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April 4, 1895
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"This is freedom! Yon have liberty to
commit suicide or die of alow starvation
if you get out of work and cannot find a
market to buy your labor in this land of
liberty." So says the New York Voice.
The name of the new party (American
Bimetallic) is not a name to attract or
that can continue long. There must be
something more than the dotlar idea in
a great party, a party that lives and
grows. -
The Minneapolis Times (Oem.) a few
days ago editorially argued for free silver
and predicted that both the Republican
and Democratic platforms in '96 would
be for 16 to 1 free coinage. It is suppos
ed by the old party politicians that
whenever one or both the old parties
hoiBt the silver standard the Populists
will flock to it and be heard of no more.
Ait inheritance tax bill has passed to
third reading in the Illinois legislature.
As amended it proposes to tax inherit
ances that exceed $20,000, the tax to be
one per cent on every $100 in excess of
this amount if inherited by parent, wife,
child, brother or sister. Indirect heirs
must pay two per cent tax, and benefici
aries not related to the devisor are to
pay threw per cent graduated upwards
upon portions above $20,000.
Sat, friends, fathers and mothers, what
is the show for your boys and girls?
They can't go west and get government
land as yon did. And the farm renter has
a life long struggle with little prospect o'
ever saving enough to buy a home of his
own. If they learn a trade the outlook
is no better. They can only get work
part of the time. The professions are
crowded. There are no openings for
average men which promise them sure
places, constant work at good wages
and independence. What shall we do for
our boys and girls? In this United
States ot MonoDoly something has got
be done, and done soon.
In several states legislatures have been
long and serious discussions this winter of
measures to prevent the wearing of high
hats in theaters. This beats the gnat
and camel business. While want and op
pression are all about them the lawmak
ers go on making laws to increase the
power of the rich, or waste their time
and the people's money over such ques.
tions as the style of ladies' hats. In
Missouri a law has been discussed, in ap
paren t seriousness, imposing a grad uated
tax on all bachelors. The tax proposed
ranges from $ 10 a piece on bachelors be
tween the ages of thirty and thirty-five
to twenty-five per cent of the gross in
come of bachelors over seventy.
The Standard Oil Company has again
triumphed. .For some time a competing
pipe line has been struggling to get its
pipe through to navigation and was
overcoming all opposition of the mighty
octopus. But the Trust has bought up
once more the Pennsylvania state legis
lature, governor and all, and put a bill
through allowing a pipe line to buy up
competing lines, which bill was enacted
to enable the Standard Oil Company to
prevent competition. Governor Hast
ings is being publicly denounced as a will
ful liar and tool of the Trust. So law is
being made by and for the lawless, and
the cry of anarchy is ever on the lips of
anarchists.
OUR SOCIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Mr. T. L. Willson of Spray, N. L, has
discovered a way of making acetylene, an
illuminating gas, which ought to force
to the front the question of social pro
perty rights, if there are any such right.
Manufactured lights, oil, gas and elec
tricity, are now in the hands of monopo
lists, who fix prices far above the labor
cost involved in their production. The
Standard Oil trust controls the produc
tion and sale of kerosene, the universal
illuminant, a necessity in every home.
And the gas and electric lighting com
panies, dictate the prices of the gas and
conducted illuminaiits used in the cities.
The price of gas is from $2.00 to $1.50
per thousand feet, and electricity is cor
respondingly high. These gas and elec
tric companies have secured franchises
for periods of years from the municipali
ties. Now comes in Mr. Willson with his dis
covery that an illuminating gas of splen
did quality can be made for not to exceed
five cents per thousand feet. And the
question arises, does the right of private
property rest upon discovery? It has
been assumed that finding a gold or sil
ver or other mine, or commercially valu
able deposits of nature, made them the
property of the finder. The man who
"struck oil" under land which he held in
fee simple has not had his property right
to it disputed, even though the flow has
given him the power of a prince to com
mand the product of thousands of work
ers. If, then, discovery of natural pro
ducts and energies rightfully conveys
ownership and control of such gifts to
the discoverer, Mr. T. L. Willson is the
king and coming conqueror of the world.
Consider what it means for the law to
give him the sole right to manufacture,
by the natural process he has discover
ed, the gas acetylene. It will cost him
but five cents a thousand feet, and he can
therefore undersell all manufacturers of
kerosene, gas and electricity, and become
the sole producer of the artificial light of
the world, provided he patents his gas in
other countries. Suppose he reduced the
price of first class illuminatinggas to fifty
cents per thousand feet. He could then
make 1000 per cent on cost of manufac
ture and would have no competitors. He
could also undersell the Standard Oil
trust and take in all the money that now
is spent by the people for kerosene. If
his letters patent were renewed and run
forty years and more, the richest million
aires of the present day would be as
paupers compared with Willson, the
manufacturer of acetylene.
