Workmen's advocate., 1889-11-09
THE NEW GOSPEL.
BOSTON DlVlNES PREACHING
 SOCIALISM.


 Rev. W. D. P. Bliss Lectures to the $.
 l.. P. SectiOn--Rabbi Schindler
 Condemns Indiyidualism and EX-
 tOls Socialism as the Highest
 Ideal of Civilization.
 Harry w. Robinson presided at meeting of the Boston Section of the Socialist Labor Party in Grand Army Hall, 6l6 Washington street last Sun day evening. He announced that the meeting of the Section would be omitted next Sunday evening, in order to give the members an opportunity to attend the meeting in Paine Hall, in Appleton street, in memory of the Chicago Anarchists who were hanged. Then he made an address on "The Ugliness of Modern Life," say ing that the social system of the present day is so ridiculously wrong that it is not worth criticizing, and that it stands condemned in the mind of every intelli- gent man or woman. Brief speeches were made by several members of the Section, and then Rev. W. D. P. Bliss delivered lecture on the subject of
 DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.
 He said that the present time marked a crlsls in this country and the world. For ages the workingmen have been trying to free themselves from their slavery to the rich. The middle classes held aloof from the struggle because they thought it did not concern them, but to-day capital is putting its iron heel upon them. Money is the open seasame to success in this land. Many of our ablest professional men are not independent, but are dependent upon the wealthy. The rich men are com bining and forming corporations and trusts. Thus, the large factories have the power to swamp the small ones. and large stores are rendering small stores unremunerative, and the proprie- tors of these lesser enterprises are forced to become Socialists. The combinations and trusts have come to stay, and to offset their baleful influence the State will pe compelled to increase its power over them. True socialism is essentially democratc-it is fraternal. If the State is democratic, socialism is all right; if it is not, socialism is all wrong.
 Mir. Bliss declared that our govern ment is not democratic-thati it is ruled by the tools of corporations and capit. alists-and he drew very dark picture of the state of public, social and religi- ous affairs. Wealth, he said, is the moral, or rather immoral, dynamite of our land. We must tax that wealth so as to reduce it, before we put more power into it's hands. The State and the people must go hand in hand if we are to have true socialism, which is a principle of social action, and should ul. timately bring about the acknowledg- ment of the brotherhood of all man. kind. All the social evils which beset the world can be cured by democratic socialism.
 One of the points which MT, Bliss em- phasized in the strongest and happiest language was that the capitalist class can or will no longer employ all those who need work; that these idle people, driven to desperation by misery, are forced to become criminals, while their wives and children are turned into beg. gars: and that the disastrous effects, social and political, of this stupendous failure of the wealth-holders in their plain duty to the wealth-producers, i'm peratively require that government shonld interfere for the preservation of society, by directly employing all will ling workers.
 On the same evening Rabbi Solomon Schindler delivered the second of series of lectures at the Temple Adath Israel, his subject being Justice" There are good many people, he said, that have an aversion against all words that end in ''ism," and although I respect their adherence of strange sounding terms, I cannot help using two words ending in ''ism' in introducing what I have to say on the topic of justice. They are the two words