Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1900 Page: 7 of 16
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Thursday, May 3, 1900.
SOUTHERN MERCURY
ing that those articles should go be-
fore readers, for he believes in giving
all a chance to know all the theories
and schemes of human betterment
that can be devised, knowing that peo-
ple can be trusted to think for them-
selves. Still he warned his readers
that there was lurking in those arti-
cles, something that he could not com-
mend, he said:-
We beg to say to our readers that the
two socialist trticles on our first page
shall be called to the "bar of judgment"
in our columns later on, at every point
of theirpolitical, social and even here-
sy, and that too after a fashion that so-
called socialism cannot afford to ig-
nore. Our position, compresed in the
fewest words, in this: Socialism is a lie
it is a lie etymologically; it is a lie
philosophically; it is a lie historicall>
and religiously, and a flat, point blank
style.
the blind Magistrate, Sir John Field-
ing, then presided, and accused him-
self of having committed a highway
robbery and said that his con-
science pricked him so sorely
that he could not wish to
live any longer. Sir John, before
commiting him caused further inquir-
ies to be made. The girl was discovered
and the true reason of his wish to die.
She repented at once; she fell into
those swons and faintly fits which
were so common with women of her
time and she consented to marry him,
even in rags and tatters. But Sir John,
the best of Magistrates, kindly took the
clothes out of pawn at his own expense
amd they were married, becomingly at-
tired, to the admiration of the parish,
in Whiechapel Church."
SOCIALISTS WON'T FUSE WITH
ANY PARTY.
AN OLD LOVE STORY.
I'
Sir Walter Beasant has found in
some musty old book an interesting
story. He says:
"Let me relate a love story—a true
love story—of the most moving kind.
It belongs to time when, I am certain,
all the emotions of love, of jealously,
of rage, of envy, of friendship, of en-
mity were a great deal stronger than
they are at present, which is an age of
comparative self-restraint. It was in
the early Ml month of Sep-
tember, that the bands of marriage
were put up between William Griffin,
bachelor, and Anne Moss, spinster.
The pair were both in an humble con-
dition of life.
"Now, after the calling of the bands
the girl fell into a lingering illness, in
the consequence of which the wedding
was put off; her ill health continued;
first it caused her to lose her place;
then her money coming to an end, she
was constrained to pawn her clothes,
down to the buckles of her shoes. Th*
ragged condition to which she was re
duced made her ashamed of going to
church, and she postively refused to
marry her lover until she could appear
as a decent bride ought. Now, William
Griffin, who was too poor to provide
his bride with a trousseau was des-
perately in love. He used every argu-
ment in his power to persuade the girl
to relent, but in vain.
" Pride—or seir-i sspsct—was strong-
er than love. She would not go to
church in rags. William, I say was des-
perately in love, so that he fell into a
melancholy. First he pawned his cloth-
es. No reason for this rach act is dis-
coverable, but my theory is that out of
pure love he reduced himself to the
same level of raggedness as that of
his girl, and that he proposed that In
this poverty-stricken guise they might
stand together before the alter, and so
to speak support each other. But Anne
remained obdurate. Then the lover,
finding that he could not in any way
move her, resolved to get rid of life al-
together. He could not, being religious-
ly disposed, kill himself, but he could
cause his life to be taken; he would
perish innocently on the gallows.
"Therefore he bought a pistol and
presented himself at Bow street, where
The following communication from
a leading Dallas socialist, is presented
to the readers of the Mercury, for the
purpose t>f showing just what may be
expected from that element of reform-
ers at Cincinnati! If the writer speaks
by the card and states the position of
the Socialists fairly and truthfully,
there is little hope for "a union" with
them. Populists are not ready just yet
to surrender unconditionally to any
other organization, however similar
their creed may be to ours. He pro-
ceeds as follows:
"As an individual, and I may say,
as a representative of all that great
army of men and women of the world
identified with the?advancement of the
principles of international Socialism, I
am rejoiced to note in the Mercury
the unanimity of expression favorable
to the union of the American Populists
with the international Social Democ-
racy. The fact that there are same
among the middle-of-the-road Populists
like comrade Buck Barry of Walnut
Springs, who protest against this ulti-
mate and inevitable union, is perhaps
to be expected. But the fault is one
of the head and not of the heart. When
those who oppose such a union, more
clearly understand socialism, they will
perceive how utterly futile is any prop-
osition made to international Social-
ism looking towards concession of prin-
ciples for the sake of expediency.
Socialism is. not sectional in its pur-
pose of beneficence, but wide as the
world. Its principles are made broad
to cover the needs of universal civiliz-
ation. Its platform of principles for the
same in the United States, in France,
in Germany, in Russia, in England,
in Africa. Socialism never fuses, never
compromises and the evolutionary de-
velopment of humanity is tending to-
wards universal solidarity. Socialism
is not only a factor in national politics,
but as well as the advancement of the
race. Its purpose is to bring econo-
mic order out of the chaos of our pre*
ent sordid commercialism.
Socialism is not a partisan political
movement; it is a class movement to
revolutionize the existing systems of
the world and for the establishment of
industrial equality. Socialism goes to
the root of economic slavery and pro-
poses to remove the causes that have
enslaved mankind. It demands not
ownership by the people of the means
of transportation, but in toto the col-
lective ownership of all the means of
production and distribution whereby
existence is perpetuated. It would es-
tablish the brotherhood of man. It
recognizes but two classes in the world
today—the Burgeoise and the Prol-
etariat; the exploiter and the exploited,
the robber and the robbed; the capital-
ist and the socialist. These names
mean the same. The one class stands
for private ownership, for individual
profit; the other for collective owner-
ship and equalized distribution. There
are not "50,000" in this organized
movement; there are 27,000,000.
The scales are falling from the peo-
ple, s eyes. They are coming to learn
that those who own the means of pro-
duction and distribution have the pow-
er to fix the economic condition of the
people. Too long have the privileged
few usurped this power—a power
which has resulted in antagonism
between individuals and between na-
tions, produced war and bloodshed and
arrayed man against his brother.
The people are demanding possession
of their own under the industrial com-
monwealth of a social Democracy.
A word to brother Burkett and those
who believe like him. He says: "The
Socialists seem to be half-breed Demo-
crats, or at least their party name car-
ries that impression." Will such as
think thus, kindly look up the defini-
tions in Webster's Unabridged? Here
they are: "Socialism:—A theory of so-
ciety which advocates a more precise,
orderly and harmonious arrangement of
the social relations of mankind than
that which has hitherto prevailed."
"Democracy:government by the people,
a form of government in which the su-
preme power is in the hands of the
people and directly exercised by them."
Thus you see the Socialists are not
anything other than real Demo-
crats in the truest sense of the word.
Bryanism is not Democracy. It is the
imperalism of capitalism, because like
McKinleyism, it sustains the principle
of private ownership under existing in-
dustrial conditions, is the prolific moth-
er of class oppression.
Brother Populists, the international
Social Democracy, cannot cannot meet
you in the spirit of partisanism," nor
can it "bury partisanism," for it has
none of it. It cannot meet you half
way in any sort of compromise for ex-
pediency's sake, because the Social
Democracy is the crystalization of the
thinking and liberty loving people of
the world, and its work is fixed. Its
plans in national organization are
an integral part of a world movement.
It asks the union of all the reform
forces of the country with it in its on-
ward progress towards the goal of the
emancipation of humanity from the
thrall of oppression. On, then, to Cin-
cinnati, for counsel of wisdom and
union—Word H. Mills, Dallas, Texas.
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