The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-19
Topeka Man Takes Issue With
Him on Socialism.
Says Ex-senator Belongs to
Material Age Passing Away.
SOCIALISM PRACTICAL.
The Doctrine of Love, Brother
hood and UnSeIfiShnesS.
Believes that the New Order Is
Being Ushered In.

George 3. Harrison, a Topeka so
~cialist, who read what ex-senator In
gals said against socialism, as pub
lished in the State Journal recently.
thinks that the other side is entitled to
a hearing. He says:
Il notice that John J. ingalls, says
that socialism is impossible. Every
thing seems to be proving him no
friend of truth in this case. Socialism
is DOssible-more h that, 1t IS IN
evitable. 1t is advancing even more
rapidly than ingalls, is receding from
view. 1t is coming in this country; it
is coming in every corner of the world
To refuse to see it is to be k
OWlet, atheism, which the poet tells us
shut his Eyes and flew at the sun, cry
ing Where is it2'
MI. Ingalls, knows better. He says
that the radical error of socialism is
the assumption that there is some
power in society above and beyond that
of individuals of which society is com
posed The radical error of ingalls, is
the assumption that anything that
makes for the advance of the world is
impossible. Nothing good is impos-
sible. 1t is only that which is evil that
is doomed to die unfinished and unful-
filled.
Under ingalls, socialism would be i'm
possible. He belongs to the material
age which is passing away. He is
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vidualism. which Webster bluntly de-
hnes as 's~elfshness.' Of course he does
not believe in socialism. You cannot
serve God and mammon.
What is socialism, Not at all what
Mr.. ingalls, says it is. 1t is not from
without Its programme is not fOrcible
redistribution. 1t is induced from
within. Socialism is the substitution Of
association for competition as a method
or living The programme of socialism
is the wiping out Of selfshness and the
development of brotherhood. It would
substitute individuality for Individual
ism 1t would do away with war and
battle. bushes war as well as interna-
tonal war. 1t is WOrld-buiIdfng in
stead of Notwithstanding. Socialism
would accomplish its mission by doing
away with private greed and putting in
its place public cooperation, 1t would
not abolish ownership. but would fe-
place private ownership by public own
ership.
"~Selhshness, not love, is shallow, sur
1ace-deep and temporary. Brotherhood
is everlasting n illimitable. 1t is de-
Neloped in man in measure to his near
ness to God, but it is always there. In
d~iVidualism (selishness) is force, war
fare. the p-enitentiary. Socialism is
overcoming evil with good.
1t is quite plain that "indfviduaIism
cannot administer collectivism. To sell
hshness brotherhood is impossible. Up
holders OF the present competitive sys-
tenn are Incompetent to say that a
hlGher and more Christ-like system is
wrong, ingalls, is not in any sense an
authority on socialism. He is material.
selfish. the finished product Of the ami
mai civilization. We are going for
ward, out of that civilization. and into
the realm of ideas, toward the reign
OF the spiritual. How can you expect
the man on the lowest plane to com
prehend the development of the stage
above him? ingalls, is not TO be con-
demned or derided-he should be pitied
He mas lived to see the last DAYS of the
material age with its-to him and to
onderful development of the utilf-
tartan Things that are a matter Of
everyday need to ingalls,. the tele-
phone, the fast mail. the harnessing Of
electricity, water and air in a thou
SAND ways, were impossible to a gene
ration that preceded him not so verv far.
back. They, too, cried impossible. and
IKE him they had not the slightest
erect in retarding the forward march.
That which is to come is more marvel
GUS than all that has been. We do not
comprehend it, we can but dream Of If.
yet 1t is none the less certain. Compe-
tltion is the animal life. Socialism is
the intellectual. Both prepare for the
spiritual. No man fears socialism ex-
cept as he is selfish. except as The ami
ma controls him. He who wants to aid
IN making the world better can onlv
do so by applying Christianity. bv
bringing the world up q little nearer 10
the standard of Christ. Do this and
you are a socialist. Socialism is the
living method; competition is the cast
of and decaying system. One has the
choice of going forward or standing
inert and rOtting. Socialism is comine
so swiftly hat Mr.. ingalls,, who i.
~barnacled to the old system, seems t
De lying backward"