The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-30

doctrine in full surrender. That la
 m tnls country is not committed to
 socialism may be true; but when we
 consider that the socialist vote in the
 last national campaign had grown from
 a few thousand to nearly half a mil
 non. II Is surely to the point to ask
 who cast those votes? Our wisest men
 nave seen the handwriting on the wall
 ana they are convinced that only q 1 iaplu accelleration of the evolutions
 towards a socal Democracy can save
 us from revolution of the most start
 ing character Did not MT. Taft say
 plainly in his Boston address that fail ure 10 effect rigid control of corpor- ate management of industries in the in- terest Of the people at large would
 mean socialism? Ii is no longer a question as to whether we are to have new social order; it is now oues- tlon as to what forms the new move lnent will take, how far it will go. and how fast.
 IT We Inquire as to the secret of this rapid growth made by socialism. we small be forced to conclude. think. that 1t is to be found in the fact that socialism presents itself as a new ,os- pei to humanity. No man can l1n,lor- stand why it should spread so ranid- " so long as he studies if merely as philosophy of life. or as an ocon- omic theory. It has it's philosophy. to be sure, and it's economic basis in the writings of Karl Marx and his disci- pies. But it claims to be something morei 1t claims to be a faith. a gosnel
 And 1t is because of this that arp,1- ments against it seem so wholly nsa- less. You cannot fight a gospel with arguments, Fanaticism-and A yos- pei Is always fanatical in it's carly stages-never stops to reason. If sweeps straight on in one blaze of tri- umph. Whether it be right or wrong. socialism is the supreme en- thusiasm of the world to-day. As have intimated. we can find nothing like it until We go back to the carly days of Christianity. Let us consider for the point is one of frst-rate inn portance in our discussion. the ana logies between these two movements primitive Christianity and socialism.
 It will he agreed. l am sure. that the movements are alike in respect tn the class of people appealed to. Christianity was built up from inc bottom, composed of the outcasts of society. Not many great. not many wise were chosen; few to he sure. but not many; and socialism to-day is drawing to itself the lowest classes. A few of the great, few of the wise are attached to it. but not many. The movement is from the low to the high. as MT Kidd tells us all great move ments in society must be In social ism there is a tendency to break up into factions. Indeed, it's enemies charge against it that there are many opposing schools of socialism. This would seem an argument in its favor to one who considers that such fac tional strife is evidence of life and growth. But my point is this. carly showed the same teuden- cy to break into various schools of thought, to array party against party. AS the early Christians denounced the order of the world and believed that the end of the existing society was at hand. so the socialists are denounc- ing the existing order. and confidently predicting that the end of the compe- titive system is in sight. AS the early