Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-01

30 illogical and untrue as almost to make
her blood boil. He spoke, she said, with
out notes, and if were to judge from his
utterances, should say that he has not
read Looking Backward. 1t is an
error, in the first place, to speak of Mr..
Bellamy's "Nationalism", because ma
tionalism has not yet been formulated.
What the outcome will be we do not
know, but we know that it is coming
some time. [Applause, AS to the "in.
dustrial army, about which so much is
said, that is simply in Mr.. Bellamy' s
story, We ourselves might hesitate
about an industrial army; what we
want is simply to better the condition of
the people. We admit that we are bet
ter off, as Mr.. Savage claims, than our
ancestors were, but then, we are like
Oliver Twist--not starved, but wanting
more. Laughter and applause Mr..
Savage said nothing about the growth
Of trusts and monopolies, and hold
for statisticians tell me so--that there is
tendency o. riches to become more
concentrated in the hands of the few.
1T is true", he asserts, "that large
number of people are rich today who
were not rich 80 years ago." Have we
not got great many more people in the
country than we had 80 years ago? ?
There are now not nearly the number
of average well-todo people in the large
middle class of life that there were
then. He talks of men of intellect and
heart as having made the progress of
the world, but what of the drudges who
dig dirt, and the seamstresses who make
shirts for cents apiece2 OF what use
would the men of intellect be if there
were no drudges to carry their planning
into effect Why don't the men of intel
lect divide up fairly with the drudges
! do not regard Mr.. Savage as insin-
cere; he was simply talking to his rich
class of people; he was talking as he has
got into the way of talking to his church,;
he was speaking in the way they would
like to hear; he may not know that he
was doing SO, and his meaning may be
all right. Is Mr.. Savage himself stu
dent of the history of social growth :?
1t is true that Nationalism is not new
thing--it is a blessed old thing, and we
want more of it. In the light of the
past it was not safe to give woman any
rights, yet legislatures went to work
and gave her show, and woman has
not done so badly since. This talk about
individual liberty is stumb bling block.
| am an individualist through and
through, and if | thought Nationalism
would kill individuality | would not be-
long to it for moment, Nationalism
gives the individual the opportunity of
making the most of himself. Men and
women, again, do not hate to work.
They love it, and Nationalism will give
them what they can do and like to do
best. Laziness will be impossible; dudes
and tramps will both 60 to work.
Mr. Savage said Mr.. Bellamy's scheme
did not seek to make the world wiser.
nobler, and grander, and this was the
point where | felt my blood beginning
to boil. 1t is not possible to conceive
people more grand, wise and noble than
those which Mr.. Bellamy figures in his
book, and they are grand, wise and
noble because Nationalism, relieving
them from grinding toll, permits them
to become SO. Applause Instead of
Nationalism putting Jesus Christ in the
carpenters shop till he was as, it would
have taken him as lad going to the
synagogue and developed IN him the
best things of which he was capable
And as for there being no place for think
ers, inventors and great men generally,
Mr.. Bellamy gives these every oppor
tunity for development.
In closing, Miss Robinson said that
Nationalism proposed among other
things to come to the aid of the working
women now paid 6 cents a piece for
making shirts. Applause. During the
evening Mrs. Sears reQd a poem, and
Capt. Huntington delivered an address.