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THK COMING SI.AVKRV.
It was Herbert Spencer who first
dubbed what he conceived to be
be socialism and what a whole lot
of so-called socialists thinks is so
cialism, "the coming slavery”, and
if the great philosopher, for Spen
cer's great in-.-.- is not spurious, had
lived to see this day in Great Bri
tain. he would have seen the com
ing slavery arrive.
Today individual initiative is not
only a tiling of the past, but a pa
ternal government directs every
thing. It even lias a big
say-so in what one may
► •at as well as the price one may
pay for it. Great industries are
established of course, but it is the
government that controls them. It
says to the textile factory just how
much yarn may be spun, how much
wool may be woven into garments,
how much linen may be produced.
It directs the ship yard how many
and what kind of ships it may build
It decides upon the number of boil
ers, autos, mechanical contrivances
of every kind the shops may turn
out. it says what may he and how
much imported. It takes charge ot j
the coal production and distribu- t
lion. It attacks waste and con- |
serves power. In all making for ^
an efficiency in industrialism that
may win wars, providing that effici
ency is intelligently directed enough
to oft set the similar efficiency in
telligently directed by the enemy.
Just for the time being the ques
tion of profit and loss has been eli
minated. Just for the time being
the question is to conserve human
labor and to increase the productiv
ity of the industries from agricul
ture to transportation.
The old happy go lucky methods
of capitalism when the individual
set out to establish his fortune,
quite regardless of the social wel
fare, have had to be abandoned be
cause they were happy go lucky
methods and because they did not
take stock of the social result of the
Individual activities.
Great Britain was up against it.
Capitalism ran riot there in glorious
fashion paying, profitting and carty
ing along just as it suited itself.
Poor shops, unsanitary conditions
of labor, unhealthy bousing and
reckless irresponsibility outside the
mere sphere of production, was the
marked characteristic of British in
dustry. In consequence physical,
mental and moral deterioration be
came marked and when men were
wanted, men were not forthcoming.
There was no precaution taken that
the pursuit of profits would not
seriously affect the health of the
masses and then the natural result
happened, the health of the masses
became below par. First came the
Boer war and then came the Great
War and in both army surgeons
were astounded at the necessity ot
lowering the standards required to;
pass the physical examination.
Today in the stress of war, this
is felt more than anything else. To
day the appaling spector of the use
less unemployable, the foul crea
ture or British irresponsibility in
industry, is menacing the land at
every turn and even the wisest ol
men arc dismayed.
Compulsion has not remedied
matters. The officials have discov
ered that you cannot get a high
voltage from a low voltage being,
jend they have given up the effort
•with anathematn that such condi
tions heretofore prevailed. They
set themselves to work to make em
ployable those who have been un
employable, and they find that with
shorter hours. better nutrition
wholesome and sanitary conditions
of labor, in time, these wrecks,
these miserable effects of past social
indifference, can be made just as ef
ficient as other men. But it takes
time. There is the rub, it takes
time when every moment is precious
beyond the prerfousness of fine
gold or jewels.
in tills condition the Individual
ist freedom which the capitalist
gloried in when he could grind
with absolute liberty the workers
to his own choosing, is wholly re
moved. The coming slavery sees
to that. They must adjust them
selves 10 tin war or the war will
encompass their complete ruin.
The entire capitalist system must
be overhauled in order that it may
stand the strain, and the irony ot
11 all is that this is accomplished
only by reverting to the coining
slavery which Spencer chalked up
against the coming of socialism as
its worst drawback.
Hut it is not socialism. It is a
slavish despotism of an aristocracy.
It is not democratic even in tne re
motest degree. It gives tnc worn
ers no measure of industrial free
dom and it is merely the applica
tion of the principles of militarism
to industry.
What would be thought of the
general or the commander who com
pelled his troops to such a stretch
of speeding work that they soonei
or latter would collapse. The com
mander knows very will that such
a system would not last as long as
a snowball in hell. So they very
wisely see that their men lia'/' good
and wholeso'me food. Not distress
ing but wholesome physical exercise.
They have doctors to care for them
and they have dentists to attend
upon them and oculists to see that
their sight is everything that it
should be. They are provided with
good and suitable clothing, given
comfortable quarters and their
health attended so with rigid care.
This is quite different to that which
has prevailed in industry in the past
but nothing different to what
prevails now in Great Britain. The
man or woman working in a mu
nition factory is looked after just
as carefully as the soldier is at
tended to. He gets comfortable
quarters and good food. The gov
ernment sees to that. In proportion
to the weight of the labor, the
hours are regulated accordingly.
Some work as low as four hours a
day and others work eight. It de
pends upon the onerous nature ot
the labor to be performed. Fre
quent rests are provided. Medical
inspection is most rigid and the liv
ing quarters are compelled to reach
a degree of sanitation heretofore
unknown, and makes tenement
landlords dumb with misery.
