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ceive their whole education in the
streets: while Gould's daughter gives
$l5,000,O00 for the privilege of being
married to lordling.
Chicago streets belong to the peo-
pie Of Chicago, yet Yerkes. by Doodle
methods, makes a net income OF
S3.675. 900 a wear through his street
car monopol~.
The children of this nation are CO.
heirs of all this wealth, and we VOW
eternal war against a system which
robs the children of workers and at
the same time ruins the children. OF
those who receive the stolen wealth.
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CULTURE AND SOCIALISM.
1t is significant index of the Won
drous growth of socialism in the last
few decades, that so many of the
most intellectually cultivated men
and women of the United States and
Great Britain have embraced, in
whole or in part, the theories of the
socialistic school of political econo-
nv. The trend of the movement is
strongly upward, and the leaven that
at first leavened only the industrial
masses or classes the laboring people,
so called, has for years been rapidly
and surely leavening the intellectual
classes or masses of the two nations.
The spirit of Socialism now so fully
permeates all the strata of social life
in Great Britain and the United
States, that the saying, I'VE are all
Socialists now" is becoming every
day more and more the living truth
in literal language. The names of
some of the most notable among the
large and ever progressively increas-
ing number of the eminent British
and American scientists, men of let
tiers, artists, Clergymen, educators.
political economists, statemen. jur-
lists, and educators, that are Social
lists or socialistic, and that have in
the world of culture an international
reputa ton in their various spheres of
accomplishment and distinction, APP
pear in the appended important but
incomplete list. All of them are So
cialists either in utteranCe or cOnviC-
ton, though some of them would re-
pei the assertion that they are Social
lists, if we, in classifying them, should
call them Socialists such is the
prejudice agaist the TERM, though
not against the ideas involved
therein. There are Socialists that
are radical, and there are Social
lists that are conservatives: some
of them are universal Socialists,
while others are partial Socialists
partial both to the reigning order
of Individualism and to the coming
order of Altruism. Most of the names
in the list that follows, are the names
of Socialists of the conservative and
evolutionary type of reform: the
other names mentioned may be put
down as the names of radicals await
ing and hailing the new revolution.
w. d. Howells, the dean of Ameri-
can men of letters: John Ruskin, the
glory of latterday English literature:
G.. Bernard Shaw, critic, playwright,
o-,, ,-i-+. ,Dd all r,,,vJ .,,,.L,r ono
of the most pungent and brilliant
writer's of the times: Laurence Gron-
lund, profound historic philosopher
and political economist: Grant Allen.
scientist and novelist: Edward Bella
my, political economist and popular
and able novelist of Nationalism
Walter Crane. artist and litterateur:
Henry Labouchere, splendidly able
journalist and reform agitator: Al
gernon c. Swinburne. possibly the
greatest of living English poets per
haps scientific anarchy would be
more to his liking, however. than So
cialism), |. Zangwill, critic, novelist.
and literary man of extreme clever
ness and distinction: Rev. George d.
Heron, the first professor of the first
college department Of Applied
Christianity Christian Communism
or socialism,; Miss Frances f..
Willard, very lately deceased, the
evangelist of temperance and
the leader in many reforms:
Rev. f. NJ. Sprague. the author Of
the splendid work Socialism. from
Genesis to Revelation: DR.. McGlynn.
eloquent eXpositor of the new ma
tional economy: Lady Cook nee Ten
nessee Clahin, the prophecies OF
stripiculture: b. 0. Flower. progress
sive editor and imprisoned pro-
claimer of the coming Righteousness
and regeneration: w. H. Bishop.
clever novelist of entertaining travel;
Professor Frank Parsons. iurist and
economist: Professor Ely, a leader
among professors of municipal econ
OmV. Professor John II Commons