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AIMS OF SOCIALISM.
The Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne
Argus telegraphed on Wednesday:-" In con
nection with the Beform League, Col. Bell
(formerly United States Consul in Sydney) de
livered an address recen'ly on 1 Democracy v.
Socialism.' He said that all we bad to-day of
real civilization arose from individualism, yet to
day cH'izi'ion was challenged, and there were
people who boldly proclaimed it to be a failure.
The British Empire was the triumph of private
enterprise, and it was private enterprise that sent
sturdy colonists abroad. Private enterprise
lighted the lamp of progress that all the world
marched by, Under socialism they would lean
against the post and borrow a match while the
billet was passed around on a silver plate.
Socialism was a monster with enough hands to
go into every one's pocket, and a head not big
enough to hold 4 oz. of brains. The socialists
were trying to make socialism popular by making
it fggpectable. So they called it social demo
cracy. The two things were utterly different
Demooracy would kvel up; socialism would level
down. Socialism coming11? proclaimed to the
world that man was ino >pable oi ®*
himse'f. The socialist party had an oojeo£?a*
They were going to nationalize monopolies. A
monopoly was nothing but a condition, and it
was just as impossible to nationalize a monopoly
as to nationalize a parallelogram or a bad smell.
(Laughter.) They never wou'd get people into
Australia unless thry crushed out socialism and
confiscation People would not fight to defend a
collective community. There never was a case
ye' of men who fought to defend the boarding
house. (Laughter.) He was not saying a word
against the leaders of the socialist movement,
but his experience of them in many parts of the
world led him to think that they generally sought
a place in the band wagon."
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