The Lamar register., 1915-04-07

some form oil socialism, whose CEN
trail feature is the abolition of private
capital and the displacement of in
dividual competition. The people shall
own jointly the land and capital, the
mines, manufactures, railroads, tele-
graphs, in short, all the means of
production and distribution.
"The central feature of socialism,
viz: the destruction of individual COM
petition, is directly at war with Gods
eternal order of things, and in the
end must succumb to the inevitable.
There is only one way to scale the
heights of destiny and that is to
walk abreast of the truth of God.
What is that immutable law of life
with which socialism would measure
arms? 1t is this: There can be no
progress, but there must be retrogres-
sion among living beings of any rank
or order in the absence of natural
selection, and there can be no natural
selection, in the absence of individual
competition This law holds as sure
ly in human society as among the
birds and beasts, and until this in
exorable law of God is repealed, eth
err socialism must fail, or the human
race must go back to barbarism.
Adversely is hard school master,
but it makes men. East cough
ems no muscle. Hustle makes muscle
Rigor makes rigor You cannot slide
down into character on a toboggan.
You must climb up into it over sharp
rocks and dizzy precipieces. When
competition ceases, the individual be-
comes a jelly fish and the race goes
backward.
what, then, is the hope Of the I'M
der man, if it does not lie in social
ism? His hope is not in any system
of industry or form of government or
organization of economic or political
forces, but his hope is in his own
right arm, his own personal right
eousness, and in the reign of love
among men. Let it never be forgot
ten that the trouble with society does
not lie in its industrial system, but in
human nature. The fault is not in
outward forms, but in inward char
acter. The wrong is not in public the
DRY but in private practice. The evil
is not social crime but individual
sin. AS long as selfishness continues
TO be the ruling factor in human con-
duct, there will be an upper man and
an under man in society, whether it
be in a socialistic Utopia or in some
form of competitive reality. If human
nature should ever become so thor
oughly reconstructed as to make So
cialism temporarily workable scheme
the same reconstructed human ma
ture would Danish the ills of a COM
petitive scheme. The i'll are not in the
scheme, but in the units of society
who constitute the working factors Of
the scheme.
1.-THE helplessness of the under man
does not grow out of the present COM
petitive system Of industry, but out
of the partial absence of competition
III a SO-tillth IOiil ptllAlNt sgSltIl- L ne
real obstacle is not competition, but
the want Of it. What the under rlan
needs is opportunity under corl-
petitive scheme, not the legislative
supply of his wants under a soclalis-
tic scheme. His poverty must d.sap
pear not before an act of congress,
but before his own manly act in open
competition with his fellows. Give him
not the order of the king, but give
him a chance.
"My quarrel is not with the fonda
mental principles of the present in
dustrial system, but with the way it
works, and therefore with the men
who work it. My quarrel is not with
the dynamite, but with the fiends who
use it to explode a mine under the
Maine. Dynamite is a good thing
among the rocks of Hellgate. NY
charge is not against the instrument,
but against those who wrongfully use
it. If competition must go, at the
edict of socialism, because selfish
men abuse it, then water, fire, air,
love, everything good in the world
must go, for the same reason. The
trouble is not with competition, but