The Outlook describes the accidental
way Mr. Willson discovered the immeas
urably valuable secret. We quote:
Mr. T. L. Willson, of Spray, N. C, is
the inventor of a cheap way of making
acetyleue, an illuminating gas, and the
lowest ol the hydrocarbons. It is the
lowest in hydrogen aud the richest in
carbon. Mr. Willson was at work with
an electric furnace, when a mixture of
anthracite dust and lime which he was
using fused into a heavy, half-metallic
mass. As that was just what Mr. Will
son did hot want, he threw it in disgust
into a bucket of water, whereupon the
water effervesced and gave off a gas
which was identified as acetylene. A
pound of the solid mass yielded some
thing over five cubic feet of the gas. "
On Monday two weeks ago Mr. Willson
explained the process before the Society
of Chemical Industry at the College of
Pharmacy, and the acetylene was turned
on. The American Druggist says that
The lights burned with dazzling bright
ness, and were white and steadfast, with
no blue center. Mr. Willson said the
samples of calcium carbide used to pro
duce the gas, simply by its own decom
position in water, were part of a two-ton
lot which had been turned out of his
works in North Carolina. He said the
stuff would keepa year without deteriora
tion. He said he was producing more
than a ton a day with 134 horse-power.
iie intnds to apply 5,000 horse-power
and get out nearly seven tons a day. He
also said that he thought that calcium
carbide could be produced for $5 a ton,
ana could be sold with profit at a price
that would make it possible to sell
ordinary illuminating gas at five cents a
thousand cubic feet.
The gas, it is said. may. by Dressure.be
changed into liquid form, aud sold in
mat torni in close and fitted cans ready
for attachment to the gas-supply pipe of
a house. Another proposition is to use
the solid calcium carbide for individual
lights, such as a stand lamp, generating
the gas on the spot, or for lighting
streets and railroad cars.
Ordinary burners being too large for
acetylene, smaller burners will be used.
It is said that the burners will let out
one foot of gas an hour, and that that
name will be about oO candle-power, and
have only one-half the heating power of
common gas.
Here is an accidental discovery of a
way to draw out and make use of natu
ral energies which if monopolized has a
prodigious commercial value. Republics
and kingdoms with their tribute-collecting
power sink into insignificance beside
it and one man, without labor, without
studying the problem, has stumbled on
to it. Does it all belong to hiiu? Accord
ing to precedents, in the matter of origi
nal titles to private property, it does,
But the size of the find, and what it
would confer upon the fiuder, makes
clear the injustice of such titles, of all
titles that monopolize natural gifts.
Notice the other vast value and benefits
contained in this discovery of so cheap a
gas. Acetylene has ouly half the heating
power of common gas, but instead of
costing $1.50 (ten per cent off for cash)
it can be sold profitably for five cents
per thousand feet. If then it can beat
and cook and drive machinery by using
twice as much of it, if the government
manufactures it for ten cents we can get
2,000 feet of it and do the work that
Lincoln illuminating gas users now must
pay $1.35 to have done. So cheap would
this power be that at very small expense
it could be put to use lifting water, and
every foot of arable land, or land re
claimable by water, could be irrigated.
It would also save a vast cost in fuel,
Mr. Willson should be pensioned and the
government should give the whole people
the benefits of his almost infinitely valu
able discovery.
WHAT ABE THE MILLSTOHES?
If the Populist party goes into the
campaign of 1896 with all its forces con
centrated on monetary reform, without
any millstones about its neck, it will go
to victory; otherwineit will go to the
bottom. J. II. Turner in Record Re
view. This is getting slightly monotonous
and wearisome, coming as it does from
the secretary of our national committee.
Taubeneck and Turner have a rieht to
their individual opinions, just as other
men have. But we want to know why in
thunder (or reason)the men who talk of
"millstones" do not state what they are
This warning of awful danger, without
specifications as to what is dragging or
will drag us down, is not calculated to
convince those who have gathered upon,
been drawn to, the Omaha platform and
who do not believe that it is composed of
millstones.
Is the general ground of our platform,
opposition to monopolies, a millstone?
