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WASTE!) THE MATTER IN
VESTIGATED.
The United States Chamber ot
Commerce when the railroad strike
threatened sent a letter to the Pre
sident. They were not satisfied that
the demand of the brotherhoods for
the eight hour day was “equitable”
or not. and they wanted a commis
sion to investigate the matter.
There have been some thousands
of strikes within the past fe%v years
involving many men, but never be
fore has the body gone to the troub
le of asking that the demands of the
strikers be investigated.
Indeed the individual members of
that body opposed all the investiga
tion. But now it is different, all
of which goes to show what this
small bunch of organized brother
hoods in the labor world can bring
about. Now, just suppose, real
labor solidarity prevailed!
•■SOCI \I,ISM AS A HOPE."
The following is taken from the
San Francisco Star:
“The optimism of Allan L. Ben
son of Yonkers, who is the socialist
party candidate for President, is not
so noticeable in his prediction that
he will receive 2,000,000 votes as in
his confidence that socialism would
abolish war and establish forever
“the rule of kindliness and the spi
rit of helping tit - oth. r fellow”.
Such a theory of the power oi
socialism is not borne out by exist
ing conditions, says an exchange.
The movement was so powerful
in Germany and I'ranee betore tli
present war that some of its enthu
siastic leaders were confident thai
serious international conflicts were
no longer possible. German anil
French socialists often fraternized
and talked as Mr. Benson now talks
Yet when the cal! to arms was made
they responded as ardently and with
as little real acquaintance with the
merits of the dispute as anybody
else.
Socialism does not preach brother
hood more consistently than Christ
ianity. and it has not been engaged
in >the work nearly so long. At its
best, socialism is secular, with not
many pretensions to motives loftier
than policy and self interest.
If religion, rooted in the inspira
tion and dogma of nineteen cen
turies was unable to keep a dozen
so called Christian ntCotir froii
each other's throats, what reason is
t’tere to hope for greater things
from a modern social philosophy as
to the ultimate aims of which few
of its leading expounders arc
agreed?”
That is a fair question, not very
fairly put. There i.- no time at pre
sent for a contrast between social
ism and Christianity. even if there
may be any time, ''’he two are to
tally different things. As the writer
said socialism at its best is sesular
Christianity is not of this world.
Socialism is an economic, and
Christianity a religious idea.
Kven at that we do not see tint
religion is founded upon any loftier
motives than socialism, even if the
charge is true that socialism is a
matter of policy and self interest.
If we are right, one of the means
whereby sinners are converted to re
pentance is the strong policy ol
gaining eternal reward and a gold
en crown on the one hand, while
they avoid damnation and eterna
torment on the other. And it would
appear to be an excellent policy ant
a practical self interest, for any per
son who believed in it, to follow the
rules and regulations which are de
clared to have come down "as in
spiration or as dogma”.
The writer of the comment upor
socialism's limitations in Europe
Inters that it has been, as such, a
failure. But socialism has nevei
been tried. The present day social
ist has not socialism. He urge:
socialism. He cannot practice it.
But if "socialism” can be critl
cized for failing to prevent a Euro
pean war, what about Christianity?
it has been some nineteen centuries
in possession of the field. Its be
lievers were on throne and in ham
let. It was not suppressed or super
ceded. It was the system of religion
that prevailed. But it had no more
power to bring about the brother
hood of man than if it had neither
dogma nor inspiration at its back,
and was not a religion at all.
Now there was a time unless all
records lie when Christians actually
lived up to their professions of
brotherhood, equality, and all tilings
were in common. That was in the
very early days when it had a hard
row of stumps to hoe, and the pro
paganda of this religion was likely
to end on the cross or in the circus.
How did this all change, for it
did change, until today we find men
who are professed Christians killing
other Christians with infinite zest
for the love of God?
The modern social philosophy ot
the socialists affords a key to this,
and it explains indeed clearly
enough now why men are lighting
who should as Christians be broth
ers.
That key is found in the material
ist conception of history, or as some
prefer to < all it the doctrine of eco
nomic determinism. One can suit
one's self. This says that economic
I conditions determine the mode ol
one’s thoughts and one's action, de
termine historic movements and ex
plain that human institutions arc
: adjusted to the needs of the eeo
iiomic environment.
