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TEACHING OR QUIBBLING
It is a fundamental principle of
modern pedagogy that no true educa
tion in the arts or sciences can be at
tamed unless a sound foundation has
first been laid, treating of fundamen
tals, In which is included, usually, a
correct understanding of terminology,
of laws governing construction, opera
tion, or expression, and the history of
the particular art. philosophy, litera
ture or science to be mastered. No
one gives serious consideration to the
"original views" of men and women
who are Ignorant of what has already
been discovered, achieved, experi
mented upon, etc, in the particular
department of human endeavor where
they would fain appear as authorities.
Charletans. cranks, egoists and Im
postors, are always scornful of "au
thority," of the laborious and patient
work of real students and investiga
tors, and they are seldom or never
thoroughly versed in the history of
the subject upon which they pose as
authorities themselves. To hearken
onto their voice is the part of wisdom;
to regard with respectful consideration
the patiently worked out conclusions
of real thinkers is "hero worship."
"making a fetish of a name," etc., we
are told.
Discipline and close-thinking are ab
solute prerequisites to clear concep
tions and practical efficiency. Care
less thinking, slovenly methods, easy
going all-inclusiveness, often pass in
tho Socialist movement for "broad
mindedness." But a pint of water is
still far from being a barrel thereof
just because it has spread out over a
wide surface, as superficial as It is
extensive. It spreads over a lot of
ground, and includes' many things, but
gets to the roots and nourishes to
fruitfulness absolutely nothing.
Let us learn to respect thoroughness,
the discipline of hard, steady ana clear
thinking. False methods, misleading
views, the tendency to exaggerate the
importance of side issues, the careless
ignoring of mischievous errors in the
use of terms or in the interpretation
of important passages from our stan
" dard works on Socialism, all result
from a lack of self-discipline and from
a want of knowledge, aggravated of
ten by an abnormal development of
the ego. It is much more important,
therefore, that we acquire thorough
knowledge and understanding than
that we gain an apparent "harmony"
built upon a false foundation of ig
norance; upon misleading, conflicting,
mutually destructive conceptions of
what are correct principles and work
able tactics. ;i ■
Let us not fall into the lazy attitude
of mind that looks with scorn upon
the demand of the Socialist student
for clear and scientific expression and
understanding, while flattering our
selves that we are objecting to mere
■"quibbling." "Back to the classics" is
a welcome and much-needed slogan
in these days of bewildering side-is
sues and side-stepping.
WORKERS' ONE PROTECTION
The people of the United States are
at this moment in the midst of a far
reaching industrial depression, a "sil
ent panic," as it has been aptly called.
And beneath the "silent panic" seeths
a deeper, more far-reaching, though
hardly less recognizable "panic"—the
half-conscious, and reluctantly ack
nowledged panic of the bourgeois poli
ticians and statesmen of the world.
Deny it as they may, the industrial
and political masters of the world are
fully alive to the fact that trading-class
society is facing the most portentious
revolution that the human race has
ever known.
The workers' one protection in
these times that, so try men's souls
is study, study of Socialist literature,
Socialist philosophy which alone can
enlighten and uplift the workers of
the world.
Boost the Socialist press—the hope
of the world!
A good time is in store for you at
the Season's Big Socialist Picnic on
July 4th, at Hall's lake.
That' Illinois woman who was ac
cused of paying $2 for a vote is mani
festly innocent. No woman would
have paid more than $I.9B.—Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
CHANGE IN SOCIETY
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
That i change in society is abso
lutely necessary Is being recognized
today by any number of people. The
power of a few great capitalists is be
coming so gigantic as to threaten tho
system Itself. Few people but the most
bigoted are now afraid ot the word
Socialism Hill the Idea of Socialism
is being perverted by capitalist -mind
ed people into government ownership
and state Socialism. Such "Social-
Ism" would, by the nature of things,
retain the features of wage slavery
and the political government of op
pression. Such "Socialism" would be
beneficial to many capitalists who
are fluid ad BO protection on the econ
omic field in the present days, when
a simple millionaire counts for little
on lh« graft! Industrial competitive
field. Government ownership, with
continued class rule and wage slavery,
is the Ideal dream of many a capital-
Ist-mlnded would-be revolutionist. It
would be the ideal perfection, indeed.
of political society, supplemented by
centralised economic power. This
would be a middle class Society revo
lution that would not touch the foun
dation of modern society.
