Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXII. The salesman and the customer

Collection:: Economics Books

I IO THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. party in a most delicate and difficult position. Its founders were court preachers. How could it refrain from applauding the employment of the most stringent means against savages who were impelled, by a barbarous and stupid fanaticism, to commit a crime, abominable in itself and, in any case, useless for the furtherance of their designs ? The Staats-Socialist had proclaimed itself monarchical and conservative. Could it reject a law presented in the name of the very principles which it had undertaken to defend ? It actually did so, nevertheless ; and in so doing it showed both foresight and courage. It saw in the outrages a proof that it had not exaggerated the danger to be apprehended from the Socialist demagogy ; but it rejected the Anti-Socialist law, because, without removing the evil, it would cause it to disappear from sight, and thus postpone the application of a remedy, and because it would have the dis astrous effect of hindering the upper classes from doing their duty to those dependent on them. It may be questioned if the Staats-Socialist and the Social Evangelical party, in spite of the ties connecting them with the Court, will escape the rigorous measures which are striking in all directions associa tions and papers concerned with the social question. The object pursued by the Government is, apparently, to enforce complete silence on this subject, in order that the police may be able to boast that they have established order and peace. Silentium pacem appellant. To get a complete idea of the tendencies and principles that presided over the formation of the Social Evangelical party, one should read Herr Todt’s book on “ Radical German Socialism and Christian Society.” * It has had a great success, and two editions of it were sold off in a few months. It would be interesting to compare it with the book of M. François Huet, Le Hègne social du christianisme, published in 1852, in the same spirit and on a similar plan. Herr Todt places the following epigraph at the head of his work : “ Whoever would understand the social question and contribute to its solution must have on his right hand the works on Political Economy, * Der radikale deutsche Socialismus und die Christliche Gesellschaft, by RoclolfTodt, Wittemburg, 1878.

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