Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 199, 28 June 1913 — Page 4

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PAGE FOUR THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913

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A Social Crisis A man asked the editor yesterday, "Why did you print those articles on socialism by Haywood and why are you publishing this series on the other side by Iliff ?" The question is so pertinent and may have occurred to so many other readers of the Palladium, that the editor herewith subtends his reasons, where all who care to know may have the opportunity. First and foremost, a grave social crisis exists not only in the United States but throughout the civilized world. For the purpose of this discussion, however, the United States will afford a big enough example.

The cause of this crisis may be explained in this statement: In the fifteen or sixteen years of unparalleled prosperity this country has recently experienced, the wages and salaries of laboring men and clerks and bookkeepers, etc., have advanced about 40 per cent. Living expenses, however, legitimate, necessaries-of-life expenses, have advanced over a hundred per cent. In other words, the dollar of the vast majority of our citizens does not go as far in these days of prosperity as it did fifteen odd years ago. Consequently, many people of this great number feel that they are being robbed of a portion of their earnings under the present industrial and economic system. Those who belong to organized labor seek to equalize by securing as often as is feasible advances in wages. This is generally attended by destructive and expensive strikes, demoralizing to the industries affected and to whole communities or entire states, as witness the plight of West Virginia and its down-trodden coal miners. There have been strikes like those at Paterson, New Jersey, and Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the truthful discription would be to declare that a state of anarchy and civil war existed. Inasmuch as the editor believes, as the result of a close study of economic and industrial conditions, that a system does exist whereby many men are robbed of a part of the fruit of their toil, he has tried to be honest with himself and his fellow beings, who read the paper he edits and many of whom belong to that very percentage that he feels is being dealt with unjustly, in helping bring about a system where all will be given their inherent right of free access to equality of opportunity. No man has a right to ask for more than an equal chance. No man should have the special privilege of gathering to himself more of this world's fruits than his legitimate and consciencous efforts entitle him to. This very night that this editorial article is being written little children of six and seven years of age are working long hours at monotonously grinding machines in the cotton mills of the South. And think, oh you who stifled in the night's depressive heat, how those little youngsters must have suffered, too. And all because there is no just law to see that their natural protectors shall be guaranteed a wage sufficient to maintain a family on. This is only one of countless examples that might be cited. It is enough to show, however, that human beings with hearts and souls will not be punished so for ever. Therein lies the present social crisis. There is a vast unrest that any observant person may easily sense. There is a deep seated and resentful discontent with the present system that will bring forth, and that shortly as eras go in the world's history, either chaos or the remedy for these many existing wrongs against humanity. No one wants chaos. The socialists propose as their remedy the doing away with the profit system as the basis of incentive to human endeavor, through government ownership. Individualists maintain, and that truthfully, that tremendous advance has been made in the bettering of humanity's condition through the present system, and therefore, it should be preserved. Preserved also because of the undeniable freedom of action, liberty, enjoyed by the individual through the institution of private property. The 40 per cent wage increase and the hundred per cent advance in cost of necessaries, sticks in the editor's craw. To him the idea of little children being forced to work for the family living and, therefore, being denied the splendid opportunities of our public school system, is revolting. The editor wants the remedy, whatever it is.

Assurance has been given that practically all the thousand socialists of Wayne county are subscribers of the Palladium. Is it unfair to ask the other seven thousand, and presumably non-Socialist, readers to take advantage of the opportunity presented in Mr. Haywood's articles explaining socialism, to learn

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something of the remedy believed in by one eighth of this paper's supporters? No more so than it is unfair to ask the one eighth Socialist readers to give heed to Mr. Iliff s splendid exposition of the value of the institution of private property, and his reasons for believing socialism wrong. The editor believes in the exister; "of the

evil3 the Socialists would remedy. He does not! believe, however, that government ownership j would be a practical remedy. The editor believes as sincerely as does Mr. Iliff in the incalculable value of private property to the individual's freedom of action. He does j not believe, however, that a small minoritv

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snouia monopolize an private property ana ai great majority be unjustly deprived of their j

share in the common heritage. Therefore, inasmuch as he believes in constructive as opposed to destructive criticism, the editor has published the two series, one for and

the other against socialism, as an introduction j platform adopted in national conven

to a third series. The editor belongs to a class or school of thinkers who believe that regulated competition will satisfy the socialist and the individualist, when properly and thoroughly understood by both. In his opinion one of the saddest cases of lack of forethought has been the inability of

economists and leaders of men to realize the vast difference between natural and artificial monop

oly; and the way to deal with both.'

Regulated competition. Regulated by the collective efforts of all society through a government freed from invisible powers by the simplifying processes of euch institutions as the initiative, referendum and recall, etc. The benefits of private property retained because, under such a regulated competition, with the rights of all citizens rigidly guarded by a popularly controlled government, everyone will have the share in the common store of private property that his ability plus his legitimate efforts entitle him to. It has been pleasing to note in the past week another example of the continual awakening interest in this theory. The editor of the Outlook over an article on the uniform price principle the absolute and only fundamental basis for regulating competition noted that just as uniform price had been applied in wiping out the special privilege in railroad rebates, so it might be used in abolishing special privilege from all industry.

