Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-30

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century and those liveried sky pilots
had nothing to say? Yet in their
glory fits they eXulted in the achieve
ments Of the church of past the
reputation of when was the sole rea-
son for their existence.
! long for some organization Of good
will toward men, and justice, wealth
and happiness, the very purposes OF
which will be as a perennial spring OF
enthusiasm. | long Tor socialism.
In what do as d tigting slave Of the
capitalist rise above the naked spear
thrower of Africa? How am ! supe-
rior to him? In my weapon, that is
all. Now this is just the one thing in
which capitalism is fitted to be supe-
rior to all former times. In her
ability to make superior weapons and
instruments she excels, and in this
excellence is given the proper limit Oh
her usefulness. AS wen might the man
who builds ships for our navy assume
the right of commanding our ships in
time OF war as for business men to
assume the right to covers nation;
yet this is just the folly which the
government at Washington embodies.
TO carry products,t to captain the pro-
duction, and to pay themselves, yes.
AS Instruments OF exchange they
might go on serving in transition
time, but as rulers over the destinies,
the intellect and soul of the world, not
at all.
In our enthusiasm for art what
grotesque harlequinade we have.
Ruskin has probed this sham of our
money mother England to the quick.
We hear the phrase applied to sue
cessful gamblers "The Napoleon Of
Finance. In the matter of art Amer
lean capitalists are indeed Napo-
leonic. We raid the galleries of 9th
ers as greedily and as ignorant as he.
He staggered into places long sacred
to the great canvases with his sword
clashing behind him and orders every
thing home to Paris. We swagger in
with our dollars clinking and repeat
the order for New York. Without
noble enthusiasm see the bald spot
on thy head. oh dollarocracy.
And has capitalism no enthusiasts?
Outside of its Wall streets [ can
imagine none except the love of as
tonishing people, which this sort of
man mistakes for admiration. Flat
ter me, but not with the Aattery of
imitation. Why does the man who
has worked his way into the heart of
a great truth never hide his secret?
Why does the true scientist look for
others to share his knowledge to
tread the paths of investigation with
him? The great artist longs to have
students around him: no ilattery
pleases him better than that of imi-
tation, and this is the secret of the
survival of art. But the capitalist
will not. cannot afford to encourage
such battery, and this is the omen of
its demise, the bald spot on the kings
head.
This is unpatrioticl No, capitalism
is no mans country. Capitalism is
an instrument, an improved burglars
kit of tools. There can be no other
relation between patriotism and a
burglars kit of tools than the act of
restraining the burglar and taking
away his kit Is it not better for me
to undeceive you by thought before
the day of trial than to let you go
bindfold to disaster, than to let you
go into the revolution of disgust, dis
illusion and revenge?
But has not capitalism the enthusi-
asm of patriotism; is not that good
enthusiasm? | answer first capital
ism has it not and cannot have it. /
answer again that she has ills enough
without it
Kossuthism knows no pity out of
Hungary. 81 will praise or ] will
blame ANYTHING for Hungary replied
Kossuth when Wendell Phillips re-
buked him for nobbiug here with the
slave owning classes and for uttering
no word during his visit to America
on behalf of the bleeding negro. The
result of this kind of love is seen in
what It has achieved for Hungary.
What has Hungary reaped from Kos
suthism? Just what all men and all
nations may only hope to reap from a
love that is geographically bounded.
Ireland has burned with patriotism
and is very nearly consumed. Spain
has burned with it and has been very
nearly consumed. Let the old con-
sumed and consuming brand lie, and
let us try the larger hope, "The world
| for men"
Wealth builds its nations of official
ism, and ofiicialism, as we have heard,
is always patriotic. Every large bank
balance is a cocoon that may envel-
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