There is no freedom about it. But
it is a splendid organization and it
is an organization that ful
fils all the predictions of
the learned Spencer as to
the coming slavery. It is properly
state capitalism: or perhaps it were
better to term it an Industrial au
tocracy. It is administered by the
few and today and yesterday strict
ly for the benefit of the few. The
workers have no say in the regula
tion of their lives, any more than
have the owners absolute freedom
in regulation of tlieir industries.
Not only that but when the men
and employers reach an irreconetle
able limit over question^ of treat
ment, the government very acoomo
datingly removes the employers
from any say in the management
and takes over the industry bolus
bolus, as followed the strike of th<
colliers in Wales.
It is a step forward from a socia
evolution point of view. All that is
needed is the democratization ol
the industry now autocraically con
trolled. That will be easier. Ths
step is not far reaching. Govern
ment is making the road smoothei
and the way easier. The difficulties
are many but not serious. The con
fiseation bogie for one thing has
been exorcised and laid to rest. Ths
autocrats are doing the confisca
tlon. The war is their justification
No other moral reason need be ad
vanced. The country requires it
Society is benefitted by it. Life anc:
property, shibbedeths of yesterday
cannot stand in the way. It is s
war time measure. That is sufflcl
ent. /
But after the war and w'hen men |
begin to reclaim some degree ot j
that personal freedom and demo- j
cracy which existed uncertainly be
fore it, what is to prevent the work
ers taking and holding and demo- j
cratizing industry as the autocrats
have done it, aud in the interest j
of the happiness and the welfare ot!
the people? What higher argument
is needed? Moreover the precedent
is established and it cannot be
bronken. This was done that the
country might succeed. That
was done that the nation
might win out. But the na
tion. the country is made foi
the people, not the people made foi
the nation, the country. Humanity
is higher than the soil, than the
hills be they ever so green and
beautiful, than the valleys be they
ever so flowery and tree-clad, than
the cities be they ever so stately,
than field and flowers and trees and
green lanes and shady highways
and placid lakes and mossy dells
and sounding oceans mourning in
flowing purple and sweeping ships
and giant liners. They are for hu
manity and humanity has the high
est and greatest claim. They are lor
the good of all, not for a few: they
can be. administered by the people
for all the people, not by a few ot
the people for their benefit or even
for the benefit of all. Man is on
titled to his collective toll upon an
individual standard from society. It
is not right that he claim more.
Under Heaven he cannot claim less.
If he forego his right, others will
seize it, grasp it, fight for it, strug
gle over it, war for it. Nay to ex
ercise a title thereto will the might
ier and greedier few who would
control it, march him off to fight
for their possession of what he
should own.
It is not in the coming slavery
that Great Britain now sees estab
lished and which Spencer so feared
that the lay of freedom lies in
deed. Nor is peace to be found
in the land where such is fastened j
upon the people, either in peace ot
in war. But salvation lies now as
it has always been with the people,
with the masses, with the demo
cracy, with the strictest social jus
tice , with those who are just to
themselves and true to themselves
and will retain their rights against
all comers so that those who would
seize them and steal them may
have not chance to start nations
fignting over their possession. But
when human beings are willing to
be the pawns of an aristocracy ot
wealth or title or intellect, they can
be certain that it is they who will
have to bear the burdens, and who
will have to accept the goad un
complainingly.
RUSSIA STILL ENIGMA
IN WAR SITUATION
PETROGRAD., May 9.—The si
tuation here is reassuring, practi
cally without change.
LONDON, May 8.—Little or no
thing is given out from Petrograd
which would indicate how the inter
nal political mix-up is turning out.
It is apparent from official corres
pondence by cable that the Duma
holds control and it is now very
probable that there will be a defi
nite agreement reached with all the
radical elements as to the war pro
secution very shortly.
THAW TO STAY IN
STATE OF PENNA.
PHILADELPHIA. May f».—Thaw
will spend his days in the state of
Pennsylvania, a ward of a state
asylum as an insane man. It was
announced today that the Gover
nor would not honor the extradition
I of Harry K. Thaw, for the offense
| charged against him. •
The Xew York authorites sought
to extradite Thaw who attempted
here to commit sueide and who
upon trial was declared by alienists
to be unsound of mind and so de
cided upon V>’ the jury.
The Governor will not allow' any
extradition and Thaw will remain a
prisoner in this state.
AVIATOR FELL FROM
ARMY PLANE: KILLED
NEW YORK, May 9.—The new
type of army aeroplane is getting in
bad with airmen. Today Victor
Oarlstrom, the veteran airman and
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W. J. WILLIAMSON Pros
the (irst aviator to fly from Chicago
to New York, while flying in an
army aeroplane fell from about a
height of a thousand feet ail'd was
killed.
The machine collapsed in mid air
for some reason. buckling being
evident from the ground, according
to eye witnesses of the disaster, and
the fall followed almost immediate
ly.
The aeroplane is to undergo
further tests and is not liked by
the airmen who think it swift
enough but that speed has been sac
rificed to stability in flight.
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