New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-16
New Tim Il Review
r. W. JOHNSON, Editor and Prop
Wednesday IS, August 1898.
Spread CT Socialism.

Spread CT Socialism,.
In the prevailing public discussion re-
garding the best means to restore normal
commercial and industrial conditions
there is one note which rises higher than
all others. 1t is the cry for the inter
ferance of the government. Ii the gov
eminent will only do this or do that,
everything will be all right in time. So
say the great mass of the present disput-
ants. Perhaps they find their best justi-
fcation in the familiar formula the gov
eminent having done so and so, it is now
called upon to do thus and so. The
tendency in the bulk of cases IS toward
the socialistic idea, that everything rests
with the government and little if any
thing with the individual.
Society here and elsewhere must soon
er or later face the popular tendency to-
Ward socialism. The teachings of modern
craftsmanship are distinctly socialistic. If
we stop at all to think of the extreme
propositions which are being put for
ward day by day by our own populists
we do so only to dismiss them with a
shrug of the shoulder; yet their mistake
is only one of degree. Their demand
is the same in principle as that of those
worthy persons who would have the
government go outside it's functions
whenever anything appears to be going
wrong. The good old maxim, "That
government governs best that governs
least'' is falling into discredit.
It is but few years ago since social
ism in the United States was hardly
worthy of mention. Today 1t is potent
force, if not in name then in influence.
And it is not so with us alone. Most of
the remedies which Mr.. Gladstone is striv-
ing to apply to the popular ills of his
country are purely socialistic. In German
politics, the socialists represent the only
barrier which exists against the control
of pure militarism. They represent the
only party which in the late elections
was able to make a stand against the
royal control. So in France, the social
lists are ready to act on the same lines as
their German brethren, and in the COM
ing election the chief plank IN their
platform will probably be the establish
ment of arbitration as means of settling
international disputes.
Under the lead of men like Henry
George, T. V. Powderly, Ignatius Don.
nelly and Gen. Weaver the socialistic
idea is advancing in the United States.
It has not, it is true, been able to con-
centrate itself on given programme,
although it is hardly too much to say
that its supporters are fast converging
to given point. There is, too, the pro-
hibition party, purely socialistic in its
main demand. In Iowa we will probab-
~ see within few weeks the union of
populists and prohibitionists, the latter
having virtually adopted the teachings of
the former in almost every particular
The States of Kansas and South Carolina
are now under socialist control, pure
and simple. The purchase of the rail-
roads and telegraphs Of the country, the
state sale and ownership or suppression
of alcoholic drink. the loaning of money
on individual property by the govern
ment, even the purchase of silver, as it is
being carried on to-day, are socialistic
demands.
1t is of great moment to this country
to learn where this force is going to stop
In few months unless relief is given by
congress from the evils which now
threaten lis a great army Of unemployed
men will inevitably turn to these falla-
cious theories. The return to the fund
amental idea Of the founders of the re-
public, that the government shall inter-
fere as little as possible in the affairs of
the individual citizen is the only safe
offset against this tendency, and the
sooner this idea is put forward and finds
acceptance among the people of the
United States, the sooner will we avoid
the dangers which are daily presenting
themselves to view in European countries
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