Show tho the close cloo of too the nineteenth century lva is prolific in social socia reformers formers each presenting a panacea for the ills ilia of mankind la in olden times tho the heroic estate remedy was applied that of the sword and there was wa oo no social question sow now the sword has been beaten into plowshare and nd with alb freedom 10 protest and liberty to discuss tho the world less has discovered that tho the mass of Us its people aro are burdened with wrongs and suffering buffering injustice which they ought not to carry or endure as it if mankind would not always suffer as tt i if ll 11 were possible to havn have all 11 II tho elio conditions condition which enter into ufa lifts so 0 o adjusted that every man would bo be content and happy all the time lime arid and lovo love his bis neighbor as him pelf belt liberty Aro america orles fought for and obtained her liberty more than a century ago no sooner had she thrown off tho the yoke than through tire the en ell which comes of independence avid and freedom of discussion it II was discovered discolored that another species of slavery silvery more degrading it II not moro more getting than tho the other was sanctioned by tho ilia laws and by tho the public sentiment which rebelled against the political slavery under tinder which they bad suffered now human slavery shivery the right to 10 own and barter human beings has been abolished what moro more could WR desire chaio of mind arid and body no so says the reformer then what nhat aro are wo we cooling coming to and may wo we riot not inquire what tho the next step will bo be for like tho the roman koman empire at the tha light of its glory and power there may bo be danger that our glory and our power may be brought low the fight Is now between labor and ca capital pital between tho the rich and tho the poor and the there to are tho those to who assort assert that the alie poor that tho the great mass of the people are in more abject field and degrading slavery thin were wera tho the poor ignorant africans who were bought and sold like dumb animals anit nals it Is s elio alic alame in every nation there Is a social question england has her industrial problems ireland has her famine russia hussla has her bar despotism and the light fight goes merrily on the united states slates have produced their lull full quota of 0 social reformers ry geann conr has a large following who beff eLe that the stogie tax will Ill right all our evils by aly that it Is proposed to tax lands la in a manner idich v no fellow can tell to do away with all speculation peculation in lands ITE hiir grondi believes that tho the great evil of the day li I 1 th the right drIght of private property inland in land S speculator ile culaton will buy a piece of land or by ally a city lot IOL lie ile buys it before there JA any city lie ile does docs nothing with it nis ills neighbors improve their property they build houses on theirs this doubles tire the value of 0 his lot A railway comes come a to town this again doubles tho the value of ills his lot A largo large factory Is started in the city arid and the value of his prop property eity I 1 finally trebled whilo while all oro ilia time he hhas has been sitting with folded arms arm without spending ono one dollar in increasing tho the value 0 of ills his lot loi or 0 of adding one dollar to tile wealth of ill tho city pro proposes prop poRes oies to tax that lot just as touch much as lie he would the lidy fifty thousand dollar residence beside beide it in other word he would riot not tax improvements prove ments or punish man for erecting a house on an a lot or for bringing a factory f to town this seems very plans ible NRY however will have to explain away some of tho the objections which lich have beon been made to it before haj panacea wilt will bo be accepted in good faitt faith I 1 another amerlean american BELLAMY has had bad a re lallon ue ile has peered luto the future ono one hundred years hence bonce and ho he tells NIL hat he saw it was what lie lia calls nationalism ile iio saw till nil industry conducted on the cooperative 0 plan competition was shot abol whiled everybody was happy and contented and looked back upon the tollies follies and ignorance of the nineteenth century with horror and amazement everybody worked who was able abla to work everybody received ilia lie same compensation for his work the man who was endowed with great faculties had bad nomore no moro right to a greater reward renard or moro more honors than elio man mail till ith ni cairo talents calr ants the man born blind had as much right to a living us as the ruan man born with a perfect physique bet bei tho the man with great talents did not earn them nor tho lie man with talents merit thorn money was