New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-17

0sseseed of theTnThether he can trundle wheel
barrow carry hod Of bricks ME CASING or Of
sucn labor knows exactly the individual task Wncil
of the facuIties@not ordinary, but exceptional, :.
TO be successfully directed, both these cohol'ioI9
IL inBs6ssibe 10 tell that any man Of excep-
tonal ability possesses any eXcePtlonh Iac ti1
till he himself chooses to show them r atI FOR
exerting them will probably be unaware tnaI
IL he gives the world some reason to suspect thf1
existence the world will not know what ne Ga To 10
impose on him any definite task, until he chooses
h n sc 30 SOW farmer could by looking at Burns
have told that he had the malangs IN NM nm ~
under certain circumstances. 20 do much plough
peare was capable of holding horses at the the
stre door. and compelled him 70 hoiu lt,1 - no
could have Compelled Burns or Shakespeare to
write AUD Lang ssng [,,r,l ~ labor as
common seaman; but not the whole, populallo VI
emphe sGHq foP 'f Se Of his eonemps
refused TO believe that there was now newspapers
to discover
QUESTION OF Exceptional ABILITY.
The exceptionally able man, therefore, by whom
the wealth Of the world depends. would stand with
mentalv different from that OF the ordinary laborer
His distinctive faculties cannot hg Eu'SSyi a. ~
ing mis- natural movements Nothing as to his eX.
cep9nai f2SH9S b cam be knoT e he ord Of
his exccntional faculties in a way in which the
common man is not lord Of his,common facultieYs,
The existence Of the latter cannot he [once2iei
The kind OF work that can be acconphSnei 10y. 10y
community can, by the exercise of mere force com
animal hut over the exSeptional faculties of me
exceptional man the state or the community HIS no
man Voluntarily elects to give It; for the state
neither knows thar the faculties exist. nor what
things the faculties accomplish. tin their pos
SCISSOR reveals the secret He cannot 9e made TO re-
veal it; He can only he induced to do so; and he
can only be induced to do so by TGg I%r
Just as a reward IS offered for evidence against
some unknown murderer.
about suddenly. there would no doubt be large
already well known and the state might no doubt.
pick out these particular men ana compel mem
with some effect to place their knowledge and their
talents at its service: but this situation would last
!3r rev ears on heS% ' ,I T ,be G
their places would nave 10 ne Iaheh 3E Il Huin M
Of other men who at present are children or who
T f5 ar ~ 4 MS se S tcienc, he induced to
sprout and bloom by a society whose cardinal prln-
eple is that no one man shall he allowed to receive
defeasible right of the most worthless:
ARGUMENTS "FANCIFUL AND FOOLISH"
But the fanciful and foolish character Of the en-
tire reasoning of the socialists IN this connection
which they themselves lay the greatest stress This
not only wiling but easeT 10 perform duties OF the
most painful and dangerous character without any
fellows. The same moral has heen drawn from The
soldiers case, MOI by socialists only, ouJ by oLher
was an absurdity. thus Ruska says that his
whole scheme OF political economy was based on
the moral assimilation OF industrial work 90 mill
Soldiers Of the ploughsnare." lie said, as veil
soldiers of the sworG. All my political rcongIny
IS comprehended in that phrase Frederlc
Harrison. again, the prophet OF English positlyism
who, apart from his positiyisn. is shreWd as
that me readiness Nth when soldiers will die In
battle is a type of mans readiness TO spend him
similar sense. another English writer observes:
The soldiers subsistence is certain II doe not
8 m \ Ii
ceptible to appeals to his pa triotisn. He will dare
IS the reward of valor far more than a hundred
times its weight in gold" To this passage one oi
claims triumphantiy Let hose notice this last
point who fancy must wait till men are angels
before socialism be practical
VALUE OF GREED AS MOTIVE.
Now, however. without getting out Of touch with
and, having seen the futity of their efforts 70 pro
stimulate the higher industrial eiicieneies. other
than ina; supplied at the present ufe by me pros
pect OF possessing wealth IN proportion 10 me
amount produced let H. consider this motive itseH,
history and experience reveal II 20 us And here
IN presence OF facts which no one seeks 10 deny we
shah md that the socialists are among our most
The motive in question on the part part Of The ex-
ceptional wealth produceI the capitals emp!oyer
tionai production Of itLconmcnly receives from the
socialists the vituperative name of greed. We VIII
not be squeamish over a name, and. 10 avoid
quarrelling over tribes: VIII, for the moment.
adopt this name ourselves. II viii show that
the socialists talking about the thing
Inc soclahSlS maintain ihat greed VIII be super
huous motive in the future: but what have
@ and the past? They tel G as great deal For
what. as moral and political agitators. has been
ability the director OF labor the introducer
of commerce? Their chief inJictn1Ani il,o@i9st
men such this has been that. instead Of working
or for the sake Of any other OF those rewards
which the socialists declare 10 be so satisfying
their one motive has been greed, and selfish greed
zat0n ITSELF and the monoposts of business ability
in Tyre and Sdon were much its creatures as
Toct for tFis sssertion mn sodleInlng ke Sod
IN edcfaI;st Pc Lille so many made by
ing substantially true Just the desire Of win
love to her so is the desire OF posgs3 oa weS3
associated with the act of producing it.
ENTHUSIASTS INCONSISTENT.
Il is a very curious fact that those enthusiasts
who are most eloquent in declaring that this
change VIII be easy are the very persons who are
h Neieihet IN pToG!almng that thus far there
the declaration OF Marx, made IN England about
whose ability was at that time in England increas-
ing the production of wealth # had never been
industrial motive, but susceptible of no other
I will now give you one of the latest utterances
Of distinguished living thinker. who. though diff
fep1g from most socialists in many Of his moral
Lnetive economic principles. ! refer to Count
school of Marx declares that ordinary manual
AoooA inc source OF fhl wealth
AT the Same time he, too, Ike socialists such as
MI Sidney Webb, recognizes that some lnel. are
much more efficient than Others and. eth regard
10 these men, he says that SO long they continue
10 do what they do now, and have always done in
the past-namely, TO expect that their exceptional
effciencies shall be rewarded with exceptional POS
session ms inevitably. whatever organization
may be introduced, society will form a cone, and
the most efficient will lie at the top OF it,"
Therefore," he says, ''all that IS now ecesslry
Tor the deliverance of from their sufYerngs is
that they should emancpate themselves" from
their present motives. and that each man, Instead
Of seeking to possess in proportion to what he
produces, should obey that eternal law which
gives the highest possible social welfare" indis-