The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-11-21
SOCIALISM AND ITS V0TAR|ES.
Various Kinds of Believers in This Cult---The Most
Dangerous--Socialists Of the Chair
A Futile Remedy.
By J. c. Monaghan.

Marx, Engels and their followers. is
its materialisn. do not say tendency
as some do, for it is not a question OF
tendency at all. Karl Marks Socialism
is based upon the materialistic con-
ception and the materialistic interpre-
tation of history. No sane Socialist
and there are sane Socialists. will deny
this.
OF course the Catholic Church car
not, no Christian Church can carry
on any kind of correspondence with
such a party or people. Their policy
may be anything its advocates care
to claim; the seed, the roots are
wrong. No fruit can come forth
from such a soil with which Chris
tian men and women can be satisfied
Kinds Of Socialism.
| Every student Of social and econ
omic problems knows that there are
several kinds of Socialism. There is
Christian Socialism of one kind in two
branches. Lassalle, the most brilliant
writer and orator ii, the ranks of the
Old Worlds Socialists, converted Won
Ketteler. the grand old Archbishop OF
Mayence to kind of Christian So.
cialisn. He converted Won Stocker
court preacher to the aKiser. These
men laid the foundation for the folly
now found in the ranks of Catholics
and Protestants in Germany who cali
themselves Christian Socialists.
This doctrine spread little on the
other side. 1t went into England max.
king its way among certain kinds of u
sophisticated, warm hearted. dreamig
and vision-seeing clergymeD. That
they were and are good men no one de.
lies; that they are gratif1ed to carry
on a system of social and economic eff.
Ing its way among certain kinds of un.
sophisticated, warm hearted, dreaming
forts for the amelioration of the lot of
world, Is not settled. No one is sure
that their panaceas would work out in.
to.less of evil than has been the worlds
lot under the old regime. That the
doctrines of Lassalle have proven at.
tractive is evident from their success
in England, Germany and other coun.
tries of Europe.
State Socialism.
Besides Christian Socialism there /:
State Socialism. TO Lassalle one ha.
TO turn to get at the lots of that sys.
tom. It's chief, it's greatest exponent
was Bismarck. How much he believed
In it as an ultimate solution of so.
ciety's great problems no one will eve,
know. All one is able to say is baset
upon all one Is able 10 see. Bismarck
read Lassalle, listened to him, seemed
to like him, adopted his ideas, stole hi.
thunder, If that is the way to put it
and gave the empire Old Age, Accident
i Sick and other forms of insurance
Panaceas they are not. panaceas Bis
marck did not believe them to be. The,
were political poor-man's plasters
pasted on the sore parts of politica
Prussia, and other parts Of the empire
That they were successful, as far al
they went, is undeniable, but that the.
are bad is evident, when one is toll.
that 1t takes 30 odd cents in expenses
to pay out each dollar to the poor. 1,
the last analysis the poor have t,
pay every penny, for the bulk of al
their wealth in the world is taken on
OF the mines, forests, farms and fac
tories; and the workers therein are tn
poor. This is by no means what tn
Socialists say, for it's basis is bette
one than theirs. 1t never leaves Go,
and the spiritual out Of the question
The Socialist does.
Quintesssnce Of ssIfishness.
j Bismarck builded for his own day
The doctrines of those who wanted t
determine this days work, b. VIVA
its effects were to be on the work o
tomorrow found no favor in Berlin til
Bismarck had passed as the "Old Pi
lot" from the bridge or helm Of tn
great ship of state. 1t is the legiti
mate outcome of Bismarck's partial be
lief in Socialistic, sometimes Gale,
Il paternalistic state, that is at the bot
tom Of what Debs and the Socialist
stand for, now. in all parts Of tn
world.
Their aim or game is the national
ization Of all production, and distri
button. They believe the world will b
better off when tho production an
distribution of all forms of life's neces
stiles are regulated by law. They woul
90 away with the competition that wa
long called. for it was long thought t
be the life of trade. They called l
the present system) the cruelest con
dition to which the workingmen Of tn
world can be reduced They hold tina
Il it is a worse form of slavery than wa