The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-10

At the Grand Avenue Congregational
ehureh-soms interesting Thoughts
ON she subject
At the Grand avenue Congregational
church Sunday evening. the pastor, the
Rev. Andrew Burns Chalmers, preached
an interesting and timely sermon on
the topic, Socialism Versus Anarchisrn
in Connecticut" A large congregation
was present. He said in part:
Last Sunday night we were startled
by the fifteen strokes from all the fire
bells of the city. This meant that The
state troops were called to suppress
anarchy in the state of Connecticut.
Surely the people of the commonwealth
are unit in their opinion that not only
anarchy must be speedily suppressed by
the strong hand of the law, as the will
of all the people. Anarchy is not good
for either party. The state lhii.tia
was not sent to protect especially cap
ital and labor. but both the soldiery
was as much in duty bound to protect
the union bus in the streets of Water
bury from the stones of those who were
in sympathy with the street railroad
company as they were in duty bound
to protect the cars and employees Of the
company from the stones of those
whose sympathies were with the strik-
ers.
"Lawlessness must not be tolel ated in
this country, and the more firmly and
swiftly this fact is impressed on those
who have a tendency to anarchy the
better Cor all our social life. Anarchy
must be suppressed and the governor
of Connecticut is surely worthy o. all
praise for The quick and firm response
he made to the call to preserve order in
this commonwealth.
Some OF you have thought that in
ssead of socialism being against anar-
chy that they were practically the same
thing. They are directly opposite. The
soldiers of Connecticut who went to
Waterbury represent socialism in soeie-
ty, and they went to destroy anarchy,
which is ar1ti-social. The labor union.
the combinations of capital, or even
partnerships, the United States postal
system, public utilities owned by the
people and the church and the family
are very good examples of socialism,
where cooperation and sympathy have
taken the place of competition.
Society has been moving always
and never faster than the past twenty
five years, away from individualism or
connection towards socialism or CO.
operation and sympathy. Notice the
specialization of capital has been going
on for the past, quarter of century.
Capital has been fast eliminating the
factory competition in the solution OF
the socially problem.
The foundation of the combinations of
capital or the trust, Is brotherhood. In
the national trust we have the principle
hof fatherhood, or socialism manifestly
in a particular line of trade over all the
country. Because the final band OF the
trust is brotherhood it has been a diff
/ cult matter to legislate against. 1t is
as easy to destroy the socialism OF cap
ital in the combinations as it is to era
dictate by legal enactment the spirit OF
brotherhood among men. Law may
compel men to be more brotherly, put
law cannot compel men to be less
brotherly. Law cannot compel two
men or two million men to employ the
principle of competition which is infra-
ternal, when these men want to en-
ploy the principle of socialism or fra
ternity among themselves, but law can
compel them to take you and me into
the fraternal relation so that they shall
not compete against us.
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against the. trusts! The pulpit has
been the tendency toward combinations
of capital decrying: the press has been
printing tons of protests against trusts;
the politician has howled his voice into
husklness against the prediction evil;
professors of economics and sociologists
have prophesied disaster for our coun-
try; legislatures have enacted prohib BIZ
tory laws; and all the time capital has
become more nearly socialized in COM
binations. The fight against the trusts
has been faithfully fought Our best
men, from labor-unionists to college
presidents have stood shoulder to
shoulder in this fight against the ten
dency of capitalists to eliminate the
Competitor principle and establish the
principle of sympathy and cooperation.
The whole machinery of our national
government has been entirely in the
fight and it seems to be a losing battle.
There was never time when the spirit
of cooperation or socialism was as
powerful as now. I do not believe that
all the governments of the world could
stop the growth Of this spirit. believe
that power higher than human gov
eminent Is back of this tendency Of
men to be brothers, whether they are
capitalists or laborers.
without realizing it, capitalists have
through their combinations been the
most powerful agency at work towards
a complete individual socialism. When
two men agree to be brotherly and not
under sell one another in the labor
market, they have formed the principle
of brotherhood which underlies the Ia
Dor movement. Capitalists formed
partnerships before labor men formed
unions The principle of brotherhood is
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