The Wilmingtonian., 1888-06-23

unite. They are split up into all sorts OF
factions. Mr.. Lum, who used to edit the
Alarmin Chicago, has Joined, in thisci6y,
the smallest branch of socialists. They
are generally called anarchists, and John
Most is the leader of them. The public
thinks it knows all about Most by this
time. 1t regards him as desperate dy-
namiter-a raw-head and bloody bones.
In fact, he is quite the reverse. He is a
loud talker, but most of the real harm
that he has done has been so skillfully
covered up that few know anything about
1t, and the offenses of which he has been
convicted are largely chimerical. If one
goes into his office to-day he will find him
quiet and apparently subdued. The au-
thorities think that he is in reality put
down, They should remember how ut
terly they failed to solve the mystery of
the "propaganda by deeds,n when il took
the form of defrauding insurance COM
panies by incendiary fires, two years and
more ago.
Most may or may not be lying idle just
now, but he is a man who "hollers" in
one place and works in another. He told
your correspondent to-day that everything
was quiet; and the Socialistic Labor lead
ers say that he has a following of only 300
to 400, but for all that, his paper Freihett
lives and Most himself never wants for
the money to buy the pail of beer that
always stands on his editorial desk. 1t is
singular fact that il you pin Most down
to what he really believes-or rather to
what he thinks that he can support by
argument-you will find it to be the doc
trine which is really making the most i'm
portant progress in this country, namely,
indiyidualism. Mr.. Benjamin r.. Tucker,
of Boston, the great apostle of scientific
socialism in this country, is at swords
points with Most and Most with him, but
for all that the editor of ErGiheit has al
ways fallen back very nearly to fuckers
position in his conversations with the
writer, although he will ineonsistently
advocate the most utterly diverse notions.
Itisscientific socialism anarchy properly
so-called-that is making real headway.
1t is to be found among doctors, among
lawyers, among journalists, and even in
the pulpit. 1t would surprise anybody
to know how many intelligent people re-
frain from voting because they disbelieve
in government. But these cannot be
counted because there is no organization.
The main fact about them is that they are
men and women Of powerful and well
trained minds
There are many intelligent men, too, in
that branch of socialism which is the larg-
est here-or at least, looks the largest.
That is the Socialistio Labor Party.
Among its leaders are Sergius Schevitsch,
who was editor of the late Leader, and is
now an editorial writer of the FolkS Zci
tuna, Messrs. Jonas, Vogt and Gruzig
editors of that paper; Wilhelm Rosenberg
who is secretary of the National Execu
tive Committee and editor Of the Social
ist, and Editor Bouche Of the Working
7nen'S Adpocote; the former is German
the latter an English organ. These mel
believe in what they call cooperativ,
commonwealth in which production ant
distribution should be regulated by wha
might be called a governing committee
They say that this is not state socialism
but it looksa good deal likeit' Theywil