EVOLUTION IS THE
BASE OF SOCIALISM.
DECLARES A SPEAKER OF MANY
TRITE MAXIMS.
Arthur Morrow Lewis of Chicago Ad-
dresses Followers of That Economic
School -- He Will Speak
Again Tonight.
Civilization has not made the most of itself, according to Arthur Morrow Lewis of Chicago, in his lecture on "Socialism and Science," at the Academy of Music last night. The body of his lecture was taken up with an exegesis of the Darwinian theory of evolution, which the speaker said, constitutes the principal prerequisite of socialistic philosophy.
His words were spicily sprinkled with tersely put aphorisms that wouldn't make dull reading in some of the smartly written best-sellers, to wit"
"The desire to be a millionaire is the propensity of a hog.
"Capitalists live without working, while you work without living.
"We are not dreamers of dreams, crying for the moon.
"The giraffe does about as much thinking as the average workingman.
"We know that when Bryan and Hearst rail at the trusts, they are beating their wooden heads against a granite wall.
"We look even beyond the brotherhood of man, and proclaim the brotherhood of all things that live -- a greater idea than any religion ever dreamed of.
"The truth of evolution is rejected nowhere, so far as I know, unless it be by the Salvation Army.
"The diminutive cohippus of ages ago was the ancestor of our great present-day thoroughbred horse, and the jungle fowl, progenitor of our barnyard chickens, is still cackling in the tropic wilderness.
"Let a man among us lift up his head and announce an unheard of truth, and we will persecute him, as our fathers did the pioneers of civilization.
"The mob -- you are the mob, that is until election day is over. For the brief present, you are intelligent and sovereign citizens.
"They say that civilization was created by a handful of men and that it is only just that a handful should control it, but I notice the handful that created it is not the same that now owns it."
The speaker closed with an impassioned recitation from Victor Hugo on the breaking up of the frozen river Neva when the peasantry had built a city on its surface of ice.
Mr. Lewis will speak tonight on "The Triumph of Socialism."
