Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-26

brought into being by human exerticn. their
existence or non-existence, their increase or
dimtnution, depending on man. The es-
sential character of the other class OF
things is that they do not embody labor
and exist Irrespective OF human exertion
and irrespective Of man. they are the field
or environment in which man finds himself:
the storehouse from which his needs must
be supplied the raw material upon which.
and the forces with which. his labor alone
cas- act And he concludes, though his
titles have been acquiesced In by generation
after generation. to the landed estates Of
the duke OF Westminster the poorest child
that Is born in London today has as much
right as his eldest son. Though the SOW
ereign people OF the state of New York
consent to the landed possessions OF the
Astors the puniest infant ttat comes wall
ing into the world In the squalidst room OF
the most miserable tenement house becomes
at that moment seized Of an equal right with
the millionares And IL is robbed II the
right is denied The ideal society which
they portray leaves the individual without
motives, incentives, permissions and facili-
ties to eNertion. men lapsed into state
Of crushing equality, life dreary monotony
and the state without functions to restrain
the evil or protect enterprise, industry and
self-denial. 1t is a condition in which all
rights and duties are extinct-eu hopes, de-
sires cravings. appetencies suppressed. He
made desert and called 1t peace Better
toll starvation and agonies Of the worst
DAYS.
1T is perhaps natural to stigmatize these
doctrines as foreign importations, at which
our people will not give more than an in
Credulous glance, and resent as an insult to
American common sense the suggestion
that these vagaries and foolish fancies will
find acceptance among us. But II is easy TO
perceive just grounds for apprehension,
one cause for alarm is the literature which
l,. hag NJ fort az nd .
reception which 1t has met. Its volume is
great 1t is nct ilUw and then pamphlet
of ephemeral form and contents, but books
of pretentious size and substance. The
writers show masteriul grasp OF social
phenomena, a deep knowledge Of the laws
which govern them and a rare power and
originality in their explanation. They en-
liven their pages by flashes of truths, some
of which are new and others seem new.
Above all deeply moved themselves by
their revelations and animated by lofty
spirit their periods are often all afire with
intensity of longing and the passions of
hatred of what seems to them the bitter
nesses of life and of history. This estimate
is supported by the pages OF Kari Marx IN
his book on capital which he calls a Crit
ical Analysis of Capitalist Production,
and of Henry Georges book on Progress
and Poverty which on his title page he
characterizes as An inquiry into the cause
of Industrial depressions and OF the in
remedy
POWER OF ORGANIZATION.
"At this point two facts press upon the
attention In the first place, while the wage
earners are men of like passions as other
men no better and no worse, and therefore
TO be expected to put their personal in
terests before those of others, yet they dis
play a strange and enthusiastic loyalty to
Their claeS; so that II one section fails INTO
| trouble, those who are at the moment less
unfortunate. contribute relief from their
poverty with generosity. They eXemplify tie
saying If one member suffer all suffer
with it, The sympathetic strike is the eX-
preston of this passion In the next place.
the wage-earners submit to a discipline as
rigid and severe as an army in battle. Each
abdicates his free will, his judgment his
personal wishes and interests. He is no
| longer an individual, but an atom OF mas.
| the smallest part OF machine driven by q
power greater than steam and directed by
the hand of the engineer at his pleasure.
! What this great body of the citizens hip,
| possessed of political power transported by
the enthusiasm of self-sacrihce, directed by a
relentless discipline will be, when II be-
comes thoroughly saturated with these
| doctrines it is not hard to divine. In that
| day if it ever comes, the federatlons OF labor,
| their battalions enthusiastic, compact,
disciplined. organized and moving with one
! impulse at the word of command, when
| launched upon institutions under which they
| CuppOSe themselves trOQQeD uOWH, VIII SWttl
| from the face of the earth not corporations
syndicates trusts and aggregated capital
| only but all the whole order OF industrial
society as now organized.
What has been said is without profit II
we stop here Any eXplication, however
| accurate and impressive, of the principles
| Of American society, political and industrial
and any warnings against the insidious in
| PRODUCTION into that order OF alien and
| yirulept heresles will be vain, unless they
I aI g1v NJ rln q
evils: antidotes for the blood poison. The
remedy which ! venture to suggest, as that
| which our profession is competent to ad-
minister Is the application of the mechanism
| OF the law to the education OF all in the rights
l and duties OF citizens TO the end that they
| apprehend Justice. A somewhat complex
| proposition needing explanation. The educa.
| ton referred to is not such as is to be had
| in the schools. They teach the principles OF
political morality, ustrarlng them by the
| manifold experiences of the race in the
| course of it's evolution. and enforcing them
by sanctions drawn from many sides, Just as
| they teach the principles OF personal moral
| ity; but unhappily one may know the FORMER
| best and be a bad citizen, just as he who
knows the latter best may be bad man
| All that learning is very admirable and
| desirable; but it does not 60 far enough
The education implied in the statement mus
| convey to the mind SO vivid a notion OF every
! right that to realize it is the one object Of
! desire and to infringe il rouses the whole mar
in arms. 1t informs, enlivens and invigoratei
the conscience. so that man is as sensitive
| to wrong as to a personal indignty. AL
the habits, prejudices and temperament o
the man must be for his inviolable integrity
This high endeayor, purpose and practice IL
possible only after long continuance in thu
exercise of the rights and duties of citizens.
"One Of the ways of educating citizens II
their rights and duties is by improving an'
defining the jury system, and making thu
service interesting to jurors in the popula
as well as the superior courts. The larg
number of jurors should be these reached o
liable to be reached by the new heresiee; AM
the office should be dignifed by the characte
of the men called to serve in it and by tn
circumstances of the employment. The frs
qualification of the juror ehould be that h
earns a decent living for himself and family
rlgoI ously excluding all who, from whateve