Show vs SOCIALISM A few pertinent roin pointers ly by an old correspondent belt self confidence ia is a suit that I 1 put on but it is not a mailed coat of conceit serving in lieu of skin abkin as in iome borne that might be named indeed when I 1 put on any cuirass 0 of f confidence it sits ill on iny shoulders and gives mo me such a seme c of f discomfort that I 1 am fain lain to drop it offard off and resume those easy fitting attributes characteristic ot of the lamb I 1 have always been BO so modest mod estl I 1 but what shall I 1 say of my present elate state why wily no vestal virgins eye was ever more b bashful ashful nor any siuk pick calf call more humble I 1 whether it was the late salt lake election or the russian grippe it would be a nice point to determine but probably the former completed the wreck which the I 1 latter ater had caused my spirits are depressed to such an extent as would at almost tempt a peacock to muddy the water of ogden river sly my head aches like that which we are told troubled J jupiter 1 when he lie persuaded vulcan to smite him with a hammer but hold on I 1 I 1 have no reason to suppose from external symptoms that any minerva ili nerva will spring from my splitting head if you propel that mal maiorany ma horany logany office desk ruler which in my minds eye ou seem to be so fretfully caressing but in spite of aches and pains I 1 wish to occupy a small portion of your space e ace with a few words on individualism 1 am and socialism the lie chief difference I 1 take it being that individualism demands the widest possible extent of liberty eo so that the individual may m ay iy not be cramped whereas socialism wishes the greatest possible extension to public safeguards to prevent the individual from injuring society in short individualism In dividu a hem it may bo be eaid paid enda tends to benefit the few at the tile expense of the many socialism protects the many without injuring the few A question here presents itself Is it right that the masses of the people should u id suffer from the unbridled greed of the few 7 or shall the few be restrained from a career of plunder and aggrandizement from the many it is in I 1 am aware a natural thing thin that individualism benefits the tile few tor for there are always some more da daring r alwag more in re subtle le fass 8 scrupulous and stronger than the average humin human being does it follow however that individual action should ho be left unfettered and granted comp compute lele liberty if it such should be allowed life would become a gamble and warfare where the tile beet best adapted for that slate state would soon Buce succeed ell in cheating or bullying the masses into a condition of suba subjection m the many would soon be mada m da to suffer for the advantage of the fen few it ia in not bl by any manner of means mearin tb the a noble an and lie the beneficently gifted who he usurp tho the power and the pelf pet f christ galileo bruno newton shakespeare socrates gocr its a and n a other great men never held hold the th throna rone and the coffers oh dear nol they were not cursed with the qualities favorable for such a position an interior inferior kind of being ia Is what is IN wanted anted to make up individualism selfish greed unscrupulous bribery toady toadyism lamp and plunder prince bismarck la Is the leading statesmen of the day jay gould the richest millionaire Is it not such aa as these who triumph at the gemi gaming ng lable of life under the gambling rules of the tile individual on the other hand is there anything in socialism that would tie destroy btroy t the I 1 so human family the to tendency of socialism is assuredly not to dat troy but to make the whole hole community become one happy imily socialism never dreamt and con could d not dream of putting the policeman pelican an in the tile place of the parent but it Is always w ready to bring the justice and th the ec charity ale arity of the family circle into all the affairs of public aye itye of privat elife and I 1 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 i 4 fc F 7 1 mike it for r every man to have a comfortable lome home beware however of what bat ia is generally generally understood as socialism for the so genuine article genuine sot sor alanm ali would make every man a counterfeit socialism on th at other tier band hand would nick sink every man down to the I 1 level evel of a lavery Bl avery february 1890 |