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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESEBVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permsslon trom Columbia UnivorsltyLibraries              \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:            35mmREDUCTION BATIO:      9:1  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                    4-30-97照  \n          23627               \nTRACKING\\#:  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n(  \n## SOCIALISM IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.\n\nI.—THE AIMS OF SOCIALISMIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.  \nLecture  \n0x222  \ndelivered by  \nMR.W.G.TOWLER  \n(Secrelary of the London Municipal Sociely)  \nat  \nCAXTON HALL,WESTMINSTER,  \non  \nMonday,January 24th,1927.  \nChairman:SIR REGINALD BLAIR.  \n## The Aims of Socialism in LocalGovernment.\n\nSoCIALISM No NEw THING.To many who give but a casual devotion to the study ofpolitics,Socialism appears as a novel schemeTo them it isa new light breaking over a palsied and worn-out world,whichhas vainly followed ancient political systems and creeds in thehope of realising human perfection.But Socialism is as old asthe known history of nations.Could we but reconstruct therecords of pre-historic races,I think we should find that10000Socialism played its sinister part in the life of early man.Socialism is,as all experience shows,a disease whichattacks the body politic as nations approach dissolution.Rome had its Campus Martius,its bread and circuses for thepeople,its purchase of votes by public funds,its Socialistcorruption.London has its Poplar—the new Campus Martius,where Socialist corruption and demoralisation of the peoplewas first practised,to be imitated later in many other townswhere Socialism now reigns.  \n## SoCIALISM A DISEASE,\n\nBy WHAT AUTHORITY?  \nWhen any man,or body of men,make a proposal invitingpeople to engage in a new scheme of business,or in any othermatter,it is the usual course,for wise and prudent peopleat least,to enquire—“By what authority do you proposethis thing?What are your qualifications,your credentials,and your reputation for wisdom and experience that youadvocate this or that proposal?”  \nMost of us are careful to enquire into the reputation of adoctor,a tailor,or a dressmaker,before we submit ourselvesfor medical or sartorial treatment.But it is too true that weoften select our politicians and our governors with far less carethan we choose a cobbler to mend our boots.  \nDay by day a large mass of the public swallows thedogmatic theories on highly technical and scientific questionsexpressed in the papers by journalists,novelists,dramatists,whose work,admirable in itself,gives them no title to berecognised as experts on the subject about which they write.It is,therefore,a pertinent question to ask the leaders ofSocialism—\"By what authority do you speak?\"I think itwas Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes,the wise and delightful  \nessayist,who said that mankind could be divided into twoclasses—the\"Ifs\"and the\"Ases.\"The\"Ifs\"were thosewho are always saying:“If only things were so and so,howmuch better the world would be.\"They are the dreamers,thepolitical speculators,and the paper-salvationists of mankind.Ignoring realities,they think to cure the evils of Society bypouring buckets of rose-water sentimentalism over them,andplastering the vacant mind-spaces of the masses with picturesof Utopias and New States;with phrases such as“Liberty,fraternity and equality”\"the inevitability of Socialism,\"\"Socialism in our time,\"\"The Land for the People,\"\"Fromeach according to his ability,to each according to his need,\"and so on.They do little or nothing practical to solve the illsof life or to benefit humanity.  \nOn the other hand,the“Ases”comprise those who say:\"As things are we can do so and so.\"They comprise thekeen,practical leaders in science,in art,in industry andpolitics.It is they who move the world,and it is they whoare mainly 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