Workmen's advocate., 1889-06-29
NOTHING GOOD DESTROYED.
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Commonwealth"
 Will this New Social Order be ia happy issue:'
 That is really consideration of sec- ondary importance, and will perhaps be answered differently, according to the standpoint one occupies. To our money bags, prominent politicians, prominent lawyers, who now lord it over us, to independent" overbearing, domineer- ing "Philistines," buoyed up at the top, it will probably not seem very "happy issue, ," looking at it through spectacles. colored by their class interests as they do. For the very gist of the Coming Revolution will consist in unseating them, in abrogating their vested rights, the "divine" right which they have been taught that they have to the fruits of the labor of other people. It will abol- ish freedom as they practice it, that is, the right to do what they please and to make others do as they (the ''inde- pendent'O please. But to the great multitude it will be, we should say, a happy issue, for it will put an end to their Snbjection and put interdependence -gen1lne freedom-in it's place. And if we consider the welfare of the social organism there can be no doubt about the New System being a happy issue. Instead of the quackery, charatanism, amateurship, which now bears sway in all activities of society, we shall have skill, competence and qualifiedness If we may coin a word) at the head of affairs, and indeed from top to bottom, Why, the main reasons why the work CTS will dismiss those who rule" us now, is the very fact that they have proved themselves incapable of "gov- erning," of administering affairs. The anarchy which now obtains, the dis content of the masses, our crises, our bankruptcies, are all so many proofs of their incapacity imbecility and ignor- ance. And most important of all, in- stead of being cro,cd, not able even to. keep our streets clean, we shall have organization, instead of gregariousness we shall have associations; instead of everybody pursuing his individual petty interests, absolutely indifferent and often hostile to the interests of Society, everybody will instinctively be con- scious of himself as a being who, of course, considers the social welfare in his every act.
 We can be sure that the Coming Rev olution will not. destroy an atom of what is really good now. We can be sure that 1t does not mean destruction as much as upbuilding. We can be sure that should anybody thereafter seriously propose to go back to the present Social Order, he will be laughed at as fool, fit for the lunatic asylum
 But-"ignore it altogether r' Those who are now at the head of affairs af- fecting-to ignore. This is dangerous policy. Those who lcW not see become in time those who cdnnOr see. Think of Headers who wilfuly shut their eyes and advise, ignore it altogether" of statesmen with the motto: "after us the deluger
 So, however, it has always been. Force has been the midwife at the birth of every New Order" But the responsibility be on our incapable "leaders."
 Meanwhile the evolution of society marches forward in spite of all stumb- ling blocks; one moment quietly in the brain of the thinker, the next moment unnIercifully over corpses. But it does not want blood. On the contrary, it sends warning in advance of every ca- tastrophe.-Woe to those who do not heed the warning.
 As yet, and first of all, it is contest of ideas. We aim to put the Socialist idea into the minds of the people, knowing that if it be there action will follow fast enough.