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Nome. Alaska, October 21, 1910.
“CIVILIZATION'.”
Doubtless such an allegory as the
motion picture play Civilization is
the last word in the art of picture
making. If it is, it shows that in
undertaking such ambitious specta
cular productions, the dramatic art
of the screen is still artificial and
crude. Depending of course upon
terrific scenes of great human im
mensity that occur not ^ten. ana
when they do occur involving the
sacrifice of property valuable be
yond words, even a many millioned
man would have to shrink before
undertaking such a tremendous spec
tacle in perfect replica as the sink
ing of the Lusitania. And an effort
to imitate this collosal tragedy must
show signs of artificial crudity con
taining more bathos than impressive
ness. Any imitation must be im
perfect.
Moreover the failure of the Amer
ican picture makers to realize tlie
closeness of actual living conditions
in Europe to those in America is
nowhere more clearly manifested
than in novels, plays or movies
which are concerned with the ro
mantic conceptions of European di
plomatic. political and social life.
The civilization that is manifest
in America and that is manifest in
Europe is identical. Civilization is
international. We call that civiliza
tion which represents the most ad
vanced human progress. There is
no other.
It is a huge mistake that in any
country except sections of Russia
the people are merely the pawns oi
the crow n, ex* opt as the crown re
present:. <-rtain economic interests
which happen to be predominant at
tbe time in the various countries'. In
all probability it is true that Franz
Josef, Kaiser Wilhelm and the rest
were all of them merely political
puppets in the terrific drama of the
Great War which is but half enacted
in Europe, and which is still repro
duced in the form of an gllegory in
Civilization. The landed estates, the
great manufacturing concerns, com
nicnx tiiiu itinvi uv/juuif,
other words, are the dominant fac
tors in all the states of Europe,
quite regardless of the figure royal
ty cuts in our every day conception
of affairs in those several nations.
And it is more likely true that
Krupps. the coal barons and the
great manufacturing and landed in
terests in Germany, the great shipp
ing and investing interests, the
commercial and munitionist inter
ests in Great Britain, had more to
do with the war than either Kaiser
Wilhelm or King George.
In the very beginning of the play
an educator claims that the war Is
possible because Christ's teachings
have never been accepted honestly
by the peoples therein engaged. We
are afraid that idea is wholly insuffi
cient. Christ’s teachings have had
nothing whatever to do with the
war, and the war is possible not -be
cause His teachings are accepted nol
honestly, but because the people live
under conditions where it is not
possible to accept them in any way.
It is the positive fact concerning
-our capitalist civilization that
Christ's teaching cannot be accepted
at all. It is wholly unadjusted to
this world today just as it was not
adjusted to the Roman Empire, and
the very fact that a sort of teaching
which dubbed itself Christianity
proved itself acceptable to tlie state,
proved also that it had nothing in
■common with the iconoclastic teach
ing!-. which originated with the Na
zarene. How it is possible to fatten
upon the labor of others and to af
fect for those whose labor is thus
despoiled of its product, a love pure
and sincere as the love for oneself,
may be possible of explanation to
some casuist or some double minded
individual, but it is certainly against
every common glimmering of sense
and reason. To make it good busi
ness to render assistance to those in
need in a searchingly scientific man
ner is not very much like the in
junction not to let one’s right hand
know what one's left hand doeth.
To amass wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice and to preach the glory
of public killing such as war, when
every passage in holy writ is abund
ant testimony against such egregious
policies may not be explained by
those who accept the teachings or
the Christ in any sort of a literal
spirit.
And in truth the plain fact is
that what we call civilization is a
system of society based not upon
brotherly love, but upon class anta
gonisms. inseparable from the sy
stem. These class antagonisms are
manifested throughout the whole
| fibre of our social fabric,( and not
only place class against class, but
| race against race and nation against
nation.
Because the churches have legl
i timized from their moral courts the
pursuit of profits, by the chicanery
of their biblical interpretations, like
dishonest judges perverting the let
ter and the spirit of the law, we
have a condition today when every
man’s hand is against every other
man's although we call it competi
tion and the glories of individual
i ism. It is a funny state of affairs
i that the Iteligion of Love should
1 have found nothing incompatible in
; its practice with the capitalist per
; version of science that evolution Is
, due to a survival of the fittest in
j the struggle lor existence, and that
j men have come to believe that they
I must be tried by fire and tempered
; by suffering, by hardships and un
kindness. It is a ridiculous reduc
i tion of all Christ's teaching to ab
. surdity that the sins and the shames
and the horrors and terrors, the
[ miseries and the griefs, the anguish
and the suffering which are witness*
| able in this world are fathered by
a God of Love that he may glory
in the triumph of his agonizing peo
| pie. Devil worship could evolve no
meaner concept of a Supreme Being.
Yet that is the concept of four-fifths
of our civilization. The slum dwel
ls r, the'.sweatshop victim, the tuber
i cular wreck, the starving and the
j outcast are told by some glib tong
ued hypocritical rascal that it is
| so ordained that the crown of glory
may hereafter be the brighter for
them. Built upon such a shall ,
what else could we expect from our
civilization?
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Election, November 7, 1916.
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Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1916.
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