The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-12-14

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| SOCIALISM AND THE HOME.
The charge that socialism will break vi
| the home is untenable, as all such charge.
| usually are. Under the present system O
capitalism no home is safe and secure from
destruction. The struggle to get living
mas driven fathers and sons away from theil
homes, away from their kith and kim out
| into the world, where they become separated
forever from family and their relations
Women are swept out into the current oil
competition, which carries them either into
| complete servitude and solitude or prosti-
tuition and social death. The uncertainty
OF preserving wished for social position, the
disappointment incident upon blighted am
billions and desires, blighted through the
constant sapping of the foundations upon
which the different stratums Of society rest
has caused more of the divorces than any
other cause Young men and women are
deprived of the natural satisfaction and
comforts Of home, because of the lack OF
sufficient remuneration from their labor to
guarantee mourning the responsibilities in :
cldent to entering upon the marriage rela-
ton. and they become the victims of broken
AOPco anu disappointed amD1tlOnS, n1l1ng
early graves and the lunatic asylums through
misapplied affections and desires. Capital
ism which compels the many to be the
slaves of miserable conditions is breaking
every home and destroying every rela-
tion natural and divine. Desolate homes,
aching hearts. defeated ambitions; every
noble and natural inspiration of the soul
OF humankind is whitening under the deadly
blight of capitalism.
Socialism will provide opportunities for
the child, the woman and the man to make
living with ease and honor encourage
their natural and wholesome development
and make the future humanity better, grand
er and sweeter than any that ever before
Inhabited the world. Only under socialism
Will happy, contented and comfortabl
homes be possible of achievements
Social Democrat
We quote the foregoing not to indorse
but to criticise We are not prepared to
argue that socialism would not be an
Improvement upon the present order of
things. A man suffering from extreme
cold would naturally look about for
little warmer temperature, but he would
be a fool who would insist that sufficient
warmth could not be found this side of
hades. There are extremes in all things
and extremes should usually be avoided
Capitalism is an extreme to which is op-
posed the other extreme, socialism,
Capitalism and socialism are both alike
born of selfishness. Most socialists will
instantly challenge this statement, but
let us look at the proofs. Our statement
and the challenge must alike rest upon
proof. 1t will hardly be denied that the
man who has no ambition, who is ma
turally and constitutionally tired in
common parlance-the lay mans sell
fish. Laziness is simply one form of
selfishness
Notice in the foregoing extract the
writer says: Socialism will provide op-
portunities for the child, the woman and
the man to make living WITH EASE"
Ruskin and other socialistic colonies
make prominent the idea that they
guarantee to each member food. cloth
ing and shelter. It does not require any
very profound student of human nature
to discover that under any such guar
antee as that about one-half the human
family will lie down in the shade and
nurse their Incidence while the other
half makes good the guarantee.
Is this disposition to lie down any less
selfish than the disposition of a Rookie
Teller, who seeks ease and luxury by
somewhat different methods?
We believe the selfishness of a Rookie
Teller, backed and prompted by ambi-
ton, energy, nervous force, perseverance
and an iron will and determination to
get to the front is a species of selfshness
that has in it greater possibilities for
the worlds good and human advance
ment than that species of selfishness
that will prompt a man to lie down on
some guarantee of food, shelter and
Let us not be understood as wishing
to cast any slur upon Ruskin or any
other similar colony. We only desire to
call attention to what seems to us
fact, to-wit: The whole doctrine of
socialism ignores laziness, and we have
never talked with any man who has
spent any time with these socialistic ex-
periments who has not frankly admitted
that the most serious problem for So
cialists to solve was what to do with
the drones.
It is worthy OF comment here that
If all great achievements of the century |
now closing, not one has been the work /
If drones.
Do not misunderstood us as here |
that all Socialists are drones. |
Ambition, energy, nervous force, per- ,
severance, will power and determina-
ion are human virtues and important |
actors in true progress.
All these may undoubtedly be powers
or evil as well as for good, but for this
'eason we do not believe they snould
)e destroyed.
The foregoing arraignment of capital
SIN we believe is none too strong. but
hat socialism is the proper remedy we
leny
Socialists demand public or common
of ALL the homes, means Of
production and means of transportation.
'opullsts demand public ownership OF
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