The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26
PAPER BY MIR. TR UElT4N,
Interesting Talk Before the Social Sci
 once Club.

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 Freedom" and MT. Trueman spoke oi
 the topic as follows:
 ! At no previous time has there beer
 so much talk in regard to our presen
 unjust social conditions. probably be
 cause at no previous time have the ex ! tremes been so pronounced as at pres
 ent. II is noticeable, however, that z large part of the discussions on this most important subject are devoted tC depicting the conditions which we al agree are undesirable, and that when il comes to showing the reason why we are in this condition in the first place and in the second, determining with scientific accuracy the correct method to use to get us out of this condition; our friends are usually not only at a loss, but in most cases urge us to go blindly on without a plan, or accept some drastic so-called remedy that makes the careful and studious man feel that he would rather endure the evils we now have than fly to those we know not of. There are two things to be considered in this matter. and they are as follows: First, there must be
 
 second, there must be clear ideas of the methods by which the desired change can be brought about. If we keep these two thoughts separate in our minds we shall be spared a vast amount of unnecessary difficulty, and largely facilitate the securing for ourselves those clear ideas without which it is impossible to discuss any subject intel ligently. Nothing is more common to- day than to find people of all kinds and conditions who, seeing the mass of pow erty, misery and wretchedness with which we are surrounded, and having a desire to alleviate the suffering, rush this way and that, proposing the most fantastic schemes without any idea that there is deep cause for all we see on the surface. Thus we have minr isters to tell us how Jesus would run a paper, and the grave suggestions they give us as to how to conduct business, are well known to all, We hear much from this source about kindness, love, mercy and charity, all excellent attrib- utes, but like terra cotta trimmings on a tall building, they are of little use
  sary therefore for us to go to founda- tion principles before we can attempt to build our superstructure, and will be for us to weigh carefully the very words to convey our thoughts, or confusion will be the inevitable result. In dealing with a complex subject like this we shall therefore do well to fol- low the methods of the mathematician and astronomer, chemist an biologist, and get down to unit and as man is the unit of the body polite, I have asked you tor consider for a few mo- ments the question of individual free dom. I have done this because am that the difficulties from which we suffer in restrictions placed upon the individual, and that to place still more restrictions will add to rath- ar than diminish the unnatural conges- ton we all feel so keenly. While it is rue that thepe is more knowledge on his subject than ever before, we must not forget that there are two kinds of V. g., empirical and scienti- fc, and it Is the former that Is so much n evidence at this time, not only among
  relies upon experience and Observation, science reasons from cause Q effect, and predicates the result be- ore experience, has reached It. In many branches of science this is rec ,gnized, and it is not until we come to economies that we find an apparent allure in the method. If we take H. tuid to chemist for analysis observe LOW carefully he separates each com- | ,onent part duly measured and labeled | " itself; once having completed his | nalysis, 1t is exceedingly easy to com ,ine the parts in a perfect synthethis, | till the seperating process must pre- ede the other. We have a somple of | ood supposed to be adulterated and we ake 1t to a microscopist for examina- ion; observe the patient, careful man. CT in which he takes an infnitesimal art of it and places it under his mi roscope using the correct objective, nd having the light just right before e even begins to speculate on it's com osition We might go on thus trough all the natural sciences citing erfect analogies, but these are suffl- lent for our purpose.
 We have seen that the scientist starts rom the unit and reaches grand re- ults, yet in the real of economics we nd the reverse of this order to obtain, 1r both layman and professor are on le same platform in taking the whole pcial fabric and endeavoring to mold 1t Ito some preconceived shape, which u lust of necessity be arbitrary, and the atural result of it all is that no two yer think the same in regard to either le method or the conclusion. i, We now arrive at a point where we .ust ask ourselves if there is not a w of life for human beings analogous
 the harmonious laws governing the | wer orders of creation? And without | we answer yes, and 1t is that 1 e find in every human heart and so gar to every human soul the law of diyidual freedom MT. Herbert l oencer has put this law into such 8 ,ncise form there is no way of evad- 2 it; he says, Every man has free ,m to do all that he wills, provided he fringes not the equal freedom of any her man." Starting out with this as IT first principle, we deduce from it at man has an equal right to life and
 @onal liberty, and to secure these he ust have an equal right to the use of
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