New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-10
". H. MALLOCK HERE
TO LECTURE.
Brought Here from England by
Ciric Federation.

w II MalIock. the English writer and econo-
mist has come to this country to deliver series
of lectures on socialism and the alled social ana
economic question, under the auspices OF the
public lecture and publication bureau Of the
National civic Federation. Many of the lectures
Will be given before university audiences, begin
ming al Columbia on Tuesday. but some OF them
viii be delivered before chambers OF commerce.
chautauquas. labor and Industrial organizations
and Young Mems Christian Associations
Mr. MaIlock who since his graduation from
oxford. has devoted his time to the study Of So
ciaI. economic and philosophical subjects is per-
haps best known in this country by his contrt-
buttons TO periodicals and the reprinting here of
some of his books. among them being Social
Equality" Property and Progress" Classes
and Masses" "Aristocracy and Evolution" The
Reconstruction of Belief" and Labor and the
Popular Welfare"
In his addresses Mr.. MaIlock will point out
what socialism really means. how it is regarded
as a social factor, the relation of capital and
labor under such system and its effect on
such national problems as the production and
distribution of wealth. Following the opening
Of his course at Columbia Tuesday he will
lecture at the same place Thursday. Friday
and Saturday Of this wee,, and on Tuesday Of
next week. Speaking of this course i'm his apart
ments in the Hotel Savoy yesterday, Mr.. Maliock
said that I'm the first lecture he would discuss
the economic and intellectual bases of socialism,
pointing ont that socialism. like all conservative
schemes implied the existence OF such bases.
and that as these bases were correct or incorrect
the system of socialism would fall or stand.
In his second lecture. he said, he would CON
slider. among other things the radical defects TN
the socastc analysis of wealth production up
on which the fabric of modern socialism rested,
showing how this analysis was founded the
Inherited ideas Of the old orthodox school Of
economists which for years had promoted an IN
correct conception Of the relations between capt.
tai and labor.
In the third lecture he will Indicate the part
played In the total production OF wealth by the
intellectual powers of the few and the manual
powers Of the many, pointing out how Intellectual
the attempts made by sentimentalists and
vague thinkers. indvidualists we'll socisI
lists. to minimize the difference between the two.
In his two following lectures he win consider the
question of socialism In it's relations to some of
the great national problems of the day, showing
its impossibility a practical economic and
cial system.
This is the first visit of Mr. Mallock to Amer
lea. and he says he has not yet seen enough of
this country TO discuss conditions here. Il have
been making a special study of socialism for
guments Of its adherents patching up some sort
OF coherent system, and then seeing where 1t
fails 1t is always necessary to go to the foun-
tainhead in such researches"
Asked If he thought socialism as theory
was gaining or losing ground. he replied: II
think that socialism in Germany is changing its
meaning. The disciples of Karl Marx said that
nothing produces anything but labor. measuring
property by the amount OF time it took to pro-
duce it by manual labor. They declared that
so long as the present system prevailed men
would never get any better wages. But great
many OF these socialists have been concerned nv
the fact that wages have increased that small
businesses have been successfully established
and that wealth has not been concentrated 10
the extent they said 1t would. This takes away
the force OF their arguments / believe the
socialists lost about half their seats in the
Reichstag at the last election. This has been
due 10 the fact that the allen element has
largely been taken away from them. Formerly
lots or men who We're discontented with things
IN general allied themselves with socialists"