Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-02-23

newer IL derived from tne 0luer, the
higher has its root in the lower.
The past is the mother of the pres
ent, the present the mother Of the
future. Evolution does not proceed
by sudden vault from low to high.
"Heaven is not reached by a single
bound,
But we build the ladder by which we
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
And we mount to the summit round by
round" i HoiiaHd.l
Ever in the course of historic time
new forms of society have grown up
from the ideals Of the past gradu-
ally wrought into the organic struc-
ture of human life and relations.
Little by little the new idea takes
form and becomes specialized as Il
part Of the existing social structure,
and finally, perhaps, becomes pre-
dominant and m0ulds the whole syS-
TEN into its own image and likeness
The succeeding form has its root in
the preceding, and has its life, its
nourlshment, its being therefrom;
and the transition from one type to
another is wrought by gradual refor-
nation Ce-formation), continued
until the completed evolutionary
change may amount to completed
revolution. This is the socialist doc
trlne.
The advocate Of "any and every
MEANS" the anarchist, who sane
tons violent force, is practically a
believer in the old bygone theory,
now ignored by modern science, of
cataclysmic changes and Of special
creations at special epochs. He
would explode dynamite, 50 to speak,
under the existing system Of society
and destroy it, nolenS rOleuS, and
create his higher type of society, an
archism-or let it create itsef-on
the debris.
"Nichts k0mmt darauy,' "Er-
Mill nihH0 N,' 'fFrom nothing
nothing comes" The new society
must be derived from something,
and that something must be the old
mother societ-. Your anarchist will
not agree that the mother may live
her full natural lifetime and die in
peaceful old age of gradual decay
and disuse of her once vigorous
powerS-he will have none of it.
elbow her to --, and hurry her
body under the ground, without
mOurners Or funeral" is his senti-
ment.
Well, my gentle anarchist, you
have only to try the experiment, or
even to threaten it publicly, to find
by experience, as others have found
before you, that the old lady is
"alive and kicking yet If you cut
up any anarchistic tantrums she
Will draw you across her mOtherly
knees and administer chastIsement
till you are quleted, rs she has a
complete and indcfeasible right to
do, and serves You right. And if
she gets her Islander up she is H.
able to apply a halter strap or an
ugly rope, and is liable to 90 beyond
what is actually necessary in sever
ity Of punishment. SO, 90 ahead,
if you will; but don't look to social
lists for great deal of sympathy
when you get into trouble. Take
your medicine like a little man, and
if it is unpleasant, grin and bear it;
1t ma Y do you good. But before
you set out IN open rebellion against
her will, allow friendly warning
such as has often been given before:
The Old lady is jealous Of her rights,
and if you 90 too far with your mo
sense she will administer a medicine
that is warranted to kill or cure.
This may seem like harsh talk
and unfeeling; it is simply plain
and to the point to those for whom
it is meant. 1t is kindness to seem
harsh sometimes, when occasion de-
mands it. 1t were well for the
frenzied Sanctioners of violence tc
remember that "cataclysms' are
quite apt to begin and end in a diff
ferent manner than is hoped for
and expected, where society is the
power to be dealt with.
We think it is wiser and better tC
continue to work by the old social
istic process of evolution. 1t may
scam slow hut nnthinr nan mnrl