THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. 
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of Parliament. The Evangelical Socialist party resembled the 
French Legitimists, in that they held up to admiration, as the 
type of government, the reign of Frederick II., and still more 
that of his father, the brutal churl whom Carlisle admired so 
excessively, who kept his kingdom and his family under the 
rod, but who was very pious after his fashion, and an excellent 
Economist 
Stöcker founded two associations : first of all, the Central 
Union for Social Reform,”* and then the “Christian Socia 
Working Men’s Party.” t Although the same ideas and nearly 
the same persons had directed the formation of the two groups, 
their aims were very different The Union for Social Reform 
was to be composed of well-to-do and educated men, such as 
ministers of the Church, professors, manufacturers, and land- 
owners, who would join in seeking for means of conciliating 
the anarchic classes through reforms inspired by the spirit of 
Christianity. Hitherto the partisans of corporations, the 
“ Agrarians,” all who demand protection for national labour, 
not only were unable to agree so as to combine their efforts, 
but even opposed and neutralized each other’s action. It was 
necessary, then, to show how these tendencies harmonize wuth 
one another, and to point out the superior principle that 
justifies them and binds them together. 
What is called cultivated society is so far from compre 
hending the true mission of Christianity that, when Minister 
Stöcker first took up the Social question, all the liberal and 
progressist papers protested against this Mucker-socialismusy 
this “ sham socialism.” It was therefore imperative to combat 
the materialism of the upper classes and the atheism of the 
people, and to renew the religious conception of the world and 
society. It was necessary, in the first place, for the clergy to 
extend a helping hand to the labourers, in order to rally them 
to Christianity, and this was to be the work of the Christian 
Social Working Men’s Party; while, in the second place,it Vras 
incumbent on the friends of the people, among the upper 
ranks, to combine in order to forestall revolution by reforms. 
* Central Verein für Social-reform. 
t Christlich-sociale Arbeiterpartei.