The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-15
SOCIALISM NEITHER SCHGmi
NOR DREAM.
Economic oeveIopent Decides.

Moreover, the construction of plan
mon which the future social order
shall be- built has become. in our
DAYS, not only purposelesS, but Who'll
~ irrcconcilable with the modern
standpoint of science. lu the course
OF the last century, not only did a
great revolution take place in the
economic world, but likewise in the
heads OF men. The comprehension OF
the causes OF the social development
has become quite general. Already In
the forlies Marx and Engels showed
and from that time on every step
in social science has proved it-that.
I'm the last analysis, the history of
man kind is determined. not by the
ideas of man, but by the economic
development which progresses IRE
sistably, obedient TO certain under
living laws. and not according TO the
wishes or the wbims OF the people.
This economic development is in
steady motion, il brings about new
forms OF society; il starts new wants
among men which compel them TO re-
fleet over their social conditions and
to devise means whereby 10 adjust
society to the new system under
which production is carried on, Be
cause, he II always remembered. t-'-
process of adjustment does not go
on Of itself, 1t needs the ald Ui &C..
human brain. Without thought, with
out ideas, there is no progress. But
these ideas which thought generates,
are only the assistants of social de-
yelopment. the first impulse does not
proceed from them, as was formcrl,
believed and as many still think, the
first impulse comes from the econ
omic conditions.
Accordingly, II is not the thinkers
and philosophers who determine the
trend of social progress: that Is de-
termlncd by tho economic develop
ment What the thinkers can do ia
Ia discover, to recognize, the trend.
and they can do that all the better
the clearer their understanding is OF
the conditions that proceeded, but they
can mover themselves predetcrminc
the course OF the social evolution at
their own Will
But even the discovery and recoG-
milton of the trend OF social progress
has Its limits The domain of social
life is most complicated. even the
clearest intellect finds 1t impossible
10 probe IL from all sides and 10
measure all the forces therein al work
with sufficient accuracy TO enable
him 10 fortcll accurately what social
forms will result from the point ac-
ton OF all these forces.
A new social form does not come
into existence through the conception
Of a plan by certain specially gifted
heads who convince people by degrees
Of it's utility, and who. when they
have acquired the requisite power,
undertake at their ease the construc
ton OF the social edifice according
10 this pIan-Weekly People.
Continued next week)
The slave holder of old had the
power To lock his slave up and keep
him on short ratlons or on no rations
at all, to the point OF starvation II he
chose. The British Cotton Employers
Federation has Just voted n provision
lockout to begin October 1st by
which 800 900 mill hands and all de-
pendent upon them Will he deprived
OF work and food and II the struggle
be long continued the famine condi-
tions Witnessed in Sweden during the
great strike will fatedly be reproduc'
cd Is the wages system slavery or
not2
Adding its little note of confusion
TO the blurring Of class lines attempt
ed By Miss Anna Morgan when she
dabbled in the shirt waist strike. the
A. F. of l.. Shoe Workers Journal
defends her by declaring: Organized
labor does not war on women. we
may now expect 10 sce Rockefeller
Carnegie. et al donning petticoats aud
aprons. in the interests OF harmony
But seriously. by what feat of biology
does parasitisSn become less parasite
aud more Immune from attack
through being practlced by woman
A big candy manufacturer and
bigger carpet manufacturer are ac
cused OF smuggling. Strange isn't II
how little knowledge these tariff pro
tecied manufacturers have OF Just how
widespread the tariff really IT, Botf
must have thought that IL was fol
their special benefit only and was no
intended to include the other manu-
facturcrs II WAS General Hancocl
who said that the tariff was 'loca
Issue" These alleged smugglers evl