The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-04-10
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOCIALISM

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ton of the human race lives is de-
nounced by the defenders of the pres
emit system as socialism and describ-
ed by the professional socialist as
socialism. As matter of fact. these
reform measures are not socialism at
all; they are measures to enlarge the
liberty of the individual by remov-
ing the obstacles imposed heretofore
by bad laws and bad men. This fact
Is clearly set forth by Mr.. John Nor
ley in his Life of Rousseau" Moth
ing, he says. that Rousseau wrote
about the state of nature lis serious
~ meant for scientific exposition any
more than the Sermon on Mount was
meant for political economy" Com
mentiag on the theories of Rousseau,
Mr.. Morley scys:
Our provisional acquiescence in
the straightness and blank absence
of outlook of hope of the millions
who come onto the earth that greets
them with no smile and then stagger
blindl,y under dull burdens for a sea-
son and at last are shoveled silently
back under the ground-our ac-
quiesce1ce can only be justified in
the seat of humanity by the convic-
ton that this is one of the temporary
conditions of vast process working
forward through the impulse and
agency of the finer human spirits.
but needing much blood. many tears,
uncounted myriads of lives and inn
measurable geologic periods of time
for its high and beneficent consum-
nation
This looking forward to better
times and this continued effort to
hasten the good times coming is not
socialism, and it comedies none of
the chief contentious of that school.
Morley says:
"As against the theory that the
existing way of sharing the labori-
ously acquired fruits and delights of
the earth is just representation and
fair counterpart of natural inequali-
ties among men in merit and capaci-
ty, the revolutionary theory is true
and the passionate revolutionary cry
for equality of external chance most
righteous and unanswerable.
but the issues do not end here.
Take such propositions as these:
There ore differences in the capacity
of men for serving the community;
the well being of the community de-
mands the allotment of high func-
tons in proportion to high faculty.
The rights of man in politics are con-
fined TO a right of the same protec-
ton for his own interests as is given
to the interests of others. AS against
these principles the revolutionary de-
auctions from the equality of man
are false, and such pretensions as
that every man could be made equal
ly fit for every function of that not
only each should have an. equal
chance. but that he who uses his
kept on a level in common opinion
and trust with him who uses 1t i'll
and unsociably, or does not use 1t at
all. The whole of this is obviously
most delusory and most disastrous,
and In whatever degree any set of
men have ever taken 1t up to that
degree they have paid the penalty"
This seems to present in a con-
crete form all that is to be said in
behalf of socialism and the unan-
swerable response to its political de-
mands.
The present conditions are not to
be perpetual. There is, year after
year, to be a modification. There is
to be an impetus given to those laws
which we are compelled to believe
through the record of the past GEN.
tury are giving to the laboring man