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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES Making Culture pf Sport THE Dayton Monkey trial earned all if coat by demonstrating the possibility of the sporting spirit. We arc the greatest sports on earth....
...I know nothing about the psychology of barnacles...
...what a speed we made...
...He had been working hard all day and arrived at the dinner more or less tattered and tern...
...Economic justice would work a rare transformation: "If justice reigned a state of equality would prevail...
...Two million men are out of work in America...
...And I am getting lick of thit attitude of certain leaden towardt men and women whose boots they sre not fit to thine...
...if they were held in the Harvard Stadium of the Yale Bowl (where they naturally belong), and if proper admix lien was charged, they would be attended by hundreds of thousands of the very best people, and the millions of second-best not sp good people could get their culture by watching the score board at home...
...This apt reply it illustrative of Henry Thoreau, man and the writer...
...It brings to mind the ttory of Frank O'Malley on tha old New York 8un in the dayt before that paper got Munteyiied...
...He approved, on the other hand, the formula afterwards adopted by Louis Blanc, "To each according to his needs," Godwin gave no outline of any future Utopia...
...Labor would become light, at rather to issiimc the appearance of agreeable relaxation and gentle exercise...
...Therefore, hurrah for our Babe, Jack and the home team...
...This need was supplied by William Godwin, unfrocked preacher of journalistic turn of mind, who arose ono rrorrlng in 1793, after writing his "Enquiry Concerning Politic...
...By lifting science into the realm of national sport it became popular overnight, didn't it...
...God knowt, none of us has gotten rich from any work we have done to advance Labor's cause...
...So help yourself, kind friends, and if any of you should make "i* pile in whclesale cultune as indicated in the •hove scheme, he has my blessing...
...The K.K.K...
...O'Malley had been assigned to cover a public dinner at the Waldorf...
...And *hy are you not here, Ralph...
...Mir.d, he believed, wat perfectly capable of controlling matter in thit respect...
...If perpetuates inequalities, and binds men with the chains of authority/ Government i» evil, society it , natural...
...But I have a hunch that they are speed fans...
...He felt that the travails of the time indicated moral rebirth of humanity, and hoped to tee the establishment of Utopia not on "some secret island, but in the very world, which is the world of all of us—the place where, in the end, we find our happiness or not at all...
...Th,: land itself, he maintained, belonged to the community...
...I had approached, like other youth*, the shield Of human nature from th* golden side, And would have fought, svin to th* death, to atttit The quality of the metal which I saw...
...The chairman of tha dinner committee gave him the high hat at the door, saying, "My good man, don't you have a dinner jacket...
...Has there beei, I <Snlght...
...leave it to us...
...began To meditate with ardor on the ml* And management of nations, what it is And ought to be...
...Private property must alto be eliminated, for it developi an inequality which fosters vanity and depravity among the rich and a slave status and immorality among the poor...
...is a premium given to idleness...
...lie heaved at me, "ah, boy...
...The community, as the owner of the land, must reclaim the ground rent in the.shape of a 10 per cent inheritance tax on estates, and divide the national fund thus obtained among the propcrtylessless to compensate them for the loss of their natural rights...
...of the Wr«aU, Arise...
...They do not make the ship go and yet they share in the speed of the ship...
...and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose ss well...
...We can think of lots more Interesting wayt of spending ouf time than sitting around brass cuspidors in smoke-filled, hotel bed-rooms figuring out how to rig our opponent...
...For me the lofty heights where the gods of Wisdom, art and beauty dwell...
...He did not share the anxiety of Walla is regarding the overpopulation of the globe...
...And "whoever enjoys any revenue not proportioned to such industry or exertion of his own or of his ancestors is a freebooter who has found means to cheat or rob the public...
...Here, then, was something that concerned the very existence of these men and their families...
...How rapid would be the advance of intellect, if all men were admitted into the field of knowledge I And the moral prbgrett would be as great as the intellectual...
...he came back contemptuously...
...It's all I have to give in return for my naturalization papers...
...Why are you here, Henry...
...This business of having to produce calloused palms and hump-toed boots before you are eligible to do anything for tha Labor movement gives me a swift pain.in the left ear...
...The rooters in bleachers and arena are like the barnacles on the hulks of ships...
...Ws have worked long hours at distasteful and often dangerous jobs for an amount that a walking delegate for the bricklayers wouldn't so much as sneeze at, and for our reward we have been ridiculed as "high-brows" by some fawning A, F. of L. editor who hain't been near a piece of honest work for Labor since Hector wat a sucking pup...
...As Mark Twain said, it has remained to Christians to develop massacre to a science...
...A very few, at heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, terve,the Stat'with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the mott part...
...Some day all of ut exploited "outsiders" sre going to get together and compare notes...
...For a week or so there had been a strike of the laborers who laid the new streets...
