The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-16


ing in Chicago b. Pruk Al
bon ". small the much
rorectee head OF the department OF noca-
1legy in .hs University Of Chicago TIE
Moving summary Of his lecture. TO-
osher win additional comment. vas made
" Prot. small for tae Tm<s-aerxId:
The readers Of ihis paper EfE sock In
sain for anything novel In my views
epch ~ they are. however. they are st the
@rvsce o< any one who has patience Tor :
university mans way OF sninkinx.
In The first place, there II not = pe~sa-
mDsic note I'm the whole xamut Of my
o1c5aa philosophy. l believe that the world
= being pushed forward and upward by
forces that nothing can stay. I believe
nat bigger and better men are bred to-
Aay In the United States England ana
Germany AZ least than were ever before
born In any such pr.3orttsnai numbers
Anywhere In The world. believe thai Ar
uen's work today requires more brains I'm
STAINING and leading than ever before.
ear complex life produces also more h,rn-
U developed consctences and more lofty
an6 thorough standards Of morality. I be-
B&se that the heaviest human tasks are
aseAd Of Us. not behind, and that a ber-
ssccns evolution Is making Us size uo To
De Standard of fitness that will keep On
taxing care Of ono human task after an
cher 20 long a. the world iGxsa The
critics who have labeled my opinions
pessiEis'ic' have adopted very round
shout way OF confesxing that they cannot
q viii not see the relations OF the thing.
Cat I have said.
- ssn not a socialist. unless thai tsrm
= made 10 stand for the everything and
rotaing sort Of wistfainess that simply
wants. II possible, 10 get for everybody .
tetter ceal in life. without any definite
notion hos. In thai sense We are ali more
Or less socialists, / suppose BUT Ii by
b0e1ailsts' you nean any Of those various
bodies CT fnnocents who have = programmes
that would eliminate probisms from hu-
man tife. or make things that are not
equal 70 the same thing equal TO each
ssaes. must be counted very far Qua
n am not dennuncer Of capital
Epsscmic takers tell the people that capt.
III b not essential to production, because
nvases produce food by digging roots and
rskinw Wild fruit, with no help from cap
nj. The kind Of production that sasages
0rYy or does not require capital, Il In
rue. but the Inference which Henry
George and Kari Mara before him drew
rom the fact In draft on an overirawn
teJosit. II is inhuulan TO make honest
Eepie believe that civilized proiuesson
can so on wishou; capital. The mere
civilized we get. the more intimate Ia our
dependence on capital. That DOES not
pecessarily mean that capital must sn-
sfssnse In amount In direct proportion with
<sance OF civilization. IL means that the
nbrc advanced We are in the arts OF life.
q. more We need TO use accumulated
wealth In further production.
7. am not among those who say. oh.
yes capital Is all right but the capitalists
hae no business TO exist To be sure
rs too late In the day TO pretend that
~ socialistic conception OF society is an-
tAiskable. The idea OF making ali wealth
tSd in proiacffcu the undivided pasrs-
E.ny Of all the producers. or Of all the in
tsstripus, IA by no m~a IS a st.Is-syistent
eaisradiction Of the nature Of things. Re-
Esrdless Of the technical obstacles 20 such
geajjussIent and sapposing the change
accomplished. human life might go On in
efni;ely under sorialistie or even a
sommunlsiic adjustment OF property reIa-
tians, When decline 10 adopt ihe social
ist programme. therefore, IL IL not because
pretend to consider II unshinkasie. In
addition 10 the decisive fact that the ma
5afity Of people AT present do npf want II.
] simply do not consider Il the condition
Of human relations which would be likely
Ia the long run TO bring ons the best Ia
human nature. For that reason, II does
net seem 70 ne the hest mark fer Us 10
standards OF improved society The capt.
tails; that does his proper work earns his
wage II wanted an eass toh. I should
hook long time in the ranks Of Iahar
rather than take up the burden 81 most
OF the capitalists Ny personal view il
that In the hest orssres, sesissy which
men can ever arrange there viii be very
much larger proportional number Of hide
pendent capitalists than there are today.
so9e,her with very snnea larger acgre~
gate amount OF public capital, operated
ses in the interest OF individuals s,ss for
est 81 ire people as a whole As an abb
erae; principle. should say thar the cap
iAiist begins 10 he mere pretender in
sIe place Of the performer OF a function
4 the point where be ceases In he tas
prsoaal msuagcr OF his capital, and
,hre,ore personally responsible for the
:sicy % management. So &oon a. that