Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-12
THE NATIONALISTS
PROGRESS AND TENDENCIES
OF THE MOVEMENT.
A Deep Feeling Of Social Unrest Per-
yades the Com monwealth - Cul.
tured Men Dissa tistled and i'm Fu III
Sympathy with the Working
Class-The Wage.System Must go.

Sympathy with the Working
Class-Tbe Wage-System Must go.
Public interest in the Nationalist
movement is spreading fast and far. Mr..
w. G. Temple, Secretary Of Nationalist
Club No. Of New York, is receiving
numerous communications from all clas
ses Of people in all parts of the country.
One came few days ago from minis
ter in country town of Massachusetts,
containing the following questions:
lin what sense is Nationalism prac-
ticable?
2-ls there a deep feeling Of social
unrest among the working people?
3-What led you to join the move
mentf
4-Do you expect to work towards
any hard and fast plan?
5-Would you make Nationalism a
political movement?
81 am, says the writer, greatly in
terested in the subject, and any infor-
nation that you may give will be thank
fully received.
To this full reply was made,
from which the following extracts are
taken:
"1-Nationalism is practicable as a
social system. *** What we now must
do is to cast off our shell Of political
organization, which, however valuable
in the past, is now only an impediment
to our growth. Nv We must enter
upon thai higher plane Of existence
where government shall be co-extensi We
with the State, officials tantamount to
citizens, and society reared upon the
Industrial basis.
"2-There is, indeed, deep feeling
of social unrest among the working
people. All the official and semi.official
manipulations Of sta tistics to demons
trate to them that they are happy, all
the twaddle Of economists and journa-
lists in the pay Of capitalists, all the sys-
tematic bribing Of labor leaders as a
means Of riveting the masses to the
existing political parties, all these things
have proved idle. They have had their
temporary effect, but that effect is past;
and aided by the economic education
which the wage.workers are receiving
through their organizations, their pa
pers, etc., their sensitivenesS has been
awakened. They are keenly alive not
only to their misery and to the possible
boons of civilization, but also to the
wrongfulness Of the system which gives
them dole in return for the plenty
they produce, which turns their wives
into drudges and robs their children of
their childhood.
"But l do not believe this answer is
complete without adding that it is not
among the class you call common
people, wage.workers and mechanic,
only that this feeling prevails. 1t pre-
walls, | am very much inclined to be-
lieye, to ali equal extent among class
not generally included among the "con-
mon people," For similar reasons that
the farmers, whom capitalism is in large
numbers rendering or about to render
properties, is giving to the upholders
of our present system ominous signs of
unrest, as you surely know, large class
of the cultured and educated residen ts
of our ci les are also becoming dissa-
tisfied and earnest in the wish to over
turn system that is crowding them to
the wall, emblttering their lives with
apprehension for the future, if not for
the present too, and blasting their early
hopes,
"3-What led me to join the move
ment? The knowledge of existing mis-
cry among three-q quarters of our people,
and these the wealth producers, toge-
ther with the effects upon the few of an
excess of this wealth.; the knowledge
derived from the study of political eco
nomy and history that such widespread
want among the masses and superfluous
wealth among the few is the invitable
result of the competitive system of pro-
duction; the knowledge that machinery
etc. now renders unnecessary physical
want within civilized community if
properly organized. The feeling that it
is the ounden duty of every one who
knows the facts as know them, and W no
has enjoyed the advantages Of university
education, to help his fellow beings to
understand tn, Sc facts, to do all in his
power to promote the cause on ''the
right side of Bull Rum.
"4-I do not know exactly what you
mean by this question:. Unless the La w
of gravitation, the binomial tLeorem OF
the propositions Of Euclid come within
your meaning, l do not expect to work