The social question is the most important question of today. Every clear mind sees that the modern social system is in need of reform. The countless inventions, the ceaseless building and perfecting of machines and the centralization of labor and capital have given a new-impetus to industry, called forth new social conditions and created new relations between rich and poor. Thus mankind is being more and more distinctly divided into two large classes, capitalist and laborer, employer and employed. The world's capital has for a long time continued to accumulate in the hands of a few, while the mass of people is gradually becoming poorer. These conditions have slowly become so unbearable that today mankind stands face to face with a serious problem, which day after day calls more urgently upon the public conscience for a satisfactory solution.
In spite of the many attempts to solve this question, comparatively little has been accomplished. The fault lies largely in the want of the true conception of the social conditions and of the real nature of the social reform that is needed.
A few theories have been brought before the mind of the public, whose general tendency is rather to retard
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COLLEGEVTtLE, STEARNS COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Vol. XXVII
JANUARY
Number 1
The social question is the most important question of today. Every clear mind sees that the modern social system is in need of reform. The countless inventions, the ceaseless building and perfecting of machines and the centralization of labor and capital have given a new-impetus to industry, called forth new social conditions and created new relations between rich and poor. Thus mankind is being more and more distinctly divided into two large classes, capitalist and laborer, employer and employed. The world's capital has for a long time continued to accumulate in the hands of a few, while the mass of people is gradually becoming poorer. These conditions have slowly become so unbearable that today mankind stands face to face with a serious problem, which day after day calls more urgently upon the public conscience for a satisfactory solution.
In spite of the many attempts to solve this question, comparatively little has been accomplished. The fault lies largely in the want of the true conception of the social conditions and of the real nature of the social reform that is needed.
A few theories have been brought before the mind of the public, whose general tendency is rather to retard