...Just as comfortable, well-led oW well-housed Babbitts want to shut the door on political change, thess same Babbitts want to stop mental a,ul spiritual growth—which is what Evolution means...
...What therit A'brown or yellow civilization perhaps, as per the old Biblical prophecy, will f, • rfconquer th* world...
...His breast heaved nnder deep excitement...
...Another frequent charge Is that unlets you are a manual worker you are on Labor's tide because you want to gain power or control over something or somebody...
...This it the purest ettence of banana oil...
...m •' " „ McAlitter Coleman...
...For this proposal, he was accused by Spence in his "Rights of Infants" (1797) of selling the people's birthright for a mess of pottage...
...If it is etvilxza...
...There are more soldier* under arms in Europe than ever before, and in the laboratories of every Christian nation men are at work devising new means of wholesale human slaughter...
...Man would thus steadily improve...
...Thomas Paine Propoies Inherit anca Tax: The third member of this school was Thomas Paine, who in his "Rights of Man" distinguished between land and its improvements...
...From his eyes spurted the Ire of combat...
...What places such J, "Walden" and "Cape Cod" r.mong the highest achievements of American literature Is just this entirely personal experience, the expression of the finest ideals of individual freedom and...
...Pitt hat introduced against some of his followers accused of inciting to violence to attain their ends...
...Yet such as these even arc commonly eateemed good citizens...
...And when the terror of the revolution began to raise doubtt in hit mind regarding the quick realization of liberty and equality, Godwin's book came to teach bim "to look through all the frtilitles of the world, and with a resolute mattery...
...Each According to His Needti Godwin had no patience with the theory afterwards enunciated, by Saint Simon thai each should be recompensed in accordance with his capacity...
...QGILVIE and Doctrine of Land Improvements: Far keener but also more cautious in his practical suggestions 'tan Spence was William Ogile, Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen University...
...Reason turned sensations into thoughts...
...Oh what « wallop Dempsey gave to that boy...
...But I'm not a forture hunter...
...Let none try to laugh this thing down...
...Here comes Cold Molasses...
...If it it necessary to be hard-boiled in order to do legal or publicity or research work for Labor, we can be as hard-boiled at anybody, spit on the floor and everything...
...Godwin Attacks Government: Throughout, Godwin's social views were based on abstract theory...
...has there been a fight I And that fellow thought he could fight...
...The Labor movement Is not an isolated thing with a Chinese Wall about it...
...In mott catet there is no free axcercise whatever of the judgment oi of the moral sense...
...It't a jokt to hear tome potbellied, silk-shirted, Pullman-riding official rave along about the "graft" that is being dragged down by those who do research or publicity or make tpeechet for Labor...
...They are the standing army, and the militia, gaolers, constsbles, posse comitatus, etc...
...Well, what are we going to do about the sporting proclivities of our people...
...A few days later the strike was lost and the men went back to their drudgery at the old scale of forty cents an hour—but we kept the belt...
...Thinking that there had been a conflict between Strikers and strike-breakers, I asked the walking Htcano if there had been a fight...
...He advocated no closajflommunist society, but a community of free indlvidusls bent on the development of their personality...
...show 'em your heels...
...And those critics of "grafting intellectuals" know best how false are their charges, for they sign the measly checks that sre unwillingly doled out to the "outsiders...
...It is not just, he held, that one should receive 100 times more than he needs, simply because he performs greater service...
...The average "Labor leader" coulu buy ut all out without going Into hoek...
...If laws and repressions are lo take the places of proud morality u t " i mh»ti that our civilization is a failure...
...ftHenry Thoreau Thoreau's answer to Emerson, who visited his frlned in prison, there for refusal to pay what he thought to be an unjust tax, is an American classic...
...For years we hsve compromited our principle...
...No man would be an enemy of his neighbor, for they would have no subject of contention, and, of consequence, philanthropy would assume the empire which reason assigns her...
...The only reason the world isn't fighting itulf to sudden death it because it's tired out from fighting...
...From the Qutside Looking In Bourgeois Bed Tina Stories '"" WE WERE talking about "outsiders" in the labor movement, Ben Stolberg, Tom Tippett, Paul Sifton and I. Of course, Tom is no "outsider" in any sense of the word, he carrying a card in the Illinois Miners' Union and having been at the face not so many years sgo...
...As the ocean greyhound plows through the waves I think I hear them yell in microscopic vpjees: "Go to it, old socks...
...As the steamer is warped in the dock, it aeemt I hear exclamations of victory like: "We broke another" record...
...As I stood there a man approached me who had all the earmarks of a striking laborer...
...don't tell us we ain't there...
...Nothing pleases us more than to beat somebody or to see somebody beaten by our side...
...atta boy...
...Intellectual...
...And because few of us are of the beating kind we attach ourselves to some world beater and thereby absre part of his glory...
