Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1889-11-26

prominent member ~ the party In Chi
cago claims twenty-five thousand men,
all armed aud drilled. President >cclye
of Amherst College says there are prob
ably one hundred thousand men la the
United States to-day whose anlmoslty
against all eXisilng social Institutions u
hardly lc.s than boundless.
4 large portion of the anarchists of
this country are Germans whose mem-
bcrs are constantly being .wellcd by int
migration. Socialism l. rapidly lncrca--
Ing Ia Germany az we'll as In America.
Their vote has increased In the former
country from $4,000 In ISL Ia 10000
IN 1851. Professor fawcctt IN opening
hi course ot textures az Oxford said
that II the growth ~ the socitllstic polii-
ical vote progressed In Germany and the
United state. IN the next hfty years AZ
u had In the last, capital could do moth
Ing rfieCtusl against socialism. Inhlell-
"a ani atheism make a fruitful soil io
gernlnaie anarchy and socialism. The
socialist lloneltou says,-"No man !.
worthy ~ the name of socialist save him
Who. himsclf an atheist. devote. his ~
crilons with real a. the spread ~ athc-
ism" Equality u one II their dreams
ani they resist all distinctions, hut so
long ~ men are endowed With unequal
capacities, these dreams can never he
realized. These social distinctions are
neither hurtful nor unsafr, so long a.
the indiyilual members ~ thcsc classes
can rice and fall. ani arr easily intcr-
chaugrtble from one to the other hy
their Own merits ot dcmcfits. I'm this
eta ot Invention. With IT, enormous mnl-
tiplicliion of machinery. one machine
ttkrs the plicv 0f many men. We have
ALREADY multiplied our capacity Tor pro-
duciipn IN excess Of that Tor consump-
tiou.
There la growing tendency to con-
solilsie manufacturing Into gigantic
corporations. This PLACES agcnts be-
tNcrn the employer and employed,
thus bringing thru farther aud farther
apart. The employer, no longer . work
man. gives hi attention to his otlice and
the financial part ot hl. bu.lness. Thus
they gruw wider and wider apart; capt
ttl combining itself Ia powerful corpora
tions and pools. aud labor Ia powerful
trades uulous. each offering battle to
the other. and terms ~ compromise or
surrender. thus making the breach deep
81 aud broader, aud. the barrier higher
and stronger, between the tso classcs.
our society l. fast settling down "u the
European hasls ~ hereditary clssses of
workmen. ani beneath all thi. smoulder
the frvs ~ deep discouicnt. Thesc arr
prrri.cly the conditions whcr- socialism
noudshcs beet AMI every strike, cat
down. aud lockout. recruits 10. army.
IN January. ls>n, there appeared Ia the
New lork papers q statement that Van
dsrSilt aud four Others mtdc profit that
year aggrrgsiing ssi,Wn,e0. Taking
the YEARLY average wage ~ = workman
al siOl. these i've men rccsi,ei as much
incomc as one hundred and foriy-siN
thousand workman, or each one ~ The
i've q. much al. two thousand nine huu-
drrd and tweuiy wurkmsn. L. u ans
wonder that such rvsults hsgct animos-
itic.. resentment. aud discomfort Thee
orcufrvncs. swell the .oCitlistic army,
tlr other feeders ~ the army are thc
also.tate. from The Iaiholir aud Mormon
churyhe.. aud immigration. These Cou-
ccntratc Ia our large cltirs aud in the
West. Dr. T.. T.. Goodwin says that
Into these western communities the Inter
national soCistic., and scvrvt lahur
leagues. ani Jacohin rluh.. ani athcl.tir,
inhdel, ratlonali-iic organizations ~ ~
ery name in the Oli World. arr coutin-
uslly cmpiying themselves. They arr
the natural reservoir. of whatever l.
uneasy, turbulent. aui autagpnistic o.
either God ~ man. among the population
across the 80. u. =. \.