El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-22

same manner as the priests OF an
tquity invested all the nations Of
ancient times with the seeming Of
divinity, so did modern German
priests, Protestant and Catholic. in
vest the German kaiserdom with di-
vinity, just as a child dresses a doll,
gives it name and ascribes to it a
personality just as in Often
bach's Love Tales Of Hoffman," a
sentimental male biped ascrIbes false
feelings, false mentality. and false
sex to a mechanical dummy until he
gets himself thoroughly infatuated
with the thing. However, in the case
Of Germany, the image is far from
being dummy 1t turns out to be
a colossal 'Frankenstein."
Makeup Of the KaiserdOm Deity.
Here is the makeup Of this kaiser
dom deity taken apart: Germany
out in German KUltur, German pros
perity German industry. German
Nv esen'-German everything, espe-
cially German military might In
comparison with Germany, other ma
tons are dissimilar, and therefore
they are not good. God loves the
good and hates the evil Therefore.
God loves Germany and hates other
nations Germany is good Good
ness is GOdllkeness- Therefore. 10 be
German is 10 DE LlAAAEsEa II UAA " AAAAAA
il follows that the nature OF the Ger
man nation and the nature Of God are
one and the same thing Therefore,
to obey the German nation is the
same as to obey God.
There is the thing we have to deal
with on the one hand. On the other
hand we have Socialism.
Before entering upon a discussion
OF Socialism. I wish 10 state that ]
am not a Socialist. The approving
things which I shall say are in no
wise TO be attributed TO a partisan
viewpoint. They arise in no degree
from SOcialiSrlc notions on my part
But while I am not Socialist
neither am I an apologist for the
present economic and Industrial SyS-
TEN. It is true that on one OF two
occasions ] have enormously been
suspected OF having Socialist inclina-
uous. Nowadays, anybody with
mind as recent as the 18th century
is occasionally accused OF being
Socialist Laying aside entirely all
philosophic considerations. perhaps
there is something about my feeling
when accused Of being Socialistically
inclined that resembles the feelings
OF Aleck HellWauger, OF Tickville.
ky. over a news Item about him
that aDneared in the weekly news
vile kentucEian-" Tt read as fol-
lows "OUr esteemed fellow citizen.
AIr. Aleck HellWauger, went TO Pine
vile last Thursday for 60 day stoD
in the county Jail His many friends
who have seen him report that he is
dissatisfied there and that he save
Ticllville IS plenty good enough
for him any time Aleck has the
tried and true Tickville spirit"
Aleck didn't like the item He
words "in the county jaiI' at the end
Of the second sentence. so that the
sense would be that Tickvile was
plenty good enough for him only
when in the county jail
The reasons why am not a Social
list are briefly these: First. I don't
believe in the infallibility OF the doc
-rine Of economic determinism. I be-
lieve in spiritual determinism. No
organism, from mOlusc to man,
came TO be what It is. through exclu-
-IFe tlralstIc QeterminlSm operating
from without Activity within. es
lecially amongst all the higher forms
Of life. determines as much as does
activity without Molusc or man. a
living thing is much more concerned
with being itself. and living its own
life according to its own notions,
than IL is with adjusting itself to an
environment Self utterance. and the
discharge OF feelings. are factors Of
life no less determinative than econ
omic environment
Also. IL seems to me that, from
Socialisuc organization Of industry
which would arbitrarily assign every
worker his place and work, the
worker would be exposed 70 a hard
and fast administrative tyranny, and
10 would be only a single step from
such a condition TO that of compul-
sorry labor, which is nothing more
nor less than plain slavery. Further
more, I don't believe that ordinary
human nature is as social a thing as
-ran HHarsn B.. -
[ believe that before we can have
anything like either Industrial de-
mOcracy. or economic democracv-Or
even anything like political democ-
has got 20 take the
auti-sOcial instincts out OF the aver
age human being Something has got
to take out of his nature his innate
love Of fighting and his love of lord