Author of "The Bitter Cry of the Children," "Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles," "The Socialists: Who They Are and What They Stand For," "Capitalist and Laborer," Etc., Etc., Etc....

Socialism is undoubtedly spreading. It is, therefore, right and expedient that its teachings, its claims, its tendencies, its accusations and promises, should be honestly and seriously examined.— Prof. Flint. My Dear Mr. Edwards : I count it good fortune to receive such letters of inquiry as that which you have written me. You could not easily have conferred greater pleasure upon me than you have by the charming candor and vigor of your letter. It is said that when President Lincoln saw Walt Whi

It seems to me that people are not enough aware of the monstrous state of society, absolutely without a parallel in the history of the world, with a population poor, miserable and degraded in body and mind, as if they were slaves, and yet called freemen. The hopes entertained by many of the effects to be wrought by new churches and schools, while the social evils of their conditions are left uncorrected, appear to me utterly wild.— Dr. Arnold, of Rugby. The working-classes are entitled to claim

Mankind are divided into two great classes—the shearers and the shorn. You should always side with the former against the latter.— Talleyrand. All men having the same origin are of equal antiquity; nature has made no difference in their formation. Strip the nobles naked and you are as well as they; dress them in your rags, and you in their robes, and you will doubtless be the nobles. Poverty and riches only discriminate betwixt you.— Machiavelli. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not be stolen fr

It is easy to persuade the masses that the good things of this world are unjustly divided—especially when it happens to be the exact truth.— J.A. Froude. The growth of wealth and of luxury, wicked, wasteful and wanton, as before God I declare that luxury to be, has been matched step by step by a deepening and deadening poverty, which has left whole neighborhoods of people practically without hope and without aspiration.— Bishop Potter. At present, all the wealth of Society goes first into the po

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufactures, and others, to make large fortunes.— John Stuart Mill. Most people imagine that the rich are in heaven, but as a rule it is only a gilded hell. There is not a man in the city of New York with brains enough to own five millions of dollars. Why? The

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in all ages to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.— Adam Smith. The great ones of the world have taken this earth of ours to themselves; they live in the midst of splendour and superfluity. The smallest nook of the land is already a possession; none may touch it or meddle with it.— Goethe. I have by no means exhausted the evils of the system under which we live in the brief catalogue I have made for you, my friend. If it were n

It may be fairly said, I think, that not merely competition, but competition that was proving ruinous to many establishments, was the cause of the combinations.— Prof. J.W. Jenks. The day of the capitalist has come, and he has made full use of it. To-morrow will be the day of the laborer, provided he has the strength and the wisdom to use his opportunities.— H. De. B. Gibbins. Monopoly expands, ever expands, till it ends by bursting.— P.J. Proudhon. For this is the close of an era; we have polit

Socialism is industrial democracy. It would put an end to the irresponsible control of economic interests, and substitute popular self-government in the industrial as in the political world.— Charles H. Vail. Socialism says that man, machinery and land must be brought together; that the toll gates of capitalism must be torn down, and that every human being's opportunity to produce the means with which to sustain life shall be considered as sacred as his right to live.— Allan L. Benson. Socialism

( Continued ) And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the

I feel sure that the time will come when people will find it difficult to believe that a rich community such as our's, having such command over external nature, could have submitted to live such a mean, shabby, dirty life as we do.— William Morris. Morality and political economy unite in repelling the individual who consumes without producing.— Balzac. The restraints of Communism would be freedom in comparison with the present condition of the majority of the human race.— John Stuart Mill. I pro

Apart from those convulsive upheavals that escape all forecast and are sometimes the final supreme resource of history brought to bay, there is only one sovereign method for Socialism—the conquest of a legal majority.— Jean Jaurès. When one is convinced of the justice and wisdom of the Socialist idea, when its inspiration has begun to quicken the pulse and to stir the soul, it is natural that one should desire to do something to express one's convictions and to add something, however little, to

The following list of books on various phases of Socialism is published in connection with the advice contained on pages 173-174 relating to the necessity of studying Socialism. The names of the publishers are given in each case for the reader's convenience. Charles H. Kerr & Company do not sell, or receive orders for, books issued by other publishers. ( A ) History of Socialism The History of Socialism, by Thomas Kirkup. The Macmillan Company, New York. Price $1.50, net. French and Germ

Nothing bears more remarkable evidence to the growth of the American Socialist movement than the phenomenal development of its literature. Even more eloquently than the Socialist vote, this literature tells of the onward sweep of Socialism in this country. Only a few years ago, the entire literature of Socialism published in this country was less than the present monthly output. There was Bellamy's "Looking Backward," a belated expression of the utopian school, not related to modern scientific S