The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-03

mean society, legislation. evolution. trans
formation. and not destruction. C0nse-
quentIy, wish it TO be clearly understood
that am not socialist don't believe
that the way to make people happy - 70
destroy them
glish; socialism. on the contrary, IS Con-
tinental. Therefore we must not con-
found them. And when people speak on
the Continent about my socialism
they are mistaken, because cannot
be . socialist, being m EpgIishman,
and socialism having no existence
in England. In fact. with Us this
has existed for hundreds of years:
Co-operation is the typical form OF
socialism, and cooperation has existed for
more than thousand years in this colil-
try 1t constitutes, so they say. the bed
rock of it. Our modern Engliah towns are
nothing more than agglomerations OF CO.
operative industries; and our laws, which
consecrate customs, are entirely IN ac-
cordance with the needs of our people,
whose customs and atinities have ever
been industrial. Our laws are. the
laws of labor, and our labor
troubles come only from accidental and
superficial causes. Moreover, these indus
trial corporations. having grown into
cities, are subject to the great social factor,
the moral factor. England is not Cath
Ollie country, and, nevertheless, she has
within herself such profound religious
II cling that the purity OF her continents
has outlived that OF her acts. You have
recently had an opportunity to Judge OF
this in the fall of that wretched Parneu
through his miserable adventure.
ION the continent socialism exists, ana
you must combat it. You must resist that
indivisiualism which renders the govern
ing and the governed strangers 70 each
other. firmly believe in the solution OF
the social question which is doubted only
by those who do not understand it. A
single man, Lord Shaftesoury, has been
able during his lifetime to ameliorate the
condition of $500, 600 persons, thanks to
the laws in regard to the labor of women
and children in workshops. You can do
as much, provided you resist socialism and
unite in one single political party.
And since they are saying great deal
about Christians and socialism III France,
will tell you what think upon that sub
because the Christian faith organizes and
is not destructive. Human society at
tains its perfection in Christian society,
of which socialism would be the destroyer.
The Temps, generally better informed,
declares that the holy father is
against me. The holy father condemns
socialism, but not the social evolution,
and socialism I reject entirely. Along
with the pope. I look with delight upon
that splendid French movement, of which
NJ. lie Comte Albert de Nun is
the powerful leader, which tends to
obtain social laws, not socialistic. Every
patriotic Frenchmen should join that
movement for the welfare of the working
classes. 1t is movement IN which all
diversities of political opinion ought to
disappear. 1t means the well being, may
say even the safety, of the French people.
In order to arrive at that social ameliora-
ton the stability of present society. the
maintenance of the present state. is essen
tial. Let there be no more divisions"