Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-01
SOCIALISM AND OTHER THINGS.

Under the heading. Mr. Samm Demurs" we are
publishing in another column, communication
from Mr.. NJ. p. stamm. This gentleman is we'll
known to many of readers elderly man
of high character and that kindness Of spirit which
comes with the years, We admire Mr.. Stamm per
sonally but that does not deter from saying that
he is socialist in fact if not in name and that the
logic of his beliefs unmodified by mental timidy,
would make him a revolutionist
His article is a purported reply to editorial on
Allen and Gompers" in last Sundays issue How
ever he chiefly discusses other matters.
He announces the zone fundamental principle
of socialism" that the peaceful of the ballot is
the only way TO regulate economic and indus
trial affairs
We wish we could believe that to be actually
true. The conduct of the party during the war; and
since, is concusvey convincing that such is not the
case, in spite of Mr.. Samms belief the contrary.
Even it has just shown its contempt for the
orderly processes of the law by nominating for pres
ident man who has been convicted of awessness
by jury of his peers and is now in a federal peni-
tertiary, and who in his speech of acceptance de-
clared himself to be a boshevist.
In fact, in his closing paragraph our friend
grows somewhat holder, led by his Indignation
and squints strongly at force as the remedy And
force is anarchy.
He proClamS that "the minority should be pro-
tected in their constitutional right to change. through
the use of the ballot. their form of government if
they wish" The minority has no constitutional
right TO change anything about the government
The majority has right to change anything it
wishes about the government, but owes to the mi
nority the duty of seeing that that minority is
treated justly. We are ruled by majorities not by
minortes.
Mr.. Gompers and his followers have n perfect
right to elect to office who are favorable to
their cause, if they can do by the orderly pro-
cesses of the law Whether that result pleases the
minority does not matter.
Such victory would not be Surface applica
ton" to Ill., BY electing a majority to office
they can go deeply into an analysis OF our ills as
they will and apply whatever fundamental remedy
they fit, however heroic
Mr.. Stamm says our ills have "a very definite
cause but fails to state that cause We invite the
gentleman here and now, TO state for us what IL is
We agree to publish il if the law does not forbid
His opinion upon that point will probably stare our
readers.
He excoriates the Bisbee deportations persecu.
tons against free speech, expulsion of the socialist
members of the New York assembly, and the Kan
ass industrial law. We agree with him in large part
except as to the last named
The majority in Kansas have a perfect right to
that majorities have right to do anything by the
orderly processes of the law, being only limited by
the right of the minority to be treated justly The
minority have right to protest that they are not
treated justly and to convince majority that they
right if they can
The Kansas law may not prove success. That
is. II may prove unjust to labor or to capital 1t Is
experimental But an honest attempt 10 solve our