It is because the editor wants to helD his read-! Thi3 class bullt UD an aristocracy

0yQ v, n ,m t 4-v . more arrogant and cruel than any ev

wvwiuc giuuiiucu yjii an siuca jl iiic I Xzix L economic and social crisis of this age, that these series are being published. Let the light of knowledge and study and observation in, and the dark, haunting spectres of present economic and industrial injustice will soon disappear. But first there must be an enlightened public opinion. And enlightenment presupposes access to the means thereof, knowledge. Morton Lake May its placid surface and its depth of water always bring to the mind of posterity the memory of the great Wayne countian whose depth of character, placidly exercised during the dark days of the rebellion, enabled Indiana to do a lion's share in preserving this union; not half slave, half free, but with liberty enthroned throughout the nation. The directors of the new park and lake project deserve heartiest congratulations for having named the new park and lake after Wayne county's greatest son, Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's towering war governor. It is a splendid memorial to one whose memory should ever be kept green by succeeding generations.

Socialism Wrong

Class Rule Bv Edsrar Iliff

WENTIETH Century So (

cialism" a book put forth by Prof. Edmund Kelly or" Columbia university "de

mands the transfer of all political power from one class to another" or the transfer of all political power from the "bour

geois and capitalistic class to the "proletariat." This demand was repeated in the Socialist

tion at Chicago, May. 190S. The So

cialist party "demands measures which will seize the whole powers of government and turn them over to the proletariat." Thus one class will usurp all at the expense of all other classes. The "measures" advocated are the initiative and referendum, recall of judges and judicial decisions, the abolition of the United States senate, the destruction of the United States supreme court by depriving it of the power upon the constitutionality of

laws made by legislatures or through referendum; and the United States constitution recalled or remodelled by "the voice of the people." Any student of American history and government will see at once that this means revolution and subversion of liberty, law and order. An Un-American Idea. The demand for "the transfer of all political powers from one class to another" is contrary to every tradition and precedent in American government. It is violently un-American government. This is not a class government. The American ideal is "no class legislation." We recognize no classes. The courts have made many laws void because they were "class legislation." In the history of the American people we find but one well marked and castiron division of classes. It lasted many years. It was the fixed class division between master and slave. The "ruling class," the "dominant class," the "privileged class" were slave owners who ruled with the lash, the bloodhound and the handcuff.

Under socialism one etas will usurp all the expense of all other classes. "Class" as a term is delusory. You can never tell where one class leaves off and another begins. One class, or any class, rule is unAmerican. The only class rule America ever experienced was at the hands of the slave owning class of the South. And "class rule" always will mean slavery. The success of socialism's attempt to turn over the whole power of government to one class, would close the door of opportunity to millions of Americans.

The Murder Car A better name for the vehecular monstrosity called the Belt line car, would be the Murder car. Since the belt line service was instituted the car making the run has caused accident after accident. A number of automobiles have been smashed with injuries to their occupants. Now the car has taken the life of an elderly woman who, on account of his disabilities, was the bread earner for herself and her husband. Richmond can very well do without belt line service if the only basis upon which it can be maintained is that of demoniacal speed. Meantime, in Mrs. Jones' case, murder has been done and the responsible parties should be brought to speedy justice. If the motorman is to blame let him suffer the penalty. If the excessive speed schedule is to blame and the directors of the company should be held

liable, let them be indicted and tried for the !

crime.

er before seen on earth. It was the aristocracy o capital, monopoly, mergers and trusts in human flesh. They had vast sums invested in men, women and children's flesh, just as capital is now invested in horses, cows, sheep and calves. It was the only time when one class ruled absolutely In America and it is as true as a proposition in Euclid that one class rule always means slavery. Six Per Cent Owned All. Less than six per cent of the white population of the South owned all of this capital in lands and human flesh. All of the other white people were "poor white trash, crackers and sandlappers." This class government controlled by this six per cent of the

Southern white population elected Ave Presidents out of seven In fortyeight years. So despotic was their rule that no man who aspired to office, preferment, social advancement or professional or commercial position, dare even whisper his private thoughts against it. The Democratic party never owned or controlled this great oligarchy, this class tyranny. The oligarchy owned and controlled the Democratic party, just as it owned and controlled the slave markets of the world. This powerful aristocracy, this ruling class, this privileged set, this power which transferred all of the powers of government to one class against the many,

