stores. There would be no
use for money, for no one would have the right
TO own anything which he could offer for sale.
There would be minimum OF labor and
maximum of poverty, as every Incentive 10 &C.
emulation would be destroyed There would
be no invention, because there would he no de
mand for improved machinery. There would
be no preachers, because there would be no re-
| ,llgion, and there would be no lawyers, because
there would be no law except that of brute
| force There would be no school teachers. be.
cause education would be useless. Every
thing would be merged In the syndicate of man.
! ayers called the "State," and the estate"
| would be an aggregation of the greed, selfish
ness and force of the strongest, restrained by
| tyranny. 1t would be French communism over
| again.
We now propose to examine more fully
and completely In the light OF the teach
| i,,o ,,Ff &c annutlaa and N q
the readers attention to the end Of this
review. Socialism ian exotic in America
1t was brought here from continental
Europe. Its apostles in this country are
nearly all Germans. There is slight
sprinkling of Belgians, Frenchmen, and q
Russian or two. The high priests of the
order are and have been subjects Of EN-
peror william. Henry George is the only
American of any note who has assisted In
the socialistic propaganda, and he does
not go the whole programme. At first he
was disposed to conhne himself to agri-
cultural socialism, so to speak. Latterly,
however, he seems to favor debt
Reputation. Those public debts,
he says, rest, like private prop
erty in land, con the preposterous as
sumption that one generation may bind
another" ('Social Problems" page
154 } OF the English writer's on the
socialistic theory perhaps the best known
is Hyndman, the London Jew journalist
and author, who, with Burns and the ex-
soldier, Campion, excited mob to riot
and plumber in the British metropolis
last spring. Hyndman has been lately
devotng considerable attention TO
America. He has been expressing him
self rather freely about the verdict
Ina hfc4o NH ha
condemns, as matter course. His con-
federate in the socialistic propaganda, DR..
Aveling, is In this country at the present
time in company with the leading German
socialist, Herr Liebknecht. Both the
distinguished strangers" as we'll as
Hyndman, draw their 'socialistic inspira-
ton from a common source-the writings
of Karl Marx, whose daughter, by the
way, is the wife Of DR.. Aveling. Karl
Marx was the founder of the notorious
International society, through which 8
systematized soclallstic propaganda was
frst established in America.
AS there seems to be a sort OF vague
notion as to what constitutes socialism
and as the American propogandists give
varying definitions Of it to suit the occa'
sion and the circumstances, 1t will bt
necessary to go to the high priests of the
propaganda and the proceedings Of the
parent societies for proper understand
ing OF the socialistic creed, taking the
latest formal public announcement oil
the question.
HYNpMAN's IDEAS.
Mr.. Hyndman is the head and front o
the Democratic Social Federation o
Great Britain, and, with a Mr.. Bedford
Bax, who is little known in America, i
: the principal contributor to the literature
on which the English-speakine socialists
crauks of America are mentally % fed
After having set forth that all wealth Il
, due TO labor, MIR. Hyndman says;
We claim that land in country towns. mines
parks, mountains, moore, should be owned b,
inc people, TO be held, used built over, and Guilt
waited upon such terms As the people themeelge
ofdain. The handful of marauders who NOS
hold possession have, and can have, no RICH
!, save brute force against the tens of million
= whom they wrong.
Above al, the active capitalist class, the loan
8 mongera, the farmerr the mine explOiters, tn
j. contractors, the middlemen, the factory lords
e these the modern slave drivers, these are the