The Labor enquirer., 1886-08-14
various Kind. Of Socialists.

to occur soon. EMILE DERMUL.
Various Kinds Of Socialists. II
For The Enquirer.
DENVER, August 6.-There are some
peculiar Socialists admit, vet they are
the only people who have formulated q
plan to reconstruct our national policy
for the good of the people. 1t has been
said that whom the gods intend to des-
troy they first make mad, and this VAS
never more applicable than it is to lav
to the two great political parties who
profess to govern this country; as they
claim to be the only leaders of political
thought md action, and vet both par.
ties are destitute of principle, without
either conscience or honor and whose
only ambition is to get and keep con-
troll of the United States treasury and
their han ds in the pockets of the tax
PAYERS. ! ... '~.--
To accomplish this they frame ambig-
uous generalities, that can be read
either way, wrong side up, upside down
or any other way the reader NAV choose
They become all things to all men that
they may gain all votes. The p 'litician
of the present seems to possess only two
indispensable accomplishments artful,
ness and cunning, but are quite void Of
either prudence or skill. They remind
one of the church Socialist who is al
wavs present at the sociable, as it gives
them the opportunity to display their
charms by becoming familiar with the
people, where they can say. very much
and yet nothing in particular, as words
have double meanin!.
Shallow class of Socialists these, as may
be seen when their pastor or some writer
classes Socialists with murderers and
dynamiters. Howthey duck their heads,
notwithstanding the disturbed and tur-
bulent upheaval of the industrial world,
who are writhing under oppression from
the various forms of land, financial, in
dustrial and distributed monopolies
which these politicians have created,
fostered and subsidized to exploit the
people. And vet there Is no man in
congress or senate who is statesman
enough to come forward and show the
,uou o,f of kb;o ,,ouJJIa fba1, bouo oro-
ated, except these despised Socialists,
who are everywhere spoken agalnst.
The love of greed for wealth has eaten
out the heart of both church and state,
who are in constant anarchy against the
people by encouraging know-nothingism
and fostering such societies as 60 back
on their ancestors, and who, like the po-
tatoes, the best part of which are under
the earth, are destined to die of too
much patriotism. They are blind lead
ers of the blind, whose ultimate goal is
the ditch.
Then there are few timid Socialists
who have also gone back upon them
selves on account of the odlum at pres
ent cast upon Socialism bv our venal and
subsidized press and pulpit. 1t was so
in the early DAYS of Christianity, when
to confess the name was considered
crime enough to cast them in to the
wild beasts in the amphitheatre, which
caused many, through fear, to go back
on themselves and others.
But there are other Socialists than
these who are growing to be power in
tie land, who are neither afraid OF
ashamed of the hope that is in them,
but who count it all joy to suffer scorn
and reproach for their principles; be-
lleving that Socialism will become a
name of honor and renown when the
remembrance of the golden fleece and
Roman eagle shall have faded from the
minds of men, and such baubles as the
star and garter will no longer fascinate
the crowd. The word Socialist shall be
had in remembrance when that of king,
emperor or president shall be titles OF
past ages, and the Cooperative Com,
monwealth shall be the form of govern
ment for all nations. And the univer-
sal band of brotherhood among men, the
unity of the race shall be complete and
the redeemed form of man shall stand
erect as Gods representative on earth,
having shaken off selfshness and all
forms of oppression formerly known
among men.
"And the earth shall be filed with bis
glory" THOMAS YoUNG,
The natural movement of society
should show to-day a twofold action ::
the repression of excessive individual