, 1906-06-30

vaacement than they are In he United
States, but in spite of this advantage,
it is not always apparent that the PEG
pie proflt from public ownership, In
this connection Mr.. ingalls, remarks
that it is curious that monarchial Eng
land is tending toward socialism while
republican America is still remarkably
individualistic.
Look deeply into the cause for this
difference and 1t will be seen that re-
publican America is ind~ividualistic be
cause ind%iyidualism Is the %truest, broad
est expression of what many socialists
are striving for. Socialism rightly in
terpreted is cooperation of the individ-
ual factors of y community for the COM
mon good. Where could this cooper
alton be found working more effectu-
ally thar under a republican form of
government, the control and operation
of which is wholly in the hands of It's
citizens? The government of the United
States guarantees absolute equality to
every citizen. 1t is with all the faults
that crop up, ruled absolutely today by
the majority of It's people. That ma
jority holds in its power absolutely the
right to change, to remedy any evil
when 1t will.
Nothing higher than majority rule
can ever be devised for the control of
lnnr, ,,,,,nt nffairg UNhnrA pntGf a1uuVg
be a minority differing on ways and
means. Perfect agreement will never
be possible so long as one man differs
from another. Nature never yet built
two leaves or two men or two brains
on the same pattern. The socialist
who dreams of a world after his own
model dreams of a world filed with
people of exactly his own mind, moods
and temperament.
In the matter of wealth and the
things individuals do which the social
list argues should be lone by the whole,
the very condition for which he clam
ors is here, existing in the only form 1t
can ever endure. The man of wealth
is a temporary holder of the created
wealth of the whole, of the world. He
is a competitor in a race who has for
the time won by his wits n his ener-
gy a prize which he may hold only so
long as his wits and his energies per-
nit him to do so against all comers.
He may lose all or make more in to-
morrow's contest. None knows better
1t may be loosened at any time. No
man car claim absolute hold upon any
fraction of the worlds prize.
Under the competitive system the
nan whose training and tendency in
cline him to a certain line of effort en-
tiers it n the public profits in kind
from the capacity or talent he brings
to the undertaking, be it carpentering.
brick laying, stone cutting, shoe peg
ging, or building railroads, gas plants,
street a lines or whatever it may.
one of these things has proved by sue
ceeding that he was the best man in
the whole community to do the thing
that needed doing. He has elected him
self the public's agent and 1t can be set
down as certain hat he has chosen bet
ter than the community would had it
been called upon to elect the men to
accomplish the same thing. Individual
ism has done what socialism would
have done n done it better, far bet
ter, under the competitive system than
could have been done at all in any 9th
err way.
The socialist lays to his soul the unc-
ton that he as a thinker is in advance
of his neighbor. Not SO. He has seiz-
ed the fractional part of a great truth
and stopped there to hug it to his
breast. He should think on and find
that we have today in our form of gov
eminent the perfected socialism of the
individual, the highest, purest possible
form of that dream of cooperative in
terest which he has but half-digested
and so failed to see already existing
Denver Republican.