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Show I Marxian Club Socialists ! T . T V t 31 JL .. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Questions concerning Socialism j , Kate S. Hilliard, answered. Address all oouimunioa- I J Eugene A. Battell, Hons to Howard Hall, 27.J Pacific T j. Howard Hall. ;n.-nue. -m-h-!-:-!-x--!-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-x-: -: -?-:h.k-x-x-s-i-h-i- best that such a picture can do Is to show that the. Socialist commonwealth common-wealth is n-'t impossible; but these pictures are bound to be defective; I they can neer cox or all the ' t a i Is I of social life; they will always have ' some loophole .-rough which tho ad- I xersary will Insinuate some objection. J That, however, which Is doowti t0 be I inevitable Is thereby not only shown to be possible, but also the only thlug H..s.slble. He whom tho striking, tang blc occurrences oc-currences of the modern in stem of prodm-Uon do not announce loudlr enough the necessity for the Socialist commonwealth will be still deafer to tDe praises that may be sung of a s-tlal s-tlal system that is not yet In existence, exist-ence, and which he can neither appro- bend nor comprehend. Weekly i People. I (Continued Next Week.) We have had growing times the past few years, and the Indications are that In the near future things will move even swiftly, In the past, tinder You worklngmcnl feel and ue 'scientists! feel thut anions the so-called so-called learned folks, we alone arc broufih If,v contact with the tangible facts In the way that you are You know well enough that It l.i one thin i to write a history of chairs In gener-al gener-al or to address a poem to a throne, or to speculate about the occult pow-ers pow-ers or the chair of St. Peter; and Qui If another thin; to make with your own hands a heritable chair that w ill stand fair and square and afford a safe and satisfactory sluing place to a frame of sensitiveness and solidity. Huxley. I am convinced that without religion reli-gion liberty there can only be fanat-1 ics and' hypocrites; without the liberty lib-erty of teaching there can only be obscure ob-scure oracles or Immovable sophist ; without political liberty there can only be tyrants and slaves; without economical eco-nomical liberty there can only be tho.se who ue others for their own purposes pur-poses and those who are so used, Castelar. ok-nr skies ;inil douly. tbe Socialist Labor party lia manfully hr-ld to Its task of enlightening thf proletariat as to tho w.iy for lt5 emancipation. Now, and In tho future, whatever tho oh-sL-icles that may arise. U will ron-tinii4- t-T hold aloft tho banner of uncompromising un-compromising Social Ism. WALL STREET AS A PROMOTER OF REVOLUTIONS. The frequent periodical South American "revolutions" have become a by-word and a subject of .hvt by tho papers of this country. At Huk-s labored editorial will appear In the papers attributing the "revolutions"' t.i "lack of stability,' 'feverlohuHKs" of the people, etc.. etc. Now come word from Washington that tbe trouble of the effervescent South American republics re-publics Is really duo to our own dear Wall street and Its high finance. There was a warm discission in congress con-gress preceding the settlement of Santo San-to Domingo's debts by the United States' taking over the supervision of the customs of that country; but there promises to be a warmer discussion congress this winter over N'lcaracuan affairs. It has been persistently reported that Wall street played a far greater part than patriotism in tho "rebellion" "rebel-lion" In Nicaragua. Gen. Estrada. It Is said, was furnished funds by a Wall street firm. Now It Is announced that the state department will send a commissioner to Nicaragua to "assist In straightening out tho tangled financial finan-cial affairs of the Republic, which Is under a heavy burden of debt,"' This very likely means another United States supervision of the customs of another country. On the heels of the Nicaraguan complications com-plications come messages from Honduras Hon-duras saying, that n "revolution" Is about to be precipitated over a proposed pro-posed loan which is being negitiated by J. T. .Morgan fc Co. Congressmen will fulminate against government support being ilven to the Wall street money lenders who foment "revolutions" In order to make loans and then "rope" the government Into collecting their cent, per cent., but what elJo Is th government for. If not an agency of the class of which Wall street Is the flower. The capitalists claim that they are entitled to their profits because of the "risks" they run. This is, of course, purely a fiction. What risk does the lieef Trust take, or tho Standard Oil run? Ia there uny element of chance In steel truit operations, or in the operations of .any trust? None, absolutely ab-solutely none. In tho words of tbe doughty colonel, they have things "cinched " It is Just the same with Wall street's Investments In South American Ameri-can 'revolutions." Wall street takes no risk whatever. It knows before-liaml before-liaml that It can safely go Into the business of fomenting and financing i.'isorder In the republics, because it lias behind It as a dcbl-collectin; agency the United States government. 