The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-19
GAYLOR ON SOCIALISM
DISTINGUISHED DIVINE SPEAKS AT
 KANSAS CITY.
The American Trade Union and the American Trust Each in Its Way the Expression of the Social
 tstic Spirit.

Kansas City. Nov. 1S.-An elaborate banquet in commemoration of the sign ing of the John Jay commercial treaty was given at the Midland Hotel in this city by the Commercial Club of Kansas City. Plates were laid for $50. Tho guests of honor were Henry D. Esta- brook of New York. General Solicitor of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany; John N. Baldwin of Omaha, Right Rev. Thomas r. Gaylor of Memphis, Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Ten nessee; Congressman J. Adam Bede of Minnesota, and Charles Francis Adams of Boston. Right Rev. Thomas F. Gay Tor responded to the toast, Larger Citizenship" and spoke as follows:
 ''In the presence of admitted dangers, of problems unanticipated and of truths half seen, the Idea of the social man as the only true man, and of so- cial obligations in the community, the State, the nation Is great and fruitful and splendid idea of our time.
 Socialism Is in the air. Primarily, 1t means organization, the combined efforts of the many for the good of all. The American trade union and the American trade trust are each in its way expressions of the socialistic spir- 1t; and doubtless have their use and place in the progress of the world.
 But when they forget their limita = tions; when they aspire to become en- throned oligarchies and to dictate ab- solutely the industrial conditions to eighty millions of free people, they are inviting ruin; they are sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.
 50 there Is a true socialism as there is false socialism. There is a true socialism which operates for the repair and prevention of waste. for the cure of extravagant expenditure of mind and material; which means also respect for manhood and womanhood under all conditions. and demands that the selfish cruelties and the barbarous expressions that stifle the aspirations and the lives of thousands in our land shall be oblit- erated from our social system. And then there Is false socialism. which seems to forget that there is one thing quite as important as the distribution of wealth, and that Is the production of wealth. Schemes to remedy inequal- tiles in the distribution of wealth are worthless if they leave no wealth to distribute.
 'Some reformers seem to be able to begin their reforms only by reducing us all to poverty and by eliminating 2 the individual-aye. they would level down all men and all enterprises to the dreary monotony of commonplace and thus tear down the fair tapestry of civilization and tumble its beauti- full pictures into chaos.
 Thus We find that our problems are not new after all. They are only phases of the antecedent problems. the old antithesis of one and the many. of the individual and the whole.
 The worlds tendency today Is to- ward union. organization. combination and solidarity. Then let us encour- age the individual for there are some things and they are the finest things tn life which only the individual can furnish. Against the dominion of mere machinery we must set up the claims of art. literature. science. relig- ion. Out of the dull routine of mere mechanical industry we must save manhood by creating. fostering indi- vidual taste and culture. Against the rule of the average and common we must strive to make our people rec ognize and approve the supremacy of that which Is original and noble. This is our educational ideal.
 '"rhe most precious right we have from God and from our ancestors in the free country are individual liberty. and that liberty Is also-let us never