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I liberty cannot be delegated to any rep
resentative. Liberty cannot be put un-
der bonds to keep the peace without lib
erty being lost and peace unattained
All the so-called evils OF liberty have
been the evils of lack of liberty. We
shall have to accept the full logic of lib
erty, at least, for there is nothing under
the sun that can be trusted in its place.
The lesson of cooperation has got to be
learned, and learned in liberty. And
the lesson of liberty has got to be learned,
and learned in cooperation. We had
just as well set about the task.
Again, some are offended at the class
conscious appeal of socialism. | think
it is because they do not rightly under
stand its meaning. Socialists have no
thought.of arraying one class against an
other class as individuals; class.con-
sciousness does not mean class hatred
Let US admit that socialists sometimes
give utterances that have the class
hatred ring about them; class hatred is
none the less alien to the spirit and
genius of socialism. Even so bitter
controversialist as Carl Marx says that of
all men socialists can afford to be toll
Grant and kindly toward the capitalist
class, knowing that class to be the VIC
tim of system as truly as the laborer.
What the socialist does mean by class
consciousness is this That nothing can
obviate the hideous fact that one class
of human beings is living off another
class; that a capitalistic class is heaping
up the produce of the producing class.
And he appeals to labor to become class
conscious because he knows perfectly
we'll that the laborer cannot achieve
his freedom nor have the produce OF his
labo. until he becomes conscious that
he is the real producer and owner Of the
earth. Capital lords and land lords will
exist, and despoil the earth with econo-
mic and military wars until the disin-
herited labor OF the world rises to nobly
take possession of it's inheritance. So
long as the laborer is willing to be a
mere wage-earner, so long as he is led
about by politician and agitator, so long
as his WEAKNESS and poverty, his de-
pendence and hopelessness SO eat out
his nerve of soul and body that he will
not act, just SO long will his condition
wax worse and worse. Labor must
achieve its own liberty if it is ever to be
achieved. Liberty cannot be handed
down by superior class to an inferior
class; it has never been so achieved and
ought not to be so achieved. If liberty
were something that could be imposed
upon one class by another, or could be
presented as gift from superiors to in
feriors, it would vanish in night. Men
are not free until they have won and
established their freedom in experience
and in the power OF their own man
hood. The ass-conscious appeal is not
for strife or hostility or antagonism, but
for manhood for constructive purpose,
and spiritual nerve and genius.
The end of socialism is the abolition
Of all class and parties, and the coming
in OF but one class, the people, with OPP
portunity for every man to produce his
own living and at the same time to be-
come, as Charles Kingley, "a scholar, a
saint and a gentleman. Unless Amer
lean laborers as class are so spirit
ually awakened that they become noble
and courageous enough to adopt the CO.
operative commonwealth as a working
ideal, and adopt it in spirit of good
will toward all men, no one can achieve
their liberty for them.-Geo. ID. Heron.
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The socialism of today is not a device
or scheme OF any one; it is a scientific
philosophy and rests upon an historical,