...that's what...
...They had good grounds to strike...
...Give mo enough spirits to feed my spiritual life and I ask for nothing more...
...It's jctt though you should say that no one except cancer sufferers should have anything to tsy sbout cancer...
...His face was flushed and red as a beet...
...On the other hand, -the improved value of the land belonged to the cultivator who created it...
...These had read the fishing words of Rousseau and of the Encyclopaedists, and "nothing else satisfiedrVhem than political anarchy, abolition of private property, absolute reign of reason, universal benevole ' ?e and joyful devotion to social duty and justice...
...Government...
...This tendency also explains the popularity of national idols, as Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey...
...On thought depended moral action...
...He had but the passive capacity to receive icnsations and the active capacity to reason...
...and ttrov* to /earn how far Th*ir Tfower or wtakntss, wealth or poverty, Their happinet* or misery, diptnd* Upon their law* and fashion of th* Stat...
...These men are first class beaters...
...When I showed this marvelous scheme to my buddy, he allowed I should have it copyrighted and make millions out of it...
...Why not get one of our native Rembrandts to challenge some Italian Rafael to beat him at painting Madonnas, with both arms tied behind the back...
...build social upon pertonal liberty...
...What rsaction is to politic* fundamentalism is to theology, and their goal is the same—to halt progress and growth...
...Realising that I had made a mistake somewhere, I inquired as to who was knocked stiff...
...Justice," to find himself famous...
...in the coming union elections...
...No, boyt and girls, we "outsiders" have made a lot of mistakes in our dealingt with Labor, but the biggett one of all it thit—we have been too gothdarned humble...
...I think we will find that st that conference there will be more intimate knowledge of the Labor, movement ss a whole thsn is now possessed by any kosher officials, and that furthermore we have a darned sight better plan for making the movement .move than the whole pack of the aforesaid...
...individual **sponifbllity to the community Amcrtta hat yet •*» to offer...
...society from I our needt...
...HENRY DAVID THOtstt®, t ' ' I The White Man's Hari-Kari By EUGENE V. DEBS HOW the world seems to be drifting or rushing, as observed by a watchful and thoughtful man known all over the world, is significant and important...
...However, the Aberdeen professor believed that "great changes, suddenly accomplished, were always pregnant with danger and evil," and tho immediate legislation suggested, was of a mild nature...
...Utilize them for the promotion of culture—"that's what...
...The vices which are inseparately joined to the present system of property would inevitably expire in the present State Of society where all shared alike the bounties of Nature...
...anyone can get in it, the more tha merrier if they fight on the right side...
...I was standing on a street in Springfield, Illinois...
...Private Property Must Goi Government, however, is not the only institution that must be abolished if justice is to reign...
...If the outside world were based on justice, the impressions received would be good, the thoughts and motives would be good, and evil would be eliminated...
...Why not get Judge Raulston and Clarence Darrow to pull off a sixtyfour hour Wrathnn debate on Evolution, without eating or sleeping...
...Recently, in an interview given to a group of Far West newspaper men, Eugene V. Debs gave his impressions on the matter very clearly and interestingly, as follows: "With war, intolerance and th* halting of it* social growth th* . white civilization it fait committing hari-kari...
...beat ' 'em to it...
...Man, where have you been all this time...
...By hanging on to their coat tails "we" usually win...
...His uniform of blue overalls was faded, .patched and • smeared with grease and clay...
...was Thoreau's reply...
...Why not have a contest between Irving Berlin and Oscar Straus as to who can turn out the most popular melody in record time...
...asked Emerson...
...Man, he held, had no innate ideas rt i ither a good or a bad nature...
...Every man' would have a frugal, yet wholesome, diet...
...The land would be left in private possession, under his plan, but the rent would be determined by arbitrators...
...You have nothing to lo-c but your change—and damned little of that...
...i British Poets and Philosophers THE HISTORY OF SOCIALIST THOUGHT By HARRY W. LAIDLER, Ph.D...
...The hereditary revenue of a great landlord...
...Ogilvie declared that, by the operation of land monopoly, "the happiness of mankind had been for ages more invaded and restrained than by all the tyranny of kings, the imposture of priests, and the chicane of lawyers taken together, though these are supposed to be the greatest evils that afflict the societies of human kind...
...I have teen "outsiders" freesing on picket-lines, holding forbidden meetings under the gum of corporation deputies, getting themselvet ostracized by entire communities, while st the same time union organizers hsve been lolling sbout in hotels laughing their heads off at thoie who tske the Lsbor movement seriously...
...But all of us at on* time or another have experienced the unpleasant sensation of being treated as "Highbrows" and intellectuals when we have undertaken some job for Labor, and we were trying to get at the reason why and find out if it was entirely ou% fault that we were regarded as butter-in...
...but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones...
