The Irish standard., 1904-08-27
IT DESTROYS LIBERTY.

declaring for government ownership of
railroads, canals, ferries, gas, tele-
phone, telegraph, ETC., insisting on re-
calling of ali land grants, the furnish
ing Of meals, clothing, ETC., to children,
and the granting of divorce on mutual
consent, calls for the abolition of the
senate and vice-presidency Of the
United States. All these demands are
justified if the source of authority is
the people, and if they have a right to
revoke it at pleasure.
To expedite this work of destruction
of existing governments, Marx found
ed his International society, which
unites the Socialists of every country
in one body, irrespective Of nationality,
and thus secures their cooperation in
all the vast network Of schemes for the
control Of education, for enforcing
laws of divorce, for the enslavement
or extirpation of Christianity, the re-
mOval Of national frontiers, the dis
solution of the national armies; in a
word, for a complete and universal So
cial and political revolution.
In France, where Socialism is most
successful, there is no concealment of
the purpose to do away absolutely
with love of country, beginning with
destroying it in the hearts of the chill
dren. While we are reverencing our
flag and floating it from every school
house, school teachers there can de-
nounce the national banner as an old
rag or an old petticoat; the Review of
Primary Instruction can tell its read
ers that if the government ever at.
tempts to recover Alsace and Lorraine
the people ought to establish the Com
mune to prevent that result; school
books applaud or excuse the assassina-
ton of President Carnot, and when
these acts are brought before the
Chambres one Of the ministers Of edu-
cation is found to defend the criminals
and no word of condemnation is ut
tered even by the prime minister,
Combes. Thus the work goes on.
Mazzini, in Italy, was once considered
a patriot; now he is belated idealist;
and the society which the National So
cialists of Germany organized as n
check on the International has COM
pletely collapsed.
Nor do they propose to leave the ac-
complishment of their work to re-
mote future. For although there is a
Revolutionary and an Evolutionary
Socialism, and although professor of
the Union Theological seminary of
New York assures the readers of the
North American Review June, 1904
that a resolution of the Evolutionary
Section was recently carried which de-
clared that Gin the modern democratic
state the conquest of the public pow
ers by the proletariate cannot be the
result Of a coup de MAN, but the grad
ual conquest Of municipalities and
legislative assemblies" yet apart from
the fact that this applies only to DEM
ocratic and not to other countries. and
that 'the resolution caused heated dis
cussion ever since, and that the very
author of the resolution himself be-
lieves in Il final revolution" the recent
Socialist Congress in Italy, held about
the time that LOubet was hobnobbing
with Victor Emmanuel, could scarcely
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violent action.
Finally, it is absolutely destructive
of all human liberty. We need no bet.
ter proof of that than to glance at
what is going on in France, whose gov.
eminent the Socialists boast of con.
trolling. What is the position of every
Frenchman living there to-day? He
has no liberty to write, he has no lib.
erty to speak, he has no liberty to pray
he has no liberty to devote himself to
good works, he has no liberty to enter
Il church or to allow anyone belonging
to him to do so; he has no liberty tC
teach virtue to his children, or even tc
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has no liberty to think differently
from his rulers, and if ne is suspected
of doing so he has no liberty to own
an inch of property or to draw breath
in his native land; and if he goes else
where it Is only to be a victim of the
international, who interpellate theil
respective governments about the ex
pulsion of those who We're not allowed
to live in their own country only be-
cause they We're virtuous, and for be
ing so are regarded as rebels and enc
mics. absolute subservience in body
and soul in those who teach," accord
ing to Jaures, the leading Socialist, "is
the basis on which the present govern
ment Of France is built"
Thus liberty, family, governments,
country, all are menaced by this new
power that has arisen in almost every
country in the world.
What is to be the issue of all this !
One Of three things: Universal anar-
chy, the advent of some military le-