Arizona republican., 1907-06-23

terms socialism and anarchy. but you will learn the fundamental idea of the socialist doctrine. We are aware that writers who effuse in Associated Press papers all over the country differ greatly in the meaning they attach to tine word socialism. and generally con- clude with Janet. who wrote over half century ago as follows: We call socialism every doctrine which teaches that the state has a right to ADrrect the inequality of wealth which exists among men and to legally establish the balance b. taking from those who have too much in order to give to those who have not enough. and that in a permanent manner. and not in , such and such particular case" and still more objectionable however, is the tendency of your press articles. to lot unfrequently identify socialism with d lawless and violent revolution ary spirit; and say that socialism means nothing more nor less than the most modern form of the revolu- | tionary spirit with a suggestion of anarchy and dynamite.
 We say. however. that the Alpha and ! Omega of socialism is the transforma- ton of private competing capitals ] into united collective capital This is | the principle on which all the schools of socialism however opposed other 1 wise. are at one. Socialists believe in the establishment of the cooperative commonwealth, that the present econ- ! Omic order. in which industry is car | ried on by private competitive capital. 2 m fA haf the normal economic order of the fu- { ture will be one with collective means 1 of production and distribution. and associated labor working for the gen. ! eral good. This principle of socialism ! is cardinal and fundamental. The Encyclopedia Brittanica says: The ethics of socialism and christianity are identical" As to the second. We declare that We are not haters of em- i ployers or of capitalists, or the men of wealth. and we are not fighting i them as individuals, but instead We are opposed, and hate system which makes it possible for all wealth 90 be aggregated into the hands of the few |, We are opposed and are fighting the present system of capitalism. which must and ought to pass away Your citation of the effect of the adoption" or a certain preamble. by the Western Federation of Miners, I do not at this time care to discuss, as to its effects, only that you alIude to the two sue cess fights" made by the mining com panies at Bisbee. If they are success ful in trying to keep out unionism, by their bitter antagonism to everything ' that unionism means to the frater- nized workingmen of the mining camps of the country. then it would be well to fully allow the advantage of union- , ism to the members. as can be and is fully evident to those who know that the conditions in the Globe district are not of the Bisbee kind: Globe is a | union camp, and the miner receives good wages-in fact the very best in the west. The difference between Globe and Bisbee are certainly appar- ent. and there is nothing to justify the mine owners position in Bisbee but domineering arrogance
 j. M. FIKE.
 The Republican editorial to which reference is made in the foregoing. was IT. no sense a discussion of the merits of socialism. but of the revolutionary preamble put before the convention of the Western Federation of Miners by men who call themselves socialists. and who are apparently in control of the convention and the organization.