The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-03

EullOn OF inc values OF Ire Is uuldIi'
The socialist2then examines the pro
posed remedies.
The proposal To make the rich
kind TO the poor is rejected. because
charity, instead OF blessing him that
gives and him tnat takes, makes The
one satisfied with Injustice and pau.
perlzes the other.
''Organi2ed labor. while useful edu-
catlonally, is too limited, but 1000 900
out OF 20.000,000 working people ip
the United States belong to unions.
Model workshops and pront-shar'
Ing schemes are possible only on u
limited scale. and really depend on
the charitable intention OF the pro
pIsctor. not on actual principles OF
Justice.
The socialist answers the moralist
who tells him each individual must
be made right first before a perfect
social system is possible. by urging
that the environment counts at least
90 per cent In determining a man 8
life, and that therefore right condi-
tons are the FIRST step to right lives.
Having thus discreditcd other pro-
posals, he proclaims his own. He first
plans as possibly interesting, but of
little real value. From Plato's Re
public TO Bellamy's Looking Back
yard romances have been written
telling just what social life will be
in the perfect state. The scientific
socialist finds such visions OF small
value. He believes In development.
What the future state will actually
be he does not know, though he
Knows some things which 1t viii not
be Rather he investigates the great
underlying forces OF social progress
ill., order that consciously and earnest
" he may hasten their operation
Karl Marx. his master. discovered
these principles OF social evolution 20
be four:
1.-THE materalistic conception of
history.
"2-Tbe class struggle
"S-The social revolution,
"4-The power OF the democracy.
The materialistic OF economic con-
ocption of history is protest against
vague idcalism. Marx dealt telling
blows at the visionary wro proposes
10 save society from poverty and
misery by proclaiming that everybody
Il equal, that life and liberty and hap
mness belong to all He argues from
q careful study of history that ad-
yances in human society are due to
economic changes, and therefore we
must reverse the proposition. Social
conditions can only be made perfect
after all individuals are perfect to
We can never expect men 10 be per-
feet until we create better physical
conditions for them to grow In This
will be done when the necessities of
physical life become the common pos
session of an industrial state
by tho class struggle Marx nIeant
that In the present competitive sys-
tom the laborer and the capitalist en-
pIoyer are not partners, but rivals.
Wages tend steadily to bare living
wage, while the capitalist appropri-
mes interest, profits, insurance and
rent; and therefore all who work for
wages should be educated to recog-
milton OF their class. and in their
united strength insist upon the abo-
lition of the wage system and in It's
place system created in which all
receive the total value which they
create by labor. whether manual or
mental,
This will involve social revom-
ton. By this phrase the socialist does
not mean war and bloodshed. Indeed,
Marx was always a pleader for peace
The social revolution means a COM
pete change in social values, When
ST Paul said that a man TO be a Chris
4 ,
he meant of the individual what Karl
Marx meant of the body corporate by
the phase social revolution. Society
must have an entirely new set of
values Social leaders in the cooper
stive Commonwealth Will be the hard
est workers. not the 1ashionab idlers.
And lastly. this revolutionary
change is to be brought about not by
n group of refined and patriotic and
highly educated leaders, who think
and act on behalf of the ignorant
mass. but by the corporate action of
that mass itself Marx and Abraham
Lincoln are agreed, You can't fool all
the people all the time Movements
OF real and permanent reform have
always and must always be popular
future lies not in Industrial, but in
political action.
The more the thoughtful man con.
siders the conditions OF life under our
system, the less satisfied
no becomes. The misery OF the poor
disurbs his peace OF mind, and yet he
does not know how TO relieve them.
The Mresponsibility of many OF the
rich, who possess the power to do
great good, and yet think only of per
scnal enjoyment and increasing lux
ury, makes him despair or social res
cue for them. in spite OF Carnegie lie
braries and Rockefeller universities.
The proposal OF the socialist deserves
his thoughtful consideration, and
steadily increasing number OF inyesti-
gators are deciding that the socialis-
tic philosophy ana program merit not
only study, but confident and enthusi-
astic support
Such was the interest shown in the
bishops talk that at Its conclusion a
rising vote OF thanks was rendered
the orator for his maslerlul efforts,
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