The Progress., 1893-08-12

sea and plain-in every voice of nature
she has proclaimed the eternal truth of
the unequal distribution of talent. of
dissimilarity in individuals and of the
right of every individuality to have per
sonality developed to its highest powers.
individuality is one of the highest laws
of nature.
The communism which seeks to de
stroy individuality is an attempt to re-
construct nature itself The very joy of
nature is in its variety. The differences
of men constitute one of the harmonics
of life-thcir differences physical and
mental Some are tall. some are short,
some are lean. some are fat. If all were
alike. it would be most mOnotonouS
world.
We would tire of the human race.
They would be so many little toy fig
urcs cut ont of flesh and blood, as we cut
TOYS out of wood There would be no
such thing as beauty, because the sense
of comparison would be ultimately lost.
The differences in women are equally of
this decree of nature. They differ in
temperament. They differ mentally and
physically. and we differ i'm opinions
about the same individuals. If we were
all of the same opinion and our ideal of
beauty were the same, the world would
again be reduced 10 a hopeless mOnOtOny.
And if all men i'm the world were given
one mind about the same girl, there
would be most calamitOus climax.
We have different minds; we have diff
ferent points of view. Communism is u
reversion to elemental barbarism be-
cause it is reversiOn to an original
type. As we advance we advance by tho
evolution of individualities.
Nature rewards in proportion TO mans
cxertion. not to 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 farmer the other received
the tracks of the listless loafer.
Whenever it comes TO pass in any
council of society that the loafer and thg
beggar can eat the rewards of industry
and virtue nature has been fundamen-
tally violated
Any scheme of reorganization of so
cicty which makes it possible for the
worthless and the vicious to live at tho
expense of the industrious and the vir.
tuous and the good is n dream of n mad
man or devil. 1t is blow at nature
a blow in her very face.
Third-Such "A communism is not only
immoral and unnatural. but it is emi.
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 basis of any successful So.
ciety. Justice must be the basis of any
commercial scheme which has in it 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 poinii
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 II
man who seizes the fruit of another
mans industry without working for it.
There is commercial brigandage of to.
day which stands i'm 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 it in 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 tho
storms that beat upon his head. I'm y
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 beer garden.
They carried notices in their procession
after their wild speeches. One of these
notices was, "Our children cry for
breadr' They knocked the bungs out OF
500 beer kegs that day. In the music OF
IlHI RuIElnk Dftl iVhih bN iohhN WV
answer to their complaint, and those 5OJ
empty barrels gave in specific terms tho
reason why their children cried for
bread. There are some people who ar
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 il 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 Il
work and a just return for that work
and all the poverty save the poverty OF
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