abolished in place of it each worker received a check or duo due bill tor for bis work and with that lie ho would mould ge gc to tho the store and burch purchase whatever ho he required tho the entering 0 of t lis his purchase being punched out of bis check a to lit restaurant stylo style indeed tho the wate of bowle household hold cooking was A as abolished and tile the family betook retook themselves at meal mail times to a mammoth eat cat ing honse where each family could havo have a private dining room with a waiter alter vI ill tha work of whom by the way was as honorable in ali that of any one in the realm caste being entirely abolished on sunday morning it was not noco tor for tho the good wife and pretty daughters to flurry and scurry in retting getting ready for church all ali that was necessary was to touch an electric button in the library and let on oil the set man of any preaL preacher hor that they desire to hear bear likewise at any hour of any day in order to hear tile the finest selections of tutis fe vocal or instruments instrumental it only required the application of tt a finger to another button and tire tile room was vess filled ve with till sou soul stirring or soul soothing music bruble arid and so al 04 lit fit of course a delightful thing could not dot help but bat I ratch on Kallon Nation alit allItt societies ere aru now throughout tho the united states v m ith tho the object ol of has telling the realization of 0 tv dream there li 11 ono commendable point made loar clear hy by bellamy the he waste of competition it Is doubtful however v lather they can bring such asta a slate toof of affairs around in less than contort Lon con perhaps count of russia rusia should rank the social reformers refo riniTa ills ilia work however bo ever li Is more in tire tho line of morality mid and spirituality illa on all there lines ho be claims to iii haie a discovered elio elixir of life the fountain of per letual 3 auth N aich Is to re tire world to take thu the meatiness meanness and till aln happiness out of manuil id arid and thus enable hiru to filed out the ilia truo true inclining incan log of life lal inc aside his bis latest prodoc tion or fid fad as some ear in 1 which it la Is said he be throw doubts doubt upon the sanctity ot of the marriage ro relation latton or at any rate his bis work less ia thus been construed by some onic while at the same mine time his own life improves Us proves any such thing we w will look into his other works and see hat lie he proposes us as a remedy J jai for tho the ills that bo be la in the body politic but tit la speaking ot of the creutzer sonata the iho idea abroad seems to bo be that it li Is an n arraignment of marriage and that marriage marr lago Is a fin ain it Is claimed on tho the other land hand that no lie such thing Is implied in tho the book st at all it way may bo be obscene and unfit to bo be read in the family but that ll Is only a revolting record of vil disappointment in married life it Is too much to so and tends to tarnish tire the name of 0 the author of uch ruch works as anna and karen enli ln and ay my iy religion in which latter work ho he pleads earnestly in behalf ot of marlo and bewails tho the evils ovelt ot of single life it ll is to bo be regretted that the success of these had so cared ct d the gifted russian tea BS to trace by his subtle pon pen tho the story of a ufa life which has tho the remotest rom otest blance of casting doubt upon tho the parity of that best and noblest of positions the love which prompts a matrimonial alliance but to return to our subject To uTOla cure for torlin the social evils Is in physical labor and moral defor in ho 13 says science political economy and fill all exterior enter lor means are powerless to mi dl pel this evil the only remedy Is an individual reform based upon charity and manual labor humanity can change only ith the individuals reform the whole social question li is one of morality Y to an honest man social reform must come from within it if each of us ua should avoid sin eln and cultivate fraternity and christian charity thoro there would toon soon be no need of soldiers constables or judges 11 probably cure core Is the best it if ho he can eradicate sin and from men ho be will reform the social world but theres therea the rub can call he bo do it material things change and there Is progress pro greis lei in tire world as wo we say but human nature Is slow to change of course these curos cures may be worse than the dise ariet and it Is boldly assorted that they are miffs tiffs hut but that should not defeat the cause for other movements have been tabooed which have succeeded at last still it Is 13 well to remember the old saw better endure the ilia ills we have than fly to others we know not of |