The state chronicle., 1893-06-24
SOME EXTRACTS FROM COL.
WADDELL'S ADDRESS.


SOME EXTRACTS FROM COL.
WADDELL'S ADDRESS.
The older and more rejecting
persons in this audience who have
any knowledge of the socialistic
movements in Europe during the
last half century, and have observed
the results of them as now develop
ing in this country, will not need to
be told that gradually, socialistic
ideas, under various names, have
spread not only among the mixed
and foreign-born populations of the
| Northern and Western States, but
all over this, land. And such per-
sons are alive to the fact that these
ideas-which in some parts of the
country have taken permanent
hold and everywhere are being dill
igently cultivated-unless directed,
as they can be, towards the attain
ment of high civilization will ulti-
mately accomplish the destruction
OF all that we hold most dear.
| If guided and controlled by the
enlightened craftsmanship and
christian conscience of the country
they will be the means of incalcula-
bic good, but if directed by the un-
chastened spirit of discomfort and
revolution they will inevitably bring
disaster ana ruin upon us. That
this spirit of discomfort exists and
is growing, is true, and it is equally
true as in all such cases that the
causes of it and the remedy for it
are not clearly understood by the
mass of those who feel it.
1t is not my purpose to discuss
the philosophy of Socialism as ad-
vocated by the different schools
which have existed and now exist.
They have differed widely in their
theories, but they all agree upon
one general principle, which is at
war with the fundamental ideas of
government cherished by large
majority of the American people.
That principle may be defined by
, the word paternalism.
, It is true that large school OF
socialists advocate the abolition OF
all existing institutions, but, even
they would substitute for them q
q system which would subordinate in
all things the individual to the com
munity, and this is in direct conflict
with the American doctrine of the
q largest liberty of the individual
consistent with the welfare of the
a State.
+ Nor is it my purpose to go int
the economic question between tn,
J. wage Garner and the capital list
| which is claimed by some to be tn
central principle of all Socialism
T. except so far as to say that, accord
y ing to my view, the tendency o
Socialism in this country is to pro
T. duce one at least of the very wors
= evils that it charges to existin
n social and political systems, namely
The separation of society into tw
" classes-the mlllionaires and th
great mass of the poor.
10 Col. Waddell gave statistics {
s the progress of the South in indus
trial development to show that th
y. time is not so far distant when "
=. will have to meet and settle soci,
and economic questions which hay
#. never before presented themselvt
R to our consideration as practice
p matters.
Now, Notwithstanding the s,rean
to of the American Eagle, ard tt
G. cheerful optimism of some rece1
70, writer's. and the general sense
T. security which prevails and just
prevails among our countrymen
70. to the future, an intelligent obse1v,
Lis of the events of the past few yea
,r- cannot fail to apprehend that cor
b. munism or socialism-fo the tern
sf- seem to be regarded as synonymo,
n. by those who advocate the primo
ed Piles involved-is here, and here
We stay for good or evil.
,r- 1 do not refer to the Anarchists
the Northwest--the disciples
re Banukin-or to any immoral scho
of socialists, or even to the fe
es really learned Utopian philosophe
ed who, with spirit of true phila
he thropy, would offer their econom
ts' theories as remedy for the evi
Die which afflict society. Each and {
ge of these are, and I believe will
as practically harmless. Therefore
,n- am as little apprehensive of Il
of nightmare depicted in that remar
m able book Cnsar's Column, as 1 a
to OF realizing the dream of Mr.. Be
OIL lamy in Looking Backward.
It: The socialism of which speak
ith the degenerate offspring of respet
1r- able parentage, which masquerad
iss under various aliases, and does,
ith know it's own name.
of Its chief field of operation in Il
iss country has been in the trar
as;' Mississippi territory, and notably