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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. -* -* * > 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.