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AN has spent his active hours and
years v orking and accomplishing,
and his quiet hours thinking and
wondering.
Every race has had its plan, its
-ittle limited ambition—the race has
U a I
Vanished, and the plan has been forgotten. Always
reality outstrips imagination. The wild vision of yes
terday is the sober reality of to-day.
The ancient king dreamed only of a fast war chariot,
with knives attached to the wheels to cut down the
enemy. He little thought of the Gatling gun or the
flying machine dropping dynamite.
Henry IV. wished for each peasant a boiling pot
with a chicken in it. He did not dream of electric
stoves, gas, telephones, electric street cars—comfort
for everybody such as he, the king, never knew. Each
individual has his little idea. Few are they capable
of seeing even dimly the wonders that await the race
destined ultimately to guide, develop, control and
really own this planet. Let us consider the limited
plan of one individual who has attracted attention.
Keir Hardie, member of the House of Commons,
and member of the British Independent Labor party,’
has announced “the aim of Socialists.”
Os course, when any Socialist tells you what
“the aim of the Socialist” is, you know that he is
simplv telling you what he thinks as an individual.
Keir Hardie in England, Jules .Jaures in France;
Victor Berger, Charles E. Russell, Morris Hilquitt,
William English W'alling in America, representing
Socialist belief in different ways, would each give
you an entirely different “program of Socialists ”
And Victor Drury, a real representative of cour
ageous, radical thought, if he cared to emerge from his
retirement, would give you a program different from
all, because he looks further back, and sees further
ahead, than any of those named.
i it-S * S gre Socialist. He is a good
LI iL. MAN,. and, lixe al] little men who imagine
themselves radical, he can think of nothing more de
sirable than to level things downward.
If he were a mc’tkey he would pull the monkeys
from the top branches and say, “Let’s all live near the
ground, like brothers.”
If he were a fish he would say, “Let’s all stay near
the shore, and none of us go out too deep.”
If he were a bird he would say, “Let no bird fly
more than fifty feet above the ground. Let’s pull down
the eagle and make him fly like a goose.”
Being a well-meaning, but not well-informed, So
cialist, he says, “We are going to master Parliament,
control the State, wipe out class, and make the nation
consist of citizens.”
Humanity will never "wipe out class.” The
struggle of human beings has been t o CREATE CLASS
—that is to say, to create power, ability, knowledge
ABOVE IHE AVERAGE. Class limply means that
one or a few have stepped further ahead than the
others. There is no class among monkeys or among
wolves—they are all “citizens” of monkeydom and
wolfdom.
This picture typifies humanity listening at the
moutn of the Sphinx, asking for the revelation that
never comes---asking for the truths, the solutions
that appear only gradually as the ages pass.
What is to be man’s future? What is the ultimate
destiny or a race great enough to inherit and control
this marvellous planet? No man to-day can conceive
the wonderful realities of the future. Truly “It hath
not been shown what we shall be.” Gne thing is
sure--humanity will NO * go downward. The process
will always be LIFTING UP, never pulling down. An
answer to a well-meaning Socialist.
Man has the power of thought, the driving force of
ambition; therefore, individually and in groups, men
forge ahead, and classes are established.
Without the establishment of classes, and the in
centives of vanity, selfishness and the other passions to
which we owe our growth, there would have been no
progress.
Fhe problem is not, as poor, ignorant Keir Hardie
says, “to wipe out class,” but to extend classes, and to
make ever broader and more nearly universal the
privileges enjoyed by a few in the classes.
Once there was in this world a class of OWNERS
OF BATHTUBS. i nis class consisted of Roma.*
emperors, and a few patricians and rich vulgarians.
1 HEY had bathtubs; the others had none.
Keir Hardie would have destroyed the bathtubs,
thus eliminating the bathtub class.
But nature ahd human evolution, wiser than Keir
Hardie, made the bathtub class BIGGER. It now in
cludes millions—and many Socialists are included
among the millions in the bathtub class.
Mr. Keir Hardie wants a revolution to wipe out
classes. No revolution has ever wiped out a class or
ever will do that. Revolutions help men of one class
to climb up into another class—but the classes are not
eliminated.
