The examiner., 1886-07-17

bomb, to brighten the good people OF
Bridgeport But, like the Roman empor-
ers of 1900 years ago, our Authorities have
decided that such seditious utterances must
Vain endeavorl Man can be suppressed
and imprisoned, never an idea. Socialism,
if based on false premises, will die natu-
raj death without the aid of its opponents.
1t will never. be dubbed or fired out of ex-
istence.
The hanging of John Brown did not pre-
vent the emancipation of the chattel slaves.
The posecution of socialists will not pro-
hibit the final abolition of wage slavery.
do not believe in violence, neither in
the policeman's club, the riot gun of the
militia nor the bomb of the anarchist.
These are savage remnants of our fratrici-
del competitive system. l have full fate in
the dynamite of the brain. Unless the au-
thorities by overstepping the b.unds of
reason and justice precipitate bloodshed,
feel assured that at least in this country
the cooperative commonwealth will be
established by the ballot without any vio-
lent upheavaIs. The future belongs to the
toilers. Organized labor will elect the
| next president of the United States.
| That people of common school education
| and even ministers of the gospel persistent
| ly confound socialism and anarchism-two
| opposite extremes, contrary in aims and
tactics, such ignorance is deplorable. If a
| desperate maniac imagines that the hurl-
! ing of bomb will destroy the competitive
system and acts according to his insane
! Imagination, socialism can be held as little
| responsible for this, as the teachings OF
! Christ for the violent deeds of many a
Christian fanatic. In conclusion let me
state that am socialist because / am
! convinced of the following facts:
| /. That a truly democratic government
should seek the largest amount of good fol-
the greatest number of people and not en-
act or tolerate laws that enable few to
live in luxury and ease at the expense OF
| the many.
2. That, as our national wealth accu-
mulates, the masses are growing poorer
and more disconnected, while the ranks o.
involuntary idlers are swelling daily.
8. That poverty begets crime, anG
that such social evils as filth, brutality
drunkenness and the like, can only be sue
cessfully attacked by destroying thei
principle root-want or poverty.
4. That political freedom withou
Economical liberty" i. e.. the right tt
vote without the right to be employed ant
earn the full undivided fruit of ones toll
is farce.
5. That knowledge and virtue can b.
| implanted only in sound minds, and
sound mind requires healthy body and
healthy body requires good nourishment
bread, then education.
6. That philanthropic institutions Ga
soup and aim houses) are mere palliatives
which may temporarily quell the wants O
few but are liable to foster caste G
professional beggars and will never solv
the social question.
Z. That most of our clergymen are S
much absorbed in celestial or fnancia
matters as to lose sight of suffering human
ity.
s. That the adulteration of mental foo
is the most heinous offense againt human
nature, yet most of our leading papers are
for reasons best, known to themselves
ignoring or misrepresenting the true stat
of affairs while giving the minutest de
scription of fashionable balls, sensations
divorce cases, prize fights, family scrape
and so on.
9. That overproduction does not de
mand abstinence and economy but rattle
an increased purchasing ability of tn
| masses.
10. That the middle class, the so-calle
bulwark of republic, is fast disappearin
and making room for moneyed oligarch!
surrounded by millions of poor. and col
sequently ignorant, desperate and DANCE
Gus wretches. $500
This anarchist state of things can onl
! be remedied by system of productive an
consumptive cooperation on the large
possible scale, which would enable all viii
ing toilers (of both mind and body I
earn the fruit of their labor and abolis
the two curses of Observation-Disclosures
and Millionairism. These Messrs. Editor
are the reasons why am socialist
S. Seller, in Bridgeport Standard.