There is no monument to Golden Rule Jones in Toledo; and since St. Gaudens is gone I know of no one who could conceive him in marble or in bronze. There is not a public building which he erected, no reminder of him which the eye can see or the hands touch. But his name is spoken here a thousand times a day, and always with the reverence that marks the passage of a great man upon the earth. And I am sure that his influence did not end here. Did not a letter come from Yasnaya Polyana in the handwriting of the great Tolstoy, who somehow had heard of this noble and simple soul who was, in his own way, trying the same experiment of life which the great Russian was making?
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In the beginning, of course, it was inevitable that
Jones should have been called a Socialist. I suppose
he did not care much himself, but the Socialists
cared, and promptly disowned him, and were at one
with the capitalists in their hatred and abuse of
him. He shared, no doubt, the Socialists' great
dream of an ordered society, though he would not
have ordered it by any kind of force or compulsion,
but in that spirit which they sneer at as mere sentimentalism.
He was patient with them; he saw their
point of view; he had, indeed, the immense advantage
of being in advance of them in his development.
He saw Socialism not, as most see it, from the hither
side, but from the farther side, as one who has passed
