The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-08
A S0CIALISTIC THEORY
ABLE WRITER ASSERTS THE FORCES OF NATURE
WORK FOR new system

Charles Edward Russell has article current Hampton
Magazine Socialism which should be read by every Of
public affairs and which concludes as follows:
The Socialists feel that there causes at work
the spread of the Doctrine Surplus would itself
carry the world Socialism They believe instant man
compreend that doctrine he becomes Socialist
his pedc may have been and that understanding OF the doctrine
certain to reach sooner every competent
The Doctrine Unconsumed Surplus or of Unconunled
Values may be roughly stated like this The United States OF Am
erica let say (ahough the illustration would hold good every
civilized naton produces every year. about billion
wealth Labor receives wages billion dollars Consequent
B labor only onehaf Of the total wealth production
because than wages will purchase But
as the laborng class much the greater obviously
possible that that small capitalist class Comprising
of the naon) should the remainder or any
considerable part Of Hence there left billions wealth
that shipped abroad 1t goes England for example
shape Of wheat and food But England exactly
diton Of producing Hence our unco
umed surplus and Engands surplus exchanged
cloth and steel and coal shipped every
ton in Europe in the condition OF producing than
CONSUMES. Hence while the unconmed surplus of England
the United States exchanged unconsumed surpuses of
other nations yet the surplus always
ualy this unconned surplus agts upon country not
veloped country that produces country like
India with its famnes South Africa South America
untitled and there the surplus the developed countries
is finally consumed and disappears
Good But the number of undeveloped steadily
diminishing and narrowly limited years ago or
Whereabouts, other
adding enormously the worlds surplus because
meanwhile been developed Argentina used be consuming
country it surpuaddng country. Japan used be
tlng country surpus-addng country Just rapid
l nation swings from barbasm civilization be
surplus consuming country and becomes supusaddng country
a PROBLEM THAT DEMANDS SOLUTION.
What the world to do when this process has been carried
g little further and there
Indeed, that is problem this very moment That
what the with the commercial world that
why there bitter complaint stagnation
London Hongong and from Equaut Cooks Island For
the first the world feels the pinch Development changed
country otter another from urplusconsumng surpusp pro
ducng countries and there is slowly accmuatng this Of
surplus with which the world knows how deal
The obvious remedy is limit production the worlds
sumption, which, under present conditions what sought when
mills shut and factories produce But
under present conditions every such interruption industry
accompanied by suffering and actual starvation the Socialists
fell that again evolution will bring about triumph
their cause because Socialism the only system devised
would adjust production consumption, just the only sys
that would abolish child labor ntempeance and prostitution
Finally the Socialists believe that the world for
brotherhood would of itself bring about Socialism there
other work and they point example the spreading
influence Christian Socialist Fellowship great organization
churches that probably doing much the party itself
nculcate the Socialist creed.
reminds the impartial observer one OF the
phases Of the whole matter for while Christian
are denouncng Socialism hdeous pest and
Christian contemplating check its
growth Socialism ALL nothing the world but the prac
application doctrines Jesus Christ and the singular,
cynical way somewhat amusing spectacle presented OF
able gentlemen OF the Christian faith seuos
oatng identical thing they have undertaken support But
ven this Socialist he but remind himself
hat evolution king OF time stopped by sermons plppcs
,roclan1ations political deals