The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-24

lllllCdUe u ape Lue pllV1lCSeu CLASS, o.
/ to put the proposition little different
| ly, the labOring man will cease to
initiate only when he knows that nl
! will gain no social advantage by
imitation. 1t is only in the relation
and social intercourse Of those who
are economically equal that we can
hope to find any real personal indie
pendence or any true individuality.
Socialism further claims that there is
only one just and universally true
criterion by which any civilization is
to be judged or condemned and that
is the opportunity that civilization
gives to each Individual to fully de-
velop and enjoy his own peculiar indi-
| yiduality without at the same time in
fringing upon the individual rights of
any other person. Judged by thai
criterion, our present system of SO
called competitive industry will soon
stand condemned and damned to eter-
nal destruction The useful produc,
in particular and society in general
have rejected as highly absurd tn,
proposition advanced few years
since by that pious young Rockefeller
to his famous capitalist Sunday Schoo'
class that 1t is necessary and div'enly
proper that / 900 worthy toilers should
| h< p,,,if
to give full development to such a
| fine specimen of beauty rose as his
over opulent and pitifu father, John
D. AS opposed to this truly capital
site conceit, the socialists stand com
mitted to program which will give
to each Of the 1000 worthy toilers an
opportunity to grow and blossom forth
in their full and complete individual
ity. This is not possible under our
present system. To give them this
| opportunity, 1t is first necessary to
assure to them their growing and
! developing years for humanizins
and useful education, and by educa-
ton is meant what it's root signifies,
namely, drawing out of the real indi-
viduality Of the pupil. Any system of
seducaticn which does not have this
end in view is MOI worthy of being
scalled educat ON. These young de-
iyeloping individuals must at all times
have plenty of fresh air, plenty of
Isunshine, plenty of leisure fer play or
recreation on the green grass or in the
green woods or by the cool waters,
and finally plenty of wholesome sleep
healthy mind in a healthy body. All
.of these things are vitality necessary
10 any true upbulding or uplifting of
humanity in general. These are fact
Ors which the science Of socialism
alone proposes and which the system
Of socialism alone makes practical.
ION the contrary, 1t is the system Of
, capitalism, the system Of dog eat dog
which denies to the tOiler all of these
!
ious development of any real individu-
ality. The socialists throw This silly
objection back in lne faces of THEN
opponents by claiming that it s cap
! itaism which is rapidly destroying
all real individuality and personal in
:. dependence. We even go further an
state that capitalism is eating into
q, the very foundation of society, J.;
; undermining all individual character
, of it's members. Our silly struggle for
; social position always and everywhcr-'
!: tends to stit1e all hose noble and
'altruistic impulses of man and 10 de-
/ velop and make prominent only those
!; which are low, selfish landsordid.
! The socialist claims thar no man who
has to give daily from to 16 hours of
! the best that is in him to monotonoua
: toll has left in him either the ability
i or the inclination to develop that
higher part of mis- individuality, but
, that he is doomed to dreary and
! hopeless existence which smol hers all
that is good in him and stimulates
, only that which is mean and vicious.
. 1t might be well to ask our critical
! opponents this question: Who has the
| greater opportunity to develop his
; real individuality under our present
! syst en- the man who works for the
government or the man who works for
; a private capitalist? The fact that
there is sucn rush to serve the gov
eminent is most convincing answer
to such a question. All our efforts to
succeed are but attempts to secure
more space for self-expression of in
! dividuality. The socialists contend
that under socialism, all members Of
society, regardless Of sex or race, will
have an equal opportunity to develop
their own peculiar individuality.
Socialism is pledged to remove and