Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-05-28
fluctuations OF
Fl MUTUnLEST.
SECOND SERIES. J

Socialism marches with thought,
not daggers; it brings peace, not
war: and acts from the plane of love.
not hate. "-Civilization Civilized.
Socialism is not necessary reyolu-
ton, but it is an inevita bic evolution.
Hence socialists should not grow hys-
terical. nor stand agape III contem-
plation of an imaginary revolution
of violence, nor ever counsel to let
slip the dogs of war. and unchain the
raging lion of mob force. No, social
| ism, as the most of us see it, is bound
to come, but it will ripen to maturity
IS 'plant of growth, and not a
spontaneous generation, nor product
of political combustion" I'VE want
no convolutions,' to quote still far
Their from that excellent work. Civili-
zation Civilized, mo earthquakes, no
holocausts, no fire and sword, revolu-
lions or gore, nor men on horseback,
nor kings, presidents, leaders. or per-
sonalists: but what we do want is the
spread of earnest truths by earnest
men and women, who will rise above
personalism, and, like Christ. work in
thought and act for the welfare Of
the race. with benefit to all and inju-
~ to none
Why do socialists oppose and de-
spise war? Well, why do SOME people
oppose and despise prize-ighting and
cooking mains and bull fights? Oh.
there are 4 thousand multiform and
manifold reasons that cry out against
the deep damnation of war. Here,
however, is a reason that should touch
the pocket-nerve (oh, how sensitive
nerveY of the people. Since the
founding of this federal government
in 1850, the expenses that the people
of this country have incurred by rea-
son of war foot up the astounding to-
tai of ten billions of dollars ($l0,000,-
000,000) while all the other expenses
of the government, taken as whole,
amount to considerably less than one
half the prodigious sum that we have
consumed in civilized war.
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AS long as the savage brutality of
war so unity survives, the world has
great need of an authoritarian and
anti-war association comprising a
membership of all the truly civilized;
| and there with it needs an anti-mob
society to protect the noble men and
women of the anti-war association
against the blind malice of the mob
that loveth mere war and calleth that
love by the injured name of patriot
| ism. Socialists hate war and love
patriotism. but the love of country
that inspires the socialist is more
prospective than it is retrospec tive:
| they love the land, not so much for
what it is or has been, but for what it
| is to be: not for what our nation was
lin the bitter days of DID," nor for
what it is in the bitter days of wage
slavery, but for what it will be In
the days that yet shall be, when no
slave of gold abideth 'twixt the
breadth of sea and sea-"
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The function of socialism is to
change wrong relations into right re-
lations; to Danish industrial error and
to inaugurate industrial truth,-for
industrial truth is industrial freedom:
1.-The truth shall make you free"
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Could any system be better than
system that is regulated in agree
ment with these rules: Honors ac-
cording to helpfulness: positions of
service according to capacity to
serve: credits according to deeds, and
debts according to needs?
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"And none but the Master shall praise
them,
And none but the Master shall
blame.
And no one shall work for money,
And no one shall work for fame:
But each for THE JOY OF THE DO
ING,
And each in his separate star
Shall paint the Thing as he sees 1t,
For the God of Things as they Are"
-KIPLING.
The 'joy of the doing" is the great
est and most productive inducement
to industry that man has ever known.