has left its imprint of caste as deeply impressed as the East Indian mark of class. The shadows of this great giant, the skulking ghosts of this great trust in human flesh, darken the brain and chill the heart of thousands of white Americans today. It will take generations to remove the stain cast upon the negro and obliterate the class prejudice against him. Class Division, Vain Effort The Socialist will labor in vain in his effort to divide the American people into three imaginary classes. He has borrowed from the French revolution two words to distinguish two Imaginary classes in this country. These two words are the "proletariat," and "bourgeois." For the "proletariat," whom he classes as the propertyless man, he has- all praise and commiseration. For the "bourgeois," whom he designates as "the stupid and selfish shopkeeper and the crooked professional man" he has contempt. For the capitalist, the third class, he has hate, and calls him "a despot and thief, a slave-holder and task-master." Now let us see about these classes. Let us lift the mask from these class delusions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge about a hundred years ago thought out a scheme of socialism, and he and the poet, Southey, and the wit, Charles Lamb, organized a society to promote the scheme and called it "Pantisoc-

raey." Its aim was to do away with "classes"' and to carry out the idea they propoj-ed to emigrate from England to Pennsylvania and start on virvin soil. Coleridge had a great, wellbalanced brain and soon discarded Pantisocracy and said this. Class Terms Delusive. ' "The phases higher, middle and lower classes are delusive. No uoh di- ; vision as classes actually exists in soiciety. There is an indissoluble blend- ' ing and interfusion of persons from ; top to bottom and no man can trace 'a line of separation through them." 1 This is exactly the American idea 'today and when the Socialist attempts to create artificial classes he butts his head against a stone wall. Herbert j Spencer, thr greatest of all modem Ihilosophers. says: i "Look at men how you please with ' titles of upper, middle and lower 1 classes you cannot prevent them being units of the same society, acted ! upon by the s?ne spirit of the age. moulded after the same type of charI acter. Put men into human relstion- ! sl-.ip anil no division in caste, no difference of weal'h can prevent them

from assimilating." When we have no consciour-.ess of '.v.ss divisions tho demagogue wi'.l go out of business. He will die like the leach which 'tn find no more blood to suck. The fomenting of class prejudices is to make demagogues. No Transformation So Far. All of the eiuigni.ic.n of foreign "proletariats" or "propertyless people" has nover been able to make this a proletariat government. All of the shifting s -enes of American life, all of Its enormous growth of commercial concerns, have never produc?d a ruling dominant, aristocratic, despotic, capitalistic tibs, except the slave owning class before the Civil War. We have never had a ruling official class. Our judges have never been drawn from tho capital mandarin class or caste, they are m?n like cursolvcs. Socialism rutompts to create a class of discontents and tura over tho whole power of government to that class. This would close the door of opportunity to millions of American citizens. Socialism proposes to annul all individual efforts to "get on" and substitutes a vast collectivism where all would become a social mush. As long as man has a heart-felt love for individual liberty, as long as he hungers for advance for himself and family and as leng as a stable and secure government keeps the doors of Opportunity open to each individual this phase of socialism cannot prevail. The American mind as now constituted can never accept socialism because every American acted upon by the progressive spirit of the age says deep in his heart," I would rather die in the storm and stress of individual liberty than be smothered to death in the dead calm ot socialized monotony and slavery."

HOPE - GIVEN DP IN WINTERS GIRL CASE Detectives Submit Report on Long Search For Newcastle Girl.

(r!U.1tum NEWCASTLE. Ind. June ZS. All hope of tin dir. g Catherine Winters, year-old girl who was kidcapd here in March, is given up. as the Burn' detective ageucy submitted a report yesterday to Mayor George Barnard admitting that the case is too deep for the Hums men to fathom. An investigation of a clue In Montana has just been completed and revealed nothing, as did the search in Seattle. The cltiiens who have financed the search for the girl have now dropped the matter as far as the employment of detectives is concerned. It is said that there were more detectives employed in searching for the girl than have ever been used in a similar case in Indiana, Many private detectives followed down clues of their own. although not in the employ of the Newcastle citizens. The admittance of failure on the part of the Burns agency seems to have settled conclusively that the girl can not be found.

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LAST NUMBER OF LECTURE COURSE

(Palladium Special) GREEXSFORK, Ind., June 28. The last number of the lecture course under the auspices of he ladies' aid socity of the Friends' church of this place, will be given next Tuesday evening at S o'clock. Herbert S. Wickerson, an impersonator of note, of Angola, Ind.. will take the place on the program of the Earlham college glee club. Mr. Wickerson is an entertainer of exceptional ability. It is expected that a large crowd will hear him.

MASONIC CALENDAR

Tuesday, July 1 Richmond Lodge No. 196 P. & A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday Webb Lodge No 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master Mason degree.

APPOINTED TEACHER

(Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., June 28. Miss Leah Throckmorton, of Richmond, has been appointed teacher of German and history In the Cambridge City schools for the coming term. Miss

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EFFECT OF HEATED TERM. Chicago News. Hot weather puts the blush on the peach. Also the freckle.

JUST LIKE THE NEIGHBOR WOMEN. Indianapolis Star. Secretary Bryan and Secretary McAdoo met and hung over an iron fence for several minutes discussing the currency question, thereby causing some mild gossip in Washington. This is not the first time an important question has been, settled over a fence-

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