Show readers column 0 W we e invite your personal comments and will include your letters if they include information of general interest to our readers 0 As promised last we week we shall endeavor to outline a few of the high spots of edward bell amys book bellamy speaks again first may we say that this book and the second one mentioned last week are a compilation of writings and lectures presented by mr bellamy through magazine art articles les and personal appearance before groups of people during the last few years of his life most of them are on the subject ot of nationalism although defined in somewhat different way than what we know the word to mean to arrive at a correct analysis of the word one must refer to the dictionary and as we retrace the term nationalism we find ourselves looking at the word nation with the definition as follows follow A nation is representative of the inhabitants of a country united under the same government ament a people allied etc when we refer to this country as the un an united states we probably have in mind this definition knowing that when 48 states can I 1 make separate laws which are contrary tv t each other and when so many different opinions are in evidence in regard to politics we I 1 cannot be said to be a united people edward bellamy realized this when he wrote looking backward and equality and when I 1 he presented his more correct interpretation terp of the word nationalism al sm through the writings and lectures mentioned mentia nedi above he also realized that the time was not yet to restore the then present form of government into that more perfect form which he foresaw when he advanced himself soto speak to the year 2000 and looked backward through the years seeing what would happen to bring about the changes which ch must needs come in order that the declaration 0 f independence might be truly enacted by the people who form the tha nation we call the united states of america km erica in the book bellamy speaks speaks again we find some interesting chapters dealing with the transition period through which we are now passing and also chapt chapters erg ie let erring ferring to the national plan he had in mind for the future not unlike the utopia we long for that great peace and contentment to reign for a thousand years in a chapter which defines nationalism we find this analysis of the term through the following references leading up to it let it be understood that with the advent of nationalism the perilous and revolting conditions which now quite needlessly involve many forms of labor would woud be done away with when the administration has to depend as it will then have to do on volunteers to dig coal and stoke steamship furnaces mines will cease to be death traps and a part of the money and ingenuity now lavished in making the salon deck luxurious will be expended in making the stoke hole endurable when starvation can no longer be depended upon to compel the poor to beg an opportunity to do any sort of work on any terms and at any hazard then and not a day sooner will humane and conditions become universal in industry if it were still found that a reduction in the hours of labor were an insufficient inducement to attract volunteers let us imagine that the length of vacations given to the miners and the stokers smokers were s so 3 increased that they had to work but six months out of a year while the other trades worked perhaps ten or eleven in another part of t the he same chapter in making comparison with another writers point of view regarding the subject of labor wherein an idler might take advantage of the new system mr bellamy ballamy says under the present system of industry if a man will not work for his living he is permitted to go his way and thenceforth beg or steal it under nationalism a very different course would be pursued the man who being able to work persistently refused to work would not be turned loose to prey on the community but would be made to work in institutions ions and under discipline prep prepared ared for such cases today the he loafer may find in the injustices of society many fine reasons for idleness then he would be stripped of all and stand forth as a self confessed and would be b robber and forager on others to be dealt with as such suppose that besides loss of promotion and its privileges a temporary increase of work hours or a severer sort of work y imposed on such offenders ri there any doubt that such system would prove far more effee tive than for example the system of f ines fines which are now imposed pose d in preventing offenses against society space will not permit of more thorough analysis of the bookout book but we may offer instead an interesting brief prepared by a man on the west coast clyde richey paris faris who has hadi personal contact with mrs bellamy and her daughter marion and who has compiled some interesting information concerning mr bellamy and in regard to the recent publications licati ons they may be purchased for five cents each and if you are inclined to know mft please send for one but P py enclose a self addressed envelope or extra stamp to mail it since our postage soars to such amount that we cannot bear the expense of mailing these copies to you mr faris has also prepared a new american Del Dele caration of independence based on the facts presented in mr Bell amys writings and this may also be had for the same price we consider each of these briefs worthy of your attention and will be gladdo glad re furnish them on request as indicated A resume of each of the new books is also included eluded in and excerpts from mr Bell amys books which are filled with good common sense and facts which we know will become established as the new order of living when the old system is done awa away y with take note also of the advertisement on page 12 for information concerning the latest publications and even if you have not read the earlier works you will find these later ones of considerable value in forming a picture of the future america we are all looking forward to |