Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

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erected for that purpose, before which all
| charges of fault or incompetence, whether by
superior against subordinate, by subordinate
against superior or by the outside public against
members of the force, should be laid.
! It is believed that such plan Of organization
! would absolutely prevent administrative coer-
cion of members of the public service for parti-
san ends, and it is urgently recommended by
Nationalist that it be Immediately applied to
I ments of the general government, 10 the en-
ployes and to the public works department of all
| municipalities.
! branches of public service and productions
which have been enumerated would directly at
| feet, greatly for the better, the condition of
million and a half OF workers.
Here truly would be bulwark against capt.
! talists, against corporate usurpation, against
| industrial oppression. Here would be mighty
nucleus for the coming industrial army. Here,
| too, would be great body of consumers whose
! needs would suggest and whose demands would
sustain the beginning of the coming national
distributive and productive system.
Even q single industry organized on such a
| basis as described and guaranteeing to its toll
ers security, health, safety, dignity and justice
| would be object lesson Of the advantage of
| nationalsm even in its beginnings which would
! greatly hasten the general adoption of the sys-
| tenn.
| a MEASURE WHICH CANNOT WAIT,
seeing that at best, the consequences of its
/ postponement must continue to be felt long af-
! ter it is effected we urge that such partial sup
! port as may be needful to enable them to attend
:
! vided under proper guards by the state for the
! children of parents unable to maintain them
without aid from their labor. and that with this
/ provision the employment of children should be
Internationally forbidden and their education
! made Tigidly compulsory, to the end that equal
| ity OF educational opportunities for all be es-
| tablished.
Seeing that it would be manifestly inconsist-
! ent to make the education of our children COM
pulSory while permitting the unlimited impor-
| tation OF adult Ignorance and vice, necessary
! complement to any system of education would
! be such regulation of foreign immigration as,
! without prejudice to honest and intelligent pow
! erty, should prevent the importation of persons
! grossly illiterate in their own language, of the
| defective and of criminals, merely political Of
! lenses not being considered crimes.
In reviewing the measures which have been
mentioned substantially representing. ac-
! cording to my belief the present demands of
Nationalist, II is observable that there is not
! one of them which is not demanded by consid-
! erations of humanity and public expediency
! quite without reference to Nationalism. A man
! has need to be nationalist at all to advo-
/ cate them. They have been freely and often IA
! 7orably discussed by the press for years, and
our leading political economists are on record in
! favor of most if not all of them. As to some of
| the most important of these propositions, it is
altogether probable that majority of the Amer
! lean people, if they could be polled to-day,
would favor them. Nationalist may be, as
| some say, very extravaganza and fantastical set
| of people about the plan of action which they
| propose. There is not even anything which
be said to be greatly in advance of public opin-
| ion. This moderation is not accidental, nor yet
! a result OF policy, but necessary consequence
| of the method of natonalism, which is essen
tally gradual and progressive rather than abrupt
| or violent, the method of evolution as opposed
! to that of revolution.
! AS to the relation of nationalism to certain
political and social issues of the day, few
words may be pertinent.
| First, as to the tariff question. When the ma
| ton conducts all business for all, the common
| interest in every Improvement will create a far
stronger motive than now exists for all sorts of
experiments and improvements in home indus
ton, tariffs will no longer be necessary as now,
| TO encourage private persons to undertake such
experiments. They Will be tried as government
experiments are now tried, costing the country
only the expense of the experimental stations,
the nation without prejudice to the experiment,
continuing, If expedient, to buy in the cheapest
market till its own is the cheapest.
The sectional jealousies based upon industrial
rivalry, which now makes states and cities enc
mics of each others prosperity, will disappear
when national pooling of interests shall inter-
est all in the prosperity of all.
AS to the race issue, the industrial discipline
imposed by nationals N, while of general Dene-
fit to the white population Of the South in COM
tenn for developing, guiding and elevating the
recently emancipated colored race.
AS to the question of women's rights, the
national plan will put an end to every form of
sexual slavery and place feminine freedom and
dignity upon an unassallable basis by making
support. We consider that by no method less
radical wOmen's rightful equality with
men be established, or. if established,
The evils of intemperance have their strongest
roots in the brutalizing conditions of existing
society in the poverty OF the masses, their gross
ignorance, their misery and despair, in the
slavish dependence of women and children upon
men, and in the interest of large class of
tradesmen in the sale of intoxicantS. If this be
true, then the abolition of poverty, the univers-
atty of the best education, the complete en-
franchisement Of woman, with system Of dis
tribution which will destroy all personal motive
for stimulating the sale of intoxicants, consti-
tute surely the most promising well as the
most radical line of true temperance reform.
While the Matchmaking of land in such time
and by such methods shall involve least
hardships to any is a part of the national plan.
and while the Nationalist meanwhile favor all
practicable measures to prevent land monopoly
they are not persuaded that any measure apply
ing to land alone would furnish sufficient rem
edy for existing industrial and social troubles.
While sympathiZing with all efforts of workers
to obtain small immediate improvements in their
condition, Nationalist would have them reflect
that no great Improvements can be gained, and
if gained, cannot be secure, under the present
industrial system, and that the only effectual
and peaceable way of replacing that system by
better one is offered by nationalism. it is also
pointed out that the plan of nationalism, by the
humane and just conditions which will be Sc
cured to the employees of every industry, as it
comes under the public control, offers not only
the greatest ultimate results, but the speedieSt
and securest way for immediately benefting
great bodies of workers absolutely without risk
of arrangement to business.
One hundred years ago, after immemOrial
years of repression, the human passion for lib
erty, for equality, for brotherhood burst forth,
convulsing Europe and establishing America
There is at hand another and far mightier out
burst of the same forces, the results of which
viii be incomparably more profound, more far
reaching and more benefcent. Men now past
middle age are likely to see in Europe the last
throne fall, and in America the first complete
and full-orbed republic arise, a republic at
once political, industrial and social
1t is instructive for Americans to remember
that there is scarcely any argument brought to-
day against nationalism which was not in sub
stance brought against the experiment of polit-
lea! equality undertaken IN this country a CEN
tury ago. Scarcely one which does not spring
from the same low and suspicious estimate of
human nature, the same distrust of the people,
the same blind belief in personal and class lead
ership and authority; scarcely one which was
not, as to principle, answered a hundred years
ago by Madison, Hamilton and Jay in the Fed
eralist. And, indeed, how could it be other
wise? For what we propose is but the fuller de-
velopment of the same Repu blican experiment
which the fathers undertook, a development
now become necessary if we would preserve that |
experiment from ignominious failure.
In advocating equal rights for all as the only |
solution for the social and industrial problems !
OF to-day, nationalism followed the lines laid !
down by the founders of the republic and proves |
itself the Legitimate heir to the traditions and
the spirit OF 1776> Guided by those traditions, |
sustained by that spirit, we cannot fail.
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