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no declaration on the subject of mar
riage, and never will. Doubtless it
will do quite as we'll as capitalism
does with its half million divorces in
this country in the last quarter cen
fury. M the unlimited free love that
now seems to rule the capitalistic uni
verse. There viii be, under the CO.
operative commonwealth, many more
marriages by young people, who do
not have to face the three gaunt, gray
wolves of hunge,. sin and misery that
confronts now every poor boy and girl
who desire to marry.
3. A large number of farmers may
own their farms at present. but with
fixed prices for all that they sell and
all that they buy regulated by the kind
and benevolent Mr.. Armour of the Beef
trust, who fixes the price of cattle ear
ly every morning, and kindred spirits
of our commercial grand dukes. Every
cattle man knows how hopeless the
struggle is and our "muttonaires" will
soon be in the same leaky boat.
4. Genius does not depend upon
money, Milton received a very small
sum for the majestic Paradise Lost,
Eli Whitney received nothing from his
incompatible %cotton-gin, which revo-
~lutionized the production of cotton,
and the great inventors, like the great
authors, surely, as a rule, have not re
ceived a 1.-THE of the money taken in
by their financial friends" The great
reformers and the great inventors have
not measured their success by the al
mighty dollar, but nave labored for the
race under the spur of race enthusiasm
and the plaudits of mankind. Imagine
paying Thomas Jefferson for writing
the Declaration of Independence or re
munerating Abraham Lincoln adequate
ly for his great services to mankind!
We do not find that the human mind
has been purchased in the past by mo-
and legislators.
Socialism will emancipate the race,
as its motto is: ITO eac according
to his deeds" and not according to his
pull" Inventors and authors and
geniuses of every kind will be remun-
Grated by the state, instead of their
financial hackers. The great mass OF
mankind, that always has known and
always will know but "the genius OF
hard work" are just as necessary to
the progress of the world as the high
foreheads. AS Lincoln once said: The
Lord must love the common people, as
he has made so many of them" The
wonderful progress of the race from
darkness and bondage to light and lib
erty in the past is an earnest of the
future when poverty shall no more
curse the globe. 1t has been well said
that all should labor, and that the toll
er should think II the thinker should
toll. Thus will be realized h bless
ings of what was in the dawn of the
race considered as a curse: In the
sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground The
unnatural enforcement of labor of the
| hands from mental labor will be known
no more. There may not be SO many
prominent paunches nor so many gray
hairs as now, but with mankind devel-
oped spiritually, mentally, morally and
| ply SlNdllN ia lliOlliouSis oAN
8, ally, these little defects will be over
looked. The future will see money
used to make men, instead of men used
to make money.
1t is impossible to conceive now I'M
der our sordid commerciaiism the glo-
ries of the cooperative commonwealth,
when enormous wealth shall be Great
ed for the public good.
3. There are many so-called social
istic colonies that have been prosper
Gus, among which are the Shakers, he
Oneida communists, the Amana colony
in Iowa, and the different monastic or
monasterial orders throughout the
world hat have become enormously
wealthy. In this country, it is stated
that there are over eighty of such so
cleties which are prosperous, n the
percentage of failure is less than in
the domain of individual business, So
states Walter Thomas Mills, who in
addition asserts that under the last
federal census, h average wealth per
capita in these colonies is $4,000, while
outside, the great mass of business
shows but a per capita wealth of 81 900.
| Socialists do not believe in colonies, as
their operations are necessarily re-
stricted and hampered by great com
petition. in unity there is strength"
The trusts have settled the question
very satisfactorily to those who belong
to them. Let everybody join the
trusts for this is socialism.
II. V. S. GROESBECK.
Answer to No. 2 will follow and then,
under an understanding with the
agement of The Republican, these arti-
Giles will cease. Mr.. Mills is publishing
a series of articles for the press, and |
advise their use as "he is a good man