SOCIALISM AND AMERICAN IDEALS

by

William Starr Myers, Ph.D.

Professor Of Politics, Princeton University

Princeton University Press
Princeton
London Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1919

1919, by
Princeton University Press

Published February, 1919
Printed in the United States of America

To
The Memory Of
Samuel Selden Lamb
In Partial Fulfilment Of A
Mutual Promise Made At
"dear Old Chapel Hill"

PREFACE

The following essays originally appeared in the form of articlescontributed at various times to the (daily) New York Journal ofCommerce and Commercial Bulletin. Numerous requests have been receivedfor a reprinting of them in more permanent form, and this little volumeis the result.

I am deeply indebted to my friend Mr. John W. Dodsworth, of the Journalof Commerce, for his kind and generous permission to reprint thesearticles. Since numerous changes and modifications from the originalform have been made the responsibility for these statements and thesentiments expressed rests entirely upon me.

I hope it is not necessary for me to say that this is not intended as anexhaustive study of the more or less widespread movement to advancepaternalism in Government. My object is to lay before the people, inorder that they may carefully consider them, the reasons for thinkingthat Socialism is in theory and practice absolutely opposed and contraryto the principles of Americanism, of democracy, and even of theChristian-Jewish religion itself.

Wm. Starr Myers.

Princeton, N.J.
November 28, 1918.

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