Socialism Unveiled.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 120, 27 April 1883, Page 3

Socialism Unveiled.

bnelbf'the socialists recently tried atLyjons made the following explanation concerning the aims of the party to which he> . bejpn ged ;~ A narchists, he said, are^citizens who, m an age when freedom of opinion is preached, consider it f heir right and duty to proclaim unlimited freedom. We do but proclaim aloud what millions are thinking m Hheir hearts. "We. claim for every human being the right to do just as he pleases, and/to satisfy all be desires, nootoer limit than is imposed by natural barriers or the necessities of his nei.db--bours.. We believe such liberty is inconsistent with any authority whatsoever.'' m the eyes of the Anarchists, evil does not dwell m one form of Government more than another ; history Blow's it is the Government idea which ig at the root of the human misery. Qur ideal is the substitution of freedom of contract, constantly subject to reyisal, id place of legal or. administrative tutelage. The •Anarchists propose to teach the world'to do without Governmeuts. as it is already begining to do; without a Deity. There can be no liberty without eg^alityv therefore 0 all '< proprietors mußt ;t ße abolished. l " Capital is the common patrimony of humanity. We would establish actual and real equality —to everyone according to his faculties, to everyone according .to his powers. We demand'bieacl ior all, science for all, and for all independence" ami justice.