The herald., 1894-10-14
fBY L. BEHYMER.

BY L.. BEH1 MEX.
YOUNG WEST, q SEQUEL to Looking Backward,
by SOLOMON scHINDLER Publ shed by the
Arena ruD ishiug company. For sale BIZ
the A. W. Berry stationery company, l20
South Spring street.
All sorts OF questions are asked by
people who have made their acquaint-
ance with socialism. or nasionalism
through certain popular works of fiction
whose authors have permitted their i'm
aginationa the iull swing of delicious
iantaey, and these are not the only per-
sons who are victims OF perpexsd Curl
osity on various moot questions which
they do not regard as at all satisfactorily
met and practically settled. Only the
other day o1e of the finest known Tory
pubiicists in the United States asked
in one OF the revieWS, this question:
Who is to pay the Bills OF
Socialism Evidently this emf
lent publicist has that peculiar
form Of anti-social dementia which con-
1ists in regarding society and the state.
the family and the individual. as all
separate and distinct entities. occupying
distinct and separate worlds without
any social action, interaction and reac-
tion. or common identity Of interest.
OF course such questions as these ana
such sophistical doubts as will be raised
by the propounder of the problem In
he stringing together OF negative
luewers are not the questions OF sclen-
lifc doubt and inquiry. but those OF
malicious breeders OF misknowledge.
But such reasoning does create and
disseminate prejudice, and is is to be
met and exposed, not because OF its in
trinsic value but because its appeal to
superficial reasoning is 80 strong, and
because il is essentially dishonest and
intended to be mieleading to those who
do not examine these queetions at first
hand. This particular question is easily
answeYed by asking another. Who pays
the bill of the present state? The state.
What constitutes the state? The regu-
larlv appointed representatives OF the
majority OF the people. Under social
ism what would constitute the state
The regularly appointed representatives
OF q majority OF the people-and also,
and here is one essential reform in pop
ular and truly democratic government
and also the regularly appointed repre-
kentatives Of the minority. Out OF what
does the state pay its bille? Out of the
texey. Outof what state fund do the
tuxes come? Out of no extrinsic fund,
but out OF the distribution of wealth
created by the. products of the soil and
labor.
The author OF Looking Back ward and
othere did good work in introducing to
the general reader many ideaa which
had been discussed for q long time by
the best scientific writer's OF our day,
but which were and are unfortunately
removed from popular sympathy
through the strict scientific character
uf~the literary vehicles in which they
appeared. But the author OF Looking
Backward, probably on account OF the
limited compass OF his book, has not
given in detail description OF all the
social conditions Of the brighter future
which is to witness the triumph OF
altruism. He has merely whetted the
appetite OF the reader, but has not eat
isfied his hunger. Young Wost. the
son OF John Weat, will Indirectly answer
au OF the questions. Describing hia own
eventiul career from his frat awakening
10 consciousness TO the age OF three score
and ten, the hero OF the book will pic
ture life in ita various phases, as it will
be acted out by citizen OF the United
States of America in the twenty-second
century.
The reader will follow the auto.
5iographer through the nursery and the
various schools in which he received
his training; he will zee him prepare
for an occupation selected by him, be-
cause it is of hie liking; he will note
the first awakening OF religious senti-
ment in him; he will work by his side
In the industrial army he will be HE
ConHdant during the time of cloves
young dream;" he will riee with him
step by step from position OF his own
selection, which the reader may regard
as not very pleasant. until he reaches
the preHidential chair. In word, he
will work. sport, worry, grieve and re-
ioice with him.
The book is intended, primarily, to
answer the many questions which are
asked about the practical workings OF
nationaliem and socialism. How will
Nationalists arrange for this or that
lmsrgencyP VIII people work without
compensation? Will they not prefer
pleasant occupation to hard labor, and
who is going to be the drudge? How
will you deal with criminals, with glut-
sons, with the improvidens or the lazy?
Will the family be preserved, and, if go,
how2 Will there be religion at that
time, and, il 30, which? Will a pater.
nal government not be likely to drift
q into kind of despotism such as the
world has never before seen? Can per-
sonal liberty coexist with an industrial
army?
The "reminiscences of Young West
will show the possibility OF that faturs
state OF society of which 90 many are
dreaming at present. Young West is
not only supplement TO but the COM
plement OF Looking Backward.
Que peculiar feature of this volume is
its colored margin of the pages. 1t ia &
ieplorabe fact that while reading in
vlgorate the mind, it weakens the eyes.
Reliable medical authority informs us
that the reading eye wearies mostly
from being compelled to gaze Tor long
time upon the sharp contrasts OF white
and black, also that the strain thus
brougnt upon the eye would be rnateri-
ally lessened, il simultaneous with the
printed page some color were brought
within its focus.
Upon this valuable advice this book is
printed with tint margins in three
colore. in blue or &reen or yellow tint.
1t is pleasing innovation, and may pos
'ibly be financial 40 well as an artistic
Hu~Tsss.
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