The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-21
GROWTH OF SOCIALISM.
John Graham Brooks says 1t X OF
the Increase

John Graham Brooks says 1t * on
the Increase.
NEW YORK Jan. 21-"Race Discipline"
Was the title under which John Graham
Brooks discussed applied Socialism in in
dustries before the League of Political
Education. at the Berkeley Lyceum. Forty
fourth Street. In the early part of this
address Mr.. Brooks spoke OF the failure
CT present Industrial methods TO satisfy
The sense of justice OF the workers This
failure he considered largely due TO the
close association with politics. referring to
the ghastIy result Of city franchises
permitting them to be constant sources
Of political corruption"
Not long ago I asked a man high in
power in large railroad corporation"
said Mr. Brooks. If q single bill could go
through Legislature if opposed TO the in
5erests Of that corporation. He answered:
of course not Any bill tending to affect
il financially would be choked instantly
The great mining interests, the important
manufacturing corporations, are similarly
involved in politics. All this affects our
moral standards giving a view of life that
IL is TO be hoped the present century viii
change"
The view of life ordinarily held now
Mr.. Brooks illustrated by asking: How
many fathers educate their sons with the
object OF training them for the greatest
service to society? Is rot the whole aim
to develop the qualifications that viii
Incsc speedily secure fine house n a
fashionable street,
The increase ~ the ranks of socialism
the lecturer attributed 20 the too exclu-
sive use Of the worlds great machinery"
The first great organiZat was the
railroad, which grew up after the civil
war This machine to distribute pro-
duets Of labor the mass of people feel TO
be unfairly managed They see II TO be
administered for the few. and an inyet-
crate Socialism COWS up that says, Let
Ii take over this machinery and manage
it Cor The good of alt This Socialism is
extending the world over with a rapidly
that cannot be kept track of in stats
ties
The first principle OF a right system OF
social economics Mr. Brooks formulated
as the use Of all industrial machines for
the largest social service" and spoke of
conditions now existing in Belgium as
showing the possibility OF a practical ap-
plicaIion Of the principle In Client and
Brussels 100 600 men are trying the ex-
pertinent and succeeding wonderfully
thirty girls al work with no overseer in
sight Ny guide told ne that he was was
trying 10 teach them to do every bit of
work perfectly for honor's sake. and they
were learning with marvellous ease.
But the conditions under which thew
we're working made ii possible, as no
sWeatshop conditions could. The men who
started the factory had looked about the
city and found girls working for franc
day. and made point of ascertalning Just
now much c woman must earn to permit
ner 10 have human living With time for
rest and recreation They found that
francs and 81 centimes was the smallest
sum. Very we'll, It was settled that no
lower wage should be paid, and that no
more than nine hours labor should be al
lowed. On that principle they work A
new motive is introduced into industry.
In the new century there shall be estab-
jished a standard Of payment below which
no employer shall be permitted to GO
Mr. Brooks referred to one Of the evils
OF the present industrial system. saying.
Where votes can be compelled by threat
uttered OF implied OF Withdrawing the
means o. existence. true democracy does
not exist And if prevailing methods tend
to make multi-millionaires on the one
hand and workers subsisting on the scan
test possible wage On the other. then so
clety Is indeed terribly on trial.