Oris it our opposition to certain peculiar
or particular monopolies? We must con
clude it is, in Turner's estimation, the
latter. Strange, that the national con
vention, while opposing monopoly op
pression in general, should be so unwise
at to attack more than one particular
monopolyl
The railroad plank in the Omaha plat
form must be one of the millstones that
are choking or about to choke the life
out of our party (?), according to Mr,
Turner. But, unfortunately for them,
the great body of our people do not
agree with Mr. T, They refuse to believe
we are sinking, or that his judgment is
of any more value that the judgment of
any other mediocre individual.
We protest against the persistent pro.
pbecies and warnings of a few men that
our party will be dragged down to des
truction by the right principles and just
demands which our platform contains,
which they call millstones, if we do not
accept their advice and get rid of the
millstones. If they will point out where
in our stand against the transportation
monopolists is untimely, unnecessary,
unwise and politically dangerous wemay
beable to cut ourselves from the railroad
millstone. Or, if Mr. Turner can open
the eyes of the party to the folly and in
consistency ot continuing our opposition
to the land and telegraph monopolies we
shall of course hasten to let them alone,
and so save our party from destruction.
But until Mr. Turner and his fellow pro
phets can make the rest of us, the stupid
majority, see the "millstones" the party
will sail on serenely and take its chances.
SYNTHETIC 0HEMI8TRT OBEATONS
By exposing lime and coal to the elec
tric arch a semi-metallic mass has been
produced, which accidentally dropped in
water gave off the strong smelling gas,
acetylene, "and the great problem of
chemistry is solved," says the Scientific
American. Illustrations with this stuff
v
have been given by great chemical lectur
ers before astonished audiences in Lon
don and the possibilities of this discovery
are perfectly dazzling. The long sought
philosopher's stone may yet be found.
Gold as well as food will yet be poured
forth by tons from great chemical labora
tories."
These are the sober prophecies of scien.
tific men who are opening up n new world
in synthetic chemistry. Heretofore
chemists have been taking the world to
pieces, resolving it into its original ele
ments. They are now just fairly begin
ning to discover the wonderful secrets
and possible products of combination.
The variety of artificial creations pos
sible seems almost illimitable. Whatever
is achemicai compound is apparently not
beyond the power of chemists to pro
duce, and in any desired quantity. And
if it be discovered that what have hither
to been supposed to be simpleelementary
substances (gold, for instance) are in fact
compounds, the possibility of artificially
constructing them in any quantity must
be recognized.
But O, what a scattering of the gold-
bugs there would be if gold should be
produced by the chemists 1 The first
thing, however, would be an effort to
protect the secret with letters patent.
And if the process of making gold were
patented and owned by one man, or a
few men whom he let in to share his
power with him, before the pat nt expir
ed they could buy up the whole earth
and make all mankind renters, aud the
governments would be merely police
aud military protection for them as
owners and rulers.
But before this could be accomplished
every government in the world would
hasten to demonetize "the world's
money," would declare it lacking ia "in
trinsic" value, would cry out against the
"sound money"and the "honest dollar.'
The nations instead of waiting for an
international conference would individu
ally outlaw gold and send their biggest
warships, their entire navies to protect
the gold bonds and stocks and mortga
ges of their people which the swift manu
facture of gold was making worthless.
0, wouldn't it make them hump, and
wouldn't it be jolly fun to fling their
"honest" dollars at them, to give them
all the "intrinsic" value they wanted,
crowa it on to them even, as it was fore
ed upon King Midas!
It is a theory with some chemists that
hydrogen gas, the lightest of all known
substances, the unit of chemistry, is the
one simple substance from which in mul
tiples of unit combination all substauces
are made. There is a remarkable mathe
matical relation between the weights of
other substances and the weight of
hydrogen. Apparently simple substances
like coal, and the diamond (purecarbon)
differ even when composed of the same
thing. This is the art of creation. But
it is no more strange than the work of
roan who constructs all varieties of
buildings out of brick which are exactly
alike. It is the way they are laid to
gether which makes the difference. And
it is just so with the molecules of matter.
It is the way they are put together that
makes the difference between coal and
diamonds.
THE CENSURE OF STEWART
We call attention to a letter from Sena
tor Stewart fonnd elsewhere which
throws light on the matter of the attack
made upon him in the senate last week.
Briefly stated Mr. Stewart was speaking
very earnestly, for the poor, on a bill of
great importance to the people in the
western counties, a bill gotten up by the
eastern corporations and land specula
tors to save themselves school taxes on
the land held and being gathered up by
them in Western Nebraska. It was a law
originated by heartless greed to take
from the resident voters the right to
vote local taxes to educate their children.
