The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-10

beauty were the easilf, the ~S
again be reduced 10 a hopeless monot;any'
A,,i il all men in the world were gwen
on. mind about the same girl. there
,,,,,,I3 lie n most calamitors climax.
We hav. different minds; we have diff
f.r,nt roinis uf view. Communism Is a
,.,.rx,rn To elemental harharism be-
rsuse il is rcversion Ia an origina
TYNE Aswe advance we advance 10y the
evolution If inlividualities-
Nature rewards in proportion to man
ex,rtion. not - each alike.
There are two fields Of the same soil
They receive the same sun, the same air,
the same rain. One produces a glorious
harvest. the other tangled woods and
grass The difference Is, one received
the toll Of the farmox. the other received
the tracks of the lislless loafer.
Whenever il comes tn pass in any
opuncil Of society that the loafer and the
beggar can eat the rewards OF industry
ard virtue nature has been fundamen-
tally violated
ANY scheme of reorganization or SO
ciety which makes it possible for the
worthless and the vicious TO live at tine
EXPENSE of the industrious and the vlr-
tuous and the good is dream OF mad
man or devil. Ii is blow at nature
a blow in her very face.
Third-Such a communism is not only
immoral and unnatural. but il is emf
nently UNJUST.
Justice is the one original, universal.
eternal reality which man must recog-
nize in his relations to his fellow man.
Justice is the l'lsis Of any successful So
ciety. Justice must be the basis of any
commercial scheme which has in IL any
hope for man. Any system that seizes
the fruits of one mans labor and divides
it among others that do not work is un-
Just. This is proposition which cuts
the present social order at many points
as well as denies the basis Of pure com
munism.
Inherited wealth, for instance, is u
seizure of the fruits of one mans labor
and division of it among those who did
not work to produce it. A robber Is a
man who seizes the fruit of another
mans industry without working for it,
There is commercial brigandage of to-
day which stands in the same relation.
That idleness and vice eat with industry
and virtue is unjust. Nature and ma
lures God voice the eternal decree Of
industry. By work man shall live. Ma
ture proclaims 1t in a thousand ways-in
the storms that howl in winter and re-
mind man of his frailty, of the hunger
that pinches, of the cold that cuts, of the
storms that beat upon his head. In q
thousand startling voices he is reminded
of this eternal truth.
Nature also teaches that idleness and
vice have their reward.
A company of communists recently
gave an excursion to a beer garden.
They carried notices In their procession
after their wild speeches. One of these
notices was, "Our children cry for
bread!" They knocked the bungs out of
500 beer kegs that day. In the music Of
that gurgling beer could be found the
answer to their complaint, and those 500
empty barrels gave IN specific terms the
reason why their children cried for
bread. There are some people who are
poor and who always will be poor be-
cause they are worthless. They refuse
to work. A man of this description looks
with envy upon the possessions of his in
dustrious neiGhbor. And any scheme Of
society that proposes to house and clothe
this rascal at the expense of his indus
trious neighbor is fundamentally unjust.
And it can never be embodied in human
law in any form and endure.
What men need is justice, and Justice
applied to the present society must solve
its every problem. All the poor need is
justice-not pity. not charity-justice,
the right to work. Give to the laboring
world. the underworld. the right to
work and Just return for that work.
and all the poverty save the poverty of
vice must disappear, and the poverty of
vice must be treated by the strong arm
of the penal law.
What the social reformer needs to in
sist on today is not distribution of
bread on charitable basis. 1t Is that
he insist upon the distribution Of alb
stract justice between man and man. be-
tween employer and employee, between
merchant and customer, between man
and man.
1t Is unjust to apply the material
standard of measurement to an immor-
tai being. A lmre communistic. basis of
equal distrib'-.iO ion Of property would, as
Carlyle says, reduce the world to a great
pigsty, with a little pig wash for each.
1t would be unjust for the skilled and
the unskilled to Ike paid alike.
1t would be unjust for brains and
brute to Share on equal terms
lie each man according to his ability
should be his responsibility. And each
man should have his needs supplied
each man who is worthy-and his need
will he fully ,..tt in giving Justice.
A man in . horse car in Boston was
that a little man who sat at
me other end OF the car was DR.. Oliver
Wendeu Holmes. He was greatly
at his diminutive stature. So
complete was his establishment that he
lsked the doctor If he would allow him
% see his hat. The doctor smilinplv
complied, and the man examined the hat
and exclaimed in further SIR
Prise that the hat was not as large as
lis. he had supposed that man like
0r. Holmes would measure around the
kull SO many inches. We have here the
iifflculty in adjusting on your commu-
llstlc basis the results of the work of |
ne architect and the hod carrier. The
lod carrier labors on the house. The
.rchltect conceives the ideas. The other
Ices the work which a machine or a
'rute under some conditions could be
rained to perform. A system that re-
wards each alike for an hours labor ia n
ystem fundamentally unjust.
Inc richest elements of life are those
nat eiude such material standard of
we could not estimate the poets labor
y the same tick Of the clock as we esti-
nate the man who paves the streets.
Inc poet that wrought his imnor+oI