Evening star., 1919-05-25

| moment may be seeking employme ent.
In the socia!istic state. permanent
! economic classes with differing and
opposing rights and privileges are
fundamental. From the democratic
state. on the other hand, they arr
| excluded.
Disproved by America.
Third. that in the course of eco
nomic development, the rich are get
ting steadily richer and steadily few
er. while the poor are getting stead
lily poorer and steadily more nu-
merous. This assumption is easily
disposed of by the facts. which show
that, as applied to America, these
two statements are absolutely false.
AS yet the number of formal ad-
herents to the socialist party in the
| United States is not large. but the
| theories and teachings of socialism
| are being eagerly and systematically
+, spread among us Many schools and
| colleges and many pulpits are either
| unconscious or willing agents in this
! work.
! There should be no mistake about
! ly calls our Constitution dishonest.
! 1t denounces the fathers of our coun-
| try as grafters, as crooks, as men of
mediocre intelligence. and as attor-
neys of the capitalist class. In the
making and building of America the
socialist can see nothing of ideaiism.
nothing of sacrifice. nothing of high
principle, nothing of love and liberty.
nothing of aspiration for a finer and
| platform Of 1872 explicitly demanded
not only the usual collectivist and
communist policies, but also the
! abolition of the United States Senate
and of the veto power of the Presi:.
/ Il he a nj ol
courts. except the United States Su-
preme Court, and the election of all
! judges for short terms: the abolition
of the power of the Supreme Court
| constitutionality of legislative acts.
] and revision of the Constitution of
| the United States.
Patriotism Is Discounted.
! Orthodox socialists are internation-
alists of a special kind. They are
really not internationalists at all, but
rather anti-nationalists. They are
not in favor of closer, more kindly
and more constructive international
! relations as a means toward justice
and the security of the world. but
| they desire that sort of International
! ism which shall extend class con-
| sciousness, class cooperation, and the
class struggle beyond the boundaries
of existing nations, and so assist in
! breaking down those boundaries.
/ This is why the logical orthodox so
| cialist is Of necessity unpatriotic. He
| does not believe in patriotism, be-
cause he regards 1t as an obtsacle to
| the farther extension of the success
! full class struggle and of class rule.
Happily, we have seen in our recent
experience that men may be sincere
| believers in many of the tenets of So
cialfsm and yet remain patriotic and
loyal Americans. Such men as Rus
have illustrated this fact. Unfortu-
nately, these men have been but
| small minority in the socialist party
or group. and they have seeded from
cannot be loyal and devoted Ameri-
cans, for the simple reason that
American institutions and American
ideals lie straight across the path
which they would like to pursue.
This distinction between true and
| a false internationalism is to be taken
into account and clearly reckoned
| with in shaping the policies OF the
world. Just as the family relation
enriches anu strengthens the indivld-
ual. and just as the community re-
lation enriches and strengthens the
| family, and just as the state relation
enriches and strengthens the COM
munity. and just as the national re-
| lation enriches and strengthens the
| state, SO will true international re-
| lationship enrich and strengthen
| every nation that enters into 1t. Any
| plan for a society of nations that
| would destroy national initiative: ma,
! tionaI responsibility and national
pride. would be merely strait
Jacket upon human progress. The
! true and wise society of nations will
be one built out of nations that are
stronger. more resourceful and more
nafriotic because of their new as
sociation and their new opportunities
| for world service.
| What New Americanism Offers.
| That which the American of today
opposes to socialist autocracy is not
the crude competitive individualism