A few years ago It very much look
ed as If should the workers' Socialist
revolution miscarry, it. would be per
verted Into this channel. But in late
years there have sprung into existence
such gigantic social economic forces
that It appears even more plainly that
tho political state has outlived Its
usefulness in history. The future econ
omic state is looming clearly upon the
social horizon. Even within the capi
talist world the economic state shows
signs of asserting its supremacy over
the political. The economic masters
are and have ever been, the political
masters. But the modern economic
kings are threatening to overrule their
own political state. The economic
forces are becoming too gigantic for
political control. The political forces
are becoming puny in comparison be
cause the political state, even though
thoroughly capitalistic, is hampered
in its actions by the conflicting inter
ests of the capitalists of the lower
strata. Hence the political state,
though subservient to capitalism,
stands in the way of ultra capitalist
development Therefore it is that we
witness the spectacle of a struggle, In
several instances between the coun
try's greatest financiers and captains
of Industry, on the one hand, and the
political government of the country on
the other. It is the self-assertion with
in capitalism of the future economic
state. It is the breaking loose of so
cial economic forces too gigantic to
be confined in the narrow bounds of
past ages. The days of the pol***— *
state are numbered. It has outliv.
its usefulness. ' It stands in the way
of progress. The economic state is
the society of the future. But the vic
tory of the great industrial lords
would mean a slavery worse than the
world has ever experienced. That
would mean the ideal total mastery of
the richest, most powerful, most ab
solute oligarchy the world has yet
known. Puny in comparison would
be the power of any other tyrant from
the days of ancient Assyria to those
of modern Russia!
It is imperative that every worker
with an ounce of red blood in his body
should exert every possible effort to
turn the now raging stream toward In
dustrial Oligarchy into channels under
control of the working-class, leading
onward into the co-operative, all-in
clusive world of Industrial Democracy
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There never was a good war or a
bad peace.—Benjamin Franklin.
COMRADE J. M. SALTER
ADDRESSES MINISTERIAL
ASSOCIATION
"The Social and Economic
Teachings of Jesus"
At the last meeting of the Everett
Ministerial association, Socialist com
missioner J. M. Salter addressed that
body under the title, "The Social and
Bconomi. Teaching, of Jesus," Space
will not allow the printing of the
whole address, which was well receiv
ed and taken and criticised In the
spirit In which it was delivered. Com
rade Salter spoke In part as follows:
"1 come before your body as a part
and representative of the militant re
volutionary wing of the working-class,
which finds Its highest expression In
the International Socialist movement.
"The church holds thai If the teach
ings of Jesus were universally accept
ed, all our vexing social and economic
problems would he solved If this
means anything, it means that the
teachings of Jesus have a distinct so
cial and economic bearing.
"Wo Socialists claim that our philo
sophy points the way to the solution
of those problems
"it then follows that the church,
whoso business it is to propagate the
teachings of Jesus, and the organized
Socialist movement, which seeks to
spread the philosophy of Socialism,
have a common economic end. That
many, both In the church and In the
Socialist movement, believe this Is
evidenced by the Christian Socialist
Brotherhood and the following quota
tions from prominent ministers:
Appeal by a Catholic
Is the Catholic church the bulwark
of the existing state of society? Are
we going to repeat the mistake made
by our ancestors by Identifying the
Church of Christ with capitalism, as
they identified it with monarchical
absolutism? If we do, we shall bring
shame and disaster upon our holy
Mother. —Arthur Preuss, editor of the
Fortnightly Review.
Churches are Awakening
BjtJ3. B. Hoffman
Owners of mines in the lead dis
tricts of southeast Missouri were bit
terly denounced as responsible for
the "frightful conditions under which
miners are compelled to live there"—
at the annual meeting of the St. Louis
district conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at St. Louis, May 26.
"We cannot hope to make Method
ists there," said Rev. B. J. Kulp, "be
cause a Methodist believes he is a
child of God, and no man can believe
he is a child of God and live there."—
Press Dispatch.
Can't Ignore Socialism.
New York,— Rt. Rev. Wm. A.
Guerry, Episcopal bishop of South
Carolina, at the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, New York, during the con
secration of Bishop Hulse, of Cuba,
said:
"No church and no body of relig
ious leaders calling themselves Amer
icans can any longer afford to Ig
nore this great world wide movement
of Socialism, or to be ignorant of its
underlying principles."
PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.
"That our social and economic prob
lems are pressing for solution, and If
left unsolved must eventually engulf
us in a whirlwind of destruction, all
thinking students of existing affairs
admit. Many churchmen expend most
of their energy in railing at Social
ism, while a number of Socallsts are
equally energetic in their attacks upon
the church and religion. It is with
the idea of doing away with these mu
tual recriminations that I chose the'
subject which I will discuss before
you today. '
"Churchmen admit today that the
church is losing Its influence among
the masses of workers. They realize
that the workers look with suspicion
uppn the church.
