The herald., 1896-04-05

logical socialist, who thinks, says: "Let
the government take all works into it's
own hands and look after its own chill
dren."
All paternal governments, whether
they be autocracies, oligarchies or linn
tied monarchies, are, by their very na-
ture, socialistic, and believe in divine
right of a superior class to rule the in
ferior. They believe in the subjugation
of the ''mass," the "herd," to the
specially privileged few, in vesting
'rights" and giving immunities to the
man on top at the expense of the "fel-
lows" under, and in all this there 10
simply question of degree and not of
kind between them and Hamiltonian
Republicanism.
The policy that deprives the individ-
ual of the right to trade the products
Of his labor to whomsoever be will is
simply depriving him of his liberty.
and by divesting him of his unlimited
natural right of exchanges, there is q
fright" being vested in combinations
of the few within his trade limits to
rob him. This is Republicanism. This
is half-sheli socialism-socialism so
horrifying to Republicans; Republic
anism, so disgusting to socialists, be-
cause it is their own principle in cow
ardly disguise. All this and more Mr..
Bayard limited, in his Edinburgh
speech, and the sting became more
painful when he suggested further that
this policy tended to corrupt public
opinion, debauch public morals, prosti-
tute the noble calling OF the statesman
to that of the campaign huckster, and
turn the halls of legislation into bust.
ness marts, where special privileges are
bought and sold.
But the head and front of his offend
ing, according to Congressman Taft,
was not that he knew these things to
be facts, but that, instead of taking
them to light London society drawing
rooms, where their enunciation would
have been harmless, he had had the au-
dacity to present them to the world
through one of its most learned bodies
Mr.. Bayard sees at least many of the
evils of socialism, and that protection
is one of them, but he ought not to
have said 30 lest he offend Congress
man Taft end others.
There is no wonder, however, that
the philosophic anarchist, who sees the
crimes perpetrated and the robberies
affected under the forms Of law and
by the sanction of society, should de-
mand the abolition of one and the
destruction of the other.
There is, nevertheless, golden mean
between these social eXtremes--that
principle OF democratic individualism
enunciated politically in this country
by Thomas Jefferson, and whose great.
est.liVing exponent and practical per-
factor ia Harry GpOrpo
This principle, which is accepted by
a vast and ever-increasing number of
mankind, recognizes no excuse for the
existence of government for any other
purpose than the preservation of in
dividual liberty. and keenly draws the
line of demarcation between what
constitutes private right and
public function. 1t is very
evident that Secretary Bayard sees
more than little of this principle, but
that he should have publicly an
nounced it is horrible. We should use
every effort to suppress the truth and
remove it from interfering in the ad-
vance Of Republican-socialism, Popu-
lism and all other "isms" which have
either foolishness or rascality as their
basis.
By all means recall Mr.. Bayard.
Csnsure him, impeach him, dismantle
him, and, IL possible, have him drawn
and Quartered for having bad the Ao-