| Show SPALDINGS people in united states inadequately fed cloth ed and housed bishop F S spalding mg of the episcopal church delivered a lecture on socialism last monday night in work mans opera house to a largo large and very attentive audience the bishop is a finished scholar and a splendid debater ile he has a way about him that attracts attric ts and holds the hearer from beginning to end ile he is thoroughly familiar with his subject largely through personal investigation ile he has devoted much time to the reading of the most widely known books on political economy and industrial affairs ho he has a fluency of speech away above the average speaker and gets right down into the pith of the argument whether a man believes all the bishop says or not he is com to pay close attention because it pleases him and entertains him to do BO following is a short succinct synopsis of the address the united states surpasses all countries in natural wealth stretching our railroads and m our mines minea wealth Is ia unequally divided so BO that even in 1890 when edward published publia lied his hid book ie di of wealth in the united states ten per cent of the people owned ninety per cent of the wealth what is the reason one of the roost most evident reasons is the wastefulness of the capitalistic system prof ely calculated that is spent annually in advertising and that would give the useful f ua information as to the real value of wares advertised there are drummers in the united states today and their expenses are calculated at there is waste in the lack of wisdom in planting crops there is overproduction in one direction and underproduction in another direction if all the waste could be saved the country would be incomparably richer how shall we then cure poverty it is ia proposed to teach people to be more charitable what is ia really needed is not charity but justice charity makes the poor more helpless hunter in his book on poverty proves that ft a man who has once taken help continues to depend upon it it is proposed to resort to political reform limit the from ocean to ocean we can easily exchange our wealth forthe for the wealth of other nations east and west A wonderful system of inland waters makes transportation easy from one part of 1 the nation to any other and so great is our interstate commerce that more traffic passes through the detroit river than enters newyork new york liverpool phil adelphia and london not only have we marvelous resources but we have the most perfect civil government ever known our constitution has been called the most perfect civil document ever written it guarantees to every citizen full political rights with these advantages one might expect prosperity and happiness to be universal and yet thesis this is not the case in 1904 robert hunter published publish cd his studies on poverty proving that there are butof out of eighty millions ten millions of people who are inadequately clothed fed and housed the slums of our great cities are full of poor and helpless human beings our factories often sacrificing lite life and limb of employees underpay those who labor we kill thousands on trust and restore the old individual competition but that is impossible for the trust has come to stay combination being more profitable prof table than competition the remedy proposed is socialism the lecturer then traced the history of industry from the early communistic life of primativa prima tive man through the system of slavery to the feudal system and then to the system of free labor in the guilds of the middle ages and on to the tha factory system hastened by the invention of labor saving machinery to the capitalistic system of today marx formulated the law of surplus value which is briefly stated that two men working together can produce more than they could produce working apart they therefore produce a surplus that surplus belongs to them but under our present system it is taken by the capitalist who calls it rent or interest or profit return this surplus value to the worker and he is ia saved from poverty ert y this involves the reorganization of the state the political state passes away and the industrial state comes in in which all will work and all will on page three |