...and they are commonly treated as enemies by it...
...snd kept our mouthi thut for the take of the movement and run beck snd forth across the country at the behest of pig-eyed, rhinocerus-hided, bullminded Lsborites who have no more idea what the Labor movement is all about than they hsve about the heliocentric theory of the Universe...
...The deep interest which the American masses and newspapers have taken in the Dayton trial shows the way...
...came clear over here to beat us and got knocked stiff in the lecwd round...
...It isn't a private fight...
...Let others wallow in the filthy lucre...
...If I remember right, their wage ,wa« only forty cents per hour, and they demanded sixty...
...Money means nothing to me...
...If these events were as thoroughly advertised as prize fights, ball games and monkey trials...
...Thus art, science and music would become as popular as dog fights in Arkansas, and before long we could beat the world in culture as we beat it in every other liile...
...But how it that going to help the general movement...
...I thank you...
...But not so the following incident...
...thought she could beat us...
...We keep the champion belt, that's what...
...Government can be'abolished "by equity and the common deliberations on general welfare, which is the law of reason...
...belongs to my country...
...that lolly dolly Frenchman who thought he could best us was knocked stiff, that's what...
...Sure/' ' taid O'Malley, cheerfully, "but I don't wear it when I'm on the job any more than I wear a fire helmet when I cover a fire...
...From natural law he gained two maxims, the first, that every man had an equal share In land...
...Well, then, why not start a contest between some American and Irish Michael Aangelo as to which can chisel out the biggest and best Moses in the shortest time...
...For ro one has a right to superfluities...
...But Government, originating) in force and violence, strengthens evil by defending institutions that are based on injustice...
...One of the mott promising educational efforts that I have encountered in the field of Labor was shot to pieces becaute the local leader feared that outsiders who had charge of the project were trying to get hit job...
...who was knocked stiff...
...every man would go forth to that moderate exercite of hit corporeal functions that would give hilarity to his spirits...
...His horny, ham-like hunds were doubled in angry fists...
...Now to far at I am concerned, and thit goes for my friends who are working for Labor despite tha fact that they don't go to their work in overalls, there isn't a Job in the Labor movement at today conttituted that sny of ut would touch with a tenfoot pole...
...Every day's paper is a chronicle of th* crimes of civilization...
...If one has ten loaves of bread, and another has none, common justice demands that the hungry should obtain from the well-to-do enough to appease his hunger...
...It deprives the worker of leisure to cultivate his mind, and leisure is the real wealth of the nation...
...tprings from our vicet...
...William Godwin and the Intellectuals: The doctrines of Spence, of Ogilvie, and of Paine may have appealed to certain elements among the masses, but in the fervid days of the French Revolution in the latter part of the eighteenth century they left the radical intellectuals cold...
...All of this, including barnacle fins, tails and voices, is speculation, of course...
...Tom Tippett uttered pretty nesr the lstt word on thit subject when he tsid, "They speak about the Labor movement at though It were tome sort of closed corporation...
...The Poet's Dream ef Liberty i When Godwin's "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" first appiared in sC»:i, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey were young men 23, 21 and 19 yean of age respectively...
...oh, boy...
...Werdswerthi Wordsworth had just returned from a trip to France, where he had become acquainted with the French revolutioniats and had been tempted to throw in hit lot with the Britiotint...
...the second, "that every one, by whose labor any position of the soil has been rendered more fertile, has the right to the additional produce of that fertility, or to the value of it, and may transfer this right ;o other men...
...Thus tha achievements of the ship builders become the glory of the little barnacles and they flap their little fine and wag their tails and clap their little clippers and squeak their little squeakers until they are sore and hoarse from joy...
...To me it mak'*s no diferenc...
...What did I tell you...
...I wtloom* it...
...Besides, my ge-iiiu...
...is dying and fundamentalism i* it* rightful heir...
...In hit later editions, God win, doubly convinced by the French Revolution of the futility of force, made it clear that he depended on reason and persuasion at the tola weapons to bring in the new order, He even approved of the repressive measures which Mr...
...A hard-headed Yankee, ¦J held to his light as he knew it, insisting upon I sr'nt his own life at all costs...
...The latest manifestation of our failing order is the Fundamentalist movement...
...Adam Coaldigger...
...The lives of 2,000,000 children are being ground down in daily toil...
...The war on fundamentalism ilfitl be long and bitter...
...rVe Save never had any get...
...Our divorces almost equal our marriages...
...None would be made torpid with fatigue, but all would have leisure to 'cultivate the kindly and philanthroplcal affections i iK to let loose hit faculties in the search of intellectual improvements...
...Of the period he writes: "Bliss was it, in that dawn to b* alive, But to be young was very heaven...
...i i i . . . The -lass of men terve the State thus, not as men mainly, but at machines, with their bodies...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 35
