The herald., 1895-04-01
Laurence GrOnIund's Theory of
Human Progress
CHRIST RAISING LAZARUS
A Discourse by DR.. Thomson on That
Resurrection
ReIo;on Is Beautified by Holy Living, Says
nr. Duncan--The Story of Miss
MaImberg's Life

Laurence Gronlund, the Socialist, spoke
at Illinois Hall last night in substance as
follows:
You have tough citizens here as they
have in every large city. Do you ever
reflect that the toughest of the tough was
once a ruddy, tender, pulpy infant,
CAPABLE of being nodded into any social
form YOU choose? But the state stands
by with folded arms, doing nothing.
Only when he commits CRIME muir
der, then the state steps in, grasps HIM
with it's implacable arms and strangleS
him. Education is the very foundation
of Socialism; the school is the crank that
will turn the whole Socialist machine.
First of all, Socialism will abolish the
child as breadwinner, The fact that
small boys now must jump on street cars
to sell papers or black shoes to help exc
out living of parents at an age when
the boys of the rich are still in the nur-
sery is enough to damn this civilization.
Socialism will allow no child TO be bread
winner, will see they are at school, and
furnish them with warm clothes, with
food, with heat and light at home while
studying their lessons, and, trust. that
the new successful Third Party that soon
is bound to arise, will take part IN the
election for members of school boards
and demand that the state supply all
needy school children with clothes and
food
Secondly, Socialism will furnish a new
ideal of education. One ideal now is, to
teach our boys things that will enable
them to get the better of their fellows in
the struggle of life. Under Social ism 1t
will be a struggle i'll common against ma
ture, and the ideal will be to teach them
how to wage that warfare against nations
in common with their fellows.
Thirdly, now the average school attend
ance is three years; boys leave school be-
~. Al. Il, 1l,r hos
menced. The 14th, 18th, 10Th and 18th
years are the age of puberty, when the pas.
sions run riot; out of school our boys OF
that age are the most dangerous members
of society Hence our boys are the most
undisciplned of those of any country,
ladies end gentlemen in our large cities
are liable to insults from them. This will
be changed. Professor Fiske notes that
all new civilizations have heightened in
fancy; the newest civilization, Socialism,
will lengthen it from the tenderest age in
the kindergartens to adult age; our boys
then will pass their age OF puberty under
the guidance of teachers
And lastly manual training will be at
taChcd to every primary school. 1t is the
best means of discipline, but especially it
will be used to detect and develop hidden
inborn possibilities. In the Socialist
school. by means of manual training, the
boys will find out and their teachers will
find out what they really are fit for and
like; this will determine their future
functions, and then they will pass over
to the technical schools and there be
trained, SO that when they become adults
they are fit to be public functionaries.
| have founded Fabian Society in
San Francisco. with three clergy men
three extraordinary clergymen. All you
interested in this most important subject
are invited to meet with me at several
meetings that will take place in the Young
Men \ Christian Association rooms.
trust shall form one such association
here in Los Angeles. Our friends in San
Francisco are only waiting for backing
from this city. Let them not be disap-
pointed | implore you. You can gam
immortal names for yourselves.