Show individualism NOT SOCIALISM xo in this age re of agitation for a change in existing conditions and for the of new principles principle in the Tern ment of stages any ray of light S rown upon the subject Is 1 of importance M MA A baquet member of tb preach french chamber of deputies a known for calm balm reasoning and aad I al IV has recently discussed 1 m or collectivism as some ome call a he points out that it contains contain gers 8 to civilization in an aa much as nib destructive of individual liberty and oil would it if carried out in practice deprive the tate state of the bene benefito fite derived from a sound opposition i JL baquet argues argue that the in ot self preset would tander a collectivist government im be just aft as ae strong as it la is now but jhen hen everything has bai become the prop any arty of too the state the oD opposition position i could not even fi find dd a place lo 10 lor r a public meet ang or a newspaper in which its if views be advocated not even judi indi freedom of consumption might fe joe hoped for because the state would to pro utice anything considered objectionable the rho author is evidently in sympathy maith iab the laboring clones classes but he points OBA that khat won these frequently forget the enormous norm pus sums DUMB capitalists lose in un and that the sums sum ore are mostly paid out in wages under the now new regime this thin would not be the case cam since the he state would have no DO inducement to risk capital in now new enterprises the consequence might be equality among common laborers but it would be the be equality of poverty besides unless master workmen engineers and directors were better paid than unskilled laborers there would be no inducement to give the time and udy necessary for achieving skill in j any particular pursuit and the state would soon be without men capable of ef directing its ite various branches of labor but although socialistic theories fail fai to satiety the philosophical mind of the french deputy he be considers the upper losses classes of society much at fault and largely responsible jor for the dissatisfaction existing among amon the masses it appears to him that the bourge bourgeoisie olele everywhere to la doing its it beet beat to awaken criticism and contention when such things as the panama pana 1 ma swin jie die the banca romana affair anu anti the be tammany corruption are possible it la is no do wonder that socialist ideas are breading prea ding the generation of idlers who kill time in disreputable places aul jive iu iti enjoyment on we wealth alth for adich ahey have never worked are a junker danger to civilization too socialism may be pernicious ioup but it in ia due mostly tu to the moral decomposition of the upper kuppr 0 ci asses and it is ia the duty of the press to lu combat we the double danger it is impossible to contemplate the he condition existing at the close of the nineteenth century without feeling the justice of this reasoning the beginning ding of this thin century was characterized is d by a general tearing down of structures reared by former ages but in the be general revolution even the foundations were partly removed new standards of right and wrong were I 1 introduced and the latter part of the century has been engaged I 1 in in reconstructing society in accordance with the be now new conceptions conCeptio DL it shall not be denied that much progress program has baa been made particularly in the direction of restoring the power of govern ment to the of the people at the same time it la in evident that no orm form of government that human wisdom ORD can devise to ia by itself capable of lyli g a rodeoy for the evils to which mankind to is liable social plans plana that do not have for their chief object be restoration of the individual to a sense of moral responsibility have bave failed and must always fall fail no matter how perfect they may be good MR ma aerial Is ia one of the first considerations in the construction of any building intended to stand the attacks of the elemente ele menta in the same ways way no plans piano for the settlement of the burning ques lions of the day will succeed unless they provide for or the removal of the very root of the evil commencing by planting in the hearts of men and women that unselfish love for fellow men without which univa universal teal brotherhood is impossible it Is ia probable that the coming century will be marked by a return to te the moral principles all but discarded in the previous oua revolution ary struggles there are now indications of such a redaction it if we can suppose the existence of a state governed by the people and composed mostly of u GitiS SUS in whose hearts dwells dwella we have the only 1 conceivable solution of all the social problems now exiting existing that ideal way may M yet be regarded as chimerical but it will become a reality all the same ame for the education of mankind was from the very first planned with that object in view by a providence overruling all things |