Let us revert to explain this, bj
taking up socialism. Socialism aims
to establish a condition of collective
production and collective distribu
tion collectively administered by at
industrial democracy of producers
and distributors, direct or indirect.
Under the capitalist economj
there is collective production, but th
distribution is individually control
led by private ownership.
Under socialism the incentive tc
labor would be human welfare anc
the satisfaction of the social needs
This leads to an equality of inter
est in all productive and distribute
efforts. The interest cf one becomes
thus automatically the inter
est of all. Brotherhood meets wit!
no insuperable obstacle towards its
realization under such a so-far un
realized economy.
At the present time, all industrial
activity is for profits. The profit ol
the proprietors is really the onl>
reason for the existence of such in
dustrial activity. It is the incentive
to all industrial energies and it has
resulted in an immense conflict ol
interests between one profit-seeking
individual and another, and one
profit-seeking nation and another
Under it brotherhood or equality is
merely a theory which can never be
realized, ahd the justification for its
monstrous cruelties and injustices is
sought in some such pseudo-scienti
fic aphorism as the survival of the
fittest, in the struggle for exist
ence.
Obviously then, under capitalist!
as under feudalism, brotherhood is
impossible. Since one man’s gair
is truly and literally some othei
man’s loss, this constant struggle
leads to domestic and foreign strife
There is not a single communitj
which does not manifest such condi
tions of conflict and which does no'
show that under this economy an)
realization of Christian principles ai
taught by Christ are utterly impose
ible.
You can take up the new testa
ment at random, and seek to fulfl
the doctrine therein expounded, anc
one will be either locked up as i
lunatic or jailed as an anarchis'
disturber of the peace under thii
system.
The fact is that the failure o:
Christianity is explained, not by the
shortcomings of Christ’s teachings
but because such an economy pre
vails as "keeps man from man anc
breaks the social fie”, preventing it.
Consequently and answering the.
question asked in the Star article. I
socialism can' give promise whore
other teachings fail, because social- j
ism says that by a change in the
economic environment of human
beings, you change the persistent
struggle of one against the other.
To do this responds the man, you
have first to chance human nature.
Our natures are the creatures of en
vironment. One of the scientific
facts beyond dispute is that nature
always adjust itself to a changing
environment. The giant sperm
whales which sink to the deepest
depths of the ocean after the terri
fic decapod cuttle fish is the marine
descendant of a land actual that
when denied a living on The earth,
sought its easier existence in the
waters of the sea. Similarly the
cringing serf of yesterday under the
feudal economy becomes the proud
pursed bourgeoisie of a later day
era. Theft in a commercial demo
cracy like Athens was the deepest
cisgrace, theft in a military estab
lishment like Sparta was noble and
highly honored. Th ? man v. ho
makes money selling booze is highly
unlikely to become a prohibition's!..
Many preachers when they found
the movie shows proved a counter
attraction to the village church of a
f i.Inlay evening sought to close
them as sinful. Labriola says ef
lectively that ‘‘our ideas do not
tome from Heaven, neither are
they born within us”. They are ex
cited, stimulated ar.d created by our
social environment. A Jehu I*.
Rockefeller is the last man to un
derstand and appreciate the liberta
rianism of the Industrial Workers
of the World, and the reverence for
the divine right of property like
the' divine right of kings grows less
as one descends the social grades.
William Randolph Hearst because
of his extensive holdings in Mexico
considers American non-intervention
disgraceful.
The Declaration of Independence
was written when llie colonists re
volted against the constituted au
thorities and embodies a theory oi
life so wholly distrusted today that
its publication in the Filipines has
led to the suppression of the instru
ment as an incendiary document.
No taxation without represention
said the revolutionists of ’7G, yet
under the impelling force of the j
present economic environment this i
doctrine is defunct and quite S
ignored.
Now there is not a single writer 1
who examines the war in cold im- j
partial blood but knows that it is, j
in the last analysis, a struggle be- j
tween rival commercial and finan- t
cial interests. In other words the j
war is a struggle for either the |
maintenance or the obtaining of (
further profits. As socialism would j
abolish the profit system, and thus [
destroy the cause of war, it is quite !
obvious that it would abolish these ,
I
wars.
The shortcoming of Christianity j
as it is today is that it leaves this
profit greed untouched. Nay, that
its chiefest supporters are the
money changers and the stockhold
ers, the investors and the contract
ors—the political and industrial ex
ploiters.
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
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