'apilal takes no risks. In tbe worJs of .1. I Dunning, the economist, "Cap-Hal "Cap-Hal eschews no profit, or very small profit. Just as nature was formerly s-ild to abhor a vacuum. With adequate ade-quate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 0 per cent will insure Its crnployimnt anywhere; 1!0 per cent certain will produce eagerness; ."u per cent positive audacity; luo per cent will make It ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per tPiit and there Is not a crime at which It will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of s owner being be-ing hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring profit. It will freely cn-i-ourace both. Smuggling and the Klavo-lrade have amply proved nil that Is here stated." In further proof of tho criminality of capital we submit, not only South American revolutions, but alo war In general. Weekly i'eople. Tho Illinois Sted company Is building build-ing a "model" town called Gary, in Indiana, amid a barren waste ,,f Hand on the southern thore of Uiko Michigan. Michi-gan. The steel company owns the whole thing, which Is dependent tion its J20.ti00.0o0 plant. A $'.'00,000 Y. M. ( A. building Is under course of con-Hrurtb.n con-Hrurtb.n and 100 saloons are already in full bbi-t. A "inrwlcl" industrial town Indeed, with Churxhantty and booe as doping agencies. Kvchange. SOCIALISM NEITHER SCHEME NOR DREAM Society Not a Product of Preconceived Theory. Tho philosophers who fust endeavored endeav-ored to investigate the causes of social so-cial development thought they found them In the Ideas of men. To a certain cer-tain degree they recognized that these Ideas sprang from mnterlal wants; but the fact still remained a secret t'i them that these wants changed from "a?i to ago, and that those changes were the result of changes In the eci-nomlc eci-nomlc conditions. I. p.. In the system of production. They started with the belief that the wants of man -"hnman nature" wero unchangeable. Hence they could see but one "tnie," "natural." "natu-ral." "Just" social system, becansi only ono could correspond with the "true nature of man" All other Social So-cial forms were pronounced by them the result of mental aberrations which could have been possible only because mankind did not realize sooner what they wanted, because their judgment was befogged, either, as some Imagined, Imag-ined, on account of the natural stupidity stupid-ity of man, or. as others maintain-!, on aerount of the willful machinations of priests and kings. Ioked upon from such a standpoint, stand-point, the development of society was the result of a development of thought. Tho more clever men are. the quicker they ar to discover the social forms that Milt human nature, the Juster also nnd the better did society become. This Is the theory of our so-called liberal thinkers. Wherever their influence in-fluence Is felt this view prevails. As a matter o f course, the first Socialist", who nppenred at the commencement! of this century, were likewise aff4cted by this theory. They also. Imagined that tho Institutions or the capitalist State, which they found extant had sprung from the brain of the philosophers philoso-phers of tbe previous century. Arrived Ar-rived on tho stage of history a full century later, It was clear to these Socialists that tho capitalist social system sys-tem was by no nmnna the perfect thing which the philosophers of tho Eighteenth Century expected Accordingly. Accord-ingly. Hi Is system was still mt the true one; the philosopher.? of tho Eighteenth century mnst have made a mistake somewhere; the earl Socialist So-cialist addressed themselves to the tusk of finding the mistake, and. In their turn, of discovering the true social so-cial system that should suit the human hu-man nature better. Thev realized that It was necessary to elaborate their plans more carefully than any of their Illustrious predecessors had done, lest some untoward Influence should nullify nul-lify their work also. This method of procedure was. moreover, dictated by the circumstance that the early Socialists, So-cialists, who appeared at the beginning begin-ning of the century, did net stand as did their predecessors, the philosophers philoso-phers of tho Eighteenth Century, face to face with a social system whoso downfall wa at hand, nor did they have, as thtdr predecessors bad. tho encouragement of a mighty cla whose Interests demanded the overthrow over-throw of iho social order then existing. exist-ing. They could not. In those cjtIv days, represent tho socl.il order for wlilfh thev strove as Inevitable, hut onlv a desirable. It was n necessity of Ihrlr situation to try and present their social Ideal In ns clear anil tangible tan-gible a form as powihle. to the end that (bo mouths of people should water wa-ter after It, and none should entertain enter-tain a doubt either as to Its practicability practica-bility or i's pleasantness. The adversaries of Soelallsm have not yet got beyond the point of looking look-ing ution society from the standpoint occupied by social scionce a hundred years ago. The only Socialists they know and can understand are, accordingly', accord-ingly', those early and Utopian Socialists So-cialists who started from ilw same premises ns they themselves. Tbe adversaries ad-versaries 4f Socialism look upon tho Soiall?t Commonwealth Just as they would upon a capitalist enterprise, say. a tock coronation, which U to bo "ttartnl." and ihev refuse to take xtock before It Is shown to their satisfaction sat-isfaction that the concern Is practicable practi-cable and will yield large dividends. Such a conception might have ha 1 Its JustilVatlon at tin- beginning of our century; today, tho Socialist Commonwealth Common-wealth no longer needs the "endorse, no nt" of these gentb-men In order to be realized. The capitally Sorlwl system has run Its course; I's dissolution Is now only a motion of time; the Irresistible economic eco-nomic development leads with the certainty cer-tainty t.f doom to tho shipwreck of tho rapltalll fystem of production. No longer U tho building of a new c clal order In the place of the exist-n- one f Imply de-lrable; it ha K-com K-com Inevitable. Ever larger nnd more powerful grows the' max- of pp'pert) 'e-,; worker for whom the exiting stem Is unbearable unbear-able who tune nothing to lo-e with Its downfnll. but evcrvtblng to gain, and who are luml - unless they be willing to go down with the foe'ety of which thev h:iv brcorro the most Important Im-portant pirt-to call Into being : cl.il t.rder t 1 1 - t shall correspond to their Interests. These r.ie i.ot phantasies; they are facts that Socialist have demon-nfrated demon-nfrated with the actual tecum m o that are da'ly taV.ing plaee Tin-.' k--currences nre roor.- eloquent and convincing con-vincing thnn the ni't caplvnMng and carefully prepared pictures ir the on-coniloK on-coniloK foclnl order could b. Tbo |