The Progress., 1893-10-07
THE PROGRESS.

md electricity to the inhabiialts When all
that ha> hrcn done. the steps are comparative
y easy Ca the assumption Uf all the functions
rscribcd 10 government in Nr. Bellamy's
sChemc
IN France mt the recent election the
most remarkable spectacle of the cen
tury was enacted. All parties were
practically merged into two. On the
one hand the conservative and tradi-
tiOnal forces Of society rallied to the re-
publican administration and monarchy
disappeared. On the other. the socialists
rallied in startling force. From an in
significant faction they developed in one
election to the proportions of national
party, the only one in opposition TO the
government. They elected 80 members
of the assembly on the straight socialist
platform and 127 Radicals" of about
the type of the present "Populists" Of
America, making in all a Legislative
force of 1877, unit on essential princi-
pies.
In Belgium we have recently seen the
government surrender to the popular
voice of the masses and grant them uni
versal suffrage. And that voice had no
expression save in the howl of the street
mob and the sullen defiance of the in
dustrial strike.
Australia is already socialistic con
tinent and is giving the world each day
new lesson in the science of progressive
government.
The crown presses each day with
greater weight upon every monarch Of
the old world from the czar in the north
to the smallest duchy in Germany.
THE REVOLUTION IN AMERICA.
Fourth-We observe this movement
in the current revolution political and
economic life in America.
Our traditional parties are certainly
going to pieces with n rapidity that
must bring dismay to their most hopeful
leaders.
The new Peoples Party under most
campaign / ,000, 900 votes and have their
representatives in the house OF representa-
tives and senate and the governor
chairs of many states. The great fnan
cial panic of this year has destroyed the
unity of both tho traditional parties. aud
each day 1T becomes more and more ap-
parent that they must unite against the
party representing the new movement
among the masses il it is to be held in
check even temporarily.
a call is now being circulated for fed
Grafton of all the labor organizations in
one great alliance for political purposes
The bloOdshed at Homestead was the
prophecy of new era in our political
social life. That much is acknowledged
now by the defeated party to have been
the power that overthrow the layt adj
ministratiOn and set up new. A new
generation of men have como upon the
scene of action in America, and the mere
assertion of tradition will not satisfy
them. All things are being arraigned
for trial by this new court. General
Francis A. Walker, who is the incarna-
tion of the mathematics of the old
regime. recently gave utterance to this
pathetic wall:
A revolution is upon The bonds of tradi
ton and barriers of authority have been swept
away. Everything once deemed settled in
economic theory is now audaciously chGi-
lenged.
Right you are, general. and how are
you going to help yourself? 1t is the
sweep of the age progress! You can
easier push back the stars than stop it.
CONSTRUCTIVE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM.
This movement has in it thousands of
the best men of the nation counted now
among the traditional bulwarks. The
Christian ministry is rapidly perceiving
the fact that this revolution is a religion
"a normal development of the doctrines
of Jesus Christ. Some of our greatest
religious papers are the avowed cham
pions of constructive Christian social
ism.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Plym-
outh church, said some time ago:
The wealth Of the nation is the wealth of the
people-that IL, it springs from the people. Ii
therefore OF right belongs to the people In
dustrial democracy does not demand division
Of the wealth of the nation among its G0.OOO,GU0
population. But industrial democracy does
demand, with Laveleye, "ro each worker his
produce, his entire produce, and nothing but
his produce" Organized injustice would then
disappear from our Industrial organization
and with injustice would disappear dangerous
dangerous because reasonably discomfort and
the division into the two classes of the very
rich and the very poor.
A holy discomfort has seized the masses
of the world. The cry in many quarters
is inarticulate. They are yet in infancy.
They have no language but a cry. Yet
God has heard it. And he who can read
the language of tear and interpret the
message of an aching heart in all tongues
and beneath all skies has heard their
PRAYER. And he will answer il.