The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-12-09
Probable Collapse of the s. l.. P.
Paper.

Paper.
The last issue Of The People, the leading
and as that paper claims to be, the only
simon pure Socialist paper published in the
English language at least, in this country
announces the probable discontinuance of
the paper on account of insufficient support.
We cannot say that its suspension would be
loss to the reform cause in the long run.
Like the tabled COW which gave generous
pail of milk but always managed TO kick it
over, The People is yety badly informed on
some of the most important phases of the
reform movement, and what makes il
dangerous adviser TO the class it talks for,
it believes its judgment infallible, informa-
ton always reliable and its deductions
beyond the possibility of error. The Peo-
pies party is nearly always alluded to with
sneer of contempt, as "Small farmers"
party and the principles of the party as all
''class" measures, that the laboring class is
never mentioned but ignored, and that the
small farmers" are nothing moro than
branch of the Capitalistic class. and great
deal more of such misinformation and
erroneous conclusions are weekly placed
before its readers. The honest errors of
THE People make it danger to its party
and the cause it so earnestly espouses, and
virtual destroyer of the many valuable
truthes it presents and the information
which is gathered and digested in its COL
umns. The entire Misrepresentation of the
status of the small farmer" and the in
spiration which is impelling his leaders and
their broad minded knowledge of social
economic conditions, places The People in a
position which destroys to a large extent
the usefulness of its enterprise and teaching.
The approach between the living present
and the Elysian fields it directs the eyes of
its diciples to is barricaded by three insur-
mountable obstacles which must be removed
before a single step in the direction of those
Elysian fields can be taken, and these bar
ricades are the monopoly of money, the
monopoly of the telegraph and transporta-
ton and the monopoly of unused land
These three obstacles must be removed
before labor can even dream ofthe socialists
Utopia" 1t will require the combined
effort Of every division of the reform army
TO remove these obstacles, before the labor
masses will be able to enjoy a glimpse of
the aowery vistas which stretch out in such
heavenly beauty beneath the eyes of the
eagles of socialism which soar in the sky
above the laboring masses who are confed
TO the earth,
Such teachers as The People would mount
right up on eagle wings and sail into the
earthly paradise, without soiling their
hands with the laborious and tedious work
of removing the barbados manned by
capital armed with The most improved
weapons that legal cunning and social
prestige, buttressed by the church, can
devise. The People emulates the husband
man who, while he assiduously cultivates a
fruitful vine would plant a canker in its
roots. If The People is compelled to sus-
pend il will be largely the architect of its
own destruction. 1t is leading its followers
away from the work that must first be done
before its future Can even be brought within
sight OF the most penetrating eyes of the
masses whom The People delights to term the
proletariat. The sans.culoue the Capital.
istic gentry would say. Fraternity of reform
parties is as essential as fraternity among
wealth producers, and the teachers who
have not learned this lesson are not fit TO fill
the places they occupy. The People evil
IDENTIFY has not learned it, and the mischief
its course would cause, if its field was large
enough would out weigh the good. If The
People suspends we trust successor will
orise and take lis place under wiser man
agement.