The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-17
THE WHICH AND THE WHITTIER.

The organization of society into combina-
TONS pools, fraternities, seems to have de-
veloped sentiment of fealty in each of them
superior to patriotism, and even religion.
1t is fealty to the idea of preservation,
as interpreted by the necessities of the mo-
ment. The tendency towards oppressive
Capitalization has permeated every class
alike, and created conditions for which
neither the habits of men, the limits of con-
stituHons and laws, nor the experience of
statesmen find any solution for. We enjoin
moderation, but seldom reflect that men
never did learn moderation in the pursuit of
their aspirations and hopes, but rise to alti-
tudes where they are equally unable to sus-
tain themselves or retreat to a safer level.
The great question that is uppermost in
mems minds throughout the Christian
world-the labor questionable organization
of masses whose methods are essentially mil
itsry, and whose discipline, obedience to
their chosen chiefs, is absolute and unques-
tionable-the organizations of capitalists into
pools, agreements and syndicates, all lead up
to the single point-that the habits and
methods OF government are either undergo
ing fundamental changes or are breaking
down through sheer completely of ever
varying selfish elements.
This very completely renders it certain
that the social quantities must move auto
matically if they are to move at all. If they
can not move automatically, they will break
down and give place to simpler forms. 1t is
seen throughout the Christian world that the
automatically of society fails to coordinate
that society does not move with the ease and
vigor that it did, and continues to grow
more and more incapable of existence amid
the multitude of interests that no longer
lind in each other that interdependence and
community OF sentiment that binds society
together.
The laboring people throughout the world
are different in no respect from the capital
lists and leading social elements; each see in
the existence of certain ideas subversion of
the conceived rights of the other; in fact,
each conceives in the pretensions of the other
threat to their existence. There can no
longer be question that these ideas are fun
damental, and not local; that instead of
coming closer together as an automatic sys-
tenn of individualism, they are both separ-
sting by identical processes, in which colIec-
tive power-autocratic power-is substituted
for individual power and liberty of individ-
ual action. The complexity Of modern civ
ilization may be seen in the absolute inter
dependence OF its parts, and that when a
single element is wanting, the whole machine
is disabled. The loss of the English market
has upset our entire industrial system. The
loss of our market by England has over
turned the English industrial system, nor
can any artificial check be interposed to pre-
vent the acceleration of these forces, that
once started continue, in spite of human
effort, to carry human nature into paths for
which it is not prepared by experience or
habit to enter.
The labor movement is not intended to be
subversive. Neither is the railroad syndi-
cate intended to be subversive. Both are in
tuitive efforts to check the movement that is
dragging and changing them beyond their
well known lines of safety. Within each OF
the two grand divisions are multitude of
opposing interests that are only held togeth-
er by the supreme necessity of self-preserya-
ton. No Babel, with its confusion of
tongues, could have been more bewildering
in its confusion than our modern world.
There is lacking the stable element of faith
in our modern calculations, and in supreme
self-consciousnessm mankind has planted itself
upon itself alone, to find that its vaunted self