THE SOCIAL ORDER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 2

THE SOCIAL ORDER

STEPHEN LEACOCK’S VIEW “At least one-half of the young people in our colleges are inspired by the same-kind of social discontent that animated Karl Marxj and, if we think we can put the iron lid of suppression on their ideas, we are working for. revolution and shipwreck,” said Professor Stephen, Leacock, of M'Gill University, in an address to the Professional Institute at Ottawa, on “Social Justice and Social Revolution.” After reviewing the Marxian plan of socialism, and its development in its later days, Professor Leacock Bald:— “Socialism is'slavery; that’s all there is to it. I would be a socialist in a minute if only the unfairness of the present system were concerned. But the introduction of socialism as a governing force would launch us into a mechanical world of authority and command, giving equal reward to the loafer and the ( worker. I think we shall move nearer to the socialist conception, but the basis Bhould be, and must be, every man for himself., No other motive will keep the WMld going. If waste be eliminated, I am convinced that four hours of work daily is all that is necessary-'’ , '