Senator Stewart has an intense hatred
of oppression and loves liberty for all;
and warming up to the greatness of the
occasion, speaking for the children of the
poor who were to be kept in ignorance to
save taxes for covetous speculators, he
was scoring unmercifully those who were
trampling on the children's rights. It be
came unendurably effective, and the in
troducer of the bill, Noyes of Douglas,
rose to interrupt the telling eloquence by
raising a point of order. Stewart was in
the midst of ft sentence and did not break
it off. The interruptor apparently chang
ed his mind and sat down, and Mr.
Stewart kept on speaking; whereupon the
acting speaker, Tefft, took it upon him
self to silence hi in by breaking the gavel
over the desk, and ordered the sargeant-at-arms
to seat Stewart, which he tried
to do by seizing and jerking his whiskers.
Now let us compare the acts of the
Populist members and the acts of the
body that censured him. Mr. Stewart
disregarded the gavel of Tefft who com
manded him to sit down, when no other
man was on the floor. But the ruling
majority of the legislature was trying to
smuggle a bill through to force the west
ern boys and girls to grow up in ignor
ance. Mr. Stewart was perhaps breaking
a parliamentary rule of the legislature.
But the legislature itself was trying to
trample on the rights of the children to
a common school education. It signifies
little when a lawless legislature singles
out the man who has stood most in its
way and censures him for disregard of a
parliamentary rule, when it as a body, a
Republican body, has trampled on the
law and the constitution, and the most
sacred rights of American citizenship.
Mr. Stewart was not cool and self-contained,
perhaps. His sense of outraged
justice and his hatred of oppression
swept him into momentary disregard of
the malicious opposition of the ruling
power, its right to subjugate him as well
as the poor he was defending. The peo
ple will accept his apology. -
Prof. Herron's new book, "The Chris
tian State: A Political Vision of Christ,"
is getting a sort of advertising in the
press of the modern Scribes and Pharisees
which will, contrary to the reviewers' de
sires, commend it to those who are con
sciously or unconsciously seeking "the
larger Christ." The New Yorklndepend
ent reviewer fails to grasp the "vision'
in its breadth and unity. He sees only
form, rhetorical power, earnestness,
love of justice in the author's work, but
is unable, through force of traditional
ideas, to enter into his great field of view,
his divine conception of social salvation.
The critic, therefore, blind to the glory of
the coming Christ that Ilerron sees, de
clares that "his (Herron's) ignorance is
colossal," and that "morally he seems to
bounder the impression that absolute
ignorance of a subject leaves him at
liberty to say what he will about it."
He also farther thrusts at the great dis
turber of blind guides and tradition wor
shipers by calling his expression "the
tempestuous irritability that comes from
brooding over imaginary wrongs."
"Colossal ignorance" imaginary
wrongs?" Yes; what presumption to
witness against those who sit int Moses'
seat and know it all!
The Standard Oil Company's stock
went up from 6 to 10 points after Gover
nor Hastings of Pennsylvania a few days
ago signed the bill repealing the law for
bidding the purchase by a pipe-line com
pany of competing lines. Mr. Lloyd will
now need to add another chapter to his
great work, "Wealth Against Common
wealth," a chapter describing how the
greatest trust in tho world has with
money corrupted and purchased another
great legislature, and the chief executive
and supposed protector of the people of
the state of Pennsylvania. When tho
facts which prove this are so plain, the
foundations of all we prize are seen to
be irone. It is a most alarming situation
Will the people suffer themselves to be
enslaved by indirect processes, robbed
and reduced to abject dependence, the
great body of them, and continue to sup
port parties so manifestly corrupt?
"WHERE ARE WE AT?"
Ex-Congressman McKeighan says we
did him an injustice in reporting his
opposition to the resolutions introduced
at the meeting of the state central com
mittee. He opposed the resolutions as a
whole, he says, because he did not think
it proper for the committee to pass any
resolutions, and he particularly opposed
the resolution that was withdrawn.
In answer to Mr. McKeigban's argu
ment we should say, it is always in order
for Populists to reaffirm their faith in
and allegiance to the principles of their
party. It is not in order to change their
platform except in convention, the
changes being necessarily made by a duly
elected representative body. Especially
is it timely to take action when the
chairman and secretary of our national
committee are insisting on a Change of
policy and a cuttiug down of our plat
form to the money question alone, or to
a part of it, and when another party is
being formed on that part of the money
question. The Bryan-Bland, &c, wing
of the Democratic party is also scheming
to get control of the party to make it a
free silver party, with some hope of suc
cess. Therefore there is a special reason
for us as Populists to reaffirm our faith
and reiterate our demands as leaders and
as people, to show where we are and
strengthen confidence and make sure that
we are in all fundamentals of one mind.