"Yet, in spite of this, Jesus stands
higher than ever before in the estim
ation of the more Intelligent workers.
They know that he in his day voiced
the highest aspirations of the lowly.
Why Workers Leave Churcn.
"Let me devote a few moments to
explain why the militant workers are
leaving the church.and discarding re
ligion:
"All religions have at least three
underlying principles. First, a theory
of causation, second, the attitude that
man should hold towards the unknown
] forces of nature, third, man's attitude
towards his fellow man. Science has
eliminated religion as a theory of cau
sation. The Christian idea of God Is
incompatable with the world's rising
democracy and to attempt to assume
the attitude- towards our fellow men
as is taught by the church would be
suicide. The workers have read his
tory and they know that in the strug
gle for the right to think, the right
of free speech and press, the right of
political liberty the church has stood
j against the popular struggles of the
i masses.
Church Against Workers.
"They know that if the church is
true to her past, she will be found
THE WASHINGTON SOOIALXHT
Tricked To The Trenches!
By 11. W. WATTS
Our old friend Sammy Compere con
tinues to disparage What he calls So
cialism, iii this month's issue of the
American Federal lonis! he quotes
Brand Whllloeli as saying: "Social
ism makes provisions for everything
except liberty," and refers bis read
ers to New South Wales to verify
the statement
Sammy must lie awake all night
scheming out ways of holding Social-
Ism In chock, for most of his writings
these days are on subjects of how So
cialism won't work.
Sammy has often Bald "vote for
your friends and defeat your enemies."
Of course ho only talks that way
around election time because his
friends are candidates of the (Em
ployers' association and they need his
help and ho needs theirs. As a mem
ber of the civic federation, Sammy
has hobnobbed with friends of labor
(?) such as Kllhu Hoot, Seth Low and
Henry l'hlpp In the Hotel Astor and
he has got some valuable pointers
from these people and he no doubt
endeavors to live up to them, hence
his building up of a straw Socialism
that he can easily knock down. When
he la not doing that he Is trying to
convince the wage mule that "only
through economic organization can
the workers maintain their rights and
opportunities." That he should say
so Is not surprising. In fact we are
prepared to concede that he believes
It, if he believes anything. The sal
ary he receives as president of the
A. F. of L. would Influence him tow
ards that belief, were he the most
honest man alive. But Sammy Is a
leader, also, and If you don't believe
what he says he will lead you to an
object of his own making and "show"
you.
Sammy Not to Blame. v
But after all Sammy Is not to blame
although he lies, and we honestly be
lieve he knows he lies, for what he
says.. His job determines his actions
and the Socialist (?) press supplies
the goods. Sammy never said that
New South Wales or any other part
of Australisla has a Socialist govern
ment, but he makes his readers be
lieve that Socialism is. being tried out
in Australasia, but our own politi
cians, who are labelled Socialists, tell
the Ignorant that it is. They tell us
of the benefits that the workers de
rive through state regulation of this
and that and of government ownership
of so and J3O. But they never men
tion the failure of that regulation or
ownership, when after years of trial
the workers are found to be no bet
ter off.
New South Wales has a Labor gov
ernment as also has Australia, and
the revolutionary Socialists have been
strictly opposed to the labor govern
ment for it is nothing more than a
would-be progressive party.
The measures that the labor party
have put through places the worker
completely at the mercy of the state.
The reforms of the labor government
have been such that they have far
more power over the actions of the
workers than any capitalist ever had.
They have inaugurated a system of
opposing the masses in their struggle
for industrial freedom. The deeper
students of the history of the ancient
workers know that the church was
built upon the ruins of the ancient
labor organizations. They know that
the doctrine of submission as taught
by the church is not the doctrine
taught the 'workers by the fearless
agitator of Galilee.
"Many were the bloody uprisings of
the workers which took place before
the time of Christ. All met defeat at
the hands of the organized exploiters,
with their hired and slave soldiers.
Jesus saw the futility of armed rebel
lion, but advocated the open spread
ing of the principle of organization
on lines of co-operation and brotner
hood.
"His plan of salvation was a plan
to escape from the poverty and mis
ery of his day. For his economic ut
terances did he meet his death, and
for the economic principles of the
early Christians did they suffer per
secution, until all trace of militant
protest and revolt was extinguished.
"If the church really wished to fol
low in the footsteps of the master,
it would be devoting its energies to
awaking the workers to a realization
of their wrongs and aiding them to
organize with a view of ending ex
ploitation."
