Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-04-22
Il Socialism the Road to Frcedom7

- DOClouBhn ttlo AeOHu W GICouOlht
(coMMuNIcArED.)
This Is Q question that 10 now agitsting
the civilized world, and 1t 10 making
such progress that some Of the most pro-
found aud conservative thinkers Of all
nations are asking the question. us
socialism the road 70 frcedom?" Messrs.
Editors, do not claim TO be socialist,
and shall not advocate It's claims, but
will only attempt to show to your many
readers tho rapid progress socialism 10
making, and some OF the causes for its
progress. It 10 said that extremes always
right themselves, and Us all Lations, ours
not excepted, have legislsted IN the
interest Of classes against the masses.
that governments have established .
cut ihrOst, pharisaicAl system, that indi-
| vidual enterprise ID AlmoGt crushed out
You can even In America see the path
way OF life strewn with the wrecks OF
middle men. Business can only be sue
cessiully conducted now In the form OF
trusts, combines or monopoly, and he
who Is fool-hardy enough to undertake
to conduct . business outsidc OF them ID
sure to DO caught and squeezed, OF
crushed between them, and men are ask.
ing il there 10 no remedy for this evil
and some OF tho IN est enlightened mindi
and deepest thinkers Of this ago are IL.
most able defenders.
And every particle Of legislation, mu
nicipsl, State and national, 10 only adding
to the evil. aud proving good soil for thu
growth Of socialism, aud as Ito benefit
are so plausitly set forth by Its able de
Tenders that the mass of mankind ar
beginning to accept 1t as q panacea TO
their poverty, misery and oppression
And the thinkers and advocates of so
cialism are not doing half as much h
stimulate Its growth as our business sys
TEN 10 doing. Now in this State We hay
J established by law q medical trust,
druggists trust, dentists' trust, gre
cerymen's trust, builders trust,
plumbers' trust aud many other trusti
= And at the next session OF the Gsners
Assembly 1t would not surprise me
some sect OF clergymen should apply fc
an act to establ,h q religious trus,. W
have now In, tbs coudtry almost ever
. enterprise mouopolized and conducted b
, combination. coal, oil, breads,utfs, mel
and lard and tho lard largely mixed VII
cott onseed oil, and trAnsyor atcn OF Q
a kinds Is In the hands OF combinations
1 corporations; bonanza farming Is all
cru.hing out farming on email scale; IL
combination daIries are death to Il
email or private dairiee.
The farmers know that one hundrt
farmers with one dairy combined, CT
make more and better butter hnd chez
than the same number can with each
separate one; and railroad officials kno
that by combining they can pay larg
dividends than they can by coming
competition with each other separated
And socialism teaches that II combin
lions Of corporations can produce
much and more for the stockholders
combining than by Individual actio
= that 1t would be better for the who
% people TO combine and conduct all bus
ness Tor the benefit of the whole peopl
therelsre the com blnations are an a
to socialism without knowing II, as tn
arc demonstrating what socialis
teaches. Tho millionaire and the ira Il
are wholly modern institutions, and .
the prototype of Dives aud Lazarus, wi
the guilt equally as wide between the
In this life, and ono about as useful
society AS the other ard the came sy
ten produced them both (they both .
only drones In the human hive); Al
socialism claims that 1t will rid socie
OF both; socialists claim that they W
abridge the gulf 30 thst the millionai
and tramp shall meet, Join hands oil
,, both disappear together.
, HThe tramp 10 caused by emigrati
| from COuntflte cuThtu WIN lhuu nun
Sc poly. TO q country cursed with lai
A. monopoly, that is the base OF pyram
= OF monopoles. Tho time was VIII
m socialism was only sneere1 At, but nj
w It 10 far different as 1t p.rmcates our &C
" leges and seats of learning; scholar
We philosophers, professional men, are
I'd vestigating her philosophy, and 1t W
require more than IL sneer to refute t
p plausible arguments of her devotes al
Is. scholars. Democracy teaches of u
l., crty by statutory law, but II has Oh
d. mostrated is liberty for the classt
Socialism teaches that the road to III
dem lie by statutory law, but that 1t
be liberty Tor tho masses, while belle
tho road to freedom, Is In the oppos
direction Of both, 1t 10 by natural la
IS, The government that governs the lei
governs best. All laws should be SO 81
pie and Just that all would underotsI
= respect and obey them without the for
ally OF government to enforce them.
JAMES H. WEIGH