You will always have classes, Mr. Keir Hardie,
while you have selfishness, cunning and unusual abil
ity surrounded by ignorance, dulness and lack of ambi
tion. And you will still have classes when humanity
shall have progressed to heights of which we do not
dream. Mr. Hardie’s slight ability has raised him
above his fellows—and he has not the slightest inten
tion of going back whence he came.
Increase knowledge by education.
Diminish selfishness and idleness by education.
Encourage those that have power to take an inter
est in the weak—BY EDUCATION.
Fight injustice UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF
EDUCATION.
Remember that in the French Revolution—the
greatest and noblest of all revolutions—not a single
man lacking education ever came to the front. There
was not, for instance, in the whole of that Revolution
any leader with as little education and knowledge as
Keir Hardie possesses.
Mirabeau, the educated man, the son of a rich no
bleman, the brilliant courtier, helped to start the Revo
lution with his great speech and his speeches that fol
lowed.
Camille Desmoulins, an educated man, helped it
with his speech in the Palais Royal.
Danton, Robespierre, both lawyers and men of
unusual brilliancy, did great work. Marat, the bril
liant physician and saturnine genius, would perhaps
have made the Revolution a permanent success and
headed off Napoleon had he not been murdered.
Madame Roland, and dozens of other Frenchmen
and French women, EDUCATED, intelligent, far
above the average, helped the Revolution.
And the most intelligent men of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries —Voltaire, Rousseau, D’Alem
bert, Condorcet, all the encyclopedists—plowed the
ground for the great Revolution.
Every one of them belonged to a “class,” and
could not be found in a nation devoid of classes. If
the classei bad not existed in France there would not
have been a revolution —there would have been a tribe
of stupid, brutal, ignorant “citizens” with no especial
powe of leadership,
* .* *
Without class and the power of class nothing
would be done in England or in any other country to
help the world along.
The foundation must be lifted slowly. Mr. Hardie
is foolish when he says that he is not going “to patch
up the existing order of society and make it a little
more tolerable,” but that he is going “to overthrow
the existing order” and build up something entirely
new.
If Mr. Keir Hardie had the gout, the rheumatism
and the toothache he would go to a doctor and a dentist
and say, “Patch me up.” He would not be at all
pleased if the doctor and the dentist said, “No; we
ire going to hit you on the head, and ouild up an en
tirely new Keir Hardie.”
The human race, human society must be treated
just as the doctors treat a patient. Sometimes there
must be a surgical operation, and a leg cut off, or even
oart of a lung removed—that is like the French Revo
lution or the Revolution of Cromwell.
Sometimes a little massage, a little osteopathic
treatment will answer.
But everything must be done by patching up. You
cannot knock the social organization on the head and
build it up afresh.
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Good Mr. Keir Hardie, with his cap and his bar
barous whiskers and his rank pipe and his untidy
clothes, would be quite happy if he could “make the
nation consist of citizens,” by which he means, make
the whole nation LIKE HIM.
We beg to assure Mr. Keir Hardie that the day
will come when a real civilization would look upon a
nation of Keir Hardies just about as the civilization of
to-day looks upon the interesting nation of monkeys
now dwelling in the holy city of Benares.
Fight CASTE, which means class ossified and pet
rified and impenetrable.
But don’t oppose class—for class is merely the ex
pression of ambition and of success.
Educate your classes, educate your masses, lift up
the bottom of society by wise laws, by greater produc
tion of wealth and its intelligent distribution AND FS
PECIALLY BY THE DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCA
TION.
The selfish and ignorant at the top ought to ba
pitied, the envious and ignorant at the bottom are to
be pitied.
There will always be classes in this world. But one
day they will all be brothers. Each will re ioice in the
accomplishments and in the privileges of the other as
the old father rejoices in the pleasures and achieve
ments of his son which he cannot share, and the son
rejoices in the dignity and honor paid to the father
and above his own worth.
Humanity one day will be ONE HAPPY FAMILY
with many classes included in it-- the class fond of
manual work, the class devoted to intellectual specula
tion and research, the classes of artists, musicians
doctors. ’
AU will have what they want and all what they
need, including leisure, knowledge; freedom from
anxiety—-and that will be the beginning of real life
and real civilization.