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

with the SDl1tleSS tDHu IL was OOAOlS'
8. Natioualism attempts to reform
men chiefly by mere political macnlnery
and not by moral and Industrial mo-
tives.
Where are the motives TO come from
that will drive this engine of uationalisn
with a speed sufficient to support tne
nhvsical wants of the people? Very true,
there is a great saving by massiDg your
industries; the larger the establishment
other things being equal, the less the
cost of running if IN proportion TO what
II turns out. That is a great rule of
manufacturers, and Ar. Belamy shows
with cIearness how much saving at
certain points would be effected by his
plan.
But am not yet convinced that when
all expenses are taken into account, men
between twenty-one and forty-hv can
produce enough, even under the nation
alistio scheme, to feed US all. Skilled
workingmen would be somewhat in
tIuenced by badges and ribbons, but
where have we any example in history
of average populations being held to
courses OF laborious toll through all the
middle portion of their life by no other
motive than the love OF promotion,
honor among their fellows, badges, gov
erument prizes, without the spur or
hunger, or the Indictment of personal
ownership? You say that III the army
there IL such case. Yes, but that Is
where life and death are plainly at stake;
that is where national existence may be
ut stake; that Is where men work, not
under the lash merely, but at the point
of the bayouet. Retreat, and you will
be shot by your own sergeant. There
are quite other motives than those or
badges and prizes and promotions at work
on the battlefield, as old soldiers here
know. The parallel between the indus
trial army and q military organization IS
very loose at multitude of points, but
MIR. Bellamy seems to have been carried
away with the parallel.
6. The scheme does not provide for
early development of special tastes, and
SO represscs Individual genius
Suppose man has divine call to be
an author; he is q member OF this indus
trial army. He may publish book at
his own expense, and il the book sue
ceed5 he may use the funds flowing from
it to purchase exemption from his duties
In the army, and at thirty-tive such
man may begin career as an author.
That is ten years too late. Mr. Bethany
saws that the real serious, important,
alluring business of life does not begin
until after one is forty-fTe. Well, in
most cases, q msu il beyond the
most powerful youthful enthu5lasms
at that age. He may be matnred.
aud if he has had q long training
before in his chosen profession he may
then be worth more than he was in his
department, and may be worth that for
twenty years, but II he Is not to engage
in special work In his adopted profession
until after he Is fortv-fve, how can he
he expected to become a specialist or an
expert In it before the time when he
will be superaunuated by the advance OF
years? / think this is one of the worst
things in Mr.. Bellamy's scheme of ma
tioualism, in that he holds back men
from their special pursuits, whatever
tastes and endowments they may have,
until they are forty-ive years of age in
most eases.
Z. This scheme makes itself responsible
for the maintenance not only Of all the
present generation, but also Of all that
they may choose to bring into the world.
Now, John Stuart Mill says that the
human family ought to support itself;
we are al brethren, and so long as there
is a loaf left it should be divided. But
John Stuart Mill himself says that hui
manity is not responsible for all that
humanity may choose TO bring into the
world. We now afford sustenanee 10
the poores: of the poor, even though
they cannot labor. Germany insists
upon a scheme of compulsory Insurance
which provides for a pension for work.
ingmen after thev have attained GER
tain age. We already have govern
mental provision for cases of extreme
need. But to make susteuance for all
of US alike, and guarantee it not only for
those who are now on the stage, but for
all who may come after, Is q guarantee
that seems to me to be q premium on
shiftlessness.
8. The scheme makes no adequate
provision for eliminating droues and the
criminal class from the industrial arm.
8. 1t forgets, or makes far too little of
the necessity OF personal regeneration 10
social regeneration.
10. 1t fails to remember that other
ways exist of throttling dangerous trusts
than by national control of all industry.
II. 1t encourages socialism and COM
munism by exaggerating the infelicities
OF the working class and stimulating the
hopes of the shiftless and inscriptions.
u. Nationalism does not remember
with sufficient distinctness that nation
allied branch OF industry may succeed
tionaliZed.
Our army, navy and postofflce are con-
Quoted by the nation. Germany puts
her railroads under national control.
am not sure but that we shall ultimately
do so. If the railroads should come into
the possession OF a syndicate or trust,
should be in favor of putting them under
national control. (Applause. / am
not greatly averse to Mr.. Bellamy's sug-
gestion that We should put the telegraph
INTO the hands of the postal authori-
ties and let it be governed from Wash
ingt0n. But l would experiment
very cautiously in this direction, for
political corruption might be increased
after all our efforts to keep these things
out of politics. But your army, your
postofice, your navy, or anything else
you have nationaliZed thus far would
not be success if you had not the
principle OF competition at work side by
side with that of cooperation to stimu-
late individual effort in the acquisition of
wealth.
What then are the remedies that we /