Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-08

anu tue lhLleT QuOLcG De lOCQueNlles
When the people are overwhelmed with
misery they are resigned. Ii 4" when they be.
gin TO hold up their heads and to look above
them that they are impcllod to Instruction.
FICHTE, wEITLING, AND LAssALLE.
1t must not be inferred from what has
been stated above that Marx was the
originator Of the socialistic idea. Flchte,
Weitllng and Prof. Winkelbach preceded
him in Germany. He but codifed their
maxims and utilized the fallacies OF the
political economists TO SUSTAIN the sound
ness of the theories enunciated. The fol-
lowing passages from Fichte were the
germs of modern German and German
American socialism,
whosoevor has not the means OF living Is not
bound to recognize or reepect the properly OF
others, seeing that AZ regards him the princi-
pies Of the social contract have been violated.
Every one should have some property society
owes to all the means TO live
Aud again:
Labor and distribution ought 10 be collec-
lively organic ID every one should receive for
a fixed amount of labor fixed amount OF capt
tai, which would constitute his property ac-
coTdlng to right Property win thus be made
universal. No person should enjoy supernuiti 3
as long as anybody lacks necessaries; for the
right OF property In objects of luxury can have
no foundation until each citizen has his share
In the necessaries of life.
short extract from Writing will
suffice:
Absolute equality can only be established by
tho destruction OF the Nisting state 0rganiza.
ton. IL can admit of administration only and
not OF government. From the moment
that every free man could no longer appropriate
a part of the soil, property ceased toibe q right
The peculiar doctrines preached by
Ferdinand Lassalle, who has been i'm
piously described as the "Messlah OF
Socialism," have been left for the last.
Lassalle was German Jew, Karl Marx
was of Jewish origin. "The jew" says
M. Renan, sis not resigned ike the
Christian. To the Christian poverty and
humility are virtues; TO the jew, they
are misfortunes to be avoided. Lassalle
was born In Breslau, in 1926. He was
shot dead IN duel about young woman
In 1864. He was the mildest OF the
socialist propaganda, though he in
Weighed flercely against passive resist
ance. "That is the act" he said, "of
men who feel clearly the duty of the re-
sistance, but at the same time are too
cowardly to imperll their lives in the mat
ter" He organized the workingmen's
party In Germany. His motto for
them was, "In human affairs II is force
that always decides In the last resort"
There was no hope for the workingmen,
he maintained, rs long as the "iron law
OF wages stood In their way. He would
abolish wages. He would substitute the
cooperative plan with state aid Accord
ing TO him. "rhe rule OF the state Is not
that OF merely maintaining order, but
also Of furthering all great enterprises OF
civilization He estimated that l00,-
! 900, 600 thalers would suffice TO establish
state cooperation in Prussia. "There
would be central bank established hay
| ing a monopoly Of the issue Of notes, 80
that it could easily issue 1000, 900
thalers upon reserve Of one
third. Thus 1t would have
for the purpose of loans TO CO.
operative societies 200,000,000 thalers."
These societies would be gradually estab.
lIshed-frst In the districts best suited to
them. Then they were TO become uniyer.
sal, and were TO apply 10 all sorts Of
work. Capital, save in the hands OF the
state, was to be eventually abolished. The
apologists for Lassalle say that he did not
purpose bioodshed. The reply 10 such
persons Is perhaps best given In the words
OF John Stuart Mil, who will hardly be
accused Of being bIgoted or intolerant In
such matters. He says in an article which
appeared posthumously In the Fortuightly
Review for April, 1879;
IL must be Acknowledged that those who
would play this game lof tocialism) on the
strength Of their own private opinion, nncon'
nrmed as yet by any experimental yerihca-
sion, would forcibly deprive all who nave now
/ g comfortable physical existence Of their only
present means OF preserving H. aud would
brave the friRhtful boOdshed and misery thai
! would ensue II the attempt was rgsieted-mnst
have serene confidence IN their own wisdom
on the one hand and = Teckletsncsg Of other
I peoples sufierlnss on the other, which Robes
pierre and 81 Juss, hitherto typical Instances
Of those united atifbutees scarcely came ~ 70.