Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-04
DIXON TALKS OF SOCIALISM
Audience Of Two Thousand Hears
Brilliant Lecture at Bellevue.
DEBs COMPARED TO WALL STREET
Speaker says the street IL sOcialistic,
Monopoly Crushing OUt Individ-
uaIIsm and Urging Dawn of
Theoretical Socialism.


Two thousand people gathered at the
big tabernacle tent on the Bellevue chau-
tauaua grounds sunday afternoon to hear
the address Of DIT. Frank Dixon OF Wash
ington, d. c., on the subject. THE Man
Against the Mass DR.. Dixon Is the
younger brother of Thomas Dixon, IT,, the
noted lecturer and author Of The Loop
ards Spots and the "ClansmRn." DIR.
Frank Dixon bears a strong resemblance
to his famous brother, both in his physi-
cal appearance and manner OF delivery.
The chautauqua closed with this meeting.
"I have never been able to determine
the advantage OF being a younger brother"
said he. and as doubtless many of you
here have seen and heard my big brother.
/ find that 1 am constantly crossing his
path. But I want to say right here for
the benefit OF you that have not yet heard
me, that 1 can beat Tom lecturing all to
pieces, but 1 don't like to do 1t. I have
not written a novel yet. but 1 am going
to and It will knock the spots off Toms
Leopard's Spots But OF my subject. Let
me first say that 1 am not a socialist. \
socialist is a man who is hunting Tor
trouble, and of course a man hunting for
trouble IL sooner or later easily accommo-
dated. We should all be interested in the
question Of socialism. 1t is as old as
human experience and as wide as the his
tory of humanity. The man who calls
himself a socialist does not fully under
stand the thing he calls socialism
DefinitiOn OF Socialism.
"What is Socialism, 1t does not mean
the seizure and equal distribution OF all
property. Socialism is not anarchy. But
both aim at the same thing-the equality
OF law. The anarchist says that law II
an ordinance passed by one set of people
to hold the weaker in subsection. The
rich can buy the construction of the law
for their benefit, while the poor are made
subject to the letter of the law. Hence,
the anarchist claims that all law should
be abolished, and that all government
based on law should be abolished. The
socialist holds an entirely different view.
He believes In charging the sphere Of the
government and that the commonwealth
should be cared for exactly as an army,
all fed and treated alike. The liberty of
the individual Is dead in the army. This
then is the foundation rock Of socialism.
Socialism would sacrifice the individual TO
the government, while anarchy would sac
rifice the government to the Individual.
Democracy upholds the independence Of
the individual, and this is precisely for
what anarchy contends though in a more
radical sense.
Politics and Business.
socialism contends for paternallsm In all
things, and cites the Postoffice depart
ment as a sample. Admitted. Yet there
has been more scandal and corruption in
the Postoffice department than all other
departments Of the government combined.
Yet, no department of the government is
closer to the people, nor as a rule are
there any more honest officials than those
of the postoffice department. The method
of government is politics, and the domi-
nant principle of politics is the crest of
popularity. The dominant principle Of
business is efficiency. How much do
you suppose It is going to cost us to
build the Panama canal7 How much
has 1t cost us to build court houses and
state cspitols? See New York and Penn
sylvania for further particulars. 1t cos.s
800 per cent more to build for the gov
eminent than for the individual, and by
business methods. The Panama canal will
cost us two billions of dollars before It is
finished, and 1t will take twenty years to
finish it, and then there will be twenty
more years Of scandal Investigations in con-
gress, growing out Of It. To dig a ditch
W a bdilOl 10 ulAlcI6nl IIOIH DuBlnesS.
Blu we must dig that ditch at any cost.
Wall street VS.. Debs.
The tendency of the modern world is
to crush out the individual. Monopoly is
crushing out individualism. Wall street is
the real socialist, not Eugene Debs. I'm
less this socialistic monopoly of Wall street
is overcome theoretical socialism will come
within the next generation. We have got
70 ragtnra noponatgtEon OaaioII.N. aaI.-o
monopoly as the arch criminal of modern
times. Yet, I cannot agree with this merci-
less ar~raignment Of capital and capitalists.
As a rule the capitalists Of the modern
day was born in humble circumstances
Socialism is growing. 1t has become
the third party. Ten years ago It polled
but $1,000 votes. Today It will poll over
half a million. Unconscious socialism is
the universal peril. 1t believes In the right
of the weak man to ride on the strong
mans lack. There are times when the
principle OF brotherhood must be severe,
and when indness should know no pity.
The true principle OF brotherhood is first
to do the best for yourself and voluntarily
what you scen for your fellowman. The
nation with the fewest laws is the most
enduring nation. Respect the conscience Of
your neighbor. Blessed be the man that
Will mind his own business. This Is a
nation OF individual responsibility. No gov
eminent has a right to intrude upUn my
individuality. My soul is responsible to
God. There is no obligation without a cor
responding right. You can pauperize any
man who will accept your aid. Socialism
would pauperiEe every man. Self reliance
is the supreme virtue, Tie individual lie
the savior of man in every crisis OF human
history. Every evil has Its remedy.
IF there is a burden on the back OF
humanity, some man has put Il there. II
is our duty to take that burden off and
give humanity a chance. Remedies will
be found by individual effort. Everything
lies in the virtue and intelligence OF the
Individual. The faith OF man is in the
mass OF men,
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