The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-30


II contfarlWlse, the soolaIisuc Workmen
Will have to attain to victory by
means OF violent revolution, Wmch
may prove lar more radical in regard
TO capitalists. They do not state as far
as l can learn, definitely in What this
radlcal form is to consist, but from the
Whole context of the doctrine we are
LED TO understand that they would not
shrink from the revolving enormities Of
the last century, reserving the like fate
that overlook at that time in the
"Relgn of Terror" the mobiles, the rich
ana the clergy for such landlords and
middle class folk, for owners of prop
erty OF any style, shape or manner, will
not relinquish voluntarily their property
10 thelf new masters. That such a doc
trine will not entirely succeed there is
no doubt, but that it will do harm is
equally true.
There are four principal Weaknesses
not to use a stronger term in this So
cialistic doctrine so interviewer both
intrinsically and deadly in 1t. that il will
necessarily fall with it's own weight
The first according to HegeIian's ideas
socialism practically DESTROYS man s
dignity. 1t takes away his personality.
Its second weakness is this, If takes
away all responsibility. No one man is
responsible for what humanity does
but humanity does everything and mo
man is responsible. The state IS resnon.
sible for everything and as man is moi
the state he is responsible for notbino.
1t is consequently as destructive ss
ruinous, just as deadly to law ana orday
III its workings on man in the concrate
as it is on the right thinl5ine in f,e
mind The third great weakness is II
destroys all incentives or motives to in.
tellectual, moral or industrial ironrova.
ments. 1t would increase and ronitir1,
the evils it pretends to redress J
Once all motives to self-eyertio,, a,e
taken away. a prize is mt ON indiffar-
ence, carelessness and idleness and
chickering's, quarrels, and all things will
soon go to quote a. common evnTession
10 the demnition bow vows"
Inc Chfstlan idea says, mo, you are
q lIee moral agent. 90 your own
shoulders, your own conscience, OF
Sour own soul Hes the responsibility OF
your acts. Behlnd no secret society
cdll II oy what name you will, shall yoJ
secreIe ana screen yourself TO throw
Ine plalhe OF esca2e the responsibility
vi your ACTS. PRINCIPALS are respon
slple Tor the agents. And in this op
Posltlon TO such secret societies doe
Christianity do good to SOCIETY, t.
the country and the individual. Moth
ING makes man wiser and NOR,
Lhought1ul taan to be told he will b'
dieIu w. account Tor what he IS doing Of
saying 30 hluch as communion dis
regards, as much does Christianity
safeguard thls responsibility.
Again Wnen we CONSIDER the FAMILY
Inc Chrlstlah doctrlne Is equally safe
9olia ana practlcai. what is nation;
- y Vast tracts OF lands, dense forests
solu, silver ana precious stoneE A
syria, Fersla, greece ana Rome had
an these ana perlsned. Rather is ii
ilot strohs, honest and brave men.
pedutlI9l' Nlftuous ana tender-hearted
WI moiiie Gu Anu - II not 70 the lainlly we
ION lpr them! BUT as the famlly rests
oli marriages SO also Goes the nation.
Increase and multiply" was the
command given at the beginning. Is
TINS the command obeyed now? Doc
tor Malcombe, who has given more
years to this study than any other Am
erlcan, perhaps European physician,
says: The crime against the unborn
child that destroys parental instinct
encourages sensuality, and suppresses
population, is as common today in the
most enlightened Christian communities
as it was in the days Of Pagan Rome,
and Doctor John Ellis makes the
startling assertion that at the pres
ent birth rate the Puritan stock in one
generation VIII lose control OF all its
FORMER power? FOLLOWING the same
reasoning may we not say that IN fifty
OF Sixty years from now the best part
OF II VIII De like he Hlshman's potato
society cannot exist without au-
thorlty, nor authority without the right
10 command, and where there is the
risht TO command there is the duty to
OBEY NOW, the essential elements of
society are Legislative, power to
make laws; judicial power to explain
them; executive, power to enforce
them III IS man S DUTY to pay allegi
ahce 10 f1shtly reconstructed authority
ny opealehce TO law. Man cannot do
otIerWlse.
NOW word IN regard to capital and
LABOR. What some OF these men on
pubic piatIoffns mean ny laborers is
iItr TO understand. You would INA
CINE, to hear or read their speeches,
mat tne men VINO receive daily pay
are ana are alone the laborers of the
World. DO they mean to say or think
tiat they convince the public that
sucn and such only are worllmen? BY
lhhuehdo ana insinuatlon, if not by di-
rect assertion, they seem to so con-
cluae; II SO, it is an assertion as false
as II IS dangerous Do not our lawyers
ana DOCTORS work? the editors of our
newspapers, literary men and scientific
men! professors in our colleges and
leachers IN our schools work? To work
Is 10 reign. Are not the manufacture
y. r. tlNT