Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13
MR.. FREID'S METHOD
Of Solving the Financial Question
and Bettering Society,
A RUSSIAN DEFENDER SCORED.
Important Suggestions for Fire Boat Pro-
jectors to Consider.
WHAT THE PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT

To the Editor OF The Dispatch;
Whittier are we drifting politically7
refer to the American nation and people O
the United States, under the existing form
of government now established
During the present period of quiet ant
peace enjoyed as a nation, at home ant
abroad, with a wonderful continuance
yielded annually from natures bountifu
storehouse, and the development of oul
wealth in natural resources, without scourgt
or epidemics, we have progressed. AL
former precedents stand, we may say,
equalled If not surpassed.
To-day as among nations we stand in the
front, crowding the high-water marks Of
progress set by past ages, and II uninter'
rupted may take up new and advanced
positions, and raise and establish higher
standards along the lines of scientific and
political possibilities. We may now exam.
inc some of the finer tissues of the web Of
our political society. We are closely ap-
preaching a new political era, which is
scarcely realized or understood, and which
will bring with it, and shortly, too, some
very marked differences In the methods en-
ployed and pursued regarding and affecting
the individual condition Of the masses OF
the people of this country.
We are drifting toward socialism. The
general political tendency is in this direc-
tion. We are not set or fixed in our course
toward this destiny, yet 1t presents itself
directly in our fore-path. The efforts which
| are being made to centralize power, to
monopolize and control wealth and commo-
| dtties and lines of trade and valuable fran
chises, which are to be obtained by the
| masses of the people, Is q strong move
| toward the progress of socialism, or the
establishing of political institutions of such
| a character.
The present shows only the starting point.
When all these attempted undertakings and
contemplated monopolies, now being quietly
plished, and their power asserted, the
present. existing conditions will have been
changed. Then we will find the feeling
st1onsv ne ps1Pe apadg M a ana hq
our civil laws, and If not preoipitated into q
disruption of our Government at some evil
and unprepared moment by the more ex-
treme demands of the Communist or Anarch-
ist. But such disaster will be averted by
advancing toward or the establishing of
political socialism.
The Constitution All Right.
The Constitution of the United States
Government, as q grand political achieve
ment, stands pre-eminent among theEcodes
of the world to-day. The chatting and frio-
tion created by the different sects and par
ties now existing. and forming part of the
whole of the body polite, in their differ
ences and diversity of requirements and de-
mands, may be thought to be an indication
that this great instrument is inadequate
and insufficient as a basis for modern and
longtime future action and national exist
ence. By it the will of the majority in num-
bers as against any other power or preroga-
tive, shold govern and so perpetuate itself
The disruption of our nation under the pres
ent Constitution is therefore unnecessary,
and should it occur would mark a sadly dis
astrous period in the civil progress of the
American Republic, which would check in
its influence that:of the whole civilized
world. To destroy public faith and conf
dence in our Constitution by failure under
civ1lly, and breed distrust against any which
might be born to supersede it.
The object sought in our effort to effect
Constitution, and as preconceived by its
promulgators and trainers is to establish
that high standard of government by which
the individual and personal civil rights and
liberties of al citizens shall be significantly
preserved and defended. The object sought
by mon0polists and powerful combinations
of capitalists, or even that of organized
labor, formed for the benefit of certain
classes, is threatening menace, and is con-
trary to civil and political progress under
the present Constitution; and governmental
socialism is the constitutional remedy, BY
gaining for the cause the support of the
constitutional majo in numbers as against
amounts of wealth and other powers. Such
possible means will be sought, and de-
mand made that must soon be considered by
the wealthy minority, which will bring
more equal distribution and ndlargerindividual
share to those who help to produce it of the
this is nearly possible under socialistic laws.
What Socialism Aims At,
The seeds of socialism, Georgeism, COM
munism and anarchism have been sown
among the minds of the people, and have
taken hold upon the various kinds of soil
suited to their different natures. While
these differ in their proposed methods of
action and procedure, they aim at one COM
mon object and that is, general distribu-
ton of larger individual share of the
wealth produced and the benefits derived
from labor. Socialism looks to the civil
means of attaining the desired realization,
The masses are becoming too intelligent
through the means of the press and pub
Usher. They are thinking and reasoning.
and are expected to do so under our form OF
government. They are reasoning that it is
improper, and they will not submit to have
their labor, their inventive genius, their
scientific discoveries and their American
civil progress turned to the benefit of a
wealthy aristocraey; These are the things
u,
joyed by the people, and no one, unless de-
serving, may control an unequal share
form of socialism, or socialistic govern
ment, is possible under our present Consti-
tuition, while communism and anarchism
are not. Neither is nihilism, as we have no
royalists. The present United States postal
system presents the nearest approach to a
socialistic institution of any we have of a
political character. 1t is equitable, econom-
ical, and renders, seemingly, most satisfac-
tory services to all alike. 1t is not con-
Quoted as an institution for revenue for the
benefit of any other class or department.
possible under the present Constitution; and
we will have them after the preliminary
work of gathering under single heads has
been accomplished by these promoters of
private enterprises, formed for the sole OBJ.
Ject of selfish gain, and now being fostered
under present public legislation.
A Nations Bank Advocated,
We need most of all a nations bank, which
should be established as a department of the
Government or branch of the United States
Treasury, to have, through Congress. the
control of the issues and loans of the Gov
ernment, and to be parent institution to a
system of national panks and currency for
the people, which may be properly estab-
lished throughout the different States upon
a safe, sound, self-regulating and ADEQUATE
basis. This may be allowed to pass without |
action to some future time of greater dis.
tress among the people, but the necessity
now exists for such an institution. Thereby |
the masses can be freed from anv opnres- |
sion which may be caused by capitafists
and now threatened under the tendency
looking toward the future monopoly Of |
wealth and power by few, and often at the |
unequal expense, labor and disadyan tape Of
the many. Currency for all commeToioI
purposes could then be issued as a loan tn
those holding approved securities for its