The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-04-11

tnaI OWLS admit OF Immediate and radical
remedies. "lf you will but do this tho mis-
chief will be prevented" adopt my plan and
tho suffering will disappear" ''The corruption
Will unquestionably BIO cured by enforcing this
measure" Everywhere one meets with be-
licfs, expressed or implied, Of these kinds
They arc all ill founded. 1t is possible to re.
move causes which intensity tho OWLS; it is
possible to change tho evils from one form into
another, and it is possible and worry common
to exacerbate tho evils by the efforts made t
prevent them, but anything like Immediate
euro is impossible.
In tho course of thousands of years mankind
has by multiplication been forced out of that
original savage state in which small numbers
supported themselves on wild food, into the
civilized state in which tho food required for
supporting great numbers can bo got only by
continuous labor. The nature required for
this last mode of Ifo is widely different from
tho nature required for tho first, and long con-
tlnucd pains have to DO passed through in re-
molding tho ono into tho other. Misery has
necessarily to be borne by constitution out of
harmony with its conditions, and constitu-
soh lhhcr1t! from primitive men is out Of
harmony with tho conditions imposed on cx-
istlng men. Hence it is impossible to cstab-
lish forthwith a satisfactory social state.
NO such nature as that which has filled E,.
ropo with millions of armed men, hero eager
FOR conquest and thcrc for rcvenge-no such
nature as that which prompts tho nations
called Christian to vie with ono another in
fhbustering expeditions all over tho world, re-
gardless OF tho claims of aborigines, while their
tens OF thousands of priests Of the religion of
iovo look on appfovingly-no such nature MS
That which in dealing with weaker races goes
beyond tho primitive rulo of lifo for life, and
for ono lifo takes many liyes-no such nature
l say, can by any device bo framed into har-
montous community. Tho root of all well or
dcrcd social action Is u sentiment of Justice,
which at Onco insists on personal freedom and
issolicitous for tho like freedom Of others; and
thcro at present exists but q very inadequate
amount of this sentiment.
Ucnco tho need for further lonr continuance
of q social discipline which REQUIRES each man
to carry on his activities with duo regard to
thc ike ctnims of others to carry on their nc
t1vltcs, and which, whilo it insists that he
shall havo all tho benefits his conduct nat
uraily brings, insists also that he shall not sad
dlo on others the evils his conduct naturally
brings unless they freely undertake to bear
them, and hcnce tho belief that cndeavors Ia
ciude this discipline will not only fail, but will
bring worse evils than those to DO escaped.
1t Is not, thcn, chiefly in tho interests oS tho
employing classes that socialism is to bo re-
sisted, but much moro in the interests of tho
employed classes. In ono way or other pro
duction must bo regulated, and tho regulators,
IN tho nature of things, must always be q small
class as compared with tho actual producers
Under voluntary corporation rs at present
earp earpied on tho regulators pursuing their per
produce us they can get, but, rs VIC arc daily
shown by trades union successes, arc restrain
CD IN tho selfish pursuit of their ends.
socialism would necossitatc, the regulators
pursuing their personal interests with no less
seli!lshness, could not be met by the combined
unchecked as now by refuss.ls to work save on
prescribed terms. would grow and ramify and
consolidate till it became irresistible. Tho ul-
must bo a society like that Of ancient Peru, cru,
dreadful to contemplate, in which the mass Of
the people. elaborately regimentcd in groups
corresponding grades, and tied to their dis
1trlcts, we're superintended in their private
lives as well rs in their Industries, and toilei
organization.