The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-18

Socialism can never obtain popular
sway. because IL is implacabiy hostile to
the family instinct. The communists
system Is srrayed against the domestic
system; the socialistic attempt Is 20 deal
with men, not as individuals, but in
masses; TO make society better rather than
the men, women and children who CON-
pose IL. Here Is just where socialism will
fail, because IL is militant not Only against
religion. bat against human nature.
Socialism sees today that it can never
reorganize society until IL obliterates the
family. but TO obliterate the family it must
not only upset religion. which, both
Protestant and Catholic, stands fast by
the family rs the unit of sound society, but
1t must change the very constitution of
human nature. which revoits from COM
munism, which socialism in is logical
ultimate, to succeed. involves.
The leading socialist thinkers admit
that socialism In its logical conclusion
implies social organization that is utterly
destructive of the family. Socialism seeks
to make men and women TO give up the
family and take in its place the whole
community organized as family. On
this rock communal organizations have
always split.
Ii IS easy to prove that q communal
organization can in sn Industrial sense be
successful; the Shakers, that allowed no
marriage, and the Oneida community,
which allowed only communal marriages
or free love, were both successful in an
industrial sense. but they both were miser.
able failures in spiritual sense. because
they ignored the wisdom which SAYS that
''lifs Is more than meat and the body
more than rai;nent."
The powerful hold which the family has
on average human nature was the paraly-
sis Of such organizations as the Shakers
and the Oneida community. They did not
grow. not simply because religion was hos
tile 10 them, but because they were an
outrage on the instincts of human nature,
whether within or without the church.
and this instinct Of human nature in favor
Of the perpeiuation of the family unit Is
the real Hon that lies in the path Of social
A1AAs At& 90 ~NAhNs A&bAsA S@AtaAAeAsS
thinkers see IL; they know that until the
family unit is obliterated each family will
LOOK first after its own, while communism
requires that every one should consider
FIRST the community. aud not a separate
household. This modern society will never
do until not only religion, both Protestant
and Catholic, is upset, but until the in-
stincts OF human nature have become par
aiyrsd by soeialistie fansticism.
The vast mass OF men aud women marry
IS fast as they can AFFORD 10 and a good
many before they can afford to, and this
instinct will prove too strong for any sub
stantial success Of communism. The
sentiment which creates the family is as
powerful asd as prevalent now as il ever
was. and 1t Is matter Of common obser-
walton that the divorced do not quarrel
with matrimony. bat only with their mis-.
liz mates: for the divorced on both sides
are quick 90 marry again.
Socialism and communism can never
"take. " except as local diseases, because
they are lighting not only religion. bat the
instincts Of human nature. which per.
meats the just and the unjust. the religious
aud the people OF no religion.