The examiner., 1886-06-19

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 vented to make people buy what they d,
 not really need, simply because it is chea]
 and shoWy. Here comes the invention o
 thousands of new and steadily improved
 machines and nicer subdivision of labo
 manipulations, to produce always nor
 cheaply and to monopolize the world
 markets with the aid of conquests, treatie
 colonization and the ruin of old native in | dustries. Women and children are pressed
 into the service of manufactories and tt
 supplant men, especially the expert anl educated handicraftsmen. If that is no sufficient to render production cheap, ant
 labor submissive, and profits large, foreig1
 labor is imported, and the organization o
 laborers for mutual protection of theil l standard of life is Warred against. MeI
 are made cheap for the sake of rendering merchandise cheap. Few men can now I follow congenial vocation and natural in- 4clinatiOn to work; they must drudge as | servants of machines and oyerseers, simply l for the profit of capitalists. The latter | themselves oust one another from the
 market, each manufacturing nation is at industrial war with all others, and more 1 and more capitalists are ruined for the ben eft of fewer and fewer large ones.
 This is anarchy under the disguise ot peace, law and order. Anerchy rules su- preme in all modern countries, whether l republican or monarchical, democratic or l or despotic, protectionist or free trade. And the result is the general impoverish- l ment of a majority of every nation, the ! destruction of capital itself by the utter ruin of the purchasing power of nations, and commercial and financial crisis and
 crashes which return every few years, on an ever larger scale. And all the states
 manship in existence is utterly unable to remedy this self-imposed misery and. retro gradation.
 All t1,is x1os forooa,, oDd ,,ro,bo.:ood L
 the science of the political economy of the socialdemocratic school of Kari Mara
 But their doctrine, although never contro- verted, was discredited, and the party ad- vocating it was subjected to prosecutions of all kinds, as though they were not phy- sicians of the sick times, but quacks and the cause of all the worlds misery. They knew that all prophets were doomed to martYrdom and took to endurance and quiet organization, and propaganda of their ideas among the masses. The sacrifices of the old Christian martyrs were reproduced, at least in Europe, and tens of thousands paid with their lives for the confession of their sacred and well demonstrable con- victions.
 No wonder that few of this great host of sufferers lost their patience and turned out practical Anarchists. Despairing of any other rescue than by forcible means, and goaded on by the murder and ruin of thousands of comrades, they vowed bloody revenge and became criminals from motives of humanity. They preached, and, in few cases, practiced murder and robbery of those whom they in their despair took for members of numbering and robbing class.
 We Social Democrats do not initiate, do not even excuse them. But we charge their guilt, their legal crimes, on the ruling N -douDr;i T1IEy are grrf1ry, opinion of the existing iniquitous law, but
 l<,., C., are the present incompetent and inhumane rulers of society and the State. Their reeking corruption, their perversion of all truth in science and morals to base ends, their incompetence to remedy the evils which they inhict upon the innocent ma iority of sufferers under their unnatural and immoral laws condemn them. We do not deny that there are, in this ruling class, very many well-meaniDg, but misln- formed persons; but their utter blindness
 to the facts that round about them stare into their faces. is of itself inexcusable. We can now return to the exposition of
 what Social Democracy is. The foregoing excursion was indispensable to the better understanding of what follows:
 Our Soc:o-Democratic science demon strates that the present form of Society and Government works it's own speedy de- struction. Seen from the economical standpoint, society produces more, and is able to produce many times more, than it I can consume. Side by side with enormous piles of grain, flour, victuals, millions of | men, women and children are unable to | produce by work the means WhereWith to ! buy sufficient food. Men and women will ! ling to work in the line of clothing and | covering of the body do actually freeze or ! sicken in front of filled magazines of tissues l clothing and mems and women's wear. ! Builders of houses, miners of fuel, workers | in furniture may not find dwelling, may be unable to warm their bodies and ease
 their weary limbs, while there is an abun
 dance of goods that might satisfy theil ! wants. The execrable nonsense, the incred ible folly is tangible reality, that theil
 are too many workers of every kind and
 at the same time-too many people un
 able to purchase what they could produce
 just because their is too much merchandiz'
 of every kind for sale. Men by the million
 are becoming superfuous because the.
 have not the means to work, while sucl
 means exist in too great an abundance And this insane state of things is formed ! at a time when the most stupendous dis I coyeries and inventions are known an l may be made almost to order. The age o
 scientific wonders and technical perfection is also the age of total inability of tn
 learned world to remedy the simplest want of the greatest number of persons! Les than century after the spurious discover
 made by MGlthus that mankind woul multiply in geometrical, and their foo 7 only in an arithmetical progression, tn 5 fact is established, that food and all tn ? first necessities of man are being produce , l in far greater ratio that we find purchas l CTS! n l All the teachings of religion and philo e ophy are ridiculed by the practices of Stat i and church, legislation and intercours - even in Christian countries! Natio1 f protesting the religion of universal brothe = hood carry on wars with the most perfe = means of murder and destruction tn n may be imagined. Millions of soldiers e the Old World, and even in the New, a e kept on foot, avowedly to guard the pea 7. among nations who worship God as u is great herald of 'Peace on earth and goo ,f will among menP' The very language d full of hypocrisy and deception. lndust n ! is nowadays the means of supporting,
 overwork of majority in idleness and sel l. suous luxury, minority which cam of even claim any merits! Law and Orde m are pretexts for throwing mankind into l- state of anarchy and all but universal d or satisfaction!
 is They call wages labor-"free labor'' Il. while it mast be sold afresh from day v. day. in order to continue existence; tn ts call it free contract when the disinhe m ted worker has no longer his own means es labor, but must work for an owner of mea is of labor at rate of wages which amour ne as rule, to hardly half of the product