THE ELLSMERE GUARDIAN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. MODERN SOCIAISM.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 954, 21 October 1891, Page 2

THE ELLSMERE GUARDIAN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. MODERN SOCIAISM.

A cablegram from Berlin gives us the cheering information that a distinguished Socialist leader, Herr Bedel by name, has admitted that- the views of bis party are changing, and he candidly confesses that they are so changing because that parly cannot see any probability of carrying them out. It would have been more interesting still had the. messagt (old us exactly what f any Herr Bebel belongs to Socialism is a very wide and convenient teim. Only the other day the Prince of Wales remarked that we were all Socialists at heart, and probably the remark was more true than His Hoyal Highness fancied. A little took recently published, by Professor Webb, gives some interesting facts regarding the extent lo which Socialistic . j principles are adopted m England. The list of names of prominent men,; m every rank of life who are members of such societies is a remarkable one, and affords strong proof of the hold which the modern theories of Socialism have taken upon the people. But English Socialism is of a different type from that of Here Bhbel and his party. The English School does not demand an immediate reversal of the world's economies before rebuilding the social fabric. It aims at the improvement of the less fortunate classes without the impoverishment of the better off, and does not consider the murder of those m authority as the best and quickest means to achieve that end. English Socialism is still mainly theoretic, but it is steadily advancing and taking practical form yet more extensively every year. Naturally, its main point, of attack is the system of land tenure, an i much time and .uoney is spent m educating the people to right ways of thinking on this subject. The 'Socialists do not expect to establish a Utopia m a yebr or to. They look forward, nevertheless, to a good time coming m the near future when poverty and misery shall be impossiblo save to the vicious. These views, we imagine, they still hold, and will hold, till their aims are attained. Such views as Herr Bebel asserts are being moderated were never likely to last. The fiery Continental Anarchist is a very different individual from the reasonable Socialist, ami the sooner his views are moderated out o£ existence the better for the world at large and the Anarchist m particular.