The fundamental patents of the Bell
Telephone Company having expired, as"
well as those covering the transmitter.ri v
al telephone companies are springing up
in the smaller cities and towns, and rates
are being forced down. In Dubuque,
Iowa, where several hundred business
men had signed contracts to use the
Harrison Company's telephone for five
years, the Bell Company threatens to re
duce the rate from $48 a year to nothing.
In Belvidere, 111., the Bell Company is
trying to place new contracts at $18 a
year, with the first year's service free, in
order to cripple its new local rival. In
the large cities competing companies will
have a hard job getting started because
of the difficulty getting and giving con
nection with all telephone users. The
way to overcome this, it is apparent, is
for the cities to take the telephone service
into their own hands, and furnish service
at cost.
Under the heading of "Financial
Items" the New York Independent says:
"TheWestinghouseand the General Elec
tric Companies have completed arrange
ments by which their patents are to be
pooled, and under no circumstances is
any litigation to be indulged in hereafter
by either company as against the other.
This is a very important thing and
ought to produce good results." Good
results for whom? Why, for the stock
holders of course. And good results for
the stockholders means bad results for.
more money taken from, the general
public. But is it, or isn't it, a remark
able thing for a religious paper, like The
Independent, to be pleased that a great
trust has been formed to plunder the
people? It strongly resembles, but is
somewhat worse than, the act of the
priest and Levite.
Obedience to law is recognized duty.
Law, yes. Well, the lawgivers then
should azree. for we cannot be under ob.
ligation to obey conflicting or destruc
tive laws. But how can law-makers
agree? What is law? If it is the duty of
every man to obey all the laws, statutes,
it follows that it is the duty of many to
starve and freeze to death; and it is the
duty of many more to half starve and
expose their health and poison them
selves to death by a swift or lingering
process in unwholesome tenements.
Many more must kill themselves with
care and overwork to pay legal interest
and rent and dividends to those who
command them. Now how is this? Is
there any law or duty except for the
poor? Apparently not. At least the
rich don't recognize any obligation to
labor either for themselves or others.
0 the slavery and suffering oi debtors!
Debt is the great means of evil to sweat
and strain and torture human beings,
to spread and perpetuate poverty, to
degrade and dishearten men. The man
who has a mortgage on his place must
feed the mortgage fiend whether he has
or has not a crop. The renter of capital
is a debtor. The people who must buy
the services or products of monopolists
are debtors. Debt is crushing out civili
ization with its fearful, its increasing,
load. It will either have to be shorn of
its legal power to increase itself by its
per cent command of labor's increase, or
it will lead to a breaking out of all the
fires of hell, and that soon. Another de
cade of wealth concentration and anar
chy is unavoidable.
We give our readers this week an in.
tensely interesting and entirely truthful
picture of the moral, political, industrial
and financial condition of Canada, of
British America as a whole, the article
being reprinted from the Investors Re
view of London, England, sent us by Mr.
Walter Breen of Omaha. It is on almost
hopelessly dark picture. And take notice
it is debt, class legislation and official
plundering that is hurrying the people of
that land of virgin soil and primeval
forests and vast territory to the brink of
ruin. The situation is about the same
in all the other so-called civilized coun
tries of the world. If the present debts
of the world are allowed to draw interest
a few years longer everything will go to
smash. Wake up.
This paper talks a great deal about
the evils that are in the world. Why?
Because those evils must be removed.
B00K8 AND MAGAZINE3
Maemillan & Co., are rapidly putting
out new books that are of great Value
and interest. A complete new edition of
the novels of Danh! Defoe will soon be
published with careiul editing, by G. A.
Aitken; also a new edition of the well
known translation of Don Quixote, by
Mr. H. E. Watts. I he History of Eng
lish Poetry by Mr. W. J. Courtbope is
nearly ready. The author adopts the
method of literary criticism contemplat
ed by Gray. Also a volume of poems by
H. C. Beeching, and two new volumes by
William Winter. Brown Heather and
Blue Bells, and a third series of his popu
lar Shadows of the Stage. Mr. Douarlas
Sladen has a new novel which will deal
with the life of the English colony in
Japan, A Japanese Marriage.
