The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-19

ctety nterdependent die, fall
gether. AS Herbert Spencer said, Humanity is
ganism and it impossible have health in the social
body while single organ is diseased.
It has been the prime of secondrate
and poor politicians consider social nst-
tutions existing insulated in a watertght
One of the dearest examples of this be found
IL our own history In the antebeum days there was
a public who persisted preaching the
slavery be confined" in its effects
limited territory certain single social
institutions. Their notion that by somehow
timing social injustice they could neutraze its evil
and 0 service good. part of
Lincon's work the of this allacy
and the revelation of the fact that slavery would per
meate the entire fabric of the nations life before it had
done this poison secure a foothod in any organ
and it will finally the entire social body to scken
was the substance of his teaching
This fact has long been instinctivey understood by
those predacous humans who in various have made
up the class Driven by lust rule and
draw blood like vampires, the veins of the people
this class has at time sought hold immedt
sovereignty all life, but has rather
been intrench themselves in of the
basic social institutions This had double advantage;
first they could rule the whole with less trouble by
cupyng strategic position and secondly they could
keep the people doce by pointing the freedom"
which they enjoying in other department.
History is largely made of the efforts the
class gain such vantage point and to hold it after
having gained it, and of the the people
In Egypt the ruling group fastened itself religious
institutions converted the priesthood into its instrument
and utterly controlled popular life through popular
gious supersttons In of the citysates of Greece
it used the educational institutions the pur-
pose. In feuda days the class controlled society
by merely controlling land. At periods
small able to lord it the rest by seizng
the of communication At other times, particu
arly during the three four centuries the favorte
method has been get hold of the political institutions
Our class through exercise spe-
cial privilege gotten itself strongly nrenched in
the heart of system of production and exchange
Roofing there it quietly sends its ramifyng branches
underground other field of social activities
and is thus wrapping its entaces about the and
enangling them in its smothering By controlling
our Industrial system it finds it very easy also
troll all institutions such the church. the theatre
the school, medicine, law, politics, and forth.
We common folks are beginning to awaken to this
fact and learning that long have industrial
where else. Political freedom" is a pleasant bluff
control through their control of food supply,
factories and transportation.
AS it without saying the governing is
arguments and reasons in support of its posi-
tion in fact, it has at hand whole arsenal of
PHILOSOPHERS, sciences theooges and what not to
that it's sovereignty is foreordaned part of the plan
the universe One favorte argument is that of the sur
vival of the ttest eve born to rule and own"
they assert land those the bottom belong
by right" time-honored logical weapon
that the unfit for sefrule, and must there
fore have benevolent oligarchs to do their ruling for
them.
These arguments very interesting and also very
falacous AS the first, which is simply of
the old dogma of the divine right of rulers, but has
now taken the form of plea of efficiency, need
only point to the fact of Inheritance. The
would hold good if the class continually
subject competition with all outsiders but the
essence of class rule is to destroy competition. All
advanced the continuance power
ogarchy hings the falacy that inheritance
of account. I may build up business through my
merits and deserve my earnings and my success; but
that is not to that the child the old maid
the invalid cousin who happen to inherit business
merits at ALL Were subject to ever renewed
competition it would probably escape our
hands, but is it is kept in the family, in the
class and that through inheritance.
AS for the second the falacy of that is
falacy of all justification for oligarchy The oigarch
shuts the of opportunity and thereby
degeneracy among the masses and thereafter points
to the degeneracy which his ogarchy has
as the justification his rule. This is way
Russian bureaucrats defend themselves But the only
way the people by self-rue
they more be taught by another than child
be taught walk by another. Our greatest socioo
gst Lester F. Ward has shown beyond all peradventure
of doubt that there many born genuses and tai
ents among the poor ana the masses as among other
classes, but that they develop fully for lack
necessary opportunity. 1t only through ruling
selves that the people will become At for it
There is much to cast US into gloom in present
affairs The historical students longest
do hesitate declare that the civilized
reached the parting of the ways; life death
hang in the balance But there which fills
with hope and that is the fact people
generally awakening the truth of the iner-dependency
Of all social institutions and the methods of class
rule They traced the beast of prey his
it remains merely smoke and to make an