Naturally, comrade Salter's views
were not acceptable to all of the mm-;
isters present; perhaps not to any in
their full import.
You won't seem right to any if you
don't seem wrong to many.
The dog is not the only animal that
licks the hand that beats him. There
are workers who have the same dispo
sition. —Ex.
EUGENE V. DEBS ON
CAPITAL AND LABOR
In the evolution of the human race
to a higher plane of life, capitalism
has a historic mission which Is about
fulfilled. It has exploited the earth
and fastened Its tentacles Into the1
most remote corners of the globe. It
has no more worlds to conquer, and
an Its Inevitable need is expansion, It1
carries within Itself the seeds of Its
own dissolution. It must give way
to Its successor, as feudalism gave
way to It. Capitalism has Introduced'
system, organization, and technical
perfection Into industry. It has,
brought tha races of the world into ;
communication with one another and I
enabled men to realize the oneness of'
humanity. It has immensely broaden
ed the Intellectual horizon of mankind;
and has welded the producers of the
world Into a compact, well disciplined
body that understands the need for
solidarity and the necessity of co-op
erative effort. It has. In short, laid j
the ground work, prepared the warp,
and furnished the means whereby the |
1 great body of wealth producers, as
'■ a result of their orderly and legiti-
I mate conquest of political power,
| ■hall be able to take over the whole
| of Industry and operate It for the use
lof all the people Instead of for the
private profit of the comparatively
I few owners of capital. .
This is the only remedy: Any pro
i position which assumes to leave the ,
capitalist In possession of his prop
j erty in the means of production Is
fatuous. Any scheme of regulation
that Interferes with capitalist profit
to a sufficient extent to bring sub
stantial relief to the workers, or to do
| away with the army of the unemploy
ed, and insure to every producer of
■ wealth that economic security which
an enlightened civilization demand,
for him, necessarily means collective
ownership.
• state ownership and government regu- ,
lation that is a long way from So
cialism, and when we hear Socialist
(?) speakers and writers demanding
that the government take over this
or that it gets on our nerves. The
Idea that the extension of the func
tions of the state as an employer of
labor is Socialism gives Sammy and
'his ilk a good anti-Socialist argument.
: Of course they themselves know bet
j.ter, but their bunk passes with the
ill-informed and ignorant.
State Ownership Not "Socialism"
State ownership gives a bureacratic
power to the highly paid officials and
if this can be labelled Socialism it
will keep thousands from studying
Socialism. Thousands of Henry
Dubbs have been kept from studying
because they were led to believe that
Socialism would break up the home,
or that it would make them divide up,
and it is just as easy to make them
believe that "Socialism" or ,in other
words, state regulation by government
| ownership, is a menace to that grand
and glorious liberty (?) for which our
grandfathers fought so nobly.
The intervention of the state as a
! means of bringing about Socialism
. seems to have been first proposed in
France by Louis Blanc, who advo
cated the state subsidizing of co-op
erative societies of workmen. At the
; same time the same sort of state as
' sistance was proposed in Germany by
Ferdinand Lasalle.-
True-' Socialists, however, have no
such belief in the virtues of state as
sistance as had either of the two above
exponents. In France and Germany
Blanqui and Marx declared themselves
to be communists, aiming at Jhe "tem
porary dictation of the proletariat" by
means of a revolution. After the fail
ure of the revolutionary attempts, a
compromise between the two schools
was effected. It was agreed that both
sections should unite for the peace
ful capture of political power, chiefly
as a means of propaganda, but it was
never contended that state ownership
or control was Socialism.
" Such a condition of things, it was
pointed out, would be merely a change
of masters. The private capitalist
would be wiped out by the state, but
in his place would be the public offi
cial, paid high salaries, yet, still a
member of a privileged class, a kind
of official aristocrat, while the actual
producer of the wealth would still be
the wage slave, having his wages paid
out to him by a black-coated burea
crat instead of a capitalist.
The worker would still be a wage
slave, and his condition might even B
be worse, for there would be but one |
employer asking for his services, _
where there might otherwise be sev
eral. Furthermore if he should of- n
fed some boss bureaucrat his plight c:
would be particularly perilous be- tl
cause it would be far easier to black p
list a man under state ownership than a
it is under capitalist ownership. b
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Thursday, June 24, 1915.
BLISS
"What sort of a time do you expect
to have during the social season?"
"Fine," answered Mr. Cumrox;
"mother and the girls will be so busy
thinking about their clothes that they
won't have time to notice my gram
mar." —Washington Star.
