The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-12-06
GERMAN SOCIALISM DEFINED.
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etc, but all farm lands, tools,
machines, livestock, aud al other
Observation-Disclosures by which wealth Is
produced must become public
property, and cease to be private
property.
The farmer sometimes is fooled
into thinking that he belongs TO the
proletarlat. On the other hand, he
is the most distinctive representative
Of the bourgeoisie or middle class If
ideal German socialism should prevail,
he would lose his lands, horses, live
stock, tools, machinery-everyt thing
by which he creates wealth, except
his bare hands.
Second, the German socialism con-
ceives OF the supremacy OF the state
(the government and the subsection
of the individual. Otficialdom, since
all production would be bV the state,
would multiply almost infinitely We
would still have two classes, for there
would be officialdom and the rest of
us. The German autocracY, in which
the autocratic bureau would be
| chosen by the people, but would be
none the less but even more. auto
cratic, would Supplant present govern
ment> and NOT only production, but
the minutest domestic affairs would
! be governed thereby. E0iurcpd labor
Of each individual must follow such
! scheme.
| Third, the system Is founded upon
purely materialistlc theory of the
race. Happiness, progress, self-ex
preston, is determined wholly and
solely by our material surroundings.
Wealth brings happiness; its absence
brings crime and misery. 1t is the
one determining factor in the status
of the human race.
L goes without saying, and yet is
/ boldly professed by its great philos-
ophic leaders, that the family as it
now exists would disappear under
such regime. The -"overthrow of
the existing order" OF which the
orators prate, but which is not under
stood by the commonalty, means the
overthrow Of society as it is founded
on property and property rights, and
the erection of visionary Utopia, of
which the world has no historical
example upon the ruins of the present
social order.
The commonaty does not fully
understand when the orator talks
about capitalism. They think he
refers to some capitalist. +. Nor
gan, or some other. They do not
refer to capitalist or specuator.
They refer TO that system of govern
ment by which you own your farm,
your plows, your Stock-that system
by which you have earned your living
aud saved something for a rainy day,
that system by which you provide for
your children and the old age of your
PARENTS
Property, which is fundamentally
! attacked by bolShevism and other
forms of socialism, was not made by
any government or anv class 1t
grew up and was not made. 1t is
more fundamental than law and
constitution and governments,
whether monarchical or republican.
Laws and constitution came to regu-
late it and secure it and prevent its
abuse.
There are two fundamental inStitu.
tl0nS Of human society-Lhe family
aud property. The overthrow of the
latter would render the former
breeding pen. Property is essential
not only to the welfare and progress,
but 10 the survival OF the human
race. All history shows this. No
doctrine which arrays class against
class can or should survive The
Christ doctrine, Gall we are brethren"
must be the foundation of all society
Economic inequality is both neces-
sary and desirable. It's evils, govern
ments must correct, and forever be
the champions of the weak against
the strong.
There is 90 more poisonous doctrine