The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-10

repugnant and offensive, and those who
view it from the outside take it to mean
| confusion, destruction and disorder.
But those who view it from within see
| that it really means order and law far
more than the system it is destined to
replace. Indeed. il anything. the dan
ger OF socialism and one that will have
| to be guarded against will be its repre-
senting too much order aud law, and go
being inimical to individual eccentri-
city and development.
Behind this word, and giving it
authority, stands the huge personality
OF democracy, the rule of the mass Of
the people-their interests rather than
the interests OF the aristocrntic or COM
msrcial classes. To many serious and
thoughtful ioik this rule seems full of
danger. To them it appears that the
working classes, whatever virtues they
may have, are essentially disorderly,
turbulent, clamorous and disregsrdful
of rghs and that therefore Gas I'M
doubleday would be the case il true)
they are and must always be unfit, either
directly or through representatives-to
be the rulers Of society. | believe my
self, however, that this is complete
mistake-a mistake due to ignorance
and to basty generalization of those iso-
lated occasions when the people have
hitherto forced themselves into notice,
like volcanic lava, through the upper
crust OF society's Indifference and re
preston. 1t happens to me to have had
perhaps exceptional opportunities of
knowing the various main strata OF
English social life-the fashionable, the
intellectual. the commercial classes and
In rNl. O.ia T T h
several years in each stratum, and mixed
freely and we'll nigh exclusively in each
case with those belonging to it. and,
without dogmatizing on tho natter, my
decided opinion is that the more stable
section of the working masses is the real
back bone OF the nation. My opinion ia
that this class (if it can be called CLASP
is, in sound sense, orderliness, Affection
ateness aud wholesome instinct, moral
and physical, far superior to the rest of
the nation; that in intellect, if not equal
to the detailed work OF the scientific
people, it has plain, strong mastery,
derived from its contact with the actual
facts, which is moro, If not most, import
ant; and that in dealing with moral and
political problems it uses broad sense
and tact which often lead it to just
conclusion when professional politicians
and moralists are foundering among ex-
pediences and casuistrles "-l Edward
Carpenter in Money Lending.
Precedent. Not all the great events
that startle, shake, shock and finally
shatter old beliefs and institutions have
had precedent, though this well fitted
garment is a good thing to have lying
around or hanging in wardrobes, closets
or garrets, to be busted, aired and pressed
and fit on and into the grooves OF mod
ern ideas. Imagine Dan OF Arc listen
ing to those voices and questioning their
right OF way to lift the convoutions Of
her brain motion and growth out of tho
grooves OF her everyday life and ances-
trail ideas, and by magic power trans-
form the simple peasant girl into tho
fearless heroine at the head of an army
OF 10000. Think OF her asking ii such
course had a precedent in Der family
record Boldly this maid OF l6 summers
rode unprecedented in triumph and
routed the enemy and lifted the siege Of
Orleans, and future maideas read with
moist eyes of the mstchless, fear less and
peerless maid OF Orleans and her cruel
and patented condemnation by the bish
op Of Beauvais. What ii our ancestors
had looked through the legislative LAWS
of Massachusetts, for an act granting the