Houghton Mifflin & Co., have published
reaently books of raremerit. The Ameri
can Men of Letters Series was recently
added to by a volume on George William
Curtis. Joitn Fiske's History of U. S.
published some months ago is receiving
the extended notice it so richly deserves,
and there seems to be a revival of the
interest in his former books. Among
books to be published are, "The Story of
Christian Rochefort," by Mrs. Helen
Choate Prince, "The Daughters of the
Revolution," by Caffln. Selected essays
from the French by Darmesteter," "Cho
corna's Tenants," by Frank Bolles.
"Russian Rambles," by Miss llapgood.
Some of the greatest English master
pieces will be issued in the numbers of the
Riverside Literature Series which are to
be published during this spring.
The current number of the Political
Science Quarterly contains six principal
Eapers, to which are added reviews and
ook notes. Municipal Home Rule is
treated very fully and ably by Prof.
Frank J. Goodnow. Edward Porritt
furnishes an exceedingly interesting paper
on Workingmen's Dwellings in London.
Prof. S. N. Patten discusses the Malthu-
sian doctrine and restates The Law of
Population. H. C. Emery contends that
Legislation Against Futures as proposed
would be harmful. Prof. Win. J. Meyers
turns light on the question of the cost of
Chicago's Eiectric-Lighting Plant. Prof.
J. B. Moore writes a most interesting
chapteron "Kossuth the Revolutionist,"
and Frank Zinkeisen contributes a paper
on "The Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law."
The book reviews include criticisms ot
"Webb's History of Trade Unionism,"
"Jean's Trusts.Pools and Combinations,'
'Rae's Eight Hours for Work,""Macunn's
Ethics of Citizenship," "Hoffmann's
Sphere of the State and Carus's Nature
of the State, Shaw s Municipal tiovern
ment in Great Britain. "and several other
reviews. This quarterly is Invaluable to
the students of political and social prob
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Letter From James O. Clark
Pasadena, Cala., March 23, 1895.
Editor Wealth Makers:
The Wealth Makers comes regularly
every week and it is gladly welcomed, not
only by myself but by several friends who
agree with me in pronouncing it one of
the strongest and best reform journals
published.
Today your letter of the 15th, come
with the glorious news that Prof. Her
ron is coming to the Pacific coast.
He will be well received. "Applied
Christianity" is just what the world
needs and what it has been in search of
for centuries.
Thanks for your "Constitution and By
Laws" of the Christian Corporation.
Similar organ zations are springing up
all over the land, and it is a significant
fact that every one is centering around
and utilizing the vital truths taught by
the Great Master and Teacher of Truth
Jesus of Nazereth.
. I have long held that the world is ready
to be Christianized whenever Christianity
is ready to become practicalized.
When Christ said, "take no thought
ior the morrow considers the lilies, they
toil not, neither do they spin," etc., he
doubtless had in view the absolute feasi
bility of a social condition in which men
and women should so adjust their rela
tions through co-operation, in the place
of competitive war and friction, that all
abnormal care and anxiety would dis
appear and the processes of daily life and
living which are now so productive of
over-work and dissatisfaction through
disarrangement and selfish greed, would
allow human beings to develop and grow
in body and soul as naturally and as free
from fret and conflict as the lilies grow
out of the earth and into the sunlight.
As society is now the great mass of
people are so harassed in the mere strug
gle for physical existence that they are
compelled to devote all their thoughtand
effort to the wolf that is constantly hunt
ing their todays and tomorrows and
driving rest and peace from their pillows
at night.
I congratulate you on the good work
you are doing not only as a journalist
but as a reform song writer.
Your"Armageddon" is the nearest to an
ideal reform song book of any that has yet
appeared. It is, in words and music with
out a rival in its line. It is destined to
do great good in our cause, a cause
which congressman Joseph C. Sibley
pronounces in a private letter that I re
cently received from him; "Christianity
in motion." Always your friend,
James G. Clark.
Joseph Choate Sowing Dragon's
Teeth
Joseph H. Choate, president of the re
cent constitutional convention of New
York State, in his plea before the United
States Supreme Court against the income
taxis reported to have spoken as follows:
"I thought that the fundamental object
of all civilized government was the pre
servation of the rightof private property
That is what Mr. Webster said at Ply
mouth Rock in 1820, and I supposed
that all educated civilized men believed
it. According to the doctrines that have
been pronounced here this morning, even
that great fundamental principle has
been scattered to the winds."
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