606 and 606.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 82, 4 October 1912, Page 7

606 and 606.

Two Remarkable Remedies for Two Remarkable Diseases.

By OTUS.

One of the most disgusting diseases is that which is medioally described as being closely akiu to leprosy, and which wrecks the lives of men and women, and, liko the law of Jloses, visits the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the tliird and fourth generation. There are blind men and women, men aud women physically deformed, men and women mentally afflicted, in the world of life to-day, who are victims of the transmitted effects of the horror. For years aud decodes of years and centuries'of years the scientists of tlie medical world have grappled with the danger, with varying results. The disease has an economic basis — most diseases have; and it will not, therefore, wholly disappear while we endure the economic conditions which provide a ready breeding ground for its germs. But within the present century there has arisen a physician who ha 3 discovered a marvellous remedy—a remedy that is swift and sure where the ravoges of the disease have not extended beyond the limits of human hope, and that gives fair promise of ultimately eradicating it when we shall have reached that stage of civilisation when we shall no louger be satisfied to make our human society the culture-bed of physical rottenness and loathsome corruption. The disease referred to results mostly from the contact of healthy individuals with conditions of impurity in other individuals; and the physician whose discovery is mentioned above labored long and conscientiously and patiently in his endeavor to find a remedy; He made 605 experiments without securing the desired result, but each succeeding experiment was a further step towards that victory which the 606 th attempt furnished- The new discovery lives in medical science as "606" —six-noght-six—and thero is probably not a hospital in the world but is now demonstrating its effectiveness.

i this direction, and with here and there an individual Socialist yielding to tho glamor of the Babylon of Opportunism, and becoming stricken victims of the contamination of its immorality, there arose—also within the present century —in an American city, an economic physician wbo likewise labored through many weary months to find a remedy for the disease. His efforts he wrote into the pages of a book. Page after page he filled with written matter, all leading up to the remedy; and —lo and behold!—after 605 pages had been filled, the remedy was arrived at. It appears on page 60(3 —it lives in Socialist history as "COG," and it is as swift and sure under existing economic conditions as the other "606" is under existing physician's remedy will assuredly act to omic conditions go that breed political and industrial scabbery, the economic physician's remedy wil lassuredly acb to eradicate from the body politic the last remnants of the loathsome disease i'o." which it is now but an antidote. The physician's name is Waltsr Thomas Mills. The book which setsj forth this "606" remedy is "The Struggle for Existence." The formula of the curative, as it appears on page GO6 of "The Struggle for Existence," is as follows: — "THE DANGER FROM FUSION. "If a labor union party should be organised, with a platform declaring for factory laws, for shorter working hours, for certain special advantages to the wage-workers under capitalism, it woiild not be an easy matter to hold the Socialist movement to ; ts complete revolutionary programme. The only possible safeguard is the strictest possible regulations in tho Socialist Party organisation against all endorsements, fusions, compromises, bargains," , or mutual understandings of any sort whatever with any other political party regardless of its name, its purpose, or ite platform." This remedy, conscientiously applied, will for ever bar the Socialists from becoming in any way allied to or contaminated with the Industrially and politically disense - stricken "Labor" Party; and it will go to preserve the cleanliness and the morality of the Socialist Party as a living body.

Now, physical diseases are not the only evils that threaten mankind. The*e are the diseases of the body politic that ere alike to leprosy ; there is political scabbery and industrial scabberv. Our Liberal and Labor Parties are bodies that are covered with the loathsome sores that are bred from this disease. Like the physical disease referred to above, this political and industrial disease is conveyed to otherwise health? bodies that come into contact with tin disease-laden todies. Individual Socialists who have indulged in wanderings of political immorality have never yet escaped it 3 contagion. If the Bocinlist Party as a whole, by fusion or by alliance or in any other way, should bring itself into contact with the diseasestricken parties it could not hope to escape.

Therefore, let us take Physician Mills' advice. Let us apply the 606 remedy in every case where the loathsome disease of political opportunism and industrial scabbery threatens. Let us adopt 'the strongest possible regulations again to all endorsements, fusions, compromises, bargains, or mutual understandings of any sort whatever with any other political party regardless of its name, its purpose or Ha platform." Even though it call its heterogeneous self a "United Labor Party "

With the danger of contamination threatening the Socialist movement in