Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interfering laws of the state. The death-rate, however, has considerably decreased in those districts. The English leaders in politics have begun to see that a voluntary system is not sufficient. Gladstone says that economic grounds cannot always prevail, but morality and charity must be considered. The English socialist now wishes to have the state take control of hotels, banks and ultimately the land. The increase of the amount of machinery in use, rolled up money for the rich, made the poor poorer, and destroyed the lives of many of the powerless laborers. So the German government took charge...
...assistant librarian. When I had gained this point, I proceeded to look about in a dingy, dark, low ceilinged room, for something in the line of a catalogue. I searched every corner and every cranny without success, and finally fearing that I might be suspected of being a Socialist, I roused my courage, walked up to a desk and asked very politely where I could find a catalogue. The mighty man, sitting behind the desk, tightly fitted into a military coat, raised his head, looked at me sharply, smiled haughtily, and informed me that the catalogue was reserved...
...collection are obvious. Take, for instance, one of the topics suggested, the Negro Scare; the facts concerning it are to be found nowhere else than in the newspapers, and a collection upon that topic would be invaluable to the future historian. The same is true of reports of socialist meetings, trades-unions, co-operative societies, etc.; also of another and important class of facts,- those relating to monopolies. And even if these facts in this form were not of great permanent value, the advantage to be gained from having them collated and thus brought forcibly to our notice at present...
...continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes the capitalist from the socialist. Justus Schwab says, "Shoot the rich man;" and the rich man says, "The public be blanked!" Ignorance is the only common bond between them, and that fosters their mutual hate. The poor men and self-styled reformers who met at Irving Hall a short time ago had for their motto...
...wonder that the power which grinds us down to the level of serfs of the Czar, with only a smattering of learning to separate us from the toiling mass, is detested and secretly defied? This is the reason why the Universities are such excellent field for the socialist propaganda; why St. Petersburg and Moscow and Kiev and Odessa and other institutions are furnishing young men to the cause in a never failing supply. It is a fight for free discussion and free thought, as well as for constitutional liberties. The "Nihilist" today is not necessarily an anarchist or a denier...