The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-09-06

sire to go up in one at this time. LOOK
ing ahead we feel sure that sane
and rational socialism is bound to
come. Every purchase OF public
utility by any community is step
toward socialism. Every law to reg
ulate a corporation is step towards
socialism,, because it is recognition
of the supreme right of the people III
contradistinction to private right. The
great millionaires would throw up
their hands in holy horror, but they
are in reality the very pioneers OF
socialism, for they are teaching the
people what can be done by "commun-
| ity of interest"
Sufficient unto the day are the evils
thereof. We have multitude OF prob
lens before us as a people. They
must be solved with present day i'm
Elements and in the light OF present
day conditions. We would oppose
socialism today because the people
are not educated up to it. because for
too many it would simply mean
chance to divide, to let others do the
work, to cease Individual effort and
throw themselves upon the public.
Simply because man is alive is no
reason that he should keep on living.
He is entitled to nothing, save rs he
contributes all that he is able to con-
tribute. The public cares for the de-
crepit. the insane or the diseased be-
cause it recognizes that they cannot
contribute to their own support. But
until it is thoroughly recognized that
every man must work, that every man
must do his share, that it is a crime
to do otherwise, the people will not
be ripe for socialism.
Every man should do his share, and
then he should have it.
The trouble with the old time social
ism, the one that is still bugbear,
was that it recognized only the last
part Of the above. The old time
socialism meant that everyone should
have his share whether he did his
share or not. 1t implied that the
world was under serious obligation to
man for being born. One of it's
dogmas was that the world lowed
every man living" The world owes
the individual nothing. The world was
not responsible for his birth and it
will keep on turning on its axis after
his death. The world is sort of
savings bank. Every man ought to
have a right to draw out all that he
puts in. He ought not to have the
right to draw out more than he puts
in. When he does, he draws out
something that someone else put in.
That is not fair.
That is the whole industrial ques-
ton, how to regulate things so that
no man shall draw out more than he
puts in at the expense OF those VINO
draw less than they put in. The great
lest difficulty in solving the problem
lis that everyone oyer-estimates the
value of his own services. The capt.
talist thinks that he has done it all.
That without him the great railroads
would not have been built. the great
factories established and the ire
mendous forces of labor set to work.
The laborer thinks that without his
toll the railroads could not run, the
factories would stand idle and the
tremendous forces OF capital would
| find no outlet
As Mr. barrow, the great attorney
| for the labor unions, points out, there
can be no real friendship between cap
ital and labor under present condi-
lions. There may be friendship be-
tween individual capitalists and indi-
yidual laborers, but the interests OF
capital and labor are antagonistic and
must be, under conditions as they are
today. Capital must secure labor as
cheaply as possible. 1t is on the mar
ket to buy labor at the lowest posi-
Bile price. The workingman is on the
market to sell his labor at the highest
possible price. So long as this con.
dition prevails there can be no real
or lasting friendship.
But to return to our muttOns. 1t is
perhaps we'll to legislate as we have
been doing or as Senator Kenyon pro-
poses, but it must be remembered that
these are means of relief, not cures.
A man puts ice water on his head to
relieve a headache, but that does not
affect a cure if the headache was
caused by indigestion. That is what
lis the matter with US. We have not
been able to digest the new industrial
situation. These new-fangled laws
are but cold-watere bandages and do
not go to the root of the matter. They
may bring temporary relief and